"Do you know him?"
"Do you know me?"
Hatake Sakumo and Kakuzu both looked at Mirai, though they appeared very different.
Dong Song curled his lips and sat down with a relaxed expression.
He had recognized Hatake Sakumo and still dared to cause trouble for bounty hunters. Aside from Kakuzu, there was probably no second person like him.
Mirai had thought that someone interested in him might have followed him from the underground exchange, so he had called this man Kakuzu.
However, Mirai had not expected Hatake Sakumo to offer such a high bounty. On second thought, he relaxed.
No matter how high the bounty was, one still needed to be alive to claim it.
Dong Song remained silent. Neither of them asked anything further, and Hatake Sakumo withdrew his gaze and stepped back into a corner.
"A rogue ninja from the Celestial Dragons Village?" Hatake Sakumo noticed Kakuzu's forehead protector, its village symbol crossed by a horizontal slash.
"Mm. I simply prefer money." He did not care about status at all. His early experiences had taught him to trust only money.
"Captain, be careful. He's strong!" Mirai and Hatake Sakumo left the underground exchange and changed back into their dark clothes.
Hatake Sakumo returned to Mirai's side and nodded slightly.
Facing Hatake Sakumo, Kakuzu felt unprecedented pressure as well. Even the First Hokage had not given him such an utterly overwhelming feeling.
Yet Hatake Sakumo's intense killing intent formed genuine suppression over Kakuzu, like a peerless sword being drawn from its sheath.
The atmosphere sank, and the air was squeezed by the momentum of the two men.
Kakuzu took the initiative. Earth-nature chakra flowed through his body and gathered in his arms.
He used Earth Release to harden his arms, then separated them from his limbs with the black