A Former Great Power Forced to Become a Payday Loan Village

"I accept the challenge!"

Faced with Mito's enthusiastic invitation, Uchiha Gin had no reason to refuse. He immediately nodded with a serious expression.

Come on, fight, awesome!

There was no need to go into the tedious process. If it were described in detail, who knew how much longer this chapter would be locked up? All you needed to know was that Uchiha Gin won with an overwhelming advantage.

The next day, Mito left in great satisfaction, leaving Lao Yin alone in empty sorrow.

"Keeping busy is good."

Uchiha Gin did not blame her for being so heartless. Compared to a salted fish like himself, Mito, as the Daimyo, still had to take responsibility for the future of all the people in Whirlpool Country.

And now that she had taken in a poor brother like Kirigakure, she had even more matters to handle.

"Iwagakure really has nowhere left to go now."

During the cooldown period between his conversations with Mito, Uchiha Gin learned about Iwagakure's little-known recent situation.

Under the pressure of Sunagakure's lavish subsidies, every neighboring country except Rain Country had defected to Wind Country. Earth Country was now an isolated island. Nothing could get in from outside, and their prized mineral resources could not be shipped out.

With its single domestic industry, they could barely remain self-sufficient in the short term. But as time passed, the prices of daily necessities rose uncontrollably, and the people were filled with grievances.

When the Daimyo of Earth Country saw this, how could he possibly tolerate it?

He immediately passed the pressure onto Iwagakure. Ōnoki's situation became increasingly difficult, and with the plan to collude with Hozuki Sakuyue having failed, Earth Country was completely out of options.

Dragging things out any longer would be no different from slow suicide.

"Don't do this. Otherwise,