Several days passed in a flash.
That morning, in the guest room.
Mirai stretched as he stepped out of the room.
"Mmm~"
Almost four days had passed since the last Aliens video appeared.
After meeting with Orochimaru that day, he had spent his time with Kurotsuchi and his phone.
Perhaps because Temari had comforted Kurotsuchi after the snake frightened her, the relationship between the two women had become less strained. They no longer constantly sniped at each other.
They could even coordinate perfectly during missions.
All he could say was that the storm had passed.
Just as Luo Mang was about to leave and begin that day's travels-
Caw, caw, caw!
A crow's cries rang out beside him.
"Huh, Iwagakure has crows as well as snakes?"
Luo Mang frowned, searching his memories for anyone associated with crows. Only two people came to mind: Uchiha Itachi and Sasuke Uchiha.
He turned to look.
A Mangekyō Sharingan appeared in the crow's eye. Luo Mang could see it clearly with his Byakugan, along with Uchiha Itachi's unmistakable chakra swirling around the crow.
A summoning beast.
"Uchiha Itachi?"
With that Mangekyō Sharingan and the crow, he hardly needed to think to know why Uchiha Itachi had come looking for him.
The crow nodded, then tapped twice against the window.
"All right."
He walked over and opened the window.
Caw, caw!
The crow swiftly flew inside, stirring up a gust and shedding two black feathers.
After circling the room, it returned to the windowsill, signaling that it had not come to fight.
"Heh, I know you're not here to fight. Thanks for passing along that information last time. Otherwise, I might have died."
"Did you come here for something today?"
Luo Mang naturally understood, but the first thing he did was thank Uchiha Itachi.
It