He Stood Above All Rules

"This rule applied to the White-Eyed Demon alone!"

"That was, as long as someone was under his protection, no one could accept a mission to assassinate that person!"

"Otherwise, whoever accepted the mission would die!"

"The one who issued the mission would die too!"

"If the person who accepted the mission did not want to die, there was only one way!"

"That was to kill the employer!"

"The employer's money would be split twenty-eighty, with him taking eighty!"

Zabuza's voice trembled slightly. Clearly, what he had recalled just now had not been pleasant!

"Was he... that overbearing?"

"Overbearing?"

"No, it was not overbearing!"

"He was simply cruel!"

"Utterly cruel. That was why people in the underground world called him a demon!"

"Did no one ever target him?"

"How could they not?"

"There were people targeting him when he had first started making a name for himself. As his reputation grew, there were even more!"

"But..."

"Everyone who targeted him was killed by him. Even the Bounty Exchange that issued the missions was wiped out by him!"

"At first, the forces behind the Bounty Exchange refused to accept it and attacked him. He wiped them all out!"

"By now, the people behind the Bounty Exchange had changed three times!"

"They were all exterminated by him!"

"Even the people currently running the Bounty Exchange did not dare offend him!"

"In fact, if anyone dared put a bounty on him, they would capture the person who issued the bounty and hand them over to him for punishment!"

"He, the White-Eyed Demon!"

"Was the true emperor of the underground world!"

"Then what should we do now?"

"What else could we do?"

"We could only follow the rules. Otherwise, the entire underground world would hunt us down!"

"Kill Gato?"

"Mm!"

"And quickly!"

"If that idiot Gato sent more people to provoke him, we would not be able to escape involvement either!"

Haku fell silent...

He could not imagine what kind of person could make the entire underground world fear him so deeply!

"Let's go!"

"Gato ran a smuggling business. He was loaded with money. We were going to make a fortune this time!"

"Once we dealt with him, we would never need to do this kind of work again!"

When Haku heard Zabuza say that, he could not help feeling filled with longing!

Then, they could find a beautiful place, and he and Zabuza-sama...

"Mm!"

"Zabuza-sama, hurry up!"

"Let's take out Gato!"

"Haku, why are you so motivated today?"

"Because... today is a good day!"

Meanwhile, after Zabuza retreated, the three children stared at Tenka, unable to hide the curiosity in their eyes!

What had their teacher done?

That bandaged man had looked as though he was terrified of him!

That part was understandable. As far as they knew, no one was not afraid of their teacher!

But that rule!

What rule?

"What are you standing around for? Let's go!"

Tenka's cool voice rang beside the three children's ears, waking them from their wild thoughts!

"Oh!"

"L-Let's go!"

"Teacher!"

"That bandaged man really will not come back?"

"No!"

"He would not dare!"

"But the person who hired him could hire someone else sooner or later!"

"They would not either!"

"Why?"

"Because of the rule!"

"The person who hired him would be dead by his hand within three hours!"

"What?"

"Gato will die?"

"Is that true?"

Tazuna suddenly looked overjoyed. He looked at Tenka, desperately hoping for a definite answer!

Tenka ignored him and walked ahead!

Tenka might have ignored him, but Sakura and the others were displeased!

"What does it have to do with you?"

"Liar!"

"According to the rules, we can abandon this mission and return to the village right now!"

"We could even kill you if we wanted to!"

"Exactly. This was at least an A-rank mission, yet he claimed it was C-rank!"

"It was fortunate our team came. If another team had accepted this mission, would they not have been harmed by him?"

"Ignore him. We are here to relax anyway. After a month, whether his bridge is finished or not, we are going back!"

"But... what if he refuses to sign the mission certificate?"

"Heh..."

"Would he dare?"

"If he really dared, we would kill him and use his hand to press a fingerprint!"

"Let's go. Teacher has already gone far ahead!"

Tazuna's face filled with terror. He had been too excited just now and forgotten that these people were also ruthless killers!

The fact that he had concealed the truth about the mission had already been exposed, and these people did not have the slightest favorable impression of him now!

His original plan to play up his misery and win their sympathy was useless. They simply ignored him.

Shaking his head, Tazuna nervously followed behind them!

He did not know whether Gato would truly die soon, so he did not dare let down his guard!

These people were dangerous, but following them would undoubtedly be much safer!

Evening came!

Inside Gato's shipping company, blood covered the ground!

Beside them sat five huge bags of cash, along with an unknown amount of money on bank cards!

Haku was stunned. He had never seen so much money before!

"Z-Zabuza-sama!"

"Mm?"

"Do we really... really not need to send some of this to that person?"

Haku felt somewhat uneasy. After hearing Zabuza's account, he had learned that the underground world had many rules!

For example, they were not allowed to kill their employers, or they would face punishment from the Bounty Exchange!

No one knew what that punishment was, but regardless of how powerful someone was, no one had ever broken that rule!

Until that person appeared!

He alone had become a new rule, and his rules stood above all others!

Because of his existence, Zabuza could kill his employer without suffering any consequences, and would even receive certain additional benefits!

However, Zabuza no longer had any use for those benefits. He did not intend to continue in this line of work!

"No!"

"Do not take it upon yourself to change what that person says!"

"If he said he did not want it, then he did not want it!"

"If we sent it over, we would only earn his displeasure!"

"O-Okay!"

Even now, Haku found it hard to believe. So much money truly belonged to him and Zabuza-sama?

"Haku, let's go!"

"Where?"

"Don't you like snow?"

"Let's find a place where it snows all year round and settle down there!"

"Really, Zabuza-sama?"

"Really!"

"That's wonderful!"

Haku lunged forward and threw himself into Zabuza's arms, continuously rubbing his head against Zabuza's chest!

Meanwhile, after Sakura and the others finished dinner at Tazuna's home, the three of them began their own training!

Although they had come out to relax, they could not afford to slack off too much!

To the three of them, who were currently brimming with motivation, it was absolutely impossible to spend an entire month without training at all!

After a month of quiet training, all three of them had improved considerably!

Sasuke's Sharingan had awakened its Double Tomoe on its own, and his development of Chidori had reached the threshold!

Sakura had mastered the Mystical Palm Technique, and her Monster Strength training had advanced even further. Each punch carried greater power!

Naruto could already enter the Three-Tails state, though he could not maintain it for long!

All three of them were very satisfied with the results of that month!