It turned out that not long ago, Kazuya had led the five members of the Radical Faction among the Guardians of the Twelve Ninja to an overwhelming advantage.
On the Hokage Protection Faction's side, the four besides Asuma and Chiriku—Kitane, Nauma, Seito, and Tōu—launched Lightning Release: Lightning Dream Lightning Person despite their severe injuries.
This terrifying Lightning Release Ninjutsu instantly wiped out all the zombies and corpses in coffins that Kazuya had summoned with the Earth Style Reanimation Jutsu and Earth Style: Soil of the Dead.
Not only that, aside from Kazuya himself, his remaining five companions in the Radical Faction also died under this Lightning Release Ninjutsu.
However, after using that Lightning Release Ninjutsu while severely injured, the Lightning Release Four-Man Squad of the Hokage Protection Faction also died from Chakra exhaustion.
It could be said that this internal conflict among the Guardians of the Twelve Ninja had ended with both sides devastated!
In the end, only Asuma and Chiriku of the Hokage Protection Faction, along with Kazuya of the Radical Faction, remained alive.
By all rights, the assassination plan against the Daimyo of the Land of Fire should have been declared a failure by now.
After all, the fighting on every battlefield had already ended.
On this final battlefield, only Kazuya was still stubbornly resisting.
Not to mention that, at this point, people from the other battlefields were all heading this way together.
Yet faced with such an outcome, Kazuya went mad!
He could not accept this reality.
"Kazuya, stop. We've already lost so many companions. There's no meaning in continuing this fight." Asuma looked at Kazuya with grief and tried to persuade him.
The Guardians of the Twelve Ninja now existed in name only.
And those who had died were all once his companions!
"Shut up! Asuma,