The Big Shot of Kirigakure

People were easily affected by the atmosphere around them, and even Qi, who seemed rather thick-nerved, could not avoid it.

Kirigakure's village-protecting barrier was quite famous, because among all the current ninja villages, it was the only barrier capable of providing combat support to ninja.

The other ninja villages could not do that. Including Konoha, they all used purely sensory barriers. Such barriers were extremely powerful in terms of detection, leaving almost no loopholes to exploit. Unless one entered the village according to pre-established procedures, any "unauthorized" entry would be detected. Of course, concentrating all their capabilities on detection meant that these barriers could do nothing else.

Clearly, they had not been designed according to the same principles as Kirigakure's barrier.

Thus, watching Terumi Mei cautiously make her way ahead and sensing the increasingly intense chakra currents around them, Qi could not help but become serious as well.

Terumi Mei was a Mist Ninja, yet even she acted like this when entering her own village. That alone was enough to make Qi wary.

Qi did not doubt Kirigakure's integrity. No matter how bizarrely those people thought, they would not build a barrier that even screwed over their own people. But remembering the miserable state Terumi Mei had been in when she arrived in the Land of Fire, Qi seriously suspected that she might now be an unregistered resident of Kirigakure. If that was the case... Terumi Mei would definitely be fine, but he might not be.

Being led into Kirigakure's ninja village by one of Kirigakure's unregistered residents was certainly a thrilling experience.

So whether Terumi Mei was still sulking and refusing to speak to him was no longer the issue. Could he not see that the girl was walking as though she were a thief?

Qi did not dare