"Dad! Mom! What happened to you?!"
Just as everyone indignantly prepared to head to the Konoha White Palace and ask the Hokage to punish Senju Momoka and restore peace and order to Konoha, a cry shattered the commotion.
"Dad, Mom, who did this to you? Why? You'd clearly already reached Konoha, so why did you collapse?"
"Wasn't Konoha supposed to be the strongest and safest village in the ninja world? Who was it? I'll definitely avenge you!"
A beautiful young woman wailed at the two elderly people who had just died. Though she wore coarse homespun clothes, they could not hide her grace. Especially as she wept so pitifully, she drew sympathy from everyone around her.
"Miss, these two elders are your parents, right? How tragic." Nojiri Tenshu squeezed out from the crowd. Seeing her cry so heartbreakingly, he felt as though his own heart were breaking.
"Dad! Mom! You died such a terrible death..."
After enduring so many hardships to finally reach Konoha, they had died here without rhyme or reason.
Hearing the young woman's cries, the crowd felt deeply ashamed. This family of three had trusted Konoha so completely. They had not been killed outside, only to die after arriving in Konoha. If this matter was not resolved, what reputation would Konoha have left? Was Konoha's peace nothing but a joke?
"Stop crying. I, Nojiri Tenshu, will handle this!" The more Nojiri Tenshu looked at her, the more he liked her. He felt as if he had fallen in love.
"This humble woman is alone and without family. If any kind soul can avenge this blood feud for me, I have nothing with which to repay them. I can only offer myself in marriage to repay my benefactor."
Hearing that, Nojiri Tenshu became even more energized and immediately