"Hm? What do you mean?" Gekkō Raito froze, not quite processing her words.
Tsunade smiled breezily. "The Fourth and the First are both here, and even Naruto and Kakashi have grown into their own. An old relic like me should step aside and let someone more capable take over."
She walked up to Raito, a rare trace of tenderness in her eyes. "What? Don't you need your big sister to look after you a little more from now on, little brother?"
The corner of Raito's mouth twitched. It seemed the earlier treatment had healed her body, but the "side effect" of randomly adopting little brothers still hadn't gone away.
Just then, Kyuji's urgent shouts suddenly came from outside.
"Lord Mizukage! Something terrible has happened! Urgent military intelligence!"
Raito's heart tightened. He immediately lifted the door curtain and stepped outside. "What are you panicking for? Take your time and tell me."
A sensory ninja from the Kozuki Clan knelt on the ground, drenched in sweat. He had clearly sprinted all the way here.
An emergency dispatch of this level usually meant Kirigakure's home territory was under threat.
"Speak!"
"Reporting to Lord Mizukage! The reconnaissance squad discovered that the three great shinobi villages-Sunagakure, Kumogakure, and Iwagakure-have assembled several thousand elite troops and are advancing toward Kirigakure at full speed!"
What?!
Raito's gaze instantly turned cold.
"You're saying these three great shinobi villages are going to attack Kirigakure at a time like this?"
It was simply incomprehensible. He had clearly intimidated them with force before.
With the Ōtsutsuki Clan threatening the entire shinobi world, instead of thinking about saving their own lives, they were taking advantage of the crisis to plunder?
That line of thinking hardly seemed like something normal human beings could come up with.
Raito swiftly analyzed the situation: the enemy