Mei Terumi felt like she was about to explode. "This is insane! Why do we have to study so desperately? We don't even waste a single minute!"
Kaguya Zhai looked at Mei Terumi with weariness and bitterness in her eyes, but no confusion.
"Because we want to become stars. We have to win Kirigakure a bright future. Lord Mizukage said that war will break out in our world ten years from now."
"Other countries have the funds to prepare and develop, but we have nothing."
"The hopes of Kirigakure rest on the forty of us. We have to succeed. We absolutely cannot fail!"
Mei Terumi's expression gradually hardened after hearing that. "You're right. I shouldn't complain like this. If our village is destroyed ten years from now, I'll never forgive the me of today for not working hard enough!"
Kirigakure was their home, the place that had raised them. With a home, they had everything. Without one, no matter how strong they were, they would only be rootless duckweed.
The pressure they faced while studying here was immense. On one side was academic pressure, and on the other was the pressure from their village.
The coming war ten years from now hung over their heads like a sword.
If they could not secure enough funds for the village to develop quickly, then once war broke out, their village would surely be the first to perish.
"The Shinobi World is so peaceful. How could a war possibly break out? It really makes no sense."
Kaguya Zhai sighed. "Anyway, Lord Mizukage can't be wrong. But it definitely won't be Konoha attacking us, or they wouldn't have entered into cooperation with us."
Mei Terumi continued along that line of thought. "Then by your reasoning, the other villages shouldn't be either. We only just