An irresistible gravitational pull erupted without warning.
Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura rose into the air in an instant and flew toward Xuandou.
They tried to struggle, but it was useless.
Xuandou reached out, seized both of them by the throat, and held them in midair.
Mitokado Homura's glasses fell to the floor, his face flushed red.
Utatane Koharu clawed futilely at his wrist with both hands.
"Xuan... Uchiha Xuantou... you can't..."
Xuandou made no attempt to hide the killing intent in his eyes, his voice icy:
"Can't? I even dared to kill Danzo. What do you two amount to?"
At those words, Utatane Koharu immediately broke down.
"Spare us! Please spare us! Lord Xuandou, we were wrong!"
"We shouldn't have... shouldn't have said those things... please let us go..."
Her legs kicked wildly in the air.
Facing Xuandou, all the arrogance they had displayed before Tsunade moments earlier vanished.
Because they knew the man before them truly dared to kill them!
Just then, Tsunade stood up, her brows tightly furrowed.
After a moment's hesitation, she spoke:
"Xuandou, stop."
Xuandou turned to look at her.
Tsunade looked helpless.
"Whatever else they may be, they're still Konoha's advisers and the Second Hokage's students."
"You can't just kill them without any reason, or I won't be able to explain it to the heads of the major shinobi clans."
Hearing Tsunade's words, Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu seized on them like a last lifeline and frantically begged for mercy.
"Tsunade is right! Tsunade is right!"
Mitokado Homura pleaded.
"You can't kill us! We're Konoha's elders! We've rendered great service to the village!"
Utatane Koharu even cried out to Tsunade:
"Tsunade, hurry and talk him out of it! Tell him not to act rashly!"
"We won't dare do it again! We'll never interfere in