Outside Windrest City.
The Hidden Cloud group kept pushing deeper into the forest.
Their goal was to leave Windrest City's range, then surround and kill Kaguya Gaito.
At last, they reached a mountain hollow far enough from Windrest City.
The four Hidden Cloud shinobi stopped where they were.
Not long afterward, Kaguya Gaito appeared, accompanied by five Hidden Mist Jōnin.
Yugito stepped forward and looked the pursuers up and down. "Looks like you found help."
Gaito said nothing, seemingly sizing them up.
Yugito wore a mocking smile. "But it seems your luck is bad."
Gaito's tone was calm, as though he did not take them seriously at all. "Is that so?"
"Why do I feel that the unlucky ones are you?"
He waved a hand, and the Hidden Mist Jōnin, who had already coordinated with him on the way over, formed hand seals.
"Water Release: Hidden Mist Technique!"
The five Jōnin scattered, opened their mouths wide, and exhaled thick white mist.
Under the combined reinforcement of five Hidden Mist Techniques,
the surroundings instantly became a vast expanse of white.
Yato sensed trouble. He formed hand seals, and his sensory fluctuations spread outward at once.
"Careful, the six of them have surrounded us."
"Huh? They aren't sneaking closer."
Yato quickly noticed something wrong with their positions. A massive gap had been left open to the west.
"No!"
"Damn it!"
Yugito and Killer B abruptly looked up!
A highly condensed ball of energy was already screaming in from afar!
"It's a Tailed Beast Ball!"
Shock rang in Yato's voice!
No sooner said than done!
The moment he shouted the warning, the Tailed Beast Ball reached the space above them and exploded in midair!
Boom!
The terrifying energy crushed all the air around them.
All four Hidden Cloud shinobi were blasted away.
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