A Village Full of Assassins? The Signal

Inside the ramen shop.

"What do we do now?"

Two ordinary-looking men looked at the equally ordinary-looking woman beside them.

"We wait. They've gathered in all these streets and alleys, but they haven't attacked yet. That must mean they have an agreed-upon signal."

The woman spoke calmly.

The three were Kanami's wood clones and Tsunade.

"Boss, two extra eggs."

"Coming right up."

Tsunade: "??"

"You're still in the mood to order extra eggs?"

"Why wouldn't I be?"

Kanami spoke nonchalantly.

"Would not ordering eggs help us identify the infiltrators in this crowd?"

"Your eggs."

"Thank you."

Kanami thanked him.

He gave one to Kanami Two beside him.

The two shared a mental connection.

They knew perfectly well whether the other wanted an extra egg without having to ask.

"Since you said there might be a signal, we might as well wait."

Kanami swallowed a mouthful of ramen, his powerful sensory perception already spreading outward.

Without anyone noticing, Kanami's perception had covered all of the Fire Country.

"How about we just use the process of elimination?"

Something occurred to Kanami Two, and he spoke up.

"The process of elimination?"

Tsunade looked puzzled.

"You." Kanami Two pointed at Tsunade. "Which villages did you invite? Kill every ninja in Konoha who isn't from one of those villages."

"We can't do that. What if some of them really just came to look around?"

Tsunade's brows knitted tightly.

But she couldn't even convince herself with that argument.

How could any uninvited small village dare to come to Konoha just to look around?

Besides, only people with invitations had been allowed inside.

Even if they really had come just to look around Konoha, where had they gotten those invitations bearing the Fire Country's seal?

Clearly, even those small villages that had "just come to look around"