Yikes, her expression changed way too fast!
The five youngsters peeking around the corner were startled by how quickly Princess Aoi changed her expression. One moment, she was a devoted woman whose love never wavered; the next, she was a vengeful ghost with hatred filling her eyes. Everyone gaped. Only after a long while did Shingetsu recover enough to ask again:
"Who exactly is this woman?"
Chinatsu adjusted her glasses, recalled what Tatsuki had said, and combined it with the gossip she had heard over the years. At that moment, the great detective Chinatsu once again uncovered the truth-
"Tatsuki just called her Princess Aoi. Could she really be the Daimyō's daughter?"
"Huh?!"
Over the past three years, Princess Aoi and Muneshito had been so weak and insignificant that they had swiftly been forgotten in some neglected corner.
Tobirama Senju had kept all news of them under wraps and driven them to a corner of the village to fend for themselves. Children from shinobi clans, like Shingetsu, naturally paid them no attention. But Chinatsu, who came from the Orphanage, had always been in contact with people at the bottom of society. Of course she knew there was a madwoman in the village who claimed to be the Princess of the Land of Fire.
The Daimyō of the Land of Fire could barely look after himself, so how could he spare a thought for them? He had plenty of children; losing one or two hardly mattered. Tobirama Senju was worked to the bone and could not be bothered to make time to target two small fry. On top of that, the expanding Konoha was desperately short of manpower. Those assigned to watch Princess Aoi Muneshito had gone from elite shinobi directly under Tobirama to ordinary combat shinobi, then from combat shinobi