Instantly Killing the Snow Ninja

Just as the woman had expected, the day after they deliberately released the news, a band of pirates took advantage of the night, braved the blizzard, stormed ashore, and headed straight for Snow Curtain Village with hostile intent.

There were fifty or sixty pirates, each one looking vicious and menacing.

The villagers were terrified. Every household shut its doors tight and trembled inside.

"Why are you chasing me? I don't have a penny to my name. You won't get anything valuable by robbing me..."

In Snow Curtain Village, the woman was surrounded from both ends of a narrow alley barely wide enough for three people to walk abreast. She clearly had no chance of escape.

Though she looked terrified on the surface, she was calm as still water inside.

Two masked men stepped out from the pirate groups at either end.

"Princess, you really hid yourself well. We searched for you for years, yet who would've thought you were hiding in this godforsaken place!"

The man approached her from the front, his voice filled with wild delight.

"To find you, Princess, we drifted at sea for years and eventually had no choice but to become pirates. Even so, of the fifty men who set out with us, only the two of us are still alive."

The man behind the woman spoke with resentment in his voice.

God knew what they had been through over the past few years.

The Land of Water was controlled by Kirigakure. When their group first arrived, they relied on being trusted subordinates of the king and did not take Kirigakure seriously at all. Thus, on their first landing, they clashed head-on with Kirigakure ninja.

The result was that more than half of the fifty elite royal guards, who had arrived full of bravado, were wiped