"Quick! Over here, there are wounded!"
"Area C needs a large number of supports, or a Chunin skilled in Earth Release!"
"Is anyone there? Area B needs support, we don't have enough hands! Anyone will do, as long as they can bandage wounds!"
Urgent shouts mingled with cries and wails, echoing throughout the vast area before Konoha's front gate. A grim, tense atmosphere slowly spread.
Just as expected...
The losses had been devastating.
At this moment, Chiba, having reached an agreement with the Third Hokage and begun heading back to his cabin, frowned deeply as a heavy thought flashed through his mind.
All along the way were broken walls and shattered ruins. The entire front section of Konoha had nearly been reduced to rubble. Among that rubble were severed arms and limbs, even the corpses of shinobi half-buried beneath the debris. It was completely different from how it had been depicted in the original work.
No! It would be more accurate to say that the original work had never depicted this cruelty at all. In this journey of barely more than ten minutes, Chiba had already seen at least thirty corpses, along with severed limbs that could not even be identified as belonging to the same body.
It was clear that there were no traces of damage from a Tailed Beast Bomb, but even in close combat, beneath the rampage of such a colossal beast, Konoha's defenses had been practically useless. If not for the Third Hokage and Minato Namikaze, no matter how many shinobi there were, they would have been unable to stop the Nine-Tails. At most, there would have been a few more corpses.
That enormous breach should have been where the Third Hokage used the Adamantine Staff to push the Nine-Tails back after it had wreaked