Chapter 77 - 77 (1/2)

Ryoko's heart was successfully won over by Rokk Nara, and Ryo had no more need to use his methods to cause him amnesia.

She was out of danger, and Ryo had no time to continue with the follow-up treatment. After taking down the ice walls, he had to take her to the rear.

After he had her settled with the medical Ninjas, he got back to the front line. The Sand Ninjas were on their heels with Gamahiro fighting along.

Rasa and Chiyo were seriously injured. It was difficult to escape Jiraya and Sakumo, but they managed to do it. Seeing that the Sand's defeat was heavy and inevitable, Rasa sighed as he issued the order to retreat.

Upon receiving his order, the Sand Troops left the corpses of their comrades behind and fled the battlefield as quickly as possible.

Seeing that, Konoha Ninja's all rejoiced and cheered.

Sakumo did not order chase, as pursuit might bring unnecessary risk. Moreover, the purpose of this battle had already been achieved, and the Sand suffered a heavy loss. With this, the Hidden Stone are surely to take advantage and start war against them. This way, balance will be reestablished and Konoha will have much less pressure put upon it.

”Sakumo san, this is a huge victory! And it's thanks to the kid, killing a quasi Kage and killing injuring several of the Sand's Ninja.” Jiraya came to Sakumo with his face really excited.

”Yes! Great victory! Command the troops to immediately treat the wounded and reduce the losses in lives. And also, I have some major announcements. All representatives of clans and Jonins are to come to my tent tonight.”

Jiraya nodded and proceeded to action.

Konoha's Ninjas made a clean-up of the battlefield under the command of Jiraya and transported the wounded to the medical Ninjas.

”Ryo, if you ever need me, call me at any time.” Said Gamahiro.

”Good, thanks!” After they said goodbye, Gamahiro went back to Mount Myoboku and Ryo went to work on rescuing the wounded.

Jiraya initially wanted to talk to Ryo, but seeing how busy he was, he smiled and left him on his own.

In the evening, in Sakumo's tent, all the senior officers of the camp were gathered in Sakumo's tent.

Sakumo, Jiraya and Ryo, all three were unscathed. The rest were more or less injured, but most had nothing serious. Only Ryoko Yamanaka was still unable to move.

”We have won this battle, we all know that and I don't need to say much more. But do you know was most valuable fighter in this battle?”

Sakumo stopped and glanced at everyone except Ryo and Jiraya.

”It was Ryo Yamanaka. He was the one who proposed the assassination of all of the Sand's Sensor Ninjas. He worked with me all night to kill them all. This made the Sand blind and deaf, and allowed us to cause them great damage with our traps.”

Everyone was shocked to hear those words from Sakumo. Such an assassination is a crazy task. Just not getting caught by the sensor Ninjas themselves is an incredible feat, not to mention escaping after that. The whole mission was nothing that an ordinary Ninja could do.

In response to the crowd's reaction, Sakumo carried on: ”In this battle, we killed at least 3000 Sand Ninjas, and made them lose a pair of Quasi-Kages. From now on, our battles will be much easier.”

Everyone laughed very happily in the prosperous tent.