Uchiha Yato's decisive departure left Tsunade and Shizune completely dumbfounded.
Previously, whenever Jiraiya or other Konoha ninja found Tsunade, they would spend three days and three nights pleading and begging for her to return to the village.
That made Tsunade subconsciously assume Uchiha Yato was the same sort of person. Since she had no intention of returning to Konoha anyway, she simply sent him away.
Yet Uchiha Yato's decisive attitude caught Tsunade off guard, and Shizune directly voiced her question.
"You're just going back like that? How are you going to explain failing the mission?"
Hearing Shizune's words, Uchiha Yato smiled.
"Like I actually want to save Shimura Danzō."
"If Tsunade doesn't return, he'll remain a vegetable—useless. Isn't that better?"
"Even if Tsunade returns to Konoha, there's no way I'd let her treat him."
Uchiha Yato's reasoning surprised both Tsunade and Shizune.
After thinking it over carefully, Tsunade roughly understood the key issue. Shizune, however, was not perceptive enough to realize it, since there were things she did not know.
"I understand. You can leave now, right?"
Just as Uchiha Yato was about to leave after hearing Tsunade say that, a gust of wind rushed past him.
"Leave my ass!"
"I just spent nearly three hundred million ryō getting those people off our backs, and now you're telling me the mission failed!"
It was unclear whether Jiraiya had suddenly heard Uchiha Yato give up or heard Tsunade driving him away, but he made his entrance immediately.
Tsunade showed little emotional reaction upon seeing him, and neither did Uchiha Yato.
That left Shizune, Tsunade's chief caretaker, feeling rather awkward. For a moment, she did not even know where she ought to sit.
"You two talk. I'll go make you some tea."
The instant Shizune finished speaking, she fled the scene. The