They had foolishly waited for two days, constantly sending people out to create diversions and split the Third Kazekage's attention, yet nothing came of it.
Forget reinforcements—they had not even seen a single feather.
"They should be here soon. We need to trust Hiruzen. Don't you trust him?"
Faced with Mitokado Homura's question, Utatane Koharu calmed down.
They really should trust the Third Hokage. At the very least, the Third Hokage had never gone back on anything he promised them.
If he said he had sent additional reinforcements, then reinforcements would definitely come.
They might simply have been delayed. They just needed to wait a little longer.
"Then we keep waiting."
Waiting was agonizing, but Utatane Koharu had no other choice but to continue.
Unless she was willing to abandon her naïve idea and decisively withdraw from the Land of Bears.
The result of continuing to wait was that, two days later, there was still no sign of reinforcements.
The atmosphere around Utatane Koharu was terrifyingly oppressive.
Forget everyone else—even Mitokado Homura did not dare approach her at a time like this.
They had agreed that the reinforcements would arrive in two days, yet they had waited through two sets of two days. The Third Hokage had stood them up, and there was still no sign of the reinforcements.
Fortunately, they had only kept creating diversions instead of charging out to fight the enemy to the death. Otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
Why had Hiruzen stood them up?
Mitokado Homura could not figure it out.
In truth, even the Third Hokage himself did not know why he had stood up his old friends.
As he remained in the village, he was still waiting for news from the Land of Bears.
Unfortunately, the intelligence ninja responsible for contacting the