"Who asked you to save me? They weren't even a match for me in the first place. If you hadn't suddenly jumped out, would I have gotten hurt?"
The beautiful girl noticed the Konoha forehead protector on his head, and the hostility on her face intensified even more. "You're actually from Konoha? What on earth is your purpose for secretly sneaking into our Land of Water?"
The Five Great Shinobi Villages had always been engaged in open and covert struggles, and calling them enemies was no exaggeration.
Especially within the territory of one's own Ninja Village, the appearance of a shinobi from a foreign village was no different from a direct provocation.
"I actually forgot to take it off!"
Upon being pointed out like this, Shinichi suddenly realized, and pretending as if nothing was the matter, he took off the Konoha forehead protector.
It seemed he really had been angered to death by those three guys Kakashi, to the point of making such a low-level mistake.
"What on earth are you?"
Taking advantage of the moment he was dazed, the beautiful girl gritted her teeth against the pain in her ankle and jumped up, holding a kunai and staring at him with extreme vigilance.
Judging by that posture, it was clearly the look of someone ready to make a move at any second.
"As you can see, just a handsome guy passing by."
Shinichi shrugged and said casually, "If I hadn't seen you being ganged up on and looking like you were in terrible shape, I wouldn't have bothered to save you either!"
"Bah!"
The girl glared fiercely at him and snapped, "Even if I really were to die, I wouldn't need people from Konoha like you to save me! Get out of the Land of Water immediately, or don't