"Do you know how scary it is when you knock like that?"
"I nearly reawakened."
He pulled the door open.
Thankfully, Konan stood outside, not some post office manager surnamed Luo.
Konan stared at him expressionlessly.
"Then tell me, how am I supposed to get your attention?"
Calling out to him would be rude, but he claimed ordinary knocking was scary.
"Just kick the door."
Cangyue offered his advice seriously. "I have a friend who does that every time."
"Who pays for the repairs?"
"The organization reimburses them, of course."
Konan sighed and decided to abandon the discussion.
"Come to the meeting."
"What, have you decided to kick me out?"
Cangyue picked up Black Zetsu, who had curled into a ball, and asked casually, "That counts as a layoff, right? Do I get N+1 severance?"
"Where do you hear all these weird terms?"
Konan turned and walked away.
"And the Akatsuki never said we were kicking you out."
The two of them arrived at the meeting hall with a black ball in tow.
The moment he entered, Cangyue sensed something off about the atmosphere.
Everyone sat in silence.
Even Hidan, usually the loudest of the bunch, had his mouth shut for once and was staring at him as though he were a monster.
Clearly, news from Sunagakure had already reached them.
One man, two swords.
He had smashed through over ten thousand Sand ninja head-on and defeated the Fourth Kazekage in three minutes.
Everyone present was an S-rank missing-nin, and they understood the significance of that feat far better than ordinary people.
He definitely had cheats turned on.
No, perhaps he had never turned them off.
[Valor Points +120]
Cangyue took his seat in satisfaction.
Excellent.
Now his Valor Points went up on their own without him even