After living through bloodshed and upheaval for too long, one began to long for a peaceful life.
The opposite was true as well. Live peacefully for too long, and life started to feel boring and meaningless.
That was how Konan was now. Her days in the Akatsuki Organization had once been thrilling and perilous, which was why she had longed for stability and peace. Nagato had seen that at the time, and out of concern for Konan's safety, he had sent her to Konoha through Uchiha Qingfeng.
Then, because of Uchiha Qingfeng's defection, she had returned to the Akatsuki Organization.
The Akatsuki Organization had long since been restructured into the "Capital City Special Operations Unit." They were only responsible for unusual incidents in Capital City, and ordinary matters rarely required their involvement.
Working there was practically like getting paid for doing nothing. Of course, they could apply to leave the city and help maintain peace in the Ninja World, but Konan could not be bothered with that sort of thing.
The letter made it very clear. She already found this job boring and had explicitly stated that she wanted to resign.
If that had been all, it would have been a perfectly normal resignation letter. The problem was that what came afterward seemed a little less normal.
The rest was about Konan's plans for the future. She intended to travel across the Ninja World, to see every blade of grass, every tree, every mountain, and every river, proving to the world that she had once been here.
Before leaving, however, she wanted to have a proper drink with Uchiha Qingfeng. It had been many years since they had sat down to drink together. (In truth, they had only ever drunk together back in Konoha.) There was still one jar of