Uh...
Why did I feel like I shouldn't have said that?
Feeling the gazes suddenly sweep over him, the face beneath Silver Moon Black Robe's hood stiffened slightly. Realizing something, a trace of regret welled up in his heart.
Had he been away for too long?
When had these guys' reactions become so quick? After the regret came nothing but a bitter smile.
The most crucial matter right now was the person standing before them!
Having suddenly understood something, Kurenai Yuhi, Asuma Sarutobi, and Kakashi sharply turned their gazes toward Silver Moon Black Robe, a resolute thought flashing through their minds.
At this moment, they had finally fully come to their senses, recovering from their earlier suspicion and wariness.
At the same time, they finally remembered that they absolutely could not show such suspicious, wary expressions in front of this person.
The person before them was someone who had used strategy to toy with the three great ninja villages aside from Konoha in the palm of his hand.
If they truly followed their suspicions and wariness and insisted on keeping their purposes secret, this person would likely exploit that instead, leaving them with nothing in the end.
Forget about learning the other two's purposes—even their own purposes would be brushed aside.
Moreover, although they had not personally suffered much at this person's hands, Hirohiko and Yukina had complained plenty about his ability to fool people.
At a time like this, mutual suspicion and wariness would only give him an opening. They were not enemies, but regarding this matter, given the person before them's personality, they might as well have been enemies.
At the very least, from the sentence he had just used to split the topic apart, they could tell that he had already noticed something.
Given the current formation