Kurotsuchi covered her mouth. "What a coincidence!"
"Coincidence has nothing to do with it. There are some things you really ought to know."
Ōnoki rubbed his forehead helplessly.
"There are things you should know by now. Keeping you in the dark won't do us any good."
"Oh? Know what?"
Kurotsuchi immediately felt that something was wrong, as though she had realized something.
She had noticed the strange atmosphere in Iwagakure lately, too. But when she asked her father, he gave her no explanation, and her teacher refused to tell her anything either, so she had stopped asking.
Now it seemed that something serious really had happened.
"Well... both of our village's Jinchūriki were taken, and we don't know who did it."
At those words, the Iwagakure officials who had been watching Kurotsuchi fell silent and lowered their heads.
None of them had expected both Jinchūriki to disappear at the same time.
There were signs of battle where they had vanished, so they must have been killed or captured. But that was beside the point. What mattered was that their village had lost some of its fighting strength.
Naturally, Kurotsuchi understood that reasoning.
"Then do we have any leads?"
Ōnoki shook his head. If they really had any leads, he would have gone to demand an explanation long ago.
"We don't know who did it, but judging by the traces at the scene, there were signs of a Tailed Beast Bomb and extremely powerful Fire Release Ninjutsu."
They had actually found the site fairly early.
The traces were still relatively intact, and they had found plenty of clues, but that was all.
There was little else to go on.
"Whether we find them or not, anyone capable of taking two Jinchūriki would be extremely difficult to defeat single-handedly. If the other