Rendezvous!

"Tap tap tap tap..."

Four Shuriken, mixed with two Kunai, were knocked away and buried deep in the ground around the two pale yellow spheres.

"No!"

At that moment, Hirohiko's somewhat stern voice rang out.

"Mm..."

Yukina glanced at Hirohiko beside her, then at the two pale yellow spheres that seemed rooted to the ground, the Kunai and Shuriken surrounding them, and the yellow earthen trench connecting the two spheres. Her brow furrowed slightly.

These were the traces left by Hirohiko's Wind Style: Gale Slash. When it had pierced through the two pale yellow spheres and wrapped them in wildly dancing wind blades, the horizontal tornado had plowed a trench through the grass, slightly wider than the diameters of the two spheres. It began at the first sphere and stopped half a meter beyond the second. Near the start of the trench, there were also patches of scorched grass surrounding the front half of the first sphere.

Yet, aside from leaving marks of varying depth where the wind blades had scraped across the spheres' surfaces, making their originally lustrous surfaces look weathered, that powerful Wind Release had achieved no effect whatsoever.

As for the Kunai and Shuriken, they had simply been bounced back by the pale yellow spheres.

Plan F. Chiba repeatedly stressed that we must wipe out every enemy. Otherwise, we might face unknown obstacles, and all three of us could end up threatened by the main forces of Kumogakure and Iwa. We cannot let a single person here escape.

Watching all this, Yukina's brows knitted tightly together. They had thoroughly discussed the three scenarios and three plans. Both she and Hirohiko knew how difficult this plan was, and there could be no mistakes—especially in the final result, which could not deviate in the slightest.

The enemies were inside