Roran was merely a small country, with no particularly powerful military force. The reason it had endured in the Land of Wind to this day was its unique location.
[ Vein]
When Mirai saw this term in the newspaper, his expression could not help but tremble.
The so-called Dragon Vein was said to flow beneath Roran, representing inexhaustible power.
It was said that this power protected Roran and its people, and that the so-called Queen of Roran had not become queen because of her own forces.
Rather, it was because her family possessed the special authority to control the Dragon Vein.
With the Dragon Vein's power, Roran could occupy a corner of the world and continue to survive through the chaos of war, even as ninja became the mainstream.
This reminded Mirai of the night of the Nine-Tails incident, when space and time had changed.
Mirai vaguely remembered that when space changed, Kushina had erupted with an immensely powerful chakra, while half of the Nine-Tails had refused to be sealed within him. That, too, had been an incredibly terrifying force.
At the time, Mirai's soul had been mixed with those two forces. In the end, space had twisted and dragged him in.
That had caused him to be reborn, returning to his own body as a teenager.
The so-called "Dragon Vein" of Roran represented endless power. That was naturally an exaggeration. Mirai did not believe there was anything absolute in this world.
But he could guess that perhaps the Dragon Vein had undergone the same thing as the Nine-Tails incident in the future, twisting space and time.
"This really is convenient..."
Mirai's heart stirred. He had originally planned to use a mission as an excuse to take Kushina Uzumaki outside the village on patrol. That way, he could more or