Poor Danzo received a beating from Hiruzen without even knowing why. Afterward, though, he did not go looking for trouble with Hiruzen. He merely swore to himself that he would make Hiruzen Sarutobi pay. Without him serving as the darkest shadow of the Shinobi World, he wanted to see whether this sanctimonious Hokage could still live so gloriously in the sunlight.
Having made up his mind, Danzo lay low. He would wait for an opportunity, one that would deal Hiruzen Sarutobi a devastating blow. After all, he still had an ace up his sleeve.
After returning home, Hiruzen Sarutobi began wondering whether he had gone too far earlier.
And even now, Danzo had not come looking for him. Was he really angry with him?
Then he shook his head again. My position cannot be challenged. I am the Hokage.
"Someone, go find Jiraiya and give him this."
"Yes, Lord Hokage."
An ANBU operative emerged from the shadows, took the envelope from Hiruzen Sarutobi, and immediately departed.
Meanwhile, Meihui was out searching for Urashiki Otsutsuki. He had been looking for ages without finding so much as a trace of him, which struck him as rather unbelievable. Had Urashiki Otsutsuki not traveled to this time and space?
The group had arrived in the past shortly before the Chunin Ninja Exams. Yet after all this time, they had not even seen Orochimaru, the most crucial figure. That was far too strange.
And that was not the only strange thing. The Naruto in this world was no different from the one in the original story, but what about Meihui himself? Did he really not exist here?
Ever since the system had resurrected him, it had rarely contacted him. Even opening its panel had become difficult. If Meihui had not already grown so powerful, he