What happened in Takigakure and Amegakure quickly spread throughout the Shinobi World. The other villages' shinobi did not know whether Amegakure's Jinchuriki had truly been taken by the Uchiha Clan, and they all expressed doubts.
However, Takigakure's Jinchuriki had been taken by Artificial Human Ninjas in broad daylight, and Kirigakure had no intention of concealing it.
At once, the entire Shinobi World knew that these two Tailed Beasts had definitely been taken by Kirigakure. The only question was, what was going on with the Uchiha shinobi seen in Amegakure?
But the other villages soon had no time to dwell on those questions, because Kirigakure began attacking again. This time, they had unprecedentedly deployed more than sixty Artificial Human Ninjas!
Without question, Iwagakure and Kumogakure suffered another crushing defeat. Worse still, several of the two villages' Jinchuriki were also taken by Kirigakure!
By this point, the other villages had formed their own guesses as to why Kirigakure was seizing Jinchuriki.
They had seized another two Jinchuriki at the critical point of the war, and the number of Artificial Human Ninjas had subsequently increased so dramatically. The truth was already obvious.
But realizing it now seemed to be too late. In this war, Kumogakure and Iwagakure, which had served as the main forces, had suffered grievous losses in order to protect their Jinchuriki.
Kumogakure and Iwagakure had each lost more than half their shinobi. The former Third Raikage and the Third Tsuchikage Ōnoki had stayed behind to cover the main forces' retreat, tangling with Kirigakure's Artificial Human Ninjas for over half an hour before perishing together.
No one could have imagined that these two men, who had been bitter enemies their entire lives, would leave the stage of the Shinobi World together in such a manner.
Still, the two Third Kage had