Chapter 511: Questioning
"Raikage-sama!" C's voice came through the communication headset, his anxiety audible in the distorted voice, "Haruno Sakura's chakra used Body Flicker towards the direction of the village!"
"I know!" The Raikage pressed his forehead and said, "All combat groups pay attention, those blocking her path, try to delay her actions! Everyone else return to the village immediately!"
At this moment, he had recovered from the despair just now, knowing he must do something, otherwise...
Cloud Ninja Village might be wiped out overnight!
The Raikage forced himself to calm down and continued: "Also, immediately evacuate the non-combat members in the village! Sealing Team assemble, await my orders!"
He quickened his pace while speaking.
"Everyone remember, before I return to the village, do not engage Haruno Sakura in combat without authorization! The opponent is extremely dangerous!"
"I will rush back as fast as possible! Give me... three minutes!"
The Raikage gritted his teeth, his face tight, thinking nervously in his heart.
With the situation developing to this point, if he insisted there was no problem with his decision-making as the Raikage, that would be self-deception.
Of course, this didn't mean the Raikage admitted that the plan of brutally abusing the Konoha delegation and forcing Haruno Sakura to bow to them was wrong.
One man's hero is another man's enemy, that's all.
If it could allow Cloud Ninja to absorb a powerful combat force, greatly enhancing the village's strength, what did it matter if it was a hundred times more cruel? What did it matter if another hundred or a thousand Konoha envoys died?
It was Konoha ninja who died, what did it have to do with him, the Raikage!
Cloud Ninja would only cheer for his wise choice and regard him as a hero of Cloud Ninja!
A hero who built his merits on the piled-up bones of Konoha ninja.
The Raikage didn't think there was anything wrong with what he did—Cloud Ninja and Cloud Ninja citizens wouldn't think so either.
His mistake was only that there was a flaw in tonight's action plan. It was very tight at first, but later, when Haruno Sakura blindly wanted to break through the encirclement, the Raikage moved too many people to defend the direction towards the Land of Fire, causing a loophole in the opposite direction!
This was the mistake he made.
His mistake was that he was not thorough enough, not sinister enough, and not ruthless enough when dealing with Haruno Sakura.
His mistake was that he harbored illusions when dealing with Haruno Sakura, thinking he could subdue her, who was young, with rhetoric, so he left some leeway and didn't go all out to defeat her.
If he could do it again... he absolutely wouldn't choose this plan, but would lead elite troops to attack them directly on the return journey, capture Haruno Sakura alive, break her limbs, seal her chakra, and take her back to brainwash her.
The Raikage was extremely annoyed in his heart, but he also understood that annoyance was useless.
Since things had come to this, he could only try his best to remedy it... hoping Haruno Sakura wouldn't really be so crazy!
Unlike Konoha, Cloud Ninja Village's main population was ninja, and the proportion of civilians was not large, so the village population was not large either. Apart from the twenty to thirty thousand active combat ninja, there were also more than five times as many retired ninja, civilian ninja, ninja students, and civilians providing services for ninja.
About 150,000 people.
The Raikage tried not to think... if a Haruno Sakura-level ninja ran amok and wreaked havoc in the village, even for just one minute, what disastrous consequences it would cause!
On the other side.
In Cloud Ninja Village.
The village was peaceful, the night was lonely, a bright moon hung in the deep purple starry sky, and silver moonlight shone straight on the ground.
Haruno Sakura didn't start a massacre in the village and exterminate the entire Cloud Ninja Village as the Raikage imagined.
She just casually made a slashing motion.
A slender water stream shot out from her fingertips, cutting the towering Raikage Peak and the Raikage Building, along with several peaks behind it, into two halves.
Amidst the rumbling sound, the Raikage Peak and the magnificent Funnel Building, which Cloud Ninja regarded as a spiritual symbol, collapsed into a pile of ruins, no longer having the slightest sense of standing proudly.
Under the night, the girl draped in silver moonlight stood alone as if abandoned by the world, her beautiful hair flying gently in the night wind.
She looked indifferently at the crashed Raikage Peak in front of her, her eyes cold, her figure like a goddess of vengeance.
Haruno Sakura stood for a moment, then turned around, the silver thread between her fingers flickering, seemingly looking for the next target.
Just then, a Cloud Ninja rushed up, either bravely or recklessly.
"Stop, you bastard!"
Haruno Sakura happened to know the newcomer; it was Omoi who led the way that day. He glared at the girl and said viciously, "On what basis do you destroy our village?"
"On what basis?"
Haruno Sakura laughed loudly as if hearing a huge joke, looking coldly at the angry young Cloud Ninja in front of her, and asked back: "As a Cloud Ninja perpetrator, you are questioning me instead?"
"I would like to ask... on what basis do you guys?!"
"Just because you Konoha occupy the most prosperous and fertile land, have the most powerful Kekkei Genkai families and the most powerful Tailed Beast, yet you lack ambition and fight internally endlessly!" Omoi stood in front of Haruno Sakura, his tone serious and arrogant, speaking righteously, "So it serves your Konoha right to decline! And we Cloud Ninja have nothing! So we can only rely on continuous hard work, continuous pioneering and enterprising, and unity to grow into today's prosperous appearance!"
"Hehe."
Haruno Sakura sneered. The more her heart burned with anger, the calmer her face and tone became. "So for the benefit of your village, Cloud Ninja can unscrupulously persecute Konoha envoys?"
"So in order for your Cloud Ninja to become stronger, I should wait for capture with my hands tied?"
"Then why didn't you join Cloud Ninja?" The youth answered as a matter of course, even raising a sincere question mixed with consideration for everyone, "If you just joined Cloud Ninja, wouldn't there be no conflict tonight? Wouldn't you be able to help us, who are actively enterprising, unify the ninja world and bring peace to the world?"
Haruno Sakura narrowed her eyes.
The girl could distinguish the emotions in Omoi's words. He took himself and his village as the center of the world so naturally, without considering the feelings of people with other stances at all. His true doubts about tonight's abnormal events were also undisguised and unpretentious.
As if saying, "I'm robbing your things, why are you resisting? Your resistance caused both of us to get hurt, isn't that your fault? If you didn't resist, wouldn't everyone be safe and sound?"
So according to this logic, the reason Konoha ninja died was because she didn't surrender?
Omoi's face was exactly the same as the saying, "You don't want to surrender, and you refuse to die, we are also very troubled." (Changed two words to avoid suspicion)
But unfortunately, his tone was so serious.
Sakura even had an absurd feeling that she had done something wrong.
When acting as a guide that day, Omoi gave her the impression of a young man who, although a bit chatty, had a good personality and upright conduct.
For some reason, tonight, it seemed that everyone's personality had undergone a 180-degree change.
This world seemed to suddenly become strange and weird.
What exactly is going on?
She snorted impatiently, no longer interested in talking to him: "Have you finished your nonsense?"
"Hmph. Tonight I not only destroyed Cloud Ninja Village but also killed many Cloud Ninja!"
"So... what can you do to me?"
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