Chapter 52
Recently, a significant event occurred in the Land of Waves.
A ship loaded with corpses ran aground on the southeastern shore of the island. All the deceased were subordinates of the wealthy merchant Gato.
Among the dead were two rogue ninjas from Kirigakure!
Gato hired these rogue ninjas to help him complete his violent monopoly over the Land of Waves' maritime routes. They had thought they were only bullying ordinary people, but they hadn't expected to die silently aboard Gato's ship.
Undoubtedly, this was the work of other ninjas.
Even though the victims were Gato's unscrupulous thugs, such a bloody and violent massacre was enough to terrify the entire population of the Land of Waves.
It's rare for ninjas to engage in such indiscriminate slaughter against ordinary people. When the islanders were cleaning the corpses from the ship, they could sense the terror and fear of the crew during the massacre.
The inside of the portholes was smeared with varying shades of bloody handprints—evidence of someone who had fallen in the cabin and, with hands covered in their comrades' blood, tried to break the windows to escape.
There were bodies kneeling on the ground as if begging for mercy, but the killer had used some method that left these corpses without any visible blood or external wounds.