One month... Can things really stay peaceful for this whole month?
Setting aside scroll after scroll from who knew where, Hada Ichiba sat beneath the lamplight, a faintly helpless look on his face as he muttered to himself.
"Hmm?"
But the moment those words left his mouth, his eyes flew open, his pupils contracting sharply.
"When did you arrive?"
Then, the next second, he drew a slight breath and spoke in a low voice.
It was as if he were forcibly suppressing some emotion within himself.
"Looks like your intelligence-gathering work has been quite thorough."
Just as his words fell, another voice sounded behind him.
At some point, someone had appeared behind him—a Silver Moon Black Robe.
"Otherwise, my time in Kusagakure would have been far too boring."
Hada Ichiba replied blandly.
The emotion in his words had already completely settled.
"Oh? Is that so?"
The Silver Moon Black Robe behind him neither confirmed nor denied it.
"Enough nonsense. Why did you suddenly come here?"
Hada Ichiba clearly had no intention of continuing the topic. He turned around to look at the Silver Moon Black Robe and spoke.
"It seems you were the one who contacted me first."
Hearing this, the Silver Moon Black Robe paused briefly before speaking.
"Uh..."
Hada Ichiba tugged at the corner of his mouth and shifted his gaze toward the five sealing capsules on the table, buried beneath a pile of documents.
It seemed he really had been the one to contact him.
"I didn't expect you to come so quickly. These five sealing capsules must really be important."
As though trying to conceal his embarrassment, Hada Ichiba opened the documents and handed the five sealing capsules to the Silver Moon Black Robe as he spoke.
"..."
The Silver Moon Black Robe chose silence. He