He rummaged through the scroll, found a fresh set of clothes, and put them on. Then he checked to see whether anything had been left behind.
"Where's the Slug?"
Uchiha Gen looked around, only to discover that the Slug had vanished. He sensed the area, but found nothing.
"It probably went back. It must have been bored here for so long..."
That little Slug had merely been a split body of the Slug Sage. Since it had disappeared, it could only have returned on its own.
He then tidied up his appearance and aged himself by a few more years. Now he looked even more like a middle-aged man in his thirties or forties.
Finally, he climbed out of the ruins. The moment he emerged from the hole, he ran straight into a group of people.
"Who are you?"
"Sir, we were ordered to receive you here."
Every one of them was tall and burly, dressed in suits and sunglasses. They looked like gangsters, yet not a trace of Chakra could be found in their bodies.
"You were sent by the person in charge of Rōran, right?"
"Yes, sir!"
"Good." Uchiha Gen took the scroll from his back and pulled out Queen of Roran's corpse. "This is Queen of Roran's body. Erect a monument for her and bury her... beneath the castle."
She might have been the last queen. Uchiha Gen did not know whether this was the right thing to do, but it was already done. There was no use dwelling on anything else.
With Rōran's affairs settled, he did not linger. He directly used a summoning technique to return to the Ninja Cat Clan Grounds. When he saw Kuro, he had no time to explain and hurried into his little house.
"Meow?"
Kuro opened her half-lidded cat eyes