"Lord Danzou!"
Just as Danzou was pondering these matters, the Sensor Ninja made a report.
Several kilometers away... the jutsu formations that had been set up had been triggered.
This meant that—
Hyuga Sho was already heading this way.
"I see... Go notify Mifune and have him prepare to meet the enemy."
Shimura Danzō rose from his seat and walked to the window, gazing at the world outside, covered in white snow.
This time,
he had spent a great deal of money to hire the elite troops among the samurai of the Land of Iron.
And even...
he had given General Mifune a chance to personally take action.
A moment later...
Hyuga Sho charged into the vicinity.
"Fire! Fire!"
The samurai drew their bows and loosed their arrows, sending a rain of arrows sweeping toward Hyuga Sho.
However,
their attacks had no effect whatsoever.
Not only could these arrows not penetrate the Bone Armor of Shikotsumyaku—
even if they could,
his skin, reinforced by Hardening Jutsu, could still block them.
He caught an arrow flying toward him with one hand and casually flung it toward the distant window.
The target—
was Shimura Danzō, standing by the window of the tower and watching everything.
Three hundred meters away,
the arrow approached like a cannonball.
It was about to pierce the window and sink into Shimura Danzō's body.
However... in the next moment,
a half-moon-shaped blue Chakra blade came from afar.
It cleaved the arrow in two.
General Mifune.
The actual leader of the Land of Iron.
The powerful warrior who stood at the top of tens of thousands of samurai and could contend with Hanzo of the Salamander, the demigod, sheathed his sword and stood.
Mifune was forty-nine years old.
This middle-aged man, who wore a small goatee, had bandages