The blazing flames seemed to turn the sky red!
"Fire! Fire! Help! My house—"
Goro was crying and howling like crazy. The others quickly grabbed him, trying to comfort him: "Goro, don't be impulsive. As long as the green mountains remain, there's always firewood to burn!"
Everyone finally managed to calm Goro down. But suddenly...
The entire village began to catch fire. The sudden flames burned fiercely and couldn't be extinguished, and no source could be found.
"Ah! My house!" "Damn it, my house is on fire too!" "Help! My house—"
For a moment, everyone who had been calm just moments before started shouting in panic...
Seeing this, Goro suddenly froze. He stopped crying and instead burst into loud laughter: "Hahaha, Tora, Juma, don't be impulsive. As long as the green mountains remain, there's always firewood!"
What a dramatic scene...
The flames in Wolf's Wretchedness village grew fiercer, and even the villagers, reluctant to lose their property, could only retreat far away. The blazing fire and billowing smoke shot into the sky, so bright that even hundreds of miles away, it was clearly visible!
Meanwhile, in a cave over fifty kilometers away from Wolf's Wretchedness...
"Captain, it looks like something's happening in Wolf's Wretchedness village over there!"
"Huh?"
As a seasoned Chūnin of Sunagakure, Shimokawa Fūta raised an eyebrow in confusion: "It looks like a fire, but we can't rule out the possibility that it's a trick by Konoha ninjas..."
Shimokawa Fūta pondered for a long time and finally decided to send someone to check.
"Matsukawa Kōichi, you go and take a look!"
Matsukawa Kōichi was their team's defense expert, highly skilled in Earth Release ninjutsu. Although he was a lower-ranked ninja, most mid-level ninjas couldn't handle him without a lot of effort.
And that was enough time for him to send out a warning message...
"Yes!"
Matsukawa Kōichi not only looked honest and simple but also had a very straightforward personality. Without saying a word after receiving the order, he turned and left the cave.
Chakra surged in his legs as he rushed toward Wolf's Wretchedness. In just ten minutes, Matsukawa Kōichi arrived at the village...
"What's going on here?"
In just ten minutes, the entire village was still burning uncontrollably. The villagers could only watch from a distance, too afraid to approach.
"I don't know. The houses suddenly caught fire, and no matter how we try to extinguish it, it just won't stop..."
Goro sat on the ground, dazed, looking around blankly: "And then, the whole village just burned up!"
Hearing this, Matsukawa Kōichi frowned deeply.
At first, he thought it was just a simple accidental fire, but listening to it now, it didn't seem like a mere accident...
But why would Konoha ninjas set fire to civilians' houses? Besides escalating the situation, what benefit would it bring to Konoha?
Matsukawa Kōichi couldn't figure it out and naturally decided to investigate the fire scene more closely...
"Suiton — Water Encasement!"
Chakra circulated, and two winding streams of water flowed quietly around Matsukawa Kōichi. This was a simple D-rank ninjutsu, barely enough to resist some burns. As he avoided the raging flames, he sensed a distinct chakra aura...
These flames were definitely not ordinary fire; they were generated by ninjutsu.
"Wow wow"
While Matsukawa Kōichi was pondering, a sudden baby's cry interrupted his thoughts.
"What's that?"
Following the sound, Matsukawa Kōichi found a baby, just over a year old, curled up in a corner of the fire scene, crying loudly.
The baby was surprisingly lucky—three thick beams intersected and burned fiercely, but they happened to form a tiny safe space for survival.
Seeing this, Matsukawa Kōichi instinctively moved closer. This had nothing to do with ninja or civilians—just human instinct. Survivors in a disaster always evoke extra sympathy...
Moreover, this was a citizen of Wind Country. Without these civilians, ninjas wouldn't have such a luxurious life.
Or rather, the reason the Five Great Shinobi Countries are the Five Greats is because of the five nations.
Without wealthy nations, there's no way to support the costly ninja villages...
"Little guy, you're really lucky!"
Matsukawa Kōichi smiled and reached out, lifting the baby from the flames: "Don't cry, little one. What's your name?"
"I'm..."
Aoi sobbed and tightly grasped Matsukawa Kōichi's hand, then suddenly grinned fiercely: "Grandpa Suna ninja!"
"What!?"
Matsukawa Kōichi's eyes widened. His hands instinctively moved to form seals.
But before he could do anything, a sharp kunai pierced straight through his heart!
With a loud "bang," Matsukawa Kōichi fell straight to the ground...
Until he died, he couldn't understand why a two-year-old baby would wield a knife and kill him!
Yanking Aoi's stiff hands away, Aoi sneered: after waiting so long, he only caught a lower-ranked ninja. Such a waste of his acting skills...
Meanwhile, several kilometers away, Yūya swallowed hard and muttered: "It's over..."
No defenses, no one would expect a baby surviving a disaster.
Matsukawa Kōichi, almost offering himself as a sacrifice to Aoi's kunai...
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