"Tsk, was their mental fortitude really that bad?! It was just one defeat! They couldn't take it and chose suicide?!"
Bai Ye watched from the sidelines as the elders slit their own throats, one after another.
He felt he hadn't even said how he planned to deal with them yet.
Why had they all killed themselves?!
Were they really that fragile?!
It was only a minor defeat.
Though he wouldn't have spared them anyway.
Bai Ye knew these people among the Grass Ninja well enough. If he didn't kill them now,
even if he brought them under his control later, they would probably cause him all sorts of trouble.
After all, they had sacrificed so many Grass Ninja for the Box of Ultimate Bliss.
As far as Bai Ye was concerned, they were perfectly capable of committing other atrocities too.
He was just a little surprised that he hadn't even needed to lift a finger.
But thinking about how single-minded they were,
perhaps it really made sense that he hadn't needed to do anything.
After all, their ambitions had been shattered.
They had been dreaming of using the Box of Ultimate Bliss to unify the shinobi world.
Instead, they couldn't even defeat him, and they had sacrificed so many Grass Ninja. How could they not fall apart?!
Hearing his words, the Grass Flower Elder beside him didn't know what to say.
This guy...
Was that really something a human being would say?!
Anyone would have broken down in their position, wouldn't they?!
Still, he knew this wasn't the time to dwell on that.
He looked at the surviving Grass Ninja before him. Compared to their numbers before the war, fewer than one in twenty remained.
Kusagakure had essentially been wiped out.
He sighed, his heart filled with grief.
If only