Hinata, Stop Pretending

### From the moment Hinata had said that, her gaze had been fixed firmly on Wu Zhu. Everyone clearly knew that she was asking Wu Zhu that question.

Under the pressure of everyone's stares, Wu Zhu seemed to be about to reveal an expression that said: I'm so scared, hurry up and get away from me.

As if time had frozen, a full ten seconds passed before Wu Zhu finally spoke in a tiny voice, as though he hardly dared to breathe. "What exactly do you want?"

Kurama Mutsu seemed to have a faint smile at the corner of her lips as she said casually, "Nothing. Just looking."

Wu Zhu...

The next moment, Wu Zhu seemed to become a completely different person, as though waves of King's Aura had burst from his body. Ahem, that was a bit exaggerated.

But because of that, everyone else obediently withdrew their gazes.

Wu Zhu thought, Sigh, it's not that I'm not innocent, nor that I don't want to be innocent. But all I ever meet are bad people. They won't let me be a good person!

"Goodbye, my kindness. Goodbye, the innocence I once had. Goodbye..."

Naturally, the others had no idea Wu Zhu had so much inner drama going on.

After briefly shaking off that King's Aura, Wu Zhu's eyes shifted, and he spoke directly. "Ahem, since we've brought this up."

"Let me first share a few of my own thoughts."

"How should I put this? First, since we've chosen to go to the Artisan Ninja Village and obtain weapons suitable for each of us that can efficiently conduct Chakra."

"Then naturally, we'll need to pay a great deal of money. But that's where the problem lies."

"As things stand, we aren't lacking money. But are we really going to stupidly take