Listening to Yui's remark, Jiaoya secretly curled his lip behind her and thought, Only now do you notice the smell of blood? You didn't leave a single person alive.
"Since we're back in the Land of Whirlpools, we won't linger. Lady Mito is still waiting for us." Yui thanked their Uzumaki host, then headed into the village with Jiaoya and Lao Ren.
Watching Yui recede into the distance, an old man wearing a round hat stood in a daze. As he recalled the bloody scene on the island, his body began to tremble involuntarily.
"Lord Ning, is this the power of a truly strong shinobi? No matter how many people there are, they can't beat a single person," a young member of the Uzumaki Clan asked quietly.
"Yes!" The old man in the round hat, Ning Uzumaki, nodded solemnly.
He began to reminisce. "When it comes to the strongest shinobi, it has to be those two. When those two started fighting, the sky went dark, and even heaven and earth seemed to change color."
"The sky went dark, and heaven and earth changed color? Are there... really shinobi like that in this world?" The young man did not believe him. He thought the old man was simply making it up.
Meanwhile, Jiaoya looked at the lights glowing on either side of the street, filled with mixed emotions. "Man, before this, we tried everything to get in here and steal their Sealing Jutsu. Who would've thought we'd get in so easily this time?"
"Enough chatter," came Yui's calm voice.
"From now on, you'll be the ones guarding the Land of Whirlpools!"
Both Lao Ren and Jiaoya froze at her words. In disbelief, they said, "H-how can that work...?"
"We want our freedom. We can't stay on this island forever."
Yui ignored