"Grandma Chiyo, I don't want to destroy Sunagakure."
Shinichi was gradually losing his patience. "Don't push me," he threatened. "You should know it's very dangerous to drive an honest man into a corner."
An honest man?
At those words, everyone present except the bewildered Gaara gave him a strange look.
If this guy counted as an honest man, then there couldn't be a single bad person left in the world, could there?
"What do you want One's Own Life Reincarnation for?"
For Sunagakure's sake, Grandma Chiyo barely suppressed her anger and hatred. "Don't tell me you want to use this forbidden technique to save someone," she said calmly. "You don't look like the self-sacrificing type."
Put simply, One's Own Life Reincarnation traded one life for another-your own life for someone else's.
But nothing about Shinichi suggested that he had that kind of selfless spirit, which made Grandma Chiyo all the more curious about why he was so fixated on this forbidden technique.
"None of your damn business."
Shinichi was getting annoyed. "Just give it to me. It's not like I'm necessarily asking for it for free. What the hell does what I do with it have to do with you? You're this old and still love sticking your nose into other people's business. Have you got nothing better to do?"
"You insufferable brat!"
Being told off to her face by a young man like this left Grandma Chiyo utterly humiliated.
But age had made her shrewd, and she immediately picked up on the key detail in his words. "You won't take it for free?" she couldn't help asking. "Does that mean you're willing to offer something of equal value?"
Though One's Own Life Reincarnation was a forbidden technique she had poured her heart and soul into developing, it ultimately benefited