Meiqiu looked rather miserable at the moment.
A large patch of fur on its head had been burned away, both ears drooped, and the fur on its once-fluffy tail was completely gone, leaving it looking like a bare stick.
Shinji opened his mouth. "What happened to you...?"
"Work injury!"
Meiqiu wore a solemn expression.
Shinji was somewhat puzzled. "What I mean is, you've been back for so long. Why didn't you clean yourself up?"
Meiqiu replied with complete confidence, "If I cleaned up, then wouldn't you be unable to see it?"
Shinji was speechless. "Fine, it counts as a work injury! Now hurry up and tell me what happened today!"
Meiqiu squatted down and took out a Sealing Scroll as it began recounting the earlier operation to Shinji.
Just as Shinji had expected, Danzo had indeed set traps in the secret vault—three of them, in fact.
Shinji's Shadow Clone had broken through the first two, but the third had been an extremely well-hidden sealing trap. While trying to dismantle it, the Shadow Clone triggered it. The activated Sealing Technique instantly enveloped it, shredding and sealing away half its body.
Because of that, the information the Shadow Clone sent back had been extremely fragmented. Shinji only knew that the clone had perished together with the trap in order to break it.
The activation of all three traps had also triggered the alarm inside the secret vault.
Ignoring the flames spewed out by the vault's mechanisms, Meiqiu had forcibly taken all the Sharingan from the vault before Root ninja arrived.
Spreading the Sealing Scroll across the floor, Meiqiu formed hand seals while continuing to chatter. "If I'd run even one second later, you might not be seeing me right now. You can't even imagine how dangerous it was!"
With that, Meiqiu pressed