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"Ha ha, I was just joking earlier. Don't mind it, don't mind it!"

Chiyo laughed awkwardly at Kakashi and the others, looking as though she truly was simply an old woman muddled by age.

Kakashi, meanwhile, wore a dead-fish-eyed expression. He did not even know how to judge the old woman before him.

She had actually mistaken him for his own father. Who knew whether she had done it on purpose?

But whether it had been intentional or not, Kakashi could not be bothered to care.

After all, he was White Fang's son. Naturally, he knew exactly how deep the grudge between his father and this old woman, Chiyo, ran.

During the war, Chiyo's son and daughter-in-law had both died at his father's hands. That was an undeniable fact.

However, Kakashi would not apologize to Chiyo over something like that. He stood firm on matters of principle. Why had Chiyo's son and daughter-in-law died? Wasn't it because of the war back then?

And who had started that war?

Sunagakure itself!

Although the Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, had plenty of flaws, he had indeed never taken the initiative to start a war. In that regard, he had inherited the consistent style of Konoha's first two Hokage.

Even setting the war aside and considering only the villages they belonged to, Kakashi did not think his father had done anything wrong.

War was merciless by nature. People dying was the most normal thing in the world.

How many people had Konoha lost back then?

Weren't they someone's children, someone's parents too?

If you Sunagakure people had no intention of apologizing, then why should Konoha apologize to you? Not to mention, you were the defeated nation!

Seeing that Kakashi had no intention of continuing to dwell on the matter with her, Chiyo decisively shut