When the white smoke cleared and the so-called "gift" revealed its true form, the Kirigakure higher-ups who had been laughing wildly suddenly let out a series of strangled noises, as though someone had seized them by the throat.
"Ha... gack... ah..."
They stretched their necks like ducks and shrieked hoarsely, looking utterly ridiculous.
Yet aside from Nawaki, no one in the tent cared about that anymore. Everyone stared wide-eyed in shock, as if they had seen something unimaginable.
Even the Kaguya Clan head, who had opened the scroll, looked terrified and accidentally tossed all its contents onto the ground.
"Thud, thud, thud..." Several round objects rolled across the floor with dull thumps, and a heavy stench of blood spread through the tent.
"Heads... human heads!" After a moment of dead silence, the Kirigakure higher-ups in the tent erupted into shrieks!
The scroll contained several bloody human heads! But as shinobi who killed without blinking, how could Kirigakure's higher-ups be frightened out of their wits by a few dead men's heads?
"Th-This! This! This..." The Kaguya Clan head pointed at the heads on the ground and let out a shriek like a woman.
Just then, a large group of Mist Ninja rushed into the tent with ninja tools in hand. The Kirigakure higher-ups who had been shouting in panic immediately swallowed their voices.
The Mist Ninja guarding outside had heard the screams from within and assumed something had happened to the higher-ups. They had hurriedly gathered a large force and stormed the tent to rescue them, only to witness the higher-ups' panicked and unsightly behavior.
The Mist Ninja guards who had barged in swiftly looked over the tent and found no bloody clash like they had imagined. All the higher-ups were staring at the heads scattered on the ground and making