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Ueno Kei had no way of knowing that while it was not the Kazekage's corpse, the Kazekage truly had been killed, and his body had been retrieved. The corpse before them had been specially fabricated to resemble the Kazekage's, and without special means, it could not be identified. Moreover, someone had deliberately led the Anbu to discover the Kazekage's body—for this very moment.
Ueno Kei looked grimly at the Otogakure ninja appearing all around him. At a rough estimate, there were no fewer than thirty or forty of them, all at least chunin or jonin level.
Moreover, the few clearly leading them possessed strength far beyond that of ordinary people.
In particular, the ash-brown-haired woman and the orange-haired man. The former's ninjutsu was clearly a bloodline limit, one similar to an Ice Release bloodline limit.
As for the latter, though he had yet to make a move, the faint pressure and aura radiating from him gave Ueno Kei an acute sense of danger.
"This road is closed, Konoha Ninja Village's Jonin Ueno Kei!" A white-haired youth curled his lips into a slight smile.
These were the very people who had just led a team to wipe out an Anbu squad and Konoha's border guards: Otogakure ninja. Their three leaders were Guren, Jugo, and Hozuki Suigetsu.
More importantly, they were all subordinates Orochimaru trusted and relied upon! At the very least, each of them surpassed ordinary jonin. Not to mention, every one of them possessed a unique technique.
Even against elite jonin like Kakashi, they could hold