Don't Think Too Highly of Yourself (Seeking Subscriptions~)

"Congratulations. You two are free now."

Inside the Konoha Guard Division office, Uchiha Kei looked impassively at Hozuki Mangetsu and Mei Terumi before him.

Upon hearing those words, both of them revealed a faint look of distraction at the same time.

However, there was a fundamental difference between their absent-mindedness.

Uchiha Kei did not even need to examine him closely to tell that Hozuki Mangetsu was completely putting on an act.

Because the kid had known exactly what was going to happen and what would happen.

Therefore, he found this outcome unsurprising, especially since Uchiha Kei had given him advance notice.

Mei Terumi, however, was different. Over these four years in Konoha, she had truly experienced despair.

Four years ago, she had been defeated by that woman, Hyuga Aya. Ao had used that woman, whom he had coerced into serving as a hostage to exchange for Uchiha Kei, and now she had easily defeated Mei Terumi.

Mei Terumi had been unable to let go of that for a long time.

Especially after learning that the five Clan Heads who had acted together had all been taken out by Uchiha Kei—and that even the Mizukage might have been involved.

It truly made her feel as though she had fallen into an abyss!

She had not been killed. Instead, she had been brought back to Konoha like a Test Subject and a bargaining chip—but she would rather have been killed.

Interrogations for intelligence were something she had gone through almost every month over the past four years. Although the methods were not particularly cruel, she had merely been spared physical torment.

Having her Chakra sealed and her blood drawn regularly had also become routine. After all, she possessed double Kekkei Genkai.

She could endure all of that. She had already become desperate