- Thank you for your report, Wataru-san, you may go to rest," the advisor nodded, eyeing his boss warily as the sensor left the office in a hurry.
The dark blond man looked calm at first glance, but in fact he was tense as a string before it burst, signaling an extreme degree of rage that could end in an explosion. Tight ropes of muscle rolled under his skin, veins swelled on his forehead and neck, and his clenched fists shook.
- Ai-sama?
- Losing three hundred experienced ninja because of an unforgivable intelligence blunder!!!! - the latter suddenly roared, -What kind of biju do Kotamura's men make!
The massive table literally splintered from the mighty blow, and the stone floor of the tower beneath it cracked. The advisor was forced to jump aside and with a few swift blows beat back the shards of destroyed furniture, but his coolness was still intact, for he had seen worse in his years of service.
- Ai, don't be so nervous," the one-eyed shinobi sighed, making sure that his superiors' destructive impulse was limited to the furniture. "Konohagakure's intelligence also eats its rice for a reason, despite Shimura Danzo's death, and they could have guessed where the first strike would come from and hedged their bets beforehand.
- Dodai, I don't care about the enemy's intelligence, it's ours that screwed up, and the cost of that mistake was the lives of my men! - Kumogakure can afford to pay such a price, but only when the task at hand is accomplished, not failed!
- I suppose the bounty on Mizu no Seirei's head should be increased? - The advisor inquired, trying to steer the topic of conversation in a more constructive direction - his task was to minimize the destruction from Ai Senior's explosive nature, including to his own forces, and the guilty might well get the hot hand, which had happened before.
- Sixty million Ryo for the dead and inform Kotamura that one more such blunder and he'll deserve to train with me at full strength," the blond man threw in with a face darkened by the rush of blood.
- It will be done, Raikage-sama," the jonin bowed, and after a brief pause, asked, "We will no longer conduct diversionary attacks in this direction? It would be a waste of resources unless Bee-sama was the only one capable of stopping an attack of this magnitude.
Kumo simply didn't have enough Suiton-oriented ninjutsu specialists, unlike the same Kirigakure.
- Ai rubbed his forehead and put his hands behind his back as he paced around the room, the wood creaking under his feet. "But using Bee against a seal master is too risky, even if the biju's strength can offset the elemental advantage, but sending three teams of oi-nin to hunt him down would be a good idea. And I authorize the use of the substances from the fourth vault.
- I'll get to work selecting and equipping the teams for this mission today," the one-eyed shinobi bowed his head.
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