"What? The Akatsuki Organization abandoned the Land of Rain?"
"How could they? Then what was the point of our Allied Forces of the Five Great Shinobi Villages?"
"The Akatsuki Organization actually abandoned its own headquarters?"
"What nerve!"
"I bet no one saw that coming, did they?"
"More than not seeing it coming—no one even considered that possibility, right?"
"Hey, hey, hey, shouldn't we be focusing on the fact that the entire Akatsuki Organization is attacking Konoha?"
"Yeah, the Akatsuki Organization is going after the remaining Tailed Beasts!"
"So what do we do now?"
"What do you think?"
After Minato made public the message Konoha had sent him, everyone in the Allied Forces of the Five Great Shinobi Villages erupted!
It felt like they had spent all that time on edge, only to prepare a heavy punch and hit a pile of cotton instead. The shinobi of the Allied Forces of the Five Great Shinobi Villages were utterly frustrated.
And hot on the heels of that frustration came panic.
Everyone knew that the Akatsuki Organization's objective was now out in the open.
They wanted to gather the Nine Tailed Beasts and summon the legendary Ten-Tails!
Just thinking about it, the Nine Tailed Beasts alone were already unimaginably terrifying—calamities of nature.
If the Ten-Tails appeared, who would doubt that it possessed the power to destroy the world?
At that thought, everyone felt a chill run through their hearts.
They had to stop the Ten-Tails from appearing!
This had become the shared understanding of everyone in the Five Great Shinobi Villages.
This was no longer a matter of one person or one village. It concerned everyone in the entire Ninja World!
It could be said that no one wanted to see a Ten-Tails capable of destroying the world emerge.
Even the shinobi