"Beasts! I'll fight you to the death!"
"No! Husband, what's wrong? Wake up!"
In a village within the Land of Fire, cries and screams filled the air as flames soared into the sky.
"Kill all the men and elderly in the village. Take all the remaining women away."
A squad of ninja dressed in uniform and wearing Kumogakure forehead protectors was burning, killing, and plundering the village.
At the center of the village, all women under forty had been gathered. As for the men and women over forty, they had all been slaughtered.
"Lord Kaxiong, these are all the young women in the village."
A Kumogakure ninja respectfully reported to Kaxiong, who had been waiting nearby for some time.
Some of the village women still had terror in their eyes. Not knowing what fate awaited them, they sat there in disheveled clothes.
Others had witnessed their families die tragic deaths and lost all hope of living. The light had already vanished from their eyes, leaving them like walking corpses.
Kaxiong's triangular eyes had long since begun scrutinizing the women.
"Damn it, I shouldn't have come to this godforsaken backwater. There isn't even one worth looking at."
Kaxiong had originally only wanted to enjoy himself in Kumogakure, but his brother had brought him to the front lines and assigned him the task of searching for a missing unit.
Unable to bear the loneliness, Kaxiong had led his men into a village, hoping to find some amusement.
After looking for a while, Kaxiong realized that not one of these women was prettier than the mother-daughter pair he had played with the night before. Hot-tempered as he was, he immediately flew into a rage.
"You, you, you—and those few standing over there. Come here."
Faced with Kaxiong's fury, the Kumogakure ninja present did