Torikaze then smiled and said to Rōsha, "You say working for me is some hopeless humiliation, but being my subordinate comes with plenty of benefits."
"I can help you accomplish the things you once hoped for but could not achieve, provided you prove useful."
"I will not support anyone for nothing."
Rōsha understood now. What great killing god? Wasn't this a good Boss?
"I understand, sir! Rōsha will serve you with all his heart!"
"But I still do not know where you come from, sir."
Torikaze smiled calmly. "I do not belong to any village here. If you insist on assigning me somewhere, you can consider me a Konoha man."
"Rōsha will remember that."
A man of Konoha. The thought churned endlessly in Rōsha's heart.
He had heard some time ago that Konoha had been making moves.
But when it came to the crucial moment, all information had vanished.
So it had been to conceal this man?
Konoha's new Hokage was certainly meticulous. That move had left Rōsha unable to recover for days.
He had nearly suffered a mental breakdown.
"As for the trees, I will have them delivered tomorrow or the day after. You can organize your villagers and start preparing to dig the holes."
"Sir... planting trees requires a great deal of water, and we do not have any. To plant thirty thousand trees, Sunagakure would need to save water for quite some time."
Torikaze glanced at him. "It is only water. I will solve that for you."
Rōsha was overjoyed. "Then I will have the villagers prepare to start digging right away!"
Before long, Torikaze's clone exchanged a few more casual words with Rōsha before leaving.
Rōsha, meanwhile, had completely cast off his earlier gloom. Since such a mighty figure had descended upon Sunagakure, he could only