Had this woman swallowed explosives?
I hadn't done anything to provoke her, had I?
"I don't care what kind of freakish ninjutsu you like developing, but could you watch where you're throwing it next time?"
"That Light Bullet just now nearly blew one of our own patrol boats sky-high!"
Gekkō Raito froze.
What were the odds?
Luckily, he hadn't hit it, or it would have been a major friendly-fire incident.
Then he caught on, his brow furrowing.
"A boat full of Mist Ninja? What were they doing out at sea at a time like this?"
When the conversation turned to business, the anger on Mei Terumi's face faded slightly, replaced by a grave expression.
She sighed and rubbed the spot between her brows.
"Those brutes from Kumogakure are stirring up trouble again. They seized an island on the outskirts of our Land of Water and are doing major construction there to build a port!"
The Cloud Ninja were provoking them?
Gekkō Raito's gaze turned cold.
The Land of Water and the Land of Lightning were worlds apart and had nothing to do with each other. Did those muscleheads have nothing better to do?
Just what was Kumogakure up to?
Mei Terumi's beautiful eyes shifted, her gaze settling lightly on Gekkō Raito as he lowered his head in thought.
Her red lips parted, and she spoke with a measure of certainty. "Stop racking your brains. Those people in Kumogakure most likely caught wind of our tailed beasts returning to Kirigakure."
On top of that, Kirigakure was now completely liberated and was no longer the Bloody Mist Village. They were testing the waters!
To put it plainly, they were probing whether Kirigakure actually had the guts to turn hostile.
If they backed down, those bandits from Kumogakure certainly wouldn't even bother giving