The private room fell silent at Hao Shuai's words~~
After a long moment, Tsunade, who was clearly in the wrong, was the first to break the silence.
She said, "That earlier bet doesn't count. Pick another condition."
"Hmph~ It's in black and white, and you signed it. How could it not count?" Hao Shuai flatly refused.
"You~~" Tsunade was so furious at Hao Shuai's stubbornness that her chest hurt.
As she wondered how she could make a run for it, Hao Shuai suddenly said, "Actually, there is a way to void the bet~~"
Tsunade: "What way?"
"We just bet again~~" Hao Shuai said leisurely.
"Bet again?" Tsunade looked at Hao Shuai in confusion, unable to guess what he was up to.
"Exactly~~ We bet again. If you win, you can cancel the agreement, can't you?" Hao Shuai said as if it were obvious.
At first, Tsunade thought it was a good idea, but she quickly realized something and asked, "And what if I lose?"
"If you lose?" Hao Shuai smiled. "Then you'll honor the agreement, of course. And you'll have to come back to Konoha with me and become the Fifth Hokage."
It hadn't been easy~~
At last, Hao Shuai remembered why he'd been looking for Tsunade in the first place.
Tsunade: "..."
Shizune: "..."
The conversation had suddenly leaped from honoring an agreement to becoming Konoha's Fifth Hokage. The abrupt shift left Tsunade and Shizune so bewildered that they couldn't react for a long moment.
With no other choice, Hao Shuai pulled Konoha's ninja forehead protector from his shirt and tossed it onto the table, then explained, "Actually, I'm a Konoha ninja. I came to bring you back to become Hokage, Tsunade~~~"
Then Hao Shuai gave her the highlights of what had recently happened in Konoha.
How Orochimaru had