Chapter 377
Just after Haruto Saito left Furuta Village...
At the mountain pass where Haruto Saito and Hattori Ryuya had their final battle, three figures appeared out of thin air on the cliffside. A tall, busty female ninja in a green robe stood with one hand on her hip, squinting sternly at the battlefield below.
"Before the earth release jutsu attack, there was a massive explosion here," said a pale, cold-faced male ninja beside her.
"It was explosive tags! A huge number of them detonated!" added a tall, silver-haired ninja.
"What about that hole?" the busty woman frowned in confusion.
Hissss...
A large white snake slithered out from the underground tunnel.
"I've already checked it," said the cold-faced ninja—Orochimaru. He gazed below and added, "The tunnel goes thirty meters deep. There's a lot of blood at the bottom. It looks like someone crawled inside while injured... or perhaps a corpse was removed afterward."
"The explosion marks here seem unusual," Jiraiya furrowed his brows.
"It does resemble Haruto Saito's style—more explosions," Tsunade crossed her arms and pursed her lips. "But if he had set a trap with pre-planted explosive tags to lure Hattori Ryuya in, the chances of killing him that way are very slim."
"What if the tags weren't pre-planted?" Jiraiya turned to Tsunade.