Tenten's Resolve

In Konoha, atop the Hokage Rock.

Tenten of Might Guy's team looked at Ye Zhuo with a troubled expression.

"So you're the Demon King?"

"Who else?"

Ye Zhuo turned toward Tenten. He had expected her to attack at once and unleash a barrage of ninja tools. Instead, she held back, still searching for a way to deal with him.

"You waited until Konoha's Allied Shinobi Forces went into battle.

Bringing me here to Konoha was a good plan.

But what are you going to do?

Are you really a pervert, like the rumors say?"

Tenten gripped her scroll, not letting her guard down for an instant.

Ye Zhuo now stood as tall as Four-Tails Son Goku.

To anyone looking at the wandering monk, he seemed like a living guardian deity.

He carried both a monk's staff and a blade.

Who could say whether this lecherous monk might attack without warning?

"What am I going to do? Look at this!"

Ye Zhuo tossed the manga to Tenten.

She was about to shake her head, but one glance at the cover was enough to make her open the first page.

"Have I fallen under your genjutsu?

That's impossible!

A true expert would never let me realize I was under genjutsu."

Tenten muttered to herself as she kept turning the pages, until she reached Neji's death in the manga.

"He died saving Naruto and Hinata?

But according to this story, Naruto saved Teacher Kaido when he was on the brink of death.

Naruto even had a Nine-Tails chakra cloak. That wooden spike shouldn't have been able to take his life..."

At that thought, Tenten shook her head.

"No, that's not the point.

Why didn't Neji use taijutsu to shatter the wood at that moment?

And with the Nine-Tails there, what threat was one