After staying behind for a while, Busujima exchanged some other information with Ay, then returned to her original world.
After Busujima left, Ay took out a scroll. He looked at the tiny blue turtle sealed inside it and muttered to himself:
"Konoha wants to raise these things slowly? Interesting! But wouldn't it be faster and more convenient to directly cultivate powerful elves, then seal them inside ourselves?
"Heh, as for the risks, aren't there plenty of civilians? Power should ultimately be in our own hands! What a thankless task!"
Ay toyed with the scroll in his hand for a while, pondering Cloud Village's future development.
But he didn't think for long before he found himself studying martial arts techniques again. What did village development matter? As long as I was strong enough, the village would develop! The rest could be left to Pops and Abby!
Wait, maybe I could refine my Lightning Style: My Way even further, for example... Ay was already completely absorbed in his own world.
Three days later, Cloud Village and Konoha signed a peace treaty. The specific terms weren't disclosed.
But the treaty put an end to the two sides' years of intermittent clashes and brought about a brief period of peace. Exchanges between their people also grew increasingly frequent.
The shinobi who had died before this brief peace arrived would be remembered for a long time by their friends and family. Everyone else would only express some sorrow at their funerals.
After enough time had passed, when no one remembered the dead any longer, they would face true death, completely forgotten...
But even that was better than the Reincarnators, who were erased from existence at its very root. At least they might still remain in history.
Those who were erased vanished from every point in