"Aaaah!!!" Mifune jerked his head up and glared at Ōnoki, his eyes burning with crazed hatred. "Ōnoki!!!"
Although he knew what had caused it, Mifune could not contain his rage.
He snatched the broken sword from the ground and moved to charge.
"General Mifune! Calm down!" Minato flashed in front of him. "This is Liuyu's plot! He's trying to turn us against each other!"
"Turn us against each other?!" Mifune roared. "My three hundred and twenty-seven men! Three hundred and twenty-seven lives!
"All dead because of one blast of his Dust Release! How do you expect me to calm down?!!"
Behind him, the samurai of the Land of Iron drew their swords, glaring at the Iwagakure shinobi.
Raikage A's expression darkened as well.
That blast of Dust Release had passed less than ten meters from the path along which he had been knocked backward.
Had it strayed just a little farther, he might have been the one disintegrated.
"Ōnoki..." A's voice was as icy as the depths of winter. "Were you trying to kill me too?"
"I wasn't!" Ōnoki protested urgently. "It was a genjutsu! That Uchiha brat's genjutsu!"
"But you were the one who fired the Dust Release," Kazekage Rasa said coldly.
"And you looked so pleased with yourself just now, Lord Tsuchikage."
"I... I thought I'd hit..."
"You thought?" Rasa cut him off. "So all our lives came down to you saying, 'I thought'?"
With one effortless move from Liuyu, the alliance of the Five Great Nations crumbled in an instant.
Doubt, suspicion, rage, hatred... they bred in everyone's hearts like venomous snakes.
Watching the scene, Liuyu gently clapped his hands.
"Splendid."
His voice drew everyone's attention back to him.
"So this is your so-called 'Five Kage alliance'? Your so-called 'unity of the Shinobi World'?"
Liuyu paced slowly,