Suddenly, as though he had noticed something wrong, Chihane drew Shusui from his waist and slashed at the building beneath the Kage's feet. A Flying Slash dozens of meters wide shot from Shusui's blade.
It cut diagonally through the pavilion they stood on, and the structure collapsed along the slanted cut Chihane had made.
Everyone standing atop it immediately scattered onto the surrounding rooftops.
Fortunately, this building held special significance in the Land of Iron, so open ground surrounded it. That spared the country's civilians from casualties.
But the Ninja who had accompanied their villages' Kage had been knocked unconscious by Chihane's Conqueror's Haki. How many of them would survive the pavilion's collapse was another question.
"Who gave you permission to make me look up at you?"
Chihane frowned slightly and calmly voiced what was on his mind.
All this time, he had felt something was off. It turned out he had been looking up at the Kage standing at the highest point in the Land of Iron.
How dare a bunch of people who lacked even the courage to fight look down on him?
Fourth Kazekage Rasa, who had witnessed everything from beginning to end, burned this scene into his memory.
Until now, his impression of Chihane had come entirely from intelligence reports and the other Kage's discussions at the recent meetings.
He had always believed Chihane was just as they described: his life lay in their hands, and they could easily kill him whenever they wished.
More importantly, they had all confidently declared that if Hiruzen Sarutobi refused to hand Chihane over himself, they would storm Konoha and kill him.
Hah! They made it sound so convincing that even I believed them.
But sure enough, you can't trust rumors about anything!
Now he saw it with his own