Seeing Raikage A treat a mere brat so politely gave everyone plenty to think about.
Seeing how terrified A was, Meihui knew he could no longer carry out his plan and immediately lifted the pressure on him.
"Tch, I thought I could squeeze another payout out of him."
When A suddenly felt his body grow lighter, he thought Meihui was letting him off. Then he heard those words, and the sudden twist nearly threw his back out.
"Huh? You still want to fleece me?" A truly had no way to voice his misery. Just a few days ago, Meihui had brought people to plunder his village, and huge sums of money had vanished just like that.
It would have been a lie to say it did not hurt. People were only human, after all. With all that cash handed over for nothing, how could A not be upset? And now this brat actually wanted to milk him again.
Meihui stood nearby, watching A alternate between tears and smiles, with no idea what was going on.
"All right, we should discuss countermeasures next. Graves in the major hidden villages have been dug up one after another, and that is hardly a good sign. On top of that, the grave robber is a Missing-nin from Konoha. If my guess is correct, he has probably mastered Impure World Reincarnation."
Ōnoki spoke slowly, then paused.
"We should consider what measures we can take against this Ninjutsu. I hope Konoha will stop holding anything back. This is for everyone's good, after all. At the same time, it can count as atonement... for producing a Missing-nin like that."
As the saying went, the older you grew, the craftier you became. That was where the expression "old fox" came from.
Impure World Reincarnation was one of Konoha's