I Haven't Read the Konoha Record of Awakening, but I Have a Brain, and I Know It's All Nonsense!

Today was the release day for the latest issue of New Ninja.

A long line of Konoha villagers stared eagerly at the freshly printed magazines on the counter.

In the bookstore's reading area, plenty of villagers and ninja who had already bought a copy gathered together, unable to resist discussing the latest issue's highlights.

Seeing New Ninja steal some of the attention from the Konoha Record of Awakening on the very day he had placed such high hopes on its release left Tobirama Senju deeply annoyed.

He had long wanted to use his Hokage's power to ban that damned New Ninja throughout Konoha.

But that was a thought Tobirama Senju could only entertain in his head.

After all, Uchiha Makoto had specifically named New Ninja as a key "Cultural Exchange" project in the Comprehensive Cooperation Agreement signed by Akatsuki Ninja Village and Konoha. It was there in black and white!

At the village level, breaking an agreement at will carried serious consequences. Making such a fuss over one magazine simply was not worth it.

Still, know your enemy and know yourself, and you would never lose a battle.

Wearing his utterly unremarkable face, he stood in line, pulled a few Akatsuki Ninja Village Banknotes from his pocket, and slapped them onto the counter...

As much as it made his skin crawl, curiosity and a need to investigate drove him to grit his teeth and buy himself a copy of the most

recent issue of New Ninja.

Tobirama Senju then turned straight to a particular page. When he saw the article, he froze and read its title aloud.

"Because We Have Been Here."

"What a strange title..."

He had to admit that it had thoroughly caught his attention.

By now, he had developed a fairly strong resistance to Yilin-style inspirational stories.