"You're here!"
"I'm here!"
"You shouldn't have come!"
"Fuyou, can you stop doing this?" Jiusuke looked at Fuyou, who was pretending to be profound, with a pained expression. If he weren't grilling skewers beneath an awning... he might have looked somewhat like a spy making contact. But now...
He smelled something delicious.
He wanted to eat!
"Isn't this fitting? Hahaha." Fuyou laughed awkwardly twice and continued grilling the skewers. "Still, food grilled outside really doesn't taste as good as it does at Fuyou Grill. Come on, eat with me."
"Grilled salamander? This thing is poisonous." Jiusuke sat down directly and picked up a skewer in surprise. "Was it properly prepared?"
"It was." Fuyou nodded, casually ate a skewer, and said, "Tell me, what brought you out here so suddenly?"
As soon as he finished speaking.
Jiusuke said with a gloomy expression, "The time has come. We need to close the net!"
"???" What net?
Everyone looked at Jiusuke in confusion.
"No way!" Seeing even Yahiko wearing a blank expression, Jiusuke clutched his head and shouted, "You were the ones who told me to keep an eye on that Sand ninja!"
"Oh, you mean Sasori?" Fuyou immediately remembered and nodded in realization. "He really escaped from prison?"
He remembered now.
For various reasons, Sasori had been captured after infiltrating the Land of Rain. Since they had yet to figure out how to deal with him, they had sent him to work in the mines.
After all, he was still a talented person.
Yahiko seemed to be planning to keep him and use love to make him create mining tools for the Land of Rain, so he had assigned Jiusuke to observe him.
And these past few days... they had been busy dealing with Hanzo of the Salamander, so they had not