To be honest, they had not really given anything. It had all been normal, fair exchanges.
At most, they had merely been intimidated. Since choosing to follow Lord Torikaze, they had seen nothing but benefits and not a single drawback.
Lord Torikaze had never sent them on dangerous missions, nor had he taken a large share of their profits.
They had seen none of that at all.
He knew that Lord Torikaze came from Another World, and he had hoped for a chance to visit Torikaze's World.
However, it seemed that only people from Konoha could travel between worlds for the time being.
This had caused Sunagakure in Torikaze's World to lose contact with them.
But Rōsha did not think it mattered. Those people had never thought highly of him in the first place.
Nor had they provided Sunagakure with any useful resources, so whether contact was cut off or not made no difference. Rōsha had no expectations for their meager scraps.
"Is there anything you want to buy this time?"
The moment Rōsha heard that, he immediately broke into a smile. "Yes! Yes! Lord Torikaze, we want to buy some soil."
"Soil?"
Rōsha nodded. "Yes. Although Sunagakure's resources are much better than before, the place is still very barren, and we need to import goods from other countries."
"The expenses in that regard are truly considerable, so I was wondering whether we could buy some soil and replace some of the sandy ground with farmland for growing crops."
Rōsha's idea was truly fanciful.
Digging away sand and replacing it with soil would only treat the symptoms, not the root cause. Before long, the soil would be assimilated by the sand and turn back into sand.
He knew the idea was foolish, but the person before him was none other