Kitahara Kaede looked at the blood mixed with rubble around him. The once-quiet village was now nothing but scorched earth.
"How is it?" Kakashi asked from beside him.
"It's confirmed. There are traces of Ōtsutsuki aura here, but I don't know what exactly happened." Kitahara Kaede's expression was grim.
"No matter what happened, they shouldn't have been this ruthless! I know this village. Most of its residents were ordinary people. Chunin were already rare here and could practically dominate the area. Those damned beasts!" Mei Terumi, the Water Shadow, said. Strictly speaking, this area belonged to the Water Ninja Village. 513
"Ōtsutsuki!" Crack, crack! Mei Terumi clenched her fists until they creaked. She had become the Water Shadow to liberate the entire Water Shadow Village, to give most ordinary people a better life. What the Ōtsutsuki were doing now was simply trampling on her ideals.
"Don't worry. I'll make them pay. But the key now is figuring out where these Ōtsutsuki went. Finding them and stopping them comes first," Kitahara Kaede said.
"Mm." Mei Terumi looked into the distance.
"Are there any survivors here? Did anyone see what happened earlier?" Mei Terumi asked. Zabuza and the others stood beside her.
Zabuza's face was ugly. "No. Not a single survivor. All life in the surrounding area was wiped out. They were truly ruthless. Even when I worked for Gato, I was never this vicious!"
"Hmph! Ninjas generally don't involve ordinary people when they fight. Otherwise, do you think you could have lived peacefully in the Land of Waves?" Mei Terumi said. It was obvious that she was furious beyond measure this time.
Kitahara Kaede closed his eyes and extended his senses with all his strength. He could still feel some traces of Ōtsutsuki aura in the air, but when he followed