Yuya knelt on the tatami, looking at the room's decor.
Although he hadn't been back in quite a while, the style of the house's furnishings hadn't changed at all. It still looked much the same as before.
"...Yuya? Did you hear what I said?" Uzumaki Mito noticed that Yuya had drifted off and frowned.
Yuya came back to himself and looked calmly at his teacher's wife. "Actually, ever since you said you wanted me to come back because of the Uzumaki Clan, I haven't really been listening.
Because there's no need."
Uzumaki Mito froze. Her expression darkened in an instant as she looked at Yuya, still holding on to a glimmer of hope. "Is there really... no way at all?"
Yuya sighed, then laid out the numbers for Uzumaki Mito.
Kirigakure hadn't gone to war with the Land of Whirlpools before because trade between Kirigakure and Konoha hadn't been very large.
Or rather, there hadn't been much official cooperation between Kirigakure and Konoha, so the Land of Whirlpools' government hadn't suffered many losses.
The merchants who had paid the most tolls in the Land of Whirlpools were those from Konoha and Kirigakure.
Kirigakure's merchants paid money to Kirigakure, of course, but they definitely weren't the biggest source of income. Kirigakure probably hadn't minded seeing those merchants charged a little extra in tolls. It might even have been glad to see it.
But things were different now.
The treaty Yuya had signed with Kirigakure at the start of the year had increased the deal tenfold: thirty tons of fish.
Don't think that's a lot. The thirty tons of grain and vegetables Iwagakure had sent over sold out in just a month.
It wasn't that the people of Konoha ate that much. They'd simply known hunger before, and now they'd rather let