Habara only sehe temosphere pervading the battlefield, while the Konoha ninjas at the forefront were already covered in blood.

  A short time earlier, just as the enemy ehe battlefield's perimeter, a Konoha ninja had already ehem.

  Without any need for unication, the two opposing ninjas rapidly closed the distahen, in a single exge, the Konoha ninja lost an arm.

  After the initial strike, the two separated slightly. The Konoha ninja gritted his teeth, but without even gng at his wound, he simply drew a kunai with his other, non-dominant hand and uatingly charged again at the enemy, who was clearly far stronger.

  At this moment, his other teammates just watched him, showing no iion of providing support… because this was the task he was assigned.

  As pale, white lightning crackled around the enemy, the Konoha ninja's chest was easily pierced, leaving a gaping hole.

  Then, he colpsed to the ground, with no possibility of standing up again.

  After seeing the enemy's teique, another Konoha ninja who had been immediately began to transmit information. He bleecially made whistle hidden in his mouth, and the bird-like call instantly spread out:

  "Target identity firmed. Begin luring operation."

  The seemingly reckless Konoha ninja who charged out to fight and subsequently died had, in fact, only been carrying out the mission of reaissand firming the enemy's identity. And strictly speaking, he wasn't a Konoha ninja, but at most, a "Konoha-affiliated ninja."

  , the Konoha vanguard appeared to be frightened by the enemy's strength and immediately began to retreat.

  The enemy pursued without hesitation, and in the process of guiding the enemy forward, several more Konoha ninjas sacrificed their lives.

  There were no fshy ninjutsu, nor any outstanding physical abilities. For many ordinary ninjas, the so-called battle was simply rushing up to the enemy and engaging in a sword fight. Failure meah.

  Then, the Konoha side realized that the enemy was not a two-man squad, but a four-man squad.

  But the battle had already begun. It was impossible to stop the operation at this point, and the enemy wouldn't easily allow the Konoha ninjas to disengage.

  Habara, situated at the very rear, knew he couldn't remain this tense indefinitely. He had to do something… Thinking this, he reached into the ninja tool pou his bad pulled out several shuriken, kunai, and that stack of explosive tags.

  Then, he began to tie the explosive tags to the kunai, one by one.

  Seeing his as, Nobuyoshi silently moved a little further away… This was the normal rea when someone who didn't know what they were doing started fiddling with explosives.

  But for Habara, the explosive tags were defihe most powerful things he had. At this moment, the more potent the explosives, the safer he felt.

  After making these meager preparations, he quieted down again.

  Gradually, the sounds of the forest became more chaotic. Suddenly, a loud explosion came from the front. Even from this distance, Habara could feel the ground shaking.

  It was likely that a trap set by Konoha had been triggered.

  A rge amount of dust rose in the forest, lingering among the trees and further dimming the surrounding light.

  After the sound of the explosion faded, a bird call rang out near Habara.

  Habara quickly turned his head to look at Nobuyoshi. His sharp gaze made the other ninja flinch slightly.

  But Nobuyoshi didn't hesitate. He quickly said, "Trap failed!"

  At this point, there was really o use code to transmit information anymore, because there was no oo respond to Daigo's signal.

  "They're here!"

  This time, it was Daigo who shouted.

  Just as the words left her mouth, Habara sensed something rapidly approag.

  Their position had been exposed! The enemy knew where Habara and the others were. Almost in the blink of an eye, a Kumo ninja appeared before them.

  Tall and muscur, with dark skin, around thirty years old, and two deep scars on his face… Habara observed this enemy from head to toe. However, when his gaze moved slightly downward, his eyes instantly froze.

  The enemy was dragging something.

  Seemingly notig Habara's gaze, the man casually swung his arm, and the obje his hand rolled to a stop not far in front of Habara and Nobuyoshi…

  It was Squad Leader Nindo, or rather, Squad Leader Nindo's corpse.

  Although Habara wasn't familiar with this squad leader, he did know him. However, a person who had been alive and well just moments ago had suddenly bee a corpse. To be ho, this wasn't something easy to accept.

  Habara didn't know how to describe his feelings at this moment, but then he had an epiphany… So, this was war.

  Actually, wherap set by Konoha didn't work, it could already be decred that this operation had pletely failed. How could ordinary in and Genin-level ninjas possibly defeat ae Jonin?

  No matter how ingenious the tactid pns, if they couldn't bahe gap in hard power, they would be meaningless.

  Just as Habara was having some random thoughts, Nobuyoshi beside him suddenly moved… Not to attack the enemy out of a ck of self-awareness, but to rush towards Nindo's corpse.

  However, just as Nobuyoshi was about to retrieve the body, a short sword sshed towards him. He was forced to make a sudden stop and ge dire, narrowly avoiding a fatal wound.

  The enemy's on sliced down Nobuyoshi's left arm, leaving a long and deep wound… like a scallion split by a kit knife.

  "Nobuyoshi, Habara, you two provide cover! Leave this to me!"

  As Izayo's voice rang out, a scorg fireball was already hurtling towards the enemy.

  Habara was jolted awake by the squad leader's voice. He gritted his teeth and could only charge forward with Nobuyoshi.

  Although the Kumo enemy was rge, he was also incredibly fast. He easily dodged Izayo's Fire Release, and by this time, Nobuyoshi and Habara had surrounded him from both sides.

  With one arm injured, Nobuyoshi was already uo perform jutsu. So, iy, Habara, who was in full dition, became the main attacker. However, the problem was…

  He didn't know any jutsu.

  Without hesitation, Habara pulled out the kunai he had prepared and, without a sed thought, threw them all at the enemy in a flurry.

  At this cle, if the explosive tags detohe attack would certainly be indiscriminate.

  Seeing a barrage of explosive tags flying towards him, the enemy couldn't help but raise an eyebrow. At this moment, he could only quickly retreat to avoid them.

  He thought he had entered a die-hard Konoha ninja illing to unch a suicide bombing attack.

  However, the kunai with the explosive tags didn't explode. After flying a short distahey all cttered to the ground.

  "…"

  Huh?

  "Sorry, how do you detohese things again?" Habara scratched the back of his head, seemingly a little embarrassed.

  Just now, both the enemy and Habara were fully in the moment. The rge enemy was alert and swift. At this moment, a ing and disdainful expression lingered on his face... If the explosive tags had detonated, his expression would have been perfect. The problem was, the explosive tags didn't detonate.

  What a waste of everyone's emotions.

  The Kumo ninja's gaze locked onto Habara. He had been mistaken just now. This person wasn't a die-hard, but an idiot.

  And just as he was thinking this, a kunai that had fallen to the ground suddenly sprang up like a rabbit startled from the grass. It rushed towards the enemy with lightning speed, and then the explosive tag attached to the kunai began to glow red. And then…

  Boom!

  With a loud explosion, e fmes instantly engulfed the enemy.

  At the same time, Izayo had already reached Nindo's side.

  Because the one who died in battle was her older brother, Habara thought that Izayo was going to retrieve and take away her brother's body. However, that wasn't the case.

  Izayo held a kunai in her hand. Although her fiips trembled slightly, the moment, she uatingly thrust the kunai into her brother's eye socket.

  Then, she exerted force with her arm, driving the kunai deep into Nindo's brain.

  "…" Habara, who caught a glimpse of this se from the er of his eye, was a little fused about what was happening.

  However, this was the absolutely correct way to haeammate's body.

  From small-scale battle pns te-scale campaign strategies, from detailed information about personnel capabilities to the macroscopic expansion and tra of a try's front lines… Squad leader-level ninjas held all sorts of information in their heads, and this information absolutely couldn't be leaked to the enemy.

  And as long as the brain remained intact, even ih, the enemy could potentially extract this information from the corpse's brain.

  That was why Nobuyoshi had rushed towards the squad leader's body first.

  Izayo had her the strength to protect her brother's life nor the ability to take away his body. All she could do, as a Konoha ninja, was to help her dead brother maintain his stance as a Konoha ninja.

  Siven that, there was o hesitate.