Chapter 96: Fourth Raikage, Is This All You’ve Got?

After learning that Killer B had left the group without permission, the Fourth Raikage was so furious that he nearly exploded with rage!

Why was he always so unreliable?!

If he had known this would happen, he never should have brought him along on this expedition.

But then, after thinking about it again...

Even if he hadn’t brought Killer B along, locking him up in the Cloud Thunder Gorge and having people watch him probably wouldn’t have been enough to keep him there.

Killer B would probably have secretly escaped anyway.

Fortunately.

The Hidden Cloud invasion force had encountered the Konoha shinobi army that had come to intercept them.

The Fourth Raikage therefore sent part of his forces to search for Killer B while personally leading the Hidden Cloud shinobi into battle against Konoha’s interception force!

If he could tie up most of Konoha’s forces here, Konoha wouldn’t be able to send enough people to surround Killer B, which would make Killer B safer.

Even!

If he could quickly crush Konoha’s forces, Konoha would be even less likely to have the time or manpower to surround Killer B.

Especially after engaging Konoha’s shinobi forces in battle, the Fourth Raikage’s confidence increased even further!

Konoha didn’t even have a single person capable of stopping him!

The one responsible for holding him back was merely the head of the Hyūga clan, Hiashi Hyūga.

"Tch, don’t tell me you don’t even have anyone capable of fighting me?"

"What about that brat called Uchiha Reiji, the one who killed Sarutobi Hiruzen? Doesn’t he dare come?"

The Fourth Raikage spoke with extreme disdain.

He had long been dissatisfied with the fact that Konoha had always suppressed the Hidden Cloud, leaving them with no choice but to be known as the second-strongest shinobi village.

This time, even if they couldn’t destroy Konoha by invading the Land of Fire, they could at least seize a large amount of territory.

Both the Land of Fire and Konoha would suffer tremendous losses.

Once the Hidden Cloud digested the benefits gained from this invasion, the position of the strongest shinobi village would belong to them!

Opposite him.

Hiashi Hyūga was breathing heavily, blood dripping from his left arm.

His heart was filled with bitterness.

Although he hated his opponent to the point of madness and fought desperately with everything he had, there was ultimately an insurmountable gap in strength.

He was completely no match for the Fourth Raikage.

Even his full-powered pressure-point attacks could barely penetrate the Fourth Raikage’s Lightning Release Armor.

However, even if he managed to briefly block his opponent’s chakra points, it was useless.

Relying on his enormous chakra reserves, the Fourth Raikage could simply force his way through the obstruction.

As for the Gentle Fist’s Eight Trigrams Palm, the opponent’s Lightning Release Armor provided such powerful protection that it was extremely difficult to inflict any serious damage.

On the contrary, when facing the Fourth Raikage’s Lightning Release Ninjutsu and physical techniques, Hiashi didn’t dare to take a direct hit at all.

If he were struck, a single blow would probably be enough to completely deprive him of his ability to fight!

He could only rely on the insight provided by his Byakugan and his Rotation to barely defend himself.

"Come to think of it, you’re the head of the Hyūga clan, aren’t you?"

"It’s a shame. After our attempt to kidnap your daughter failed back then, I had originally hoped that we could at least obtain your corpse."

"But only afterward did we discover that the corpse Konoha had handed over was actually your twin younger brother."

The Fourth Raikage recalled the incident as he spoke.

At the time, they had originally intended to kidnap a female member of the Hyūga clan.

If they could eventually establish a branch of the Hyūga clan in the Hidden Cloud, that would have been even better.

They had coveted the Byakugan, a bloodline limit with enormous strategic value, for a very long time!

In fact, their desire for the Byakugan was even greater than their desire for the Sharingan!

After all, the Byakugan’s ability to see through objects and conduct long-range reconnaissance was simply too valuable in warfare.

Unfortunately, their attempt to have the leader of the diplomatic delegation kidnap Hiashi Hyūga’s daughter had failed.

They had then thought that threatening Konoha and obtaining the corpse of a Hyūga shinobi would be enough.

They had obtained the corpse in the end, but they hadn’t managed to research anything from it.

The Byakugan in the corpse had been completely destroyed by the power of the Cursed Seal!

"You bastard!"

"For the dignified Raikage to do something like this and then brazenly say it out loud... Does the Hidden Cloud Village have no shame at all?!"

Hiashi Hyūga exploded with rage.

The Fourth Raikage had actually bluntly admitted that they had attempted to kidnap his daughter and then sought to obtain his corpse!

He was the leader of an entire village, yet he had completely abandoned all sense of shame!

"Hmph!"

The Raikage snorted disdainfully and said,

"Compared to that, I think Sarutobi Hiruzen handing over your younger brother’s corpse was even more shameless."

"I schemed against your Hyūga clan in order to strengthen the power of my Hidden Cloud. What’s there to hide?"

"The law of the shinobi world is survival of the fittest!"

"You couldn’t rely on your own strength to protect your clan’s bloodline limit, so you resorted to using a Cursed Seal to control your own people!"

"Your Hyūga clan is the truly laughable one!"

"Besides, if you had been strong enough, would Sarutobi Hiruzen have dared to send your younger brother to his death?"

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