Uzumaki Sanryo opened the second letter.
Three words were clearly written on the envelope: "Mei Terumi," the current district chief of the Land of Water administrative region in the Ninja Republic.
"How about we don't read it out loud? You've all seen it anyway. Let me read it myself."
With that, he took the letter from Uzumaki Sanryo's hand.
Honestly, having it read aloud was pretty embarrassing. It was not just Uchiha Qingfeng—if you wrote a letter only for a bunch of people to see it, the awkwardness was easy to imagine. He already felt embarrassed for Mei Terumi.
The first thing he saw was a photograph. It was the familiar face, nothing surprising there, but the contents of the letter made even Uchiha Qingfeng feel a little awkward.
The earlier complaints about how exhausting work was did not matter. What mattered was what came afterward.
To put it simply, it said that Uchiha Qingfeng had not gone to see her in a long time. Was he really going to be so heartless? Her grandfather, Genshi, did not have much time left, and Genshi's greatest wish was to see Mei Terumi get married. As for holding a grandchild, he had already given up on that. Was Uchiha Qingfeng not even going to fulfill this one wish for the old man?
Uchiha Qingfeng did not know how much of that was exaggerated, but half a month ago, he had seen Genshi working at the "National Affairs Processing Center," glowing with health as though he had found a second spring in life. Of course, that might have had something to do with Orochimaru's latest research.
Uchiha Qingfeng did not believe Genshi only had a few years left to live.
Then came the final passage: "My chest has been hurting a lot lately.