Hinata, Stop Pretending

He thought for quite a while before finally deciding that Yan needed to put some thought into the blast radius.

After all, no matter how powerful it was, if it could not hit anyone, how was it any different from a loud, empty fart?

Meanwhile, Itachi Uchiha, Kisame Hoshigaki, and Sasori slowly made their way in one direction under the rain's nourishment, seemingly with no intention whatsoever of bothering with Deidara, who was still lingering behind.

They said nothing about this incident. No matter what, each of them possessed a madness that ran deep in their bones.

It might have seemed crazy at this moment, but honestly, they had surely done things far crazier than this. It was simply that no one had witnessed them.

No, that was not right. It was not that no one had witnessed them; it was that those who did had paid the price required for witnessing it.

That price was their own lives.

Take Sasori, that mad puppeteer. It was said that after he defected from Sunagakure,

and became a Rogue Ninja wandering the ninja world, his puppet technique once reached a bottleneck.

In order to break through that bottleneck, the madman had directly slaughtered everyone in several small mountain villages without ninja protection,

then cruelly used all of them as materials to break through his bottleneck.

Elsewhere, within the Artisan Ninja Village, the Four Heavenly Phenomena and the Cloud Ninja's Two-Tails Jinchuriki had naturally heard the earth-shattering explosion as well.

Yugito swiftly leaped onto the roof of the tallest nearby building and looked in the direction from which the explosion had come.

Naturally, she saw the flames soaring into the sky.

She watched calmly, already making her own calculations. Clearly, she had realized what that explosion meant.

It meant that, at this point,