After leaving the Hokage Building, Chiba first stopped by the bun shop. Because of the demolition, the shop had already closed down, and Chiba did not know where the owner and his wife lived now. He could only try his luck.
And Chiba's luck was quite good. The owner and his wife happened to be moving that day, so he really did find them.
He then asked the two of them to deliver buns to the Hokage three times a day, at every meal.
The owner's reaction remained taciturn. Other than constantly staring at him as if trying to confirm whether he was real, whether he was a person or a ghost, he had no other reaction.
The owner's wife, naturally, was much more outgoing. The moment she heard they would be delivering buns to the Hokage, she readily agreed.
Having gotten the answer he wanted, Chiba did not stay long. After leaving a deposit, he departed.
What puzzled him slightly was that as he was leaving, the usually sociable owner's wife seemed hesitant to speak, but ultimately said nothing.
He left under the silent gazes of the two of them.
That left Chiba somewhat puzzled.
But it was only puzzlement. After leaving, he suddenly realized that he had not informed the guards at the Hokage Building, so he hurried back there.
After notifying the two guards, he went to the hospital, where they drew another vial of his blood. Those old scholars were truly fanatical about researching his blood samples... no, it felt more like they had gone off the deep end.
Every one of them had dark circles under their eyes. He truly did not know what kind of change his blood would have to undergo to make these well-informed old scholars so frenzied that they had reached