When Ebizo arrived at the spot where the fireworks had gone up, he found the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist there as well. After nodding to them, his expression remained unusually calm, but inwardly, he was delighted.
"Sunagakure's advisor, commanding Kirigakure's Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist."
"When one lives long enough, they encounter all sorts of strange things."
"This Old One never imagined that one day, I would eat breakfast personally made by my sister, who had been reincarnated through Impure World Reincarnation, along with her son and daughter-in-law; take part in the First through Fourth Shinobi World Wars; and command the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, who once answered only to the Mizukage."
With that thought, Ebizo opened his eyes and looked over the crowd.
By now, patrol ninja had gathered all around. Among them were not only the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, but ninja from Konoha, the Wind Country, the Land of Lightning, the Land of Earth, and other nations.
He could even spot many familiar faces in the crowd. They were all figures who had once given Sunagakure tremendous headaches, yet now they were all under the command of Sunagakure's advisor—him.
"Lord Ebizo!!" A hoarse voice suddenly rang out. Biwa Juzo carried Kubikiribōchō over his shoulder and kicked at the head beneath his foot, his expression grave. "This should be the monster the Allied Forces' higher-ups mentioned, right?"
The instant White Zetsu's head had been severed, the monster could no longer maintain its transformed state and immediately reverted to its original form.
Seeing the monster's emerald-green hair, white body, and the spikes covering its surface, Ebizo opened his narrowed eyes slightly wider, a sharp gleam flashing through them.
"It should be!!"
After receiving Ebizo's confirmation, Biwa Juzo stabbed Kubikiribōchō into the monster's