At Ōnoki's suggestion, Mū nodded. He had once thought he could regain his confidence by taking on Uchiha Mu, only to develop Uchiha syndrome instead, deepening his fear of the Uchiha.
At the same time, to prevent another Madara or Mu from appearing in the future, the Uchiha had to be exterminated. That was Iwagakure's foremost objective.
In Kirigakure, the man with the little mustache had become the Second Mizukage under circumstances similar to Iwagakure's. A tailed beast had gone berserk, and the First Mizukage had sacrificed himself. Hozuki Gengetsu had succeeded him, defeating the man who would become the Third Mizukage.
Kirigakure had mixed feelings about the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Nation. Both were Shinobi Villages rich in kekkei genkai, but Uchiha Mu had nearly picked them clean. Many of the kekkei genkai users now active outside the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Nation had originally come from their village.
The real problem was that whenever they killed one batch of bounty shinobi, another arrived. They still lacked techniques such as barriers, unlike Konoha and the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Nation, so outsiders could come and go as they pleased.
Kirigakure was still relatively normal under Hozuki Gengetsu's leadership. Once the future Third Mizukage took over, even without Madara controlling him, the number of their kekkei genkai users would plummet.
At that moment, Kirigakure was holding a meeting.
"Take a look. This is the latest intelligence on the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Nation. They've annexed another small country, and there's no discernible pattern to their expansion on the map either," Hozuki Gengetsu said gravely.
"Lord Mizukage, I'm afraid there's nothing we can do," one man replied after reading it. No shinobi village dared violate the Peace Treaty after signing it with Konoha. Hashirama was simply on another level; he could slaughter an entire village single-handedly.
"True, there's nothing