Obito: Ah~ So it's the King of Doujinshi who has arrived

"Ugh... Sora, I understand how you feel, but wasn't your reaction just now a little too extreme?"

Inside the Mist Village Assistant Office, Mei Terumi bent down to pick up the documents scattered across the floor. She shook the wood chips off them and spoke helplessly to Kuro, who was silently cleaning up the mess.

"Sorry. I'm seriously reflecting on it."

Kuro crouched on the floor, picking up the pieces of the wooden desk he had smashed with a single palm strike and placing them into a crate.

But when he saw the potato chips crushed beneath the wreckage, reduced to powder, his heart involuntarily twitched in pain.

Those few bags of chips hidden at the very back of his desk drawer—had all heroically perished alongside his desk.

Just as Kuro silently mourned his lost chips with tears in his heart, Mei Terumi's unexpected words rang out in the office.

"Still, this really is surprising."

Mei Terumi stacked the last pile of documents and set it aside. Looking at Kuro, who was efficiently cleaning up while crouched on the ground, a hint of surprise surfaced in her eyes.

"Sora, you've clearly been busy handling official duties this whole time. I've barely seen you training at the practice grounds. So how does it feel like you've become even stronger than before?"

"Uh, well..."

Kuro's body stiffened, and he replied as casually as he could.

"Ahem, I did have a small insight recently. Just a tiny little breakthrough."

"More importantly, let's get back to business."

Before he had even finished speaking, Kuro instantly straightened up and returned to the chair that had survived the disaster.

He folded his hands in front of him, put on an unprecedentedly solemn expression, and declared with great seriousness:

"As for Yagura's despicable attempt to use this