Tsunade's house.
"Lady Tsunade?"
Hokage Tsunade suddenly came back to herself. Shizune was calling to her from beside her.
"What are you looking at?"
Hokage Tsunade turned to look at Shizune, then pointed out the window. "The sky outside..."
Hearing this, Shizune looked out the window before withdrawing her gaze in confusion. "What's wrong with it?"
Hokage Tsunade froze. She looked toward the enormous black shadow that blanketed the entire sky.
"Shizune... can't you see it?"
"See what?"
She had no idea what the black shadow was. It was so immense that her field of vision could not contain it in full; she could only glimpse a portion of it.
Hokage Tsunade's heart pounded wildly. She then called Tsunade and Hokage Shizune out as well, but the two of them reacted just like Shizune.
"There's nothing there."
"What did you see?"
"..."
Hokage Tsunade was speechless for a moment. The unease in her heart grew stronger and stronger. She rushed out of her house and onto the street, only to find pedestrians going about their business as if nothing had happened. It seemed that no one but her had noticed the abnormality in the sky.
How could this be...
She thought of Shin, then raced toward the Imperial Palace, only stopping atop a building in front of it.
Hokage Tsunade saw a curtain of darkness descend from the shadow in the sky, enveloping the entire pavilion of the front hall.
To outsiders, everything appeared normal, but Hokage Tsunade felt an overwhelming sense of danger and did not dare approach any closer.
Imperial Palace, front hall.
Shin sat up from the sofa and looked at Retsu Unohana beside him, asking out of the blue, "Aren't you leaving yet?"
Retsu Unohana was stunned as well. She had only just arrived.
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