Jokichi glanced indifferently at Mabui.
That single look caused the young lady, who had just calmed down, to show shock once again, as if she had seen something terrifying.
"What did you do to Lady Mabui?" one guard shouted aggressively, waving his steel sword in an attempt to intimidate.
Jokichi turned his head and gave him a fleeting glance.
The guard was instantly struck as if by a heavy hammer, flying backward like a kite with a snapped string.
"Luda!"
Seeing their comrade attacked, the other two guards saw red and swung their longswords at Jokichi.
Facing an attack from two sides, Jokichi remained expressionless.
His purple eyes, marked with concentric ripples, were as calm as still water.
"Don't move recklessly!" Darui sensed danger and shouted to stop them, but it was too late.
An invisible repulsive force exploded outward from Jokichi's body.
The two men charging with steel swords instantly suffered the same fate as the first guy...
No, their fate was actually far worse.
They smashed through the office wall, flying out like cannonballs, and vanished into the distance like twinkling stars.
"This bastard!" Darui cursed under his breath, but didn't dare make a reckless move.
He merely stared at Jokichi with a grave expression.
The opponent's ability to inexplicably blast objects away without weaving hand signs made him uncertain if ninjutsu would even work.
If he charged in blindly, he would just end up like those three guards.
Darui wasn't particularly afraid for himself, but Mabui was still in the office.
If he fell, there would be no one left to protect her.
"You should be glad you didn't attack," Jokichi turned to Darui.
Those rippled eyes and that gaze that looked at humans like ants...
Everything about him put an immense amount of pressure on Darui.
Looking at this person felt like facing a lofty deity, making it impossible to even muster the will to resist.
The gap was simply too vast.
Darui was sweating profusely, his grip on his massive sword loosening bit by bit.
Just as his weapon was about to drop, a loud roar echoed from afar.
"Don't let fear drown out your reason, Darui!"
Accompanied by the thunderous roar, a burly, muscular man covered in lightning smashed through the glass and barged in.
He looked like a heavily armored tank yet moved as fast as a lightning strike.
Moreover, his right hand was already formed into a chop, descending straight toward Jokichi's head.
Lightning Oppression Horizontal Chop!
Although it was only a B-rank ninjutsu, when combined with the Raikage's massive physique and lightning-fast speed, its power was enough to shatter the ribcage of a Susanoo.
However...
"Too slow, too weak. Have you not eaten?" Jokichi looked utterly disdainful.
Just a hair's breadth before the palm chop reached him, Jokichi threw a fierce punch.
It struck later but arrived first.
Although he moved second, his blow landed on the enemy a step ahead.
Chakra concentrated and boiled at his wrist, erupting with unparalleled monstrous strength.
The Lightning Release Armor, which was tough enough to block the Chidori, shattered on impact like fragile cardboard.
Bang!
The fist broke through the armor and smashed ruthlessly into the Raikage's cheek.
As a shockwave cloud expanded, the Raikage was blasted out of the office at a speed several times faster than before.
He crashed through countless buildings, flying a hundred meters before finally coming to a halt.
Jokichi pulled back his smoking fist and turned to look at the dumbstruck Mabui and Darui.
A trace of enlightenment crossed his mind.
"I understand now, I was wrong..." His voice gradually turned freezing cold. "I shouldn't have had the idea of communicating verbally with a bunch of arrogant fools."
"I should have just used violence to communicate from the start!"
As his words faded, a vast, sea-like chakra erupted from his body, wrapping around him and burning like blue flames.
"What... what terrifying chakra!" Mabui was dumbfounded, not even realizing the documents in her hands had fallen to the floor.
Darui's throat was entirely parched.
He swallowed involuntarily, the terror in his eyes no less than Mabui's.
The pressure of Jokichi's released chakra was even stronger than the Eight-Tails going berserk.
Compared to his previous aura, this was heaven and earth.
However, having already experienced terror once and overcoming it...
Even when facing an even greater terror now, Darui maintained an incredibly grave expression without losing his will to fight like before.
At this moment, the sound of footsteps outside the door grew clearer.
A large number of ninja flooded in, making the spacious office incredibly crowded.
Even the hallway outside was packed tight with people.
Upon seeing Jokichi releasing his chakra, they all reacted like Darui and Mabui, showing expressions of terror, shock, and anxiety.
Some even trembled so badly they couldn't hold their weapons.
Others stumbled backward involuntarily until they hit the wall and collapsed onto the floor.
They were the guards of the Raikage Building, the elites of Kumogakure.
But now, merely witnessing the scene of Jokichi releasing his chakra was enough to scare them into this state.
"Just who the hell are you?" Suppressing the fear in his heart, Darui shouted his demand.
Hearing this, the others in the office all looked at Jokichi.
They desperately wanted to know who this guy popping out of nowhere actually was.
But the answer Darui received was an even more violent eruption of chakra.
The chakra burned brighter and fiercer like a blue flame.
Centered around Jokichi, a massive shockwave exploded outward from the inside.
Boom!
A ring-shaped shockwave blasted entirely out of the Raikage Building.
Time seemed to freeze for a second.
In the next instant, the entire building instantly collapsed into ruins.
From the center of the dust cloud, a figure rapidly ascended into the sky.
It was Jokichi.
He floated about a hundred meters in the air, looking down upon the entirety of Kumogakure like a god.
A huge number of ninja were sprinting toward the area.
But there were even more ordinary villagers fleeing in all directions, scrambling in chaos like a nest of disturbed ants.
Absolute power can easily inflate a person's ego...
Holding the lives of everyone in Kumogakure in his hands, for a fleeting moment, he genuinely felt like a true god.
But that feeling only lasted a second before he tossed it to the back of his mind.
The multiverse was infinitely vast, and people stronger than him were as numerous as the clouds.
He was merely an overlord on a tiny planet in a single universe.
To think of himself as a god just because of this...
It was simply too arrogant.
"What the hell are you trying to do, you bastard?!"
Atop the ruins of the Raikage Building, the Raikage, who had run back at some unknown point with blood dripping from his mouth, looked up and roared in fury.
Standing beside him was Darui, who was also heavily injured.
Behind Darui stood Mabui, entirely unharmed with only some dust on her clothes.
It was obvious that Darui had protected her during that previous shockwave.
Otherwise, she would have ended up like the guards who were half-buried under the rubble.
Jokichi sneered coldly, "Earlier, I wanted to introduce myself and state my purpose, but you didn't hesitate to interrupt me with force..."
"And now, you turn around and ask for my identity and purpose..."
"In this world, power truly is the only absolute truth!" Jokichi chuckled icily. "I no longer have the patience to communicate with you using words."
"Whatever the matter is, we'll fight first."
"Once I've beaten every single one of you into the ground, no one will oppose my opinions anymore."