The Third Kazekage had no idea how he had made it back to the Foreign Guest Hotel in Konoha Shinobi Village.
He lay on the soft, spacious bed, staring at the ceiling.
Apparently, the lighting in Konoha's hotels ran on converted natural energy.
Whenever the wind blew, they could harness wind energy.
Whenever thunder rumbled, they could store electrical energy.
Whenever the sun shone, they could store solar energy.
The Third Kazekage had actually learned all this by asking an offhand question when he saw the strange windmill installations lining the roads in Konoha Shinobi Village.
The more he learned, the more hopeless he felt.
Even a random member of his escort knew all sorts of bizarre technical details. By comparison, Sunagakure was far too isolated and backward.
At the time, the Third Kazekage became even more convinced that if Yanbai wanted to kill him, he would not need to go to all this trouble, so he simply gave up trying.
Perhaps the Land of Fire and Konoha Shinobi Village had no interest in the Land of Wind at all. If war really broke out, they would steamroll it.
After just one day of shopping, the Third Kazekage had come to fully appreciate what a country bumpkin he was.
Besides that, the Third Kazekage genuinely admired Yanbai. They would be chatting perfectly normally, and within a few sentences, he would turn the conversation to business.
There was a reason the Land of Fire and Konoha Shinobi Village were so wealthy: their Lord Hokage was thinking about making money every waking moment.
Even though he was already filthy rich, the urgency to make money was still etched into his bones.
Looking back, the Third Kazekage realized that, without even noticing, he had signed all sorts of bizarre "cooperation agreements" with