Son Goku Runs Amok in Konoha! (Continued)

An incomparably quiet aura,

as if

these few people were all machines.

At this moment,

a giant pitcher plant

crawled out from underground,

and Zetsu looked at the figure standing ahead:

"For a woman, is it really worth going this far?"

"Konan is my comrade, and I promised Yahiko to take good care of her."

"But now... I've already lost Yahiko, and Aogetsu Hyuga made me lose her, so I'm going to make Aogetsu Hyuga suffer the exact same pain I am enduring!"

Hearing the words that came from Pain's mouth, Zetsu also fell silent, slowly sinking his body back into the depths of the earth...

"Huh?"

"Takigakure?"

"What does that have to do with me?"

Aogetsu Hyuga picked at his ear, looking at Tsunade before him with a helpless expression.

After that night a few days ago,

Tsunade had also let go of her past grievances with Aogetsu Hyuga,

and when she spoke, her tone had also grown somewhat softer:

"Try to understand. Right now, everyone in the village is stretched thin, Kakashi and Might Guy have both gone out on missions, and as for the Tailed Beasts, I think you're the one who understands them best."

"I'll elevate this mission to a Super S-Rank mission, and I won't shortchange you."

What the two of them were discussing was how the leader of Takigakure had recently grown worried that their Tailed Beast, the Seven-Tails, would be captured,

and thus wanted to invite Aogetsu Hyuga over to hold down the fort and incidentally teach them a few methods.

On a deeper level, this also concerned the shift in diplomatic relations between the two shinobi villages, and it was foreseeable that the Land of Waterfalls would rely even more heavily on the Land of Fire in the future.

Aogetsu Hyuga