Bieshu Feifan acted at once, writing a letter to Kirigakure with his left hand.
The price was far lower than the ransom he had demanded from the Third Raikage.
After all, he had to leave some profit for the middleman, didn't he?
But many days passed without a reply from Kirigakure.
Bieshu Feifan thought they might not have received it, so he wrote another letter.
Several more days passed, but Kirigakure still sent no reply.
Watching Fourth Raikage A grow thinner by the day, surviving only on glucose drips, Bieshu Feifan grew increasingly irritable.
Every time he hooked him up to an IV, he couldn't resist giving Fourth Raikage A a few hard slaps.
Over in Kirigakure, another letter suspected to be from Daddy Shinobi arrived.
The Third Mizukage sighed after reading it.
"That Daddy Shinobi has written again."
Kirigakure's higher-ups launched into another discussion.
"We can't buy him. We already extorted a hefty sum from Thunder Barbarian last time.
"If we do it again, we'll probably be enemies to the death."
"Things are already like this anyway. Why not bargain the price down?
"Buy him and extort another sum from Thunder Barbarian."
"That's unwise. If he could extort Thunder Barbarian, why would Daddy Shinobi sell him to us?
"If we buy him this time, we could get stuck with him."
The Third Mizukage nodded.
"That makes sense."
Bieshu Feifan waited a while longer before finally giving up on Kirigakure.
So Bieshu Feifan wrote another letter, this time to Ōnoki:
Your Excellency, Third Tsuchikage, would you like Thunder Barbarian's son? Buy now, and he's cheap...
Ōnoki ground his teeth in fury after reading the letter.
"Daddy Shinobi. It must be Daddy Shinobi again.
"He's the one who auctioned off Kitsuchi, and he still dares to approach me for business?
"Fuck!"