Her expression froze, and her hand stroked the uneven scar.
The wound was years old and had long since healed, leaving only a hideous scar that revealed how grievously its owner had once been injured.
"This wound?"
She choked up, and a surge of guilt erupted from her, so thick it almost enveloped her entire body.
The scroll Danzo had given her detailed every scrap of information about Leaf Dragon, including, of course, the incident with Jiraiya.
But the mission report had never said he had actually come this close to death before faking his demise and going into hiding!
Her heart ached terribly. Then she remembered how she had deliberately hurt him over a little irritation...
Aaah, how could I do something like that?!
I'm a monster! I rubbed salt in his wounds!!!
She took Watanabe Ichiro's hand, her eyes instantly reddening as tears threatened to fall.
"Little Leaf Dragon, I'm sorry!!! I really didn't mean it!!!"
"I didn't know you had an injury there. Does it still hurt?"
"It's fine. That's all in the past."
Watanabe Ichiro pulled his hand out of Mito Uzumaki's grasp, answering expressionlessly before staring at his hand.
It's all right. Before today, Leaf Dragon really didn't have this scar. Of course you wouldn't know.
But did a wisp of mist just slip into my body through the contact with her hand?
I feel a little... inexplicably guilty?
Does the Cursed Seal Mito Uzumaki developed have this effect too?
It really is remarkable. Still, the emotion comes and goes quickly, making it easy to distinguish. It doesn't affect my judgment.
Seeing Watanabe Ichiro staring blankly at his hand, Mito Uzumaki realized the technique formula had taken effect. She immediately moved in to hug him and burst into tears.
**"Oh, little Leaf Dragon!!! I'm so,