"We... won't be getting any reinforcements. And there are rumors in the village saying that, Tang Ping, the border camp fell because you failed to deliver intelligence properly!"
Kobayashi Hei relayed the message he had received from the Message Hawk.
It was news that left them in despair.
No reinforcements!
They had thought that if they held on a little longer, reinforcements would arrive. They had never expected there to be none.
And they had even dumped the blame on Tang Ping.
Anyone else would certainly have thought it was his fault.
But as people who had experienced the incident firsthand, they naturally understood the truth.
Faced with a surprise attack from someone as powerful as Pakura, without a fighter of the same level, no one could have held the line.
The responsibility lay entirely with the village higher-ups.
Sunagakure had already been making frequent suspicious moves, yet the village higher-ups had done nothing besides mobilize supplies. If not them, then who else was to blame?
Tang Ping, meanwhile, remained utterly calm, completely unaffected by the news.
What a joke!
Why should he be affected?
With Taiyi in hand, he could at least escape the encirclement. Naturally, he did not care whether reinforcements came or not.
As for having mud thrown at him?
Sorry, his name was not White Fang, and he was not like those proud Uchiha. He would not take responsibility for something just because of rumors.
Rumors were quite effective against shinobi with morality and a sense of responsibility.
But Tang Ping had already cast aside his moral bottom line and was enjoying a life without scruples. How could such rumors possibly affect him?
"Enough. Let's discuss how we're going to break out next!"
Though Kobayashi Hei did not understand why Tang Ping was so calm, he