The Land of Rain was Mizuki's home ground. After years of management, it had long since become an independent little kingdom.
This was not merely in terms of its system and geography. At the level of its fundamental rules, Mizuki's various powerful barriers had long since severed it from the Shinobi World.
If there had been any real need, Mizuki could have turned this place into something like the three great sacred lands of the summoning beasts.
Because he had Dreamplay, Mizuki had no intention of building another shelter. He merely treated this place as an "experimental field," trying out all manner of whimsical ideas.
Elsewhere, Mizuki might have had some reservations. But in the Land of Rain, unless the Sage of Six Paths came back to life, no one could defeat Mizuki here—not even if several more powerful experts joined in.
Once someone fell into the trap of a sealing technique master, without overwhelming force to suppress them, they would sooner or later be defeated by Mizuki's various methods.
As for Team 7, who had already been drained by their consecutive battles, they had never had much chance of stopping Mizuki from the start.
What made things even more awkward was that these people did not even know what Mizuki intended to do. They had merely come looking for trouble on instinct because Mizuki had prevented the Ten-Tails from being sealed.
Looking at Mizuki, who waited leisurely in midair, Hatake Kakashi found himself in a difficult position as well.
"Mizuki, you're not the sort of person who likes standing above others and looking down on them arrogantly, are you...?"
"That kind of shallow showing-off is really meaningless... It's just that, when the targets are you people, seeing you get put in your place gives me an inexplicable sense of