What kind of trouble had Iwagakure stirred up now to make Ōnoki this furious?
Everyone looked puzzled.
Yan raised an eyebrow. He had roughly guessed what had happened, so he asked in an uncertain tone:
"Could it be that Iwagakure's jinchūriki ran into trouble?"
"???"
Tsuchikage, are you serious?
At his words, aside from Tsunade, who remained relatively calm, everyone else's eyes widened as they stared at Ōnoki in disbelief.
"Tsuchikage, this isn't true, is it?"
Akatsuki's target was the tailed beasts. The jinchūriki should have been hidden away and guarded closely, so how had something happened so carelessly?
A's eyes were wide, and his voice was a little loud.
This made Ōnoki nod awkwardly as he said with embarrassment:
"He was attacked during a mission. By the time the village discovered it, he had long since vanished. We couldn't trace any clues he left behind either, so we were unable to gather any useful intelligence."
A: "..."
Mei Terumi: "..."
Third Hokage: "..."
Damn, good thing Rasa had already left. Otherwise, that stone-faced man would definitely have been scared pale.
"Even my disciple Deidara was forcibly abducted by Akatsuki."
Ōnoki changed his wording.
He felt that if he said Deidara had run off because he himself was hopeless, he would be laughed to death.
For the sake of his dignity, Ōnoki chose a more tactful way to put it.
"..."
Iwagakure really outdid itself. This was truly making a bad situation worse.
The jinchūriki was gone, and now even his disciple was gone. It really hadn't been easy for Ōnoki to sit here so calmly.
A felt he should refrain from mocking him, because the other man really had it rough.
After the war, he had been left to clean up the biggest mess. The village was full of