Boom!
The moment Takahashi Yū followed Tarō into the raging battle, a bolt of thunder grazed him and blasted a huge crater behind him.
"My coat!!"
"Fuck, Tarō! Wait here!"
He handed his torn padded coat to Tarō and charged forward.
"Someone give me a fucking report!!"
Takahashi Yū ran to the foot of the mountain and shouted at the scattered Konoha Ninja fighting their own battles.
"It's Lord Takahashi Yū!"
"Brothers! Reinforcements are here!"
A Konoha Ninja hurried over to Takahashi Yū and lay down beneath a large rock beside him.
"Lord Takahashi Yū, there's a Kumogakure outpost up the mountain!"
"Our mission is to take this mountain!!"
"But the Cloud Shinobi have the high ground! We can't push our way up!"
The ninja using the rock as cover shouted with all his might.
"Got it! How many Cloud Shinobi are up there? How many ninja do we have left?"
Takahashi Yū slapped aside a Lightning Release attack aimed at him and quickly questioned the Konoha ninja.
Are we playing a fucking beach-landing game here?
"There are at least a hundred Cloud Shinobi up there! We have just over two hundred left!"
"And there's a plain at the top, connected directly to the rear of the Land of Lightning! Reinforcements could arrive at any moment!!"
Takahashi Yū was stunned by what he heard. He didn't ask the Konoha Ninja how many people they had started with.
He simply looked at the towering mountain before him. Fuck, how were these ordinary ninja supposed to complete a mission like this? They were being sent to their deaths.
It shouldn't have been called a mountain. It was more like a step in the steadily rising elevation of the Land of Lightning.
There was cover only at the foot of the mountain. The