The sharp-looking girl with short black hair stood with her hands on her hips, looking at Konoha Gate before her—a place obviously countless times better than her own Iwagakure, which was full of nothing but rocks. A bright, provocative smile spread across her face.
"Ha ha ha, you Konoha idiots!"
"Kurotsuchi the Great has arrived!"
Hearing this, Izumo Kamizuki and Kotetsu Hagane, who were guarding the gate, immediately shot the girl unfriendly looks.
"Hmm haha, children don't know any better. Please forgive her~~~"
Seeing that his daughter was still acting as though she were back in Iwagakure, Kitsuchi felt his scalp tingle. He promptly took out the travel documents for the Chunin Exams that he had prepared in advance and looked at the two men with an apologetic smile.
Then he turned to his daughter and said:
"Kurotsuchi, shut your mouth!"
Kurotsuchi immediately pouted, clearly not taking her old man's words to heart.
Kotetsu Hagane coldly accepted the travel documents from the man before him. Only after carefully inspecting them did he allow them through.
"Someone will arrange your accommodations once you enter the village. Behave yourselves, and you'd better not cause trouble."
"Of course, of course."
Kitsuchi could only smile apologetically at the mere Chunin before him.
This trip to Konoha was not simply about the Chunin Exams for Iwagakure. It also concerned the Land of Earth's future resource cooperation with the Land of Fire.
The Chunin Exams were nothing. If they lost, they lost—at worst, they would lose a little face. But this resource cooperation concerned the livelihoods of many people in their country. He could not afford to be careless.
Both Ōnoki, the Tsuchikage, and the Land of Earth's daimyo had personally emphasized this point to him.
Even if they were only two minor Chunin guarding the