Acting on the thought, Sōkyū Hatake stripped the outer coverings off everything else.
To his surprise, the entire room was made of pure gold.
It was not just the bedside table. The entire three-meter bed and all the other decorations were, too.
Most outrageous of all, there was a layer of pure gold beneath the wall surfaces as well. Once all the outer coverings were removed, even without any other light source, the moonlight coming through the window alone produced a staggering glow.
Yes, Sōkyū Hatake now felt completely bathed in golden light.
"That Rasa really is something. He keeps saying the village is short on money, yet he built himself this enormous golden room." Sōkyū Hatake sighed in amazement. Rasa really was something else.
Although Rasa had most likely extracted all this gold from the sand himself using Magnet Release, the sheer quantity was still far too outrageous.
After all, along the way here, Sōkyū Hatake had seen far too many villagers going hungry.
With that comparison, the value of Rasa's gold became truly apparent.
If nothing else, selling all this gold would have been enough to feed every villager in Sunagakure for a very, very long time.
After putting away all the gold, Sōkyū Hatake had nothing else to do and slipped straight out of the Kazekage's Office.
No one had discovered him inside after all that time. It really was quite a thrill.
For his next stop, Sōkyū Hatake chose Sunagakure's archive.
The archive held Sunagakure's entire collection of ninjutsu to date, and it was one of Sōkyū Hatake's destinations.
After winding his way through several turns, Sōkyū Hatake reached the other side, where Sunagakure's archive stood.
Quietly slipping past all the guards, Sōkyū Hatake crept into the archive.
Rows upon rows of ninjutsu and treasured old