The various units arrived at the battlefield one after another.
Group after group, countless shinobi took their positions, surrounding Genitsu and the others.
"Is that the Ten-Tails? It's so huge..."
"Lord Genitsu really did take their side. I didn't believe it at first, but who would've thought it would turn out like this!"
"This can't be real! I respected Teacher Genitsu so much, but why did it come to this?!"
The last cry came from someone who could not accept reality.
Genitsu looked over and realized, "So it's Iruka. Congratulations, you're alive. As long as you survive the battle ahead, a bright future will open its arms to you."
"That kind of bright future isn't what I want! Why are you standing with those people?!"
It was not just Iruka. More and more people began shouting, demanding answers.
The overwhelming majority were from Konoha and had, to some extent, received Genitsu's protection.
The more deeply they had revered him in the past, the more devastated they were now.
Genitsu declared, "Can't you see? I'm doing this for peace. Peace has always existed only within the reach of force. I'm strong enough, so I have the ability to bring peace to this chaotic world... even if it must be achieved through slaughter."
People could not accept that answer.
More than fifty thousand shinobi had gathered together. Their voices were deafening, like boiling water, rising and falling without end.
"There's no point dwelling on it too much. All we can say is that the enemy hid himself too well in the past, which was why we never saw his wolfish ambitions!"
Ōnoki flew into the sky and shouted, "Now is the time to gather all our strength and defeat him, to prove that he is wrong! Our strength is not to be