Corpses lay strewn everywhere. Once news like this spread, the entire Ninja World would be shaken.
There had always been an unspoken agreement that civilians were not to be attacked casually. But now Kirigakure had hardened its heart and acted recklessly. One could imagine the condemnation Kirigakure would face once everything was over. But would Akatsuki care about that kind of reputation? Obviously not.
By contrast, the Small Nations Alliance causing trouble throughout the Land of Lightning was much more restrained. Like the Nine-Tails back then, they looted everywhere and then set things on fire, rarely killing ordinary civilians. But they left piles upon piles of refugees for the Land of Lightning to deal with.
This made Ay, who had returned to the Land of Lightning, practically cough up blood. Once upon a time, Ronglin had sent the Nine-Tails to cause this kind of havoc. Now the trash from the Small Nations Alliance had done it all over again. It would have been strange if Ay had not coughed up blood.
Ōnoki, who had returned to the Land of Earth, and Ay, who had returned to the Land of Lightning, were busy eliminating the enemies within their territories, while Ronglin slowly led Konoha's people back, transporting the supplies to Konoha.
As for Rasa and the Sunagakure ninja, they could only trudge home miserably. They had lost quite a few men and ended up gaining nothing at all.
What made Rasa even more furious was that it had been easy to pass through the Land of Fire on the way there, but trouble arose on the way back.
Minato had led quite a few ninja to station themselves at the border, refusing to let Sunagakure use the route. While it infuriated Rasa to no end, he could only choose to pass