That was hardly surprising. After all, Sasuke was now Kirigakure's Kage-level pillar, and his wife and child were both in the village. If anything happened, he would be more anxious than anyone.
"I'll go take a look at the scene too. As for the village..."
Before Gekkō Raito could finish, Kyuji interrupted him again, his tone even graver. "Lord Gekkō Raito, we have a major problem! It's not just Kirigakure. The Snow Shinobi, the Grass Ninja, the Rain Ninja... more than two-thirds of the villages across the entire Shinobi World have come under attack simultaneously! Even Konoha has sent a distress signal!"
Gekkō Raito froze for a moment, his expression growing solemn.
This was an enormous operation...
Kara's strength and reserves seemed even more unfathomable than he had estimated.
Launching simultaneous operations against so many villages-what exactly were they after?
Before he could voice that question, Kyuji had already supplied the answer.
"According to the intelligence compiled from all sides, these lunatics have remarkably consistent objectives-seizing all the major ninja villages' core data on Scientific Ninja Tools."
Gekkō Raito understood at once. So they were after the tech tree.
That settled it. This was one hundred percent the work of those people from Kara.
"What about Ao? Has he sent back any inside information?"
As an undercover agent planted in Kara, Ao could not possibly be unaware of an operation this large. From what Gekkō Raito knew of Kara, an all-out offensive like this was bound to leave them short-handed.
An Outer Shell member like Ao would definitely be pressed into service.
"Ao sent a brief message. He was assigned to take on Hoshigakure alone. Since he's operating solo, he can't get any core intelligence on the other fronts."
"But he suspects that, after stealing so much technical material, Kara