After thinking for a few seconds, Yanbai decided to stage a ghost story...
This was Konoha's famous cemetery, a resting place for the dead. A haunting was perfectly normal, wasn't it?
With that thought, Yanbai activated the Flying Thunder God Technique and vanished.
Several minutes later.
A group of Konoha Military Police Force members, who had followed because they couldn't put their minds at ease, cautiously approached the spot where Yanbai had disappeared. Their expressions grew grave.
"Captain..."
When they first saw Yanbai, their immediate thought had been, What a beautiful girl.
Then, as one, they had thought that this girl looked unfamiliar. Could she be from another village?
Next, when they saw Yanbai leave Konoha Shinobi Village and head toward the Memorial Stone, they grew even more suspicious.
The more suspicious they became, the more vividly they remembered Yanbai's leisurely retreating figure.
As children, they had feared ghosts and monsters. The shadows of the trees around the Memorial Stone had been as frightening as monsters.
But after growing up, what they feared was other people.
Those swaying shadows looked as though someone was lying in ambush.
At some point after growing from children into adults, they had fallen into the habit of assuming any unidentified presence was an unfamiliar human rather than a ghost or monster.
The group fell silent for a moment, waiting for their captain to speak.
One of them mused, "Doesn't this girl's face and hair color remind you of Lord Hokage?"
"The Fifth Hokage has black hair, though?"
"No... I mean the Third, Lord Tobirama. Half a year ago, I was still doing security work at the Hokage Building, so I often saw the portraits of the past Hokage. This girl looks like the Third Hokage when he was young, but she's even better-looking, so