Yuya stared at him, exasperated. Of course. Everyone knew Kumogakure had to be in complete chaos by now.
"You're a genius of the Nara Clan. Are you telling me you don't have what it takes? Go on, go on. If you get this settled, I'll give you credit for it." Yuya grinned at Shika Nara.
Shika Nara's mouth twitched. You think I'm an idiot? Who knows if I'll even make it back alive.
"Acting Hokage, you should send someone capable for this kind of thing. I—I haven't even mastered the Shadow Possession Technique, and I can't use the Substitution Technique. I'd be walking to my death!"
Yuya sneered. "Your father assured me you'd mastered the Shadow Clone and Shadow Possession techniques. Now you're saying this... So you're telling me your father lied to me?
"Deliberately deceiving the Acting Hokage means your Nara Clan's monthly stipend gets cut in half next month."
"Don't!" Shika Nara panicked at once...
The monthly stipend was easy enough to understand.
Konoha couldn't be bothered to collect taxes from these clans every year. In fact, the village usually gave them subsidies.
The money was generally distributed during the year-end financial settlement.
But Yuya had paid it out in the autumn of Konoha's nineteenth year, before the harvest was even finished.
And he'd given them ten percent more than the previous year.
Of course, that wasn't the point. The point was that, on top of that, Yuya had given the Uchiha Clan and the Nara Clan an additional sum.
Ten million Ryo!
Naturally, the other clans had nothing to say about it.
Yuya's payment was curious.
The Nara Clan was one thing, but the Uchiha were getting money too...
What was that supposed to mean?
But just a few days later, an order came down from the