The absolute gap in strength instantly made everyone in Hoshigakure realize that their visitor was not someone to cross. The three jonin who had been looking down their noses at everyone just like the acting Hoshikage suddenly became as docile as stray cats and dogs.
Seriously, judging by this boy's performance, Konoha would not even need to send anyone else. He alone could wipe out their village with a few punches.
Though they resented the destruction of the Falling Star, none of them was stupid enough to stick their neck out.
They had thought the boy would leave after his show of force. Instead, he quietly stayed in the village until they finished the Acting Hoshikage's funeral, then extended an invitation to the newly chosen stand-in for their Acting Hoshikage.
That stand-in was Natsuhi. Only then did Hoshigakure understand that, although he had merely been passing through, his invitation was not an empty gesture from some nice guy spouting slogans.
Perhaps he saw them as a force he could casually wipe out, but he genuinely wanted to invite them all the same.
After they accepted the Konoha Invitation, the matter involving the Acting Hoshikage and the centuries-old legacy of the Mysterious Peacock Method—something Natsuhi had considered an earth-shattering crisis—was resolved just like that.
Once they promised that Hoshigakure would attend, the boy left them with a sunny smile, saying he would continue his journey.
Even during his few days in the village, however, the boy had kept his word. He taught the village children the most basic ninjutsu. As a Hoshigakure jonin, Natsuhi could naturally tell that, although he was teaching the basics, his understanding was extraordinarily profound—
Because even a jonin like her could not understand a word he said. At that moment, looking at the bewildered expressions of