After Shiro left, the girl stood where she was and thought for a long while before letting out a heavy sigh. The her of now still did not dare have such thoughts. Kushina and the others had treated her so well that her heart was already filled with strange, unfamiliar emotions.
Taking it a step further was not something she dared hope for.
So she gathered up the messy thoughts in her heart and walked toward the Hokage Office Building to hand the scroll to Minato.
Only, though it was still the same road leading to the Hokage Office Building, the scene in the girl's eyes was entirely different.
Leaving the villagers aside, compared with Konoha, Kirigakure could only be called a band of walking corpses, without the slightest vitality. What the girl felt even more deeply this time was Konoha's ninja.
Although she could still sense that deathly aura from them, compared with Kirigakure, it was much fainter. In its place was that faint trace of life.
Though it was still very weak at present, just as Shiro had said, the seed had already been planted. This great tide could no longer be reversed!
In the Hokage's office, Minato quietly held the scroll and looked out the window. After a long while, he sighed and put the scroll away. It was not yet time to look at it.
And Minato hoped that time would never come, because the seal on it was tied to Shiro's life.
Elsewhere, Shiro and Gilgamesh passed through the portal and arrived in a stretch of wilderness.
Gil had both hands in his pockets. He turned his head and looked around, then glanced at Shiro with interest. "Not going to that position you prepared? I don't mind, you know."
"No. The setup there no longer