On the contrary, he had killed Konoha's Hokage with his own skills and escaped Konoha completely unharmed!"
"What?!"
When the guard's friend heard the news, his eyes widened abruptly, unable to believe what he had heard. At the same time, the restaurant owner, who had been observing their conversation from the bar in front of the restaurant, felt his understanding of the situation completely collapse. A sense of despair and helplessness surged through his heart.
"Mirai is too strong... At first, he had a tolerant relationship with that Konoha man, which could have saved me the 500,000 I had to pay him back. But now it seems... Ah, that's life!"
The beautiful blonde proprietress let out a deep sigh. She seemed to have aged several years in an instant. She was the proprietress who had extorted one million from Matsushima Sunny in Tea Village.
Upon hearing the news about Mirai, Matsushima Qing Shui completely forgot the terrible matter of having spent 500,000.
Meanwhile, in the Land of Demons.
At that moment, Shion walked alone down the street, and every villager along the way avoided her.
"Ah, did you hear that something happened in Konoha?"
Inside a mask shop, the owner was telling his wife the news he had just heard outside.
"Konoha? If something happened to a village as powerful as Konoha, then we—"
The mask shop owner immediately cut her off.
"Shut up! Are you trying to get yourself killed?!"
The owner's last words gave his wife a fright, and she immediately stopped. Then she said resentfully, "It's enough to know it in your heart. Why say it out loud? Aren't you just asking for trouble?"
"Ah, thinking about what happened some time ago, I feel like this village is far too unsettling!"
The proprietress sighed, then said,