"Teacher Yoshitake, what was that just now?"
As they ran toward the rescue site, Karin could not help but ask.
It was not just Karin. Kiba and Shino were also staring at Yoshitake with question marks all over their faces, because what had just happened had truly left them unable to process it.
They were all desperate to figure out what was going on. Were those two Akatsuki members insane?
And who were those two Anbu who had appeared afterward?
"Just now..." Yoshitake fell silent for a moment before shaking his head helplessly. "I'm not entirely sure either. And even if I did know some things, I couldn't just say them, could I?"
Yoshitake hesitated for a long time, but in the end, he decided it was better not to say certain things. Still, he was in a much better mood now.
Even though everything that had happened just now seemed surreal, it had confirmed many things for him—things he had never dared confirm before, things he had never even dared imagine.
Earlier, while Brother Kisame and Uchiha Shisui had been fiercely locked in combat, the two of them had somehow suddenly stopped attacking each other. In the end, they seemed to have reached an understanding and launched an attack on Yoshitake and the others together.
Faced with that scene, Yoshitake could only grit his teeth and resist. Kisame was his opponent, while Shisui rushed toward the three Imps.
Yoshitake had wanted to get some useful information out of Kisame, but unfortunately, Kisame did not say a single extra word to him. Instead, he fought Yoshitake with an almost merciless attitude.
"Your moves are still so slow. How did you become a Jonin?"
"You hesitate when attacking and lack decisiveness when defending. After all these years, how have you actually