"Y-you, you... Why are you back so soon?!"
Gyūki stared wide-eyed in disbelief at Kanami and Hinata.
"Why wouldn't I be? This is my home. If I didn't come back, were you planning to treat it like your own?"
Kanami found a sofa and sat down, quietly watching Gyūki.
The tiny Gyūki looked rather adorably dazed now.
Especially those white, pupil-less eyes, which made him look even more like a plush doll.
"I-I mean, the Ten-Tails God Tree in the Ninja World was just destroyed, and you came back right afterward. Isn't that too much of a coincidence?"
Gyūki said weakly.
By this point, he had already formed a few guesses.
He just wasn't sure.
Kanami smiled. "Why do you think I happened to come back at such a convenient time?"
"Could it really have been you who removed the Ten-Tails God Tree?"
"Not exactly."
Gyūki sighed in relief upon hearing that.
He had thought Kanami was unbelievably powerful, capable of even removing the Ten-Tails God Tree. It seemed that wasn't the case after all.
So he had hidden away and only returned after someone else removed the Ten-Tails God Tree.
That was it?
While Gyūki was secretly criticizing him, Kanami spoke again. "Hinata Hyuga was the one who removed the Ten-Tails God Tree."
"Oh, so it wasn't you... Wait!"
Gyūki's eyes immediately widened. He looked at the obediently seated Hinata, his head swinging back and forth between Kanami and her. "Y-you mean she removed the Ten-Tails God Tree?!"
"How is that possible?! That was the Ten-Tails God Tree! The Ten-Tails! Even the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion couldn't casually cut down a God Tree that had already grown a Chakra Fruit, could it?!"
"Hinata was the one who cut it down. Lord Kanami wouldn't lie."
Matatabi took a few steps