"Useless! All of you are useless!"
The next day.
Early morning.
Inside Root's headquarters, Danzo looked at the intelligence in his hand and flew into a rage.
This was news that had just come from the front-line Command Headquarters on the East Coast, stating that although the support force had been ambushed and suffered heavy losses...
The targets—Uchiha Shisui and Uchiha Qian—had both arrived safely at Command Headquarters.
If that had been all, it would have been one thing.
The key was Qian's strength.
According to the current intelligence, the vast majority of the Special Jonin and Jonin among the Mist Ninja who had ambushed the support force had been killed by him.
Among them were even two members of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen.
That level of strength had already made Danzo feel that he was a thorny problem—even... afraid!
"Damn it!"
Danzo cursed again, then looked at the Root Ninja kneeling on one knee below and said, "Have you still not made contact with Tatsuma Squad?"
"Reporting, my lord, not yet."
No sooner had the Root Ninja below answered than a knocking came at the door.
Knock, knock, knock—
Hearing it, Danzo said directly, "Come in!"
Immediately, someone pushed the door open and entered.
The person came before Danzo, held out an order, and said, "My lord, someone from the Anbu just came and delivered Lord Hokage's order. He wants you to go to the Hokage Office immediately."
Danzo glanced at the order in the man's hand and sneered. "Hmph. Summoning me now—is he going to play the good man again?"
Half an hour later.
Inside the Hokage Office.
Sarutobi Hiruzen sat behind his desk, a pipe in his mouth, taking the occasional puff. At the same time, he held a report in his hand, his brow tightly