"What? Beat the young one and the old one comes running, and now that the old one can't handle it, you want to gang up on me?"
Shengu Xuan's utterly arrogant voice, showing no regard whatsoever for the dozens of elite Kumogakure ninja present, echoed through the devastated Valley of Clouds and Lightning. He even took a toothpick from his pocket and leisurely picked his teeth.
Darui and the Kumogakure ANBU who had arrived at the scene had no heart to rebut Shengu Xuan's mockery.
Their eyes were fixed on the two utterly wretched figures nearby.
One was Lord Killer B, the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, his entire body charred black and smelling of roasted meat, his fate unknown; the other was Lord Fourth Raikage A, lying in a pool of blood and vomiting mouthfuls of blood, his right leg shattered and his left wrist crushed!
"L-Lord Raikage! Lord B!" Darui's usual listlessness had vanished completely. Beads of cold sweat covered his forehead, and the hand gripping his greatsword trembled violently.
How was this possible?!
Lord Raikage and Lord B were Kumogakure's strongest "AB Combo"! Even against the Kage of the other four great ninja villages, they could certainly put up a fight. Yet now, these two men who stood at the pinnacle of the Shinobi World had been beaten like dogs, left gravely injured and crippled by this seemingly young boy who did not even give off the slightest fluctuation of chakra!
"Kill him! Avenge Lord Raikage!" a hotheaded young Kumogakure ANBU roared, drawing his ninja blade and preparing to charge at Shengu Xuan.
"All of you... stop!"
At that critical moment, Raikage A, lying on the ground, mustered every ounce of his strength and let out an extremely weak yet unquestionable roar.
The ANBU forcibly halted, looking at the Raikage