Sizzle...
Black smoke and the stench of burning filled the scene.
Even under the cover of night...
the foul, charred odor could be clearly seen climbing into the sky.
Especially...
the relatively well-preserved corpse.
Its body was curled up, its hollow eye sockets staring fixedly at the sky, while smoke still billowed from its mouth.
It seemed to remain frozen in the moment of terror just before death.
The charred corpse fell into the eyes of the ANBU.
It immediately caused a wave of startled cries.
Because...
even though they often handled dirty and exhausting jobs,
and had witnessed all kinds of deaths, they rarely saw a corpse in such a gruesome state.
At the sight of this scene, looks of horror flashed through the eyes of the ANBU.
Their fear of Hyuga Sho reached its peak in an instant.
They no longer dared to look at him for long and lowered their heads one after another, as if Hyuga Sho were a monster with three heads and six arms.
Nearby, Yamato
kept twitching at the corners of his mouth.
His gaze toward Hyuga Sho was filled with helplessness, powerlessness... and deep wariness.
Hyuga Sho had effortlessly taken down a group of Ninja in an instant, yet remained calm and unruffled. In Yamato's eyes, he had become even more unfathomable.
"Such Ninjutsu... it's unbelievable... I've seen Storm Release users before, and I know that it resembles a laser beam made of flowing water... but I've never seen anyone achieve this level of destructive power..."
Yamato had once served under Shimura Danzō and now worked in ANBU. He was highly experienced and had faced countless enemies.
He could be called Konoha's model worker.
But precisely because he had seen so much, he understood even more clearly how terrifying Hyuga Sho was.