This Group of Guys

Rasa had something he did not know whether he should say.

Why were these Stone Ninja... only chasing him?

Was the title Disciple of the Third Kazekage really that much of a hate magnet?

And weren't the other ninja villages currently spreading the news that the Disciple of the Third Kazekage—Rasa—had suffered a mental blow and become delirious?

Was it really okay for this group of guys to chase a lunatic like this?

Only after all the Stone Ninja came running after him did Rasa realize... most of the Jonin and Chunin had come to capture him!

So the Sand Ninja over there were actually the safest ones now?

Holy shit!

Rasa let out a soft sigh, glanced at the Stone Ninja relentlessly pursuing him from behind, and felt the Chakra continuously draining from his body.

This group of guys... wants me dead!

He absolutely could not let this continue!

He glanced at the impure Gold Sand under his control, wondering whether it could be recharged.

However, the thought had barely surfaced.

Yes, but the exchange rate is only sixty percent!

The voice that had appeared when his Golden Finger was activated sounded once more.

Only sixty percent... that handling fee was way too expensive!

Even if it was impure Gold Sand, he had painstakingly panned it himself~

But at a time like this.

Exchange it!

The instant the thought ended, the interface immediately showed that he had gained 99 Silver Liang.

"..."

Several tons of Gold Sand had only exchanged for this little money?

Could the system have calculated it wrong?

Especially the Gold Sand beneath his feet and around him for defense... all of it had been exchanged, yet it had only yielded 99 Silver Liang?

Had he been ripped off?

But a moment later, considering that this was a desert, if the gold content had been high, it would not have become such a desolate, uninhabited wasteland.

Rasa sighed, shook his head, and muttered, "When you look at it this way, I've actually had it pretty hard."

With so little Gold Dust, he had relied on himself alone to pan for gold in the great desert and support the entire village...

What an enormous undertaking that had been~

Looking at the Silver Liang that still could not be used for a draw, he quickly gathered another pile of Gold Dust beneath his feet, then, before the puzzled and wary Stone Ninja... continued running forward!

"What... is he doing?"

The Stone Ninja blinked and watched Rasa in confusion as he dispersed his Chakra, then gathered it again.

Could there be some kind of scheme behind this?

Although this Sand Ninja, who was suspected of being mentally unsound, had guts. In order to let the ninjas of his village survive, he had drawn them away alone. The Stone Ninja respected him as a true man, but...

He still had to die!

As the Disciple of the Third Kazekage, barring any accidents, he should have been the next Kazekage.

If they really managed to kill him...

It would definitely be a severe blow to Sunagakure!

Therefore...

"Keep chasing him!"

At once, an eerie scene unfolded across the wasteland.

One man rode Gold Sand ahead while a group of Stone Ninja chased behind him. Whenever the Sand Ninja dispersed his Gold Sand and stopped in place, the Stone Ninja did not dare act rashly either.

This group of guys... are the ones with something wrong in their heads, aren't they!

After exchanging another batch of Gold Sand, Rasa looked speechlessly at the Stone Ninja in the distance, who were watching him warily again.

He had already stopped, yet this group of Stone Ninja did not dare come over.

So why would they not stop chasing him?

Could they get a little something out of catching him?

After catching his breath, he took out a Small Blue Bottle he had drawn with Pakura's 100,000 Silver Liang. It restored one hundred Chakra per second, probably enough to cast about one clone~

It lasted for one minute.

It was a set, with twelve bottles in a case.

With a sigh, he looked at the Stone Ninja who still refused to charge over. He simply ignored them and used Magnetic Shield on the spot. When it was about done, he exchanged it directly. Yet to the other Stone Ninja, the scene of it costing money looked as though he had merely dispersed his Chakra.

Gathering it, dispersing it, gathering it, dispersing it, gathering it, dispersing it, taking medicine...

He repeated the same action over and over.

"Scheme! There is definitely a scheme here!" A somewhat shorter Stone Ninja with two tiger-like whiskers pointed at Rasa ahead. Wearing an expression that said, I've seen through it all, he said solemnly, "He disperses his Chakra, then gathers it again? Is this Disciple of the Third Kazekage trying to lure us over?"

"That makes sense! That's what I think too. Otherwise, what ninja would be bored enough to do this?"

"Do you think I can't see it?" the Stone Ninja Commander said impatiently. "No matter how you look at this strange scene, there's a scheme behind it!"

Did they really think he had become commander through the back door?

But...

"What exactly is the scheme? Are we just going to stand here and watch?"

"This..."

The other Stone Ninja looked at one another.

A moment later.

"How about we wait until he exhausts his Chakra? Wasting Chakra like this, there's no way he can keep it up for long."

"That makes sense!" The Stone Ninja Commander nodded, then pointed at the Stone Ninja who had just spoken. He stared coldly at him and said, "You! Yes, you! Go test what kind of scheme he has!"

"..."

The Stone Ninja who had been pointed at froze. He looked at his companions, then at the commander before him. "Sir, I..."

"Get moving!"

With a cold snort from the commander, the Stone Ninja could only run over helplessly.

"Do you really think I'm an idiot?" The Stone Ninja Commander watched the Stone Ninja's departing back and snorted again. "Watch him. The moment there's danger, be ready to support him!"

Where was this?

This was within the Land of Wind! Though it was all sandstorms and barren wasteland, it was still the Land of Wind, the country of Sunagakure. If they stayed here too long, who knew what accident might occur.

Wait some more?!

This time, they had come partly to investigate whether the Third Kazekage had truly disappeared, and partly... to probe the Land of Wind's strength and see whether Iwagakure had a chance to gain some advantage. Yet they had not expected...

Their luck to be so good that they would run into the Disciple of the Third Kazekage.

When he raised his head and saw the ninja he had sent out about to approach Rasa...

That Disciple of the Third Kazekage gathered his Chakra again, then... slipped away once more!

"...Chase him! I want to see exactly what scheme he has!"

After blanking out for a moment, the Stone Ninja Commander had the Stone Ninja chase after him again. He gritted his teeth, his face twisted with ferocity.

"Looks like Rasa is after something big. With only one Stone Ninja approaching him, he definitely won't bring out his secret weapon."

But what exactly was this secret weapon?

A Siege Weapon, an Environmental Destroyer... the One-Tail?

Or perhaps some secret weapon that Iwagakure had yet to receive intelligence on?

This had to be recorded. Later, he absolutely had to warn the other Stone Ninja to be careful.

Next, the entire desert once again presented a cheerful scene of pursuit.

This group of guys... really have something wrong with their heads, don't they~

Rasa shook his head with emotion and continued exchanging without pause. At the same time, he looked curiously at the Stone Ninja behind him, who chased him yet did not dare approach.

"What exactly are they trying to do?"

Of course...

He only wondered about it briefly. After exchanging another batch of Gold Dust he had panned up beneath his feet, Rasa immediately burst into tears and muttered, "Have I finally scraped together enough for one draw?"

It really had not been easy!!!