To be honest, Itachi and Kisame had originally found their leader's special arrangements rather hard to understand.
Even if they needed to make money, there was no need to pick such a boring mission.
But after seeing Moqian's astonishing performance, they immediately realized just how troublesome this kind of cursed spirit was!
If she were allowed to keep growing, humanity might one day face a super-monster that surpassed all Nine Tailed Beasts combined.
This was not alarmism, but a reasonable deduction based on the astonishing potential of cursed spirits.
Rumor had it that even Kumogakure, which had pursued a strategy of "rooting them out completely" from the very beginning, had recently been forced to slow its efforts to eliminate the cursed spirits in the Land of Lightning, seemingly because it had encountered something troublesome.
Even that Raikage, who disliked thinking and had a head full of muscle, had suffered a setback. Clearly, cursed spirits were not so easy to deal with.
"Akagi Shinji, how about setting our personal grievances aside for now?" Itachi suddenly said.
His meaning was clear: when facing an enemy of humanity, any grievances between humans could be temporarily set aside.
Just like the Allied Shinobi Forces in the original story.
For the sake of all humanity, no matter how much the Five Great Nations hated one another, even if the person standing beside you might have killed your father, you still had to set that hatred aside and fight together!
Such an alliance was difficult to achieve. Only when humanity reached a critical moment of life and death, when there was no choice but to do so, could such a miracle be accomplished.
But right now, only two or three people were involved. Since Itachi had already made his position clear, all that remained was to