Reunion Two Years Later (Third Update)

We had to hurry! We had to steady ourselves!

Ao, you absolutely can't let anything happen to you!

Mei Terumi gritted her teeth.

A cold glint flashed in her eyes.

Along the way,

she had also obtained more information from the Anbu at the front.

She learned that Ao was missing.

The Mist Ninja who had managed to retreat safely might number barely a thousand.

Mei Terumi's expression grew increasingly icy.

Fifteen years. It had been a full fifteen years since the Third Shinobi World War ended, and Kirigakure had not suffered such a heavy loss in all that time. Even during the two previous Shinobi World Wars, there had only been one or two battles that cost the village so many Ninja at once. With both sides prepared, a massacre on this scale should have been impossible. There was no mistake: this war had turned into a slaughter born of a terrible mistake!

Could ordinary Ninja face a Tailed Beast?

The answer was no.

Even the village's most elite Jonin force

needed a Sealing Team alongside them to face even a relatively weak Tailed Beast.

And now—

Two battlefields

had each seen a Tailed Beast appear.

"Damn it!"

Mei Terumi didn't need to be there in person.

She could already imagine how horrific the battle had been.

She could picture the desperate situation her Mist Ninja had faced.

If there had only been one Tailed Beast,

at least they would have had room to escape.

But this had happened during a war against another village.

Snow Ninja Village had even deployed an Aerial Combat Unit more elite and troublesome than the one the Land of the Sky had fielded one or two decades ago. To be honest, the fact that so many Mist Ninja had managed to retreat from