Xuandou rose and looked at the Shinobi World Map on the wall behind him, his hands clasped behind his back.
His back alone looked immensely imposing.
"You'll have to put up with this for a while. Don't go outside and give the enemy an opening."
"After some time,"
"I'll eliminate the enemies coveting your eyes!"
"We understand, Father!"
Yunyou and Mirai exchanged a glance, determination flashing in both their eyes.
"Lord Xuandou, Lord Ebizo, a senior adviser from Sunagakure, requests an audience."
Xuandou had just finished arranging guards for his children when a masked Anbu Ninja knocked and announced the visitor.
Ebizo?
He was a well-known opponent of the Uchiha in Sunagakure.
He had even advocated going to war with the Uchiha so Sunagakure could avoid paying enormous war reparations, intending to sacrifice the Fourth Kazekage, Rasa, whom Xuandou had captured.
He had sought to burn their bridges and rouse the Sunagakure ninja's last reserves of resolve.
What was he doing in Azure Tide Port? Could Ebizo have joined Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's Kara and come to stir up trouble in Azure Tide Port?
Xuandou's curiosity was piqued.
He went over to his chair and sat down.
"Show him in."
Creak-
The door opened, and a white-haired old man walked in.
He leaned on a crooked black cane.
He was short and thin, with lustrous, supple skin, looking nothing like someone who had spent years living amid wind and sand.
His most distinctive feature was his eyes. Beneath white eyebrows that drooped to the corners of his mouth lay a pair of deep, sky-blue eyes that seemed to peer into people's hearts.
This was the younger brother of Granny Chiyo, who had created One's Own Life Reincarnation and had already sacrificed her life-the feared Wisdom of the Sand.
Ebizo.
Ebizo straightened