Just then, footsteps sounded from the darkness.
"Heh heh, it seems you're feeling rather troubled now..." The Third Mizukage smiled as he walked toward the old man.
"Have you come to laugh at me?"
The old man's gaze darkened, and terrifying killing intent erupted from his scarlet eyes, sharp as blades.
"I wouldn't dare..." The Third Mizukage's expression made his heart tremble.
"I came to tell you something..." he continued.
"What news?"
The old man's eyes remained sharp. To him, the person before him was merely a chess piece. If his thoughts did not align, he could simply replace that piece with another.
"The boy you want to get rid of, Namikaze Mirai, seems to have saved the daughter of Terumi Mei, the head of the Terumi clan..."
"What!?"
In the darkness, the old man's expression suddenly twitched. Ever since the First Hokage had died, he had never experienced such intense emotional fluctuations.
Now, because of a boy who had once been no more than an insect in his eyes, the old man's emotions rose and fell once more.
Namikaze Mirai had not entered the Fugen Building as he had anticipated. Instead, he had fallen into the trap he had set.
That made it impossible for him to let it go.
"It seems we still underestimated that brat..."
The Third Mizukage's gaze darkened as well. He had previously believed that Namikaze Mirai had nothing to do with this matter, but things were different now.
When he had his eyes removed, the boy had been hiding nearby and saved Terumi Mei.
This Konoha spy had already obtained a considerable amount of information about Fugen Village. If he were allowed to leave Fugen and return to Konoha, it might create obstacles for his rule.
Although ninety percent of the Land of Fire