After Sarutobi Toru landed, the Third Kazekage politely led the way ahead, bringing Sarutobi Toru into Sunagakure.
Of course, the Sunagakure ninja along the way did not look too friendly. They watched Sarutobi Toru as though he were a Tailed Beast on the verge of rampaging. Even the Third Kazekage walking in front of him had condensed a Sand Eye beneath the collar at the back of his clothes, clearly visible to Sarutobi Toru's spiritual perception. He feared Sarutobi Toru might suddenly go berserk and kill him on the spot.
Seeing the Third Kazekage's wariness, Sarutobi Toru found it slightly amusing. He did not know that the Third Kazekage had been left with a certain psychological shadow after their last battle.
The Third Kazekage felt that under Sarutobi Toru's absurd speed, if he made no preparations at all, he really might be taken out in a single wave.
But to the current Sarutobi Toru, no matter how vigilant the Third Kazekage was, even in a face-to-face fight, he was confident he could seriously injure him—or even kill him—in one move.
So, in Sarutobi Toru's eyes, those preparations were like a five- or six-year-old elementary school student holding a plastic toy knife while guarding against a grown man.
They walked all the way to the Kazekage's Office in the center of Sunagakure. Sarutobi Toru immediately sensed the Kazekage's nervousness. Raising his head and extending his spiritual perception, he detected the presence of a barrier.
However, that barrier was not particularly useful. Its only function was probably to restrict Space-Time Ninjutsu.
Moreover, inside the Kazekage's Office, in a place wrapped in layer after layer of barriers that even his spiritual perception could not penetrate, sat five Kage-level Sunagakure experts: his Clone, Pakura, Rasa, Chiyo, and Ebizo.
The Third Kazekage had assumed that