"Wait, why?!"
Hearing Kitsuchi's shout, Uchiha Yato looked at him and asked with his eyes what was wrong.
"Why are they all trading secret techniques while I'm being traded for money? Am I worth less than them?"
The moment Uchiha Yato heard that, he was a little dumbfounded.
This was the first time he had seen a hostage think he was undervalued and demand a higher ransom.
Karatachi Yagura, witnessing this scene, felt immensely relieved inside.
Fortunately, his village did not have such a "high-IQ talent."
It was like a kidnapper abducting you and asking your family for ransom.
The kidnapper said your family was poor, so twenty thousand would be enough.
Then the kidnapped person immediately started arguing back.
My family has plenty of money. Are you looking down on me by asking for only twenty thousand?
Is twenty thousand even worthy of my status?
Uchiha Yato began explaining.
"I don't mean to look down on you. The problem is, your father just lost your village's Dust Release secret technique to me a few days ago. I don't know what else your village has."
There was nothing wrong with what Uchiha Yato said.
After all, he had indeed used the Sharingan to study Dust Release. Although Ōnoki had not taught him Dust Release, he had indeed performed a full set of techniques right in front of him.
But the four people opposite him all interpreted those words differently.
Kitsuchi simply could not believe that his father had already handed their secret technique over to someone else.
Karatachi Yagura believed that Ōnoki was capable of doing such a thing, and even looked down on Ōnoki a little for it.
Dodai's thoughts were more complicated. He kept wondering whether Uchiha Yato was lying just to make Kitsuchi lose his composure and