A clone of the Ryumyaku

"Where's Naruto?"

Kazan had returned to the center of Rōran.

Naruto was nowhere to be seen. Only Sara stood before him, looking delicate and fragile.

"He's already gone back to his own time. He also asked me to pass on a message: take good care of yourself."

"Sounds like we get along pretty well in the future."

Kazan didn't know Minato Namikaze's memory-erasing technique, so his memories of Rōran would remain.

But even if he did, he probably wouldn't have used it.

The future was a difficult thing to pin down.

How could you know whether what you were doing now was something that had already happened in the future?

"Anrokuzan..."

"He's dead. I destroyed all his puppet factories."

Kazan paused.

"And I rescued the people he captured to build his puppets. They probably need their queen badly right now."

"Thank you..."

Sara knew she had failed as a queen.

Even if Anrokuzan had deceived her, it was ultimately her own foolishness that had allowed things to come to this.

"No need to thank me. If anything, I'm the one who needs a favor from you."

Kazan turned his gaze toward the center.

A sealing formation lay there, its central formation eye already shut down.

Sara must have cut off the Ryumyaku's energy supply herself. Only she had the ability to do that.

"A favor from u-us?"

"If I can help you, Kazan, I'd be happy to."

Sara's eyes lit up. She hoped to forge a close connection with Kazan.

The affair with Anrokuzan had made her fully realize that Rōran could continue to keep out of the world's conflicts.

But when necessary, they also needed strength...

Kazan was clearly an excellent choice, even if he was a king of destruction.

At first, his words had fooled her too. But