Echoing Across the Ninja World

The peace agreement was like a massive boulder cast into a lake, its ripples spreading far deeper than the war itself. News that Sunagakure and the Hidden Mist Village had reached an agreement, and that the Hidden Mist Village had paid an enormous "compensation," spread through every corner of the Ninja World as if it had grown wings, accompanied by detailed battle reports of the Azure Reef Island tragedy—selectively disclosed by Sunagakure and uncovered through the efforts of spies from every faction.

At first, no one could believe it.

When the upper echelons of the major ninja villages first heard the news, nearly all of them assumed it was an absurd rumor. Sunagakure, which had just been beaten by Konoha at Kikyō Mountain into signing a humiliating treaty and being forced to cede territory and pay reparations, had turned around and beaten the Hidden Mist Village? They had even crossed the sea to attack their homeland, destroyed an important base, and forced the notoriously stubborn and shameless Hidden Mist Village to bow its head and pay compensation? It sounded like pure fantasy!

Yet as more details were gradually uncovered and confirmed, disbelief turned into immense shock and deep wariness. Everyone's attention converged, as if by unspoken agreement, on the two people who had created this miracle. Their titles, along with their chilling methods of battle and achievements, resounded across the entire Ninja World at an unprecedented speed.

Scorch Release Envoy—Pakura!

This name had not appeared for the first time, but the battle at East Sea Bay and the surprise attack on Azure Reef Island had branded the power of her Scorch Release Kekkei Genkai into the minds of all who heard of it in an incomparably terrifying and profound way.

Rumor had it that she possessed the healthy, powerful beauty