Once again, Sōkyū Hatake fell unconscious, yet again.
"Hey, wake up. Wake up! Are you okay?" Just then, a young voice suddenly rang out.
Forcing his eyes open, Sōkyū Hatake found himself in a room, with a little red-haired girl looking at him worriedly.
"Who... are you?" Sōkyū Hatake sat straight up. He discovered that his body had been wrapped in all sorts of bandages, and a strong medicinal smell hit his nose.
"I'm Sara. Are you a ninja?" Sara looked at the Konoha Forehead Protector on Sōkyū Hatake's forehead. Her mother had told her before that it was the mark of a ninja.
"Yes, I'm a ninja from Konoha. Where is this?" Sōkyū Hatake searched his memory. A girl named Sara, with hair that color...
Could this be Rōran?
"This is Rōran. What did you come here for?" Sara looked at Sōkyū Hatake in confusion.
"I ended up here by accident. Were you the one who treated me?" Sōkyū Hatake looked at his hands and checked how his body felt. It did indeed feel as though he had been treated.
"I treated you. Once you're better, go back. Rōran isn't welcoming outsiders for now." Curiosity flashed through Sara's eyes, but then she stood up and spoke.
"Why?"
"Because... ninja don't set foot in Rōran, so..." Sara said, turning her head.
In fact, Rōran was currently under Anrokuzan's control. Two years earlier, Sara's mother, the previous Queen of Roran, had passed away, leaving Sara all alone.
And now, under Anrokuzan's control, all of Rōran had been transformed into a city of steel.
"That's fine. I'll just rest here for a while and leave once I recover." Sōkyū Hatake let out a sigh of relief.
Since this was Rōran, everything would be much easier.
Just then, the system, which had been