"You... go take care of your business first."
Looking at Might Guy, who was sleeping soundly before him, seemingly unaware of anything around him, Chiba waved his hand, signaling the agent to leave first.
"Yes!"
The agent was equally decisive. After responding, he vanished into the shadows behind Chiba.
This guy... had he planned this all along?
Now that he was sure the agent had left, Chiba looked Might Guy over from head to toe once again.
Who would have thought that after all these years, even this thick-browed, big-eyed fellow had become so scheming?
At the same time, Chiba instantly understood something.
After their conversation last night had untangled Might Guy's knot in his heart—his worry over Neji Hyuga—the way this guy had immediately fallen asleep drunk had definitely been fake. He had been pretending.
And the reason he had done so was probably to buy a little more time for his students.
Originally, he had agreed with Kakashi and Asuma that teaching their students would begin tomorrow. As for what he would teach, neither Kakashi nor Asuma had any particular demands, as long as he did not favor one over the other.
Of course, although they had made no demands, Chiba knew that this kind of demand disguised as no demand was the hardest to satisfy.
But the important thing was that the lessons were only supposed to start tomorrow.
They would take turns.
After all, none of their requests had been easy to refuse. He could not teach Kakashi's students while refusing to teach Asuma's, could he?
And there was only one of him. Although he could use Shadow Clone Jutsu to teach them simultaneously, neither Kakashi nor Asuma—nor even the Asuma before him, who had been ready to stay silent at the time—had agreed to that.