Chapter 850

Another violent girl, and she's got that terrifying pet too—can't afford to provoke her.

"Slug, if you want to look, shrink down a bit—how am I supposed to carry you up a tree like this? Don't scare Sakura." After speaking, she turned back with a pout, waving at Ino behind her—she should've left the slug with Ino in the first place; she really couldn't handle this thing!

At first, it was tiny, so cute when it played innocent, and its voice was so sweet.

But after someone tried to scare the slug and it spat a glob of saliva that corroded a whole tree, no one thought it was cute anymore.

When the prank stopped working, the game began—this game where it might suddenly swell up in a crowd and scare everyone away.

"Alright, alright~ You could've come with me."

It shrank, but suddenly Xiao felt like she wanted to fight Tsunade-sama—her target? This immortal who tormented her.

"Xiao's here— isn't that the immortal?"

Hashirama watched Xiao reach the treetop before noticing her—had he really been so oblivious to everything else before?

"But this Xiao has been causing too much trouble in the village lately—it seems he owes an apology to the First Hokage, the Second Hokage—sorry, sorry—but Xiao says he can't reach that person anymore, so he's been irritable."

Xiao now looked utterly embarrassed—she had just run straight to these two's place.

Sure enough, a complete tragedy.

"Can't reach him? I'll take it aside for a private chat—Tobirama, keep an eye on things, don't let Tsunade get into trouble—I'm tied up for now."

Hashirama heard "can't reach him," and his expression instantly darkened.

The one who could be unreachable, especially recently, was Xiao—beside him, the Second Hokage stayed silent, but he said nothing more and didn't follow his elder brother.

He immediately sealed off the entire courtyard—he only wanted to know: what the hell had happened to that bastard!

"I don't know—suddenly got thrown over here. No matter how I tried to call or return, nothing worked."

Xiao lay curled in Hashirama's palm, genuinely feeling wronged.

Before, the fruit from its place had been picked, and it had even shown it to its master—but no one waited for new fruit to grow before this happened.

"He didn't say anything, just knocked you out?"

Her chakra was stirring, restless—Hashirama wanted to go find that brat right now, but the brat had said he wouldn't leave Konoha.

What if he came back while he was gone?

"He didn't say anything at all!"

Lin Cheng had assumed it was Tobirama, but now, looking at him, he realized something had exceeded his expectations.

"Where did he go? What happened to him?"

Hashirama, staring at the familiar boy, urgently asked him.

"He—he just fell asleep. He'll probably wake up in two days. I can wake him up for you right now."

Lin Cheng suddenly realized—he'd been so focused on his body, he'd forgotten about these people.

He mentioned that he wouldn't be returning for now.

"Don't wake him. When he wakes up, let him go home—don't interfere with anything else. Take care of yourself. If you need anything, have Konoha prepare it. The Hidden Village has a blood feud with Konoha—be careful." Then he walked straight home.

"Big brother, what's really going on? I feel like you've been acting strange these past two days."

Sitting on the elder council seat at the Hokage succession ceremony, Tobirama quietly asked his elder brother beside him—he felt something was off about his brother today. And around them, every seat was filled with familiar faces.

Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Itachi represented the Uchiha clan.