Chiyo from the Empire fell into deep doubt.
She realized that ever since coming to this world, she had never properly observed the Hidden Sand Village.
She handed the summoning task to the Sand ninja Jonin from earlier, then left the Kazekage Tower and began wandering aimlessly.
The Hidden Sand Village...
She had not observed it carefully when she first arrived, but now that she looked at it... it was no different from the village in her memories from twenty years ago...
No... different?
Chiyo suddenly came to her senses. She looked around, bewildered.
She had already learned the timeline here while summoning manpower earlier. The timeline here was the same as the one within the Empire, but aside from having more houses, the Hidden Sand Village had undergone no other changes.
Twenty years! A full twenty years! Why did the Hidden Sand Village still look like this?
Around the Hidden Sand Village within the Empire, there were already at least scattered patches of green, if not lush forests, while great expanses of saltbush and shrubs had begun storing moisture in the soil.
The yellow sand and fierce winds had also long since been brought under control. It might still be a desert, but at least in the Hidden Sand Village, people no longer needed to wear veils to guard against the blowing sand!
All of this was the result of managing the trees, but why was this world...
After so many years, did the sand in the air instead feel even worse?
Chiyo could not understand it no matter how much she thought about it. Comparing the two, she unconsciously began to feel a little disappointed in this world's Hidden Sand.
Kazekage Tower.
When the Jonin present saw Rasa sitting high above them like a fisherman on a raised