Charlotte Linlin had clearly either overestimated herself or underestimated Kirigakure.
For a single person to go missing, for the large and prosperous Totto Land Kingdom and the Big Mom Pirates, as long as it wasn't an important person, it might not be a big deal.
But for a ninja to go missing, for Kirigakure, it was a major event.
Especially since the missing person was a mist ninja wearing a flak jacket.
For Kirigakure, it was a major event among major events.
Because only chūnin and jōnin were qualified to wear a flak jacket.
Chūnin were an important new force, and jōnin were the backbone of a village.
In addition, the patrols were all disciplined squads, and a roll call would be conducted at both the beginning and the end.
Therefore...
Upon learning that someone was missing, and that a mist ninja wearing a flak jacket was missing, this news quickly alerted the Anbu of Kirigakure. After an investigation, they immediately reported to the Fourth Mizukage.
"...Are you sure he was abducted?"
Looking at the Anbu kneeling on one knee on the ground, wearing a cat-faced mask, Karatachi Yagura, who looked like a shota and on the surface had no majesty of a Mizukage, said lightly.
"Yes, Lord Mizukage."
The Anbu took out a mochi mass from his hand and said, "I found this in a certain clothing store. The door of that clothing store was melted into a mochi mass. I suspect it was the work of a ninja with a certain Kekkei Genkai or a Hiden ninjutsu."
"A mochi mass... I've never seen such a jutsu before..."
Karatachi Yagura took out a scroll from the drawer of his desk, slowly opened it, and said in a casual yet incisive manner, "A few days ago, the mission I sent to escort the daimyo to the Golden Nation returned and brought me an important piece of intelligence."
"The Golden Nation is a country from another continent. The location of that continent is a place we have not discovered, or a side of the world that no one can currently reach."
"They have technology or abilities that can make islands float, have weapons more advanced than our ninja world, and even have space-time abilities without chakra."
"Just the power they have exposed makes this country a new sixth great nation, and besides that..."
His tone paused slightly, and a grave expression appeared on Karatachi Yagura's face as he continued, "There is an extremely important piece of intelligence that was overlooked by many of the people who went to the Golden Nation."
"That is, besides the Golden Nation, there are four powerful pirate crews that have also arrived on the Ninja Continent along with the Golden Nation."
"To be able to cross the vast, boundless sea and arrive here from the other side of the world, those four pirate crews must be like the Golden Nation, the four pinnacle forces on the other continent."
"One of the two masters of the Golden Nation specially reminded me to be vigilant, which means that the Golden Nation is not in the same group as those four pirate crews."
"If they are not in the same group, then it means that the overall strength of the Golden Nation surpasses any one of those four pirate crews, but it cannot withstand the alliance of the four pirate crews."
"Otherwise, there would be no need to deliberately remind me."
After finishing his analysis, Karatachi Yagura said with a solemn expression, "A pirate crew whose overall strength is second only to the Golden Nation's, with unknown technology and abilities, a suddenly missing patrol ninja, and an unprecedented jutsu. Our ninja village, which is far from the Ninja Continent, may have been targeted by those outsiders."
"If there are no accidents, the other party also has a mind ability similar to Yin Release ninjutsu, which can pry into the memories of the brain."
"The other party only abducted one patrol ninja, perhaps to grasp our intelligence. After understanding our strength, they will launch an attack on us."
"At that time, we, who know nothing about the enemy, will most likely be caught off guard by the other party and fall into an absolute disadvantage."
"Pass down the order, have the barrier team set up multiple barriers in the village, including those ninja clans. The other party may also have technology and abilities similar to the Golden Nation's portal. We absolutely cannot let the other party abduct any more important figures from the village."
"Otherwise, our intelligence will be completely exposed to the other party."
"...Yes, Lord Mizukage!"
The Anbu, who had listened to Karatachi Yagura's analysis, had cold sweat dripping from under his mask.
He had never expected that the disappearance of a single patrol ninja and an unprecedented jutsu would lead to a powerful external force.
After Karatachi Yagura gave the order, the Anbu quickly and respectfully lowered his head, then disappeared with a body flicker.
And so...
The entire Kirigakure began to act.
Before the outbreak of the Third Great Ninja War and the start of the "Bloody Mist" controlled by the blackened Obito Uchiha, Kirigakure was one of the great ninja villages with decades of foundation and extremely powerful strength, and Karatachi Yagura was also a qualified Mizukage.
Except for the somewhat brain-damaged Kaguya clan, the other ninja clans all trusted Karatachi Yagura very much.
After the mission's return, the influence of the Golden Nation had indeed spread from Kirigakure.
Learning that a mysterious force second only to the Golden Nation had its sights on Kirigakure, these ninja clans were very united against the outside.
Therefore...
The Charlotte Family, who were increasingly experiencing the power of ninjutsu, had somewhat underestimated the ninjutsu of this world.
Especially since they had all been injected with the gene potion and had obtained chakra energy, the chance of them being exposed in front of the sensory team was even greater.
Charlotte Daifuku, the third son of the Charlotte Family, and also Charlotte Katakuri's sibling.
He had originally been acting separately from his older and younger brothers, and with the help of his younger sister's Paramecia Mirror-Mirror Fruit, was preparing to secretly sneak into a Kekkei Genkai ninja clan and kidnap a Kekkei Genkai ninja. Just as he had drilled out of a mirror, he was discovered by the sensory team that the clan had trained.
"Not good, I've been discovered! Retreat quickly!"
Sensing the presence approaching rapidly with his Observation Haki, Charlotte Daifuku quickly turned and drilled back into the mirror.
"...Did he run away?"
A short while later, the clan head, with his clansmen, appeared in the room where Charlotte Daifuku had been with a body flicker.
"Did the presence disappear from here?"
From a distance of a few meters, the clan head stared at a mirror, then casually threw a kunai and destroyed it.
Then he turned and walked out of the room. While heading towards the Mizukage's office, he issued the clan head's order, "The enemy's ability is related to mirrors and can enter and exit freely through them. Immediately destroy all the mirrors in the clan."
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