If he'd had more time to prepare, Shinji was confident he could have convinced at least some of the shinobi village leaders that Doomsday was coming.
But there was simply too little time left.
He was only a student at the Ninja Academy. He was young, and on top of that, he was a Uchiha remnant. The village leaders had no reason to trust him.
Under the circumstances, even setting aside the risk of contamination, building mutual trust would take time.
"No. It's not time to burn all our bridges yet. There has to be another way!"
Shinji abandoned the idea of spreading the news that Doomsday was coming.
He had personally witnessed a world consumed by an Overlord. Contamination had spread too quickly, allowing the Overlord to lock onto it completely. Even though the world's inhabitants had united against it, they had still failed to escape the Overlord's jaws.
So unless there was no other choice, he couldn't just throw caution to the wind.
He even wondered if the Lantern Bearer from the Demon Slayer World had suddenly pulled this stunt to force him into making a mistake—to get him to come up with some harebrained plan.
With a grim expression, he paced back and forth across the training ground.
But if he didn't inform the village leaders, then no matter how he calculated their strength, he still wouldn't have enough people at his disposal to deal with all five anchor points within a mere four days.
The gap in manpower was enormous!
This had nothing to do with strategy or deployment anymore.
"The enemy still has at least four Upper Moon demons..." He paused, then shook his head. "No, they've even resorted to a mutual-destruction tactic. That means they're no longer afraid of contamination. At this point, the