"Let's call it a day. Danzo, you should hurry and have a medical ninja take a look at you, too, so you don't suffer any lasting effects."
Only then did Danzo feel the waves of pain coming from his body.
He had been beaten too badly just now. It felt as though his lower back was about to break.
If nothing unexpected happened, he would have to lie in bed for a while.
He forced himself out of the Hokage Building and slowly made his way to the Root Organization.
After taking several wrong turns, he finally returned to the lounge, then collapsed onto the bed with a thud.
The fatigue of the past few days surged over him like a tide, as though every last ounce of his strength had been drained away.
He closed his eyes and carefully recalled everything that had happened when he encountered Kakuzu.
Of course, Danzo wasn't thinking about who had hired Kakuzu.
What worried him was that someone might make it back to Konoha alive and reveal the whole affair.
Where would that leave his dignity?
"For the greater good, your deaths weren't in vain."
Danzo summoned several subordinates and assigned them the task of silencing the witnesses.
As it turned out, Danzo had worried too much.
Not a single one of those ninja returned alive. Kakuzu had killed them all.
He had even packed up the corpses and taken them back to the Bounty Broker.
"Not one of these bounties is worth anything?"
The bald man glanced disdainfully at the corpses on the floor.
"Don't bring this worthless trash here again. This isn't a garbage dump."
Kakuzu flew into a rage at those words.
Damn it.
He hadn't earned the twenty million, and even the corpses he had painstakingly brought back weren't