Chapter 93.1- One Thousand Hands

“Okay, so what are the final numbers?” I asked the gathered room shortly having woken up from my forced nap. Turns out Kurama’s chakra could place a strain on my body if I used too much of it without ny own chakra to balance it out. I knew my compatibility with the nine tails was not as goods as Kushina’s or Mito’s even had been, but this was unexpected to say the least.

“Sixty-two dead. Four hundred and thirteen injured to various degrees. Perhaps seventy million ryo in damages not including the cost of rebuilding this tower when the time comes” Shikahime listed out. I nodded. That was bad, but not disastrous.

“Shinobi casualties?”

“Three deaths and forty injured” She said. Okay, that was good. No meaningful loss to our fighting strength at least.

“Good. Now can someone tell me how the fuck this happened?” I questioned, tone turning harsh. How the fuck had Chiyo done this?

“A mixture of vulnerabilities in the existing defence structure. Your Granduncle ordered the barriers and security measures to be relaxed so civilians could enjoy free ingress and egress. He did it at the end of the First War to stoke growth and aid Konoha’s recovery. Sanadaime-sama ordered the security measures heightened in the leadup to this war. However, your orders to relax the security after the fall of Iwa saw us return to your Granduncle’s sytems” Reiji was the first to speak.

“These measures, among other things, made it so that the civilians could come in from the other towns, head to the market and civilian district unmolested and sell their goods. Objectively speaking they are good for the village’s economy and without them, we would have a harder job securing supply of several key goods. However, the shinobi districts in the village have more stringent security measures and that explains how the village managed to come out of this with only damage to the civilian areas.” Shikahime explained.

“And the tower?” I asked.

“We are still investigating that, but from what we have been able to find out, there are no traces of the same kind of explosives that were used in the other areas.”

“So she used something else here?”

“Yes. Something that would probably have had an easier time fooling our security than literal canisters laden with seals.”