Had something happened to that child named Yu Ze?
Listening to Zong Mi's shout from outside, along with the faint, tense, worried, even somewhat frightened voices of children, Chiba's brow furrowed slightly.
Judging by the volume and direction of the voices, Zong Mi and the others were still some distance away. From the number of voices, it seemed that all the war orphans living here had rushed over. There was no doubt that something had happened.
Combined with what Zong Mi had shouted, it was not hard to guess that the child named Yu Ze had encountered some sort of danger—perhaps he was in mortal peril, or at least appeared to be. That was why such a huge reaction had been stirred up, with nearly all the children flocking over.
And judging from what the little bald-headed Ming Tai had shouted when Chiba first met him, Yu Ze was probably the child who, along with Zong Mi, led this group of war orphans. His status among them was obvious.
If anything happened to Yu Ze, it would be an enormous blow to this orphan community.
For these children, disaster truly never came alone. Chiba could not help but sigh. A figure suddenly flashed through his mind, adding a touch of melancholy to his heart.
Back when he had read the original Naruto, the Third Great Ninja War had only been a term. All he remembered was that Konoha had won, which made Konoha seem truly powerful—no, more like the protagonist village among all the major ninja villages. Its luck was practically Kishimoto's own favored child.
And whenever he read novels or watched anime involving war, the focus had always been on how strong the protagonist was, how they turned the tide, how outrageously cool and domineering they were, how satisfying