Chapter 158: The Mist Village's Reforms
Hearing Sen's words, the faint hope everyone had been suppressing cautiously surfaced.
After all, changing the Mizukage might truly not be a bad thing for them.
Seeing that no one had any further objections, Sen led Mei Terumi and the Kaguya Clan members toward Kirigakure.
A little over ten minutes later, they arrived at Kirigakure.
As soon as they entered the village, Sen's brows knitted tightly. It was less a village than a dilapidated little town—
It was even worse than the settlement of refugees on Konoha's outskirts.
He hadn't expected the place known as the "Blood Mist Village" to be this rundown.
There were no massive stone walls encircling the village like Konoha's, only a crooked, waist-high fence of rotting wood. The wind and rain had eaten holes in many places, revealing muddy paths inside.
The warning signs hanging on the fence had faded to gray-black. The words "No outsiders allowed" were barely legible, as if the village had long since given up on defending itself.
The farther in they went, the more appalling the scene became. The roads had never been paved with stone, and days of rain had filled the dirt paths with puddles of varying depths.
Each step splashed muddy water mixed with water plants that had drifted in from somewhere, giving off a faint fishy smell.
Most of the houses on either side were low, earthen structures. Their thatched roofs were sparse, with wooden beams exposed beneath them, covered in gray-black mold that had accumulated over the years.
There were a few decent-looking wooden houses, but most had corners missing from their doors and windows, patched up with rags or planks. Whenever the wind blew, they creaked as if they might collapse at any moment.
Beneath a crooked old