Hearing Naruto's words, the Root captain was shocked, terrified, and enraged.
When had Naruto appeared?
His Kikaichū had not detected him at all.
What terrified him was that the space-time Ninjutsu Naruto had just used seemed to employ a kunai as a teleportation point, making it...
Strikingly similar to the Fourth Hokage's Flying Thunder God Technique?
What enraged him was that this arrogant Nine-Tails Jinchuriki had actually insulted the exalted Lord Danzo...
Naruto looked at the Root ninja standing frozen in place and frowned slightly. "What? Do you still want to avenge your dead companions?"
Based on the experience from his previous cycles, Danzo would never turn a blind eye to Karin's special constitution, yet he would not easily show himself either.
Naruto's actions were meant to deliberately provoke Danzo, forcing him out of the shadows and into this game personally—onto the stage Naruto had prepared for him.
In the end, the surviving Root member forcibly suppressed the fear in his heart, concealed himself at top speed, and fled in disgrace all the way back to Root's underground base without daring to pause for even a moment.
He practically stumbled to his knees before Danzo, recounting word for word the mission's disastrous failure, Naruto's space-time Ninjutsu that closely resembled the Flying Thunder God Technique, and that taunting warning.
After hearing the report, Danzo remained silent for a long time. His only visible eye was sharp as an eagle's, fixed tightly on the subordinate kneeling before him.
"Flying Thunder God Technique... Three elites taken out in an instant... Perhaps he really can defeat Orochimaru. And he knows I exist..."
Danzo muttered in a low, hoarse voice.
He knew he could not wait any longer. Once the Nine-Tails became uncontrollable, Konoha would face a drastic upheaval.
"Tomorrow morning, tell Koharu and Homura