At present, only the two tailed beasts from Iwagakure and Kumogakure remained. They were nearly all collected.
Land of Water, Kirigakure.
On a small island.
Mei Terumi stared grimly at the corpse of Bubble, the Six-Tails Jinchuriki.
Kirigakure had originally possessed two tailed beasts. Besides the Six-Tails, there had also been the Three-Tails.
The Three-Tails Jinchuriki had been the previous Mizukage. After the previous Mizukage died, the Three-Tails had vanished without a trace.
A Jinchuriki could be said to be one of the people under the highest level of protection in an entire village.
Yet in Kirigakure, their very headquarters, right under their noses, the Jinchuriki had been abducted.
By the time they found the Jinchuriki again, he was already dead.
There was no need to ask. The Six-Tails had been captured by that unknown enemy.
Something as major as the murder of a Jinchuriki could not possibly be concealed.
The other shinobi villages naturally learned of it.
At first, they had been gloating. Kirigakure losing its Jinchuriki was a good thing for them.
But only a few days later, another village's Jinchuriki was killed as well!
Someone was collecting tailed beasts!
With no idea who it was, they could only hide their Jinchuriki first.
This caused Nagato some trouble.
But it was only trouble.
After spending some time, Nagato finally brought the remaining two tailed beasts before Hinata.
Now, all the tailed beasts of the major shinobi villages, aside from Hidden Leaf Village's Nine-Tails, had been taken.
As the major shinobi villages searched across the entire Shinobi World for the culprit who had killed their Jinchuriki, the whole Shinobi World now knew that an extremely powerful person was collecting tailed beasts.
Now, the Shinobi World's eyes had all turned toward Hidden Leaf Village.
Since that person wanted to collect