To be honest, Fujimaru Tachibana was not a qualified negotiator. But in a sense, an unexpected opening could produce unexpected results.
Or rather, Fujimaru Tachibana knew her own limitations. You could not expect a sixteen-year-old girl with no professional training or education to teach herself into becoming some social powerhouse.
So Fujimaru Tachibana handled things her own way—if there was something she wanted to say, she said it straight.
Yes, she simply did not play by the rules.
After their initial bewilderment, however, Minato Namikaze and Hiruzen Sarutobi seriously considered the possibility behind Fujimaru Tachibana's words.
It was not that the two of them had so easily believed Fujimaru Tachibana's one-sided account. Rather, the entire ninja world had become exceedingly strange starting half a year ago.
First, large numbers of yokai had appeared, forcibly bringing the ongoing Third Shinobi World War to an end and forcing every major nation to pull in its strength and mind its own business, leaving them with no time for another ninja war.
Afterward, distorted voids had appeared around the oceanic regions beyond the Ninja World Continent, enveloping the entire ninja world.
Anyone sent to explore those void regions never returned. No matter what it was, anything that touched the distorted void at the borders would be reduced to ashes.
As time passed, more and stronger yokai appeared. Meanwhile, those distorted voids had actually begun appearing on the Ninja World Continent itself. Many places had shown phenomena resembling those twisted voids, except when they emerged within the continent, they manifested as patches of "Honkai" across the land.
Every major power had discovered them, but none had a solution. Even sealing techniques proved ineffective. In the end, they could only cordon off the places where Honkai had emerged and forbid anyone from approaching them.
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