At her words, Gekkō Raito turned his head, a faint, casual smile on his young face. "What problem could there be?"
He pointed at their empty surroundings. The entire area around the Mizukage Building was eerily silent, without even a shadow of a guard in sight.
This was not because Kirigakure had no one left to deploy, but because all its elite forces had been sent out to build one impregnable defensive line after another.
All to resist this unprecedented invasion.
This empty-fort-style tactic made Hinata uneasy. As the Kage of a village, shouldn't Gekkō Raito have led the charge on the front lines?
Why was he hiding far in the rear, watching like an outsider?
Could it be that Mr. Gekkō Raito didn't want to dirty his own hands?
But the intelligence clearly indicated that the enemy was terrifyingly powerful. Wasn't Mr. Gekkō Raito being far too overconfident...?
As though seeing through her thoughts, Gekkō Raito said softly, "Those guys are enough. Whether the enemy can even reach me alive is still an open question."
His words left Hinata momentarily stunned, her beautiful eyes filled with disbelief. Did Kirigakure really have such deep reserves of strength?
Could they keep that army of over ten thousand outside their gates without Mr. Gekkō Raito even having to act?
Although she knew the Kirigakure Ninja were formidable, this was simply too unbelievable when they faced the allied forces of the Three Great Shinobi Villages and that mysterious Ōtsutsuki Clan.
Gekkō Raito smiled without answering, merely directing his deep gaze toward the distant meeting of sea and sky.
"Watch closely, Hinata. Kirigakure's defensive system isn't something you can build just by piling up numbers."
Earlier, Gekkō Raito had used the Op-Op Fruit's ROOM ability to completely transform the terrain of the entire village,