At Konoha's barrier, Xia Yan looked helplessly at the report in his hands.
Beside him, Shikaku Nara and Qiong kept stealing glances at Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju.
Such a major incident at Konoha's barrier had naturally drawn plenty of attention.
But with Xia Yan blocking access, ordinary people could not get in. Some people, however, clearly fell outside that restriction.
One was Uchiha Sora, his private secretary. Another was Shikaku Nara, director of the Administrative Affairs Department.
Their purpose in coming was actually quite simple: to use their positions to find out what was happening.
If things were fine, all was well. If things were bad, they would naturally fire a signal flare immediately.
After all, the Hokage had personally taken action. Konoha could not possibly have no defensive measures in place.
The shinobi inside Konoha had already begun assembling. Once they sent the signal, those shinobi would immediately come to provide support.
Going to a major nation's shinobi village to cause trouble really was not something just anyone dared to do, because the consequences were unthinkable.
But after they hurried over to Xia Yan's location, Kakashi immediately stopped them both.
Although Kakashi was wearing a mask, the eyes visible through it looked extraordinarily strange.
Neither of them noticed that strangeness, however. When they craned their necks to look toward Xia Yan, they froze.
Two figures, one dressed in red and the other in blue, had appeared in their field of vision.
The two looked rather strange, with peculiar cracks running across their bodies.
Besides that, their eyes differed from ordinary people's. Their sclerae were black rather than the usual white.
But all those differences combined amounted to little, because both Shikaku Nara and Qiong had already recognized them!
These two looked exactly like the two former Hokage carved