The coup failed

"Why did Hyuga Keisuke come back with Taketori Yoshiyuki now?!" Neji turned his gaze and saw the person he least wanted to see.

Neji watched Hyuga Keisuke return to the Kaguya Clan compound with two Jonin from the Branch Family and Taketori Yoshiyuki.

The Kirigakure ninja and Anbu lurking in the shadows did nothing to stop them.

The moment Neji saw the two men return, he knew things were very likely to take a turn for the worse.

Their timing was too perfect, coinciding exactly with Kirigakure's opportunity to strike.

They probably let them in because they want to catch them all in one sweep, Neji guessed.

Rumble!

Just then, Neji heard a muffled boom from the direction of the Mizukage Office Building.

Startled, Neji immediately turned his gaze toward the Mizukage Office Building.

"That's... the Bone Forest!" Neji saw a breathtaking sight.

The entire block around the Mizukage Office Building had been engulfed by a forest of stark white bones. Even the Hidden Mist Technique cast by Fourth Mizukage Karatachi Yagura could not conceal the enormous Bone Forest.

Through his Byakugan, Neji could see Kirigakure ninja impaled on some of the snow-white bone spikes.

The next instant, a dark red light pierced the sky—a pillar of erupting chakra.

A tremendous bestial roar rang out, and great swaths of the stark white Bone Forest were blasted away, drifting through the air like straw in the wind.

An enormous dark red dome of light spread outward from the center of the Bone Forest. Everything in its path shattered, whether it was chakra-laden mist or menacing bones.

Neji saw that the Fourth Mizukage was now enveloped in the Three-Tails' crimson chakra. His entire body was dark red, with three tails swaying behind him.

Although much of the Bone Forest had been blasted