As Hozuki Gengetsu looked on with a pained expression, Black Zetsu put away the box containing the Three-Tails.
Hozuki Gengetsu badly wanted to demand, "You're taking our country's tailed beast right in front of me, the Second Mizukage. Have you no shame? Aren't you going to compensate me?"
But as he watched Leaf Dragon recover from his punishment and silently take his place beside Black Zetsu, seemingly unconcerned by what had just happened, he wisely swallowed his objections.
Forget it. One little tailed beast hardly mattered compared to my life.
Leaf Dragon's exquisite Sealing Jutsu was simply too far beyond anything he could handle.
Let them have the Three-Tails as a gesture of goodwill. Our Land of Water is rich and powerful. Surely we can afford this tiny, trillion-sized loss.
...The biggest problem was still that Hozuki Gengetsu's strength was limited. He couldn't beat Leaf Dragon.
And although Black Zetsu had never made a move, judging by how Leaf Dragon deferred to him, he was unlikely to be weak either.
The only one he could target was that youngster, Yin, but Black Zetsu and Leaf Dragon kept a close watch on him.
Even when Hozuki Gengetsu used teaching Yin secret techniques as an excuse to have him study Water Release Ninjutsu under him, neither of them lowered their guard. They watched him closely the entire time.
What a pain.
Hozuki Gengetsu had tried to gain something from his dealings with them, but unfortunately, all he had obtained so far was a heap of intelligence that was hardly current. Compared to everything they had taken from him for free, it was negligible.
Biting his nails, Hozuki Gengetsu felt as though these people were about to swindle him out of even his underwear, and he sank into an inexplicable depression.
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