Within the Land of Wind.
Howling gales swept wisps of sand into the sky.
"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" "Whoosh!"...
Several dark figures suddenly appeared in a concealed spot outside Sunagakure.
"Kojika, get ready to break the barrier!"
The white-haired man in the middle of the group spoke in a hoarse, low voice.
At his words, the kunoichi wearing goggles narrowed her eyes, pulled a scroll from her ninja pouch, and swiftly formed Hand Seals!
She held the scroll between her palms in a strange seal, then slammed it down against the ground!
"Poof!"
"Secret Art: Evil-Dissolving Seal Extraction Technique!"
As a cloud of white smoke billowed up, black incantations spread across the ground like tadpoles.
The tadpole-like black incantations then crawled toward a transparent barrier ahead, before quickly retreating back into the scroll.
Kojika's face was pale. She stared fixedly at the incantations on the ground.
When the last of them had returned to the scroll, she let out a long breath, slowly rose, and said softly,
"It's done, Captain Sakumo!"
Before them, a huge hole several people tall had melted through the transparent barrier!
Seeing this, Sakumo looked toward Sunagakure beyond the barrier. His eyes turned cold as he said,
"Let's go. It's time to carry out our final mission!"
At his words, everyone nodded gravely.
"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" "Whoosh!"...
Their figures vanished in an instant!
Inside Sunagakure.
In a hidden intelligence room for ninja in the middle of the village.
"Hmm?"
A ninja covered in all kinds of strange talismans murmured in surprise.
Hearing the noise, the Sand Ninja beside him asked, puzzled,
"What's wrong, Sanhe?"
The ninja named Sanhe seemed to concentrate on sensing something, then said softly,
"It's... it's nothing. I just felt a strange disturbance in the village's northwest corner. It was probably a false alarm. There's