In Konoha, those with guilty consciences or who had broken the law were now afraid of encountering the legendary Night Duke.
Meanwhile, those who usually followed the rules eagerly hoped to meet the Night Duke.
After all, they had only ever heard criminals mention this person. Everyone else was curious too!
At present, the villagers only knew that the Night Duke wore a white mask with a terrifying smiling face, a dark blue top hat, a cape draped behind him, and white gloves.
Based on those rumored features, some merchants seemed to have sniffed out a business opportunity and began selling all kinds of Night Duke merchandise.
And surprisingly, it was selling incredibly well!
The Third Hokage had originally intended to stop the villagers from worshipping the Night Duke.
However, he could not find a single reason to forbid people from talking about the Night Duke!
Because so far, nothing the Night Duke had done seemed to have harmed the village.
If he had to name one thing, it would be rescuing Orochimaru.
But the one who had severely injured Orochimaru was not someone from Konoha. It had been Shisui Uchiha, another rogue ninja!
This matter had little to do with Konoha as well.
Looking at it this way, what gave the Third Hokage and the other Konoha higher-ups a headache was that they truly had no reason to stop the villagers from discussing the Night Duke.
This left the Konoha higher-ups extremely frustrated.
Yet they did not know the identity of such a mysterious person, and they had to remain on guard against him. It was an unbearably awkward situation.
The problem now was that even the Konoha higher-ups, including the Third Hokage, did not know what attitude they should take toward the Night Duke.
First of all, they