Three days later, in the desert.
"Renya, should we return directly to our original time, or keep traveling to other times?"
Shimura Danzō looked at the map in his hand, then turned his head to look at his close friend beside him.
Although he wasn't interested in what had happened in this time, he wanted to keep enjoying this hard-won travel time with Renya.
Once he returned to the village, he would have to handle government affairs again, and after that it would be hard to have such leisure time.
At least before he retired, it would be like that...
So, deep down, he hoped Renya would say they should continue traveling to other times.
This was something only a good friend could say; with his own personality, he couldn't bring himself to say it.
Renya rested his hands behind his head. Not noticing Danzō's little thoughts, he considered for a moment and said,
"Let's go back first, then have the queen open the Dragon Vein once more and go take a look at another period of time."
They had only been in this time for a few short days.
Danzō had finally managed to take leave to come out. If the trip ended that early, it would really be a pity for them.
Renya naturally didn't want his good friend to return to the village so soon.
Anyway, with Sarutobi Hiruzen holding down the fort in the village, there was no need to worry about anything going wrong.
After serving as the Hokage's assistant for so many years, he could definitely run the village in perfect order.
Besides, isn't that old fellow Senju Tobirama in the village?
If they really ran into a problem they couldn't handle, they could just find him to deal with it.
The village wouldn't run into a crisis, so he naturally wanted to go with his good friend to other times to experience the local customs.
Hearing what Renya said, Shimura Danzō felt a surge of joy inside but didn't show it, nodding calmly.
"I don't have any objections. I'll just listen to you."
Ever since Renya became the squad leader back then, aside from a dispute or two over maps, he had always followed Renya's orders without conditions.
Even after the squad disbanded and he became the Hokage, that habit never changed.
Renya knew Danzō wouldn't refuse, but he still asked for Danzō's opinion.
Likewise, Danzō also knew that Renya knew he wouldn't refuse.
Decades of being together had long since formed a tacit understanding between the two.
Even Utatané Koharu, who had once been in their squad, never developed this kind of understanding—or rather, this kind of mutual understanding.
The reason was that Koharu was a woman, and the two of them weren't interested in women, so they subconsciously chose to keep their distance.
It could be said that Utatané Koharu suffered a kind of silent cold-shoulder bullying in the squad.
But she herself didn't care at all. On the contrary, she enjoyed it, watching the two of them get along every day and grinning foolishly.
Renya and Shimura Danzō didn't really understand it, and they had no intention of digging to the bottom of it.
They just treated it as Utatané Koharu's personal little quirk.
"We're about to reach Rōran's territory. I'm really looking forward to what kind of time we'll end up going to."
Renya was very much looking forward to the Dragon Vein's random time-travel property. It felt like a blind box, full of uncertainty.
"I'm looking forward to it too," Shimura Danzō said, putting on a show of anticipation.
In reality, he didn't have much interest in which time they would go to. He just wanted to travel together with Renya.
If he hadn't accidentally shown his emotions in this time, with Renya's personality, he definitely wouldn't have left so quickly.
Someone who could travel out of the village for half a year—how could he possibly leave so early?
He was just taking care of his feelings, that was all.
Shimura Danzō decided that no matter what the next time they traveled to was like, he couldn't show any dissatisfaction in front of Renya.
He absolutely couldn't ruin Renya's interest in traveling!
Let his good friend properly experience the joy of traveling, while he himself just quietly followed by his side.
Traveling was something he had never been interested in.
If anyone else had invited him, he wouldn't have agreed at all!
As the dignified Third Hokage of Konoha, he was someone buried in endless affairs every day, even using his rest time to think about how to develop the village.
If Renya hadn't hinted to him with his words, where would he have had the mind to go traveling?
You should know that even Renya, who was usually so carefree, had never said he wanted Danzō to take leave and go traveling with him.
He only reminded him to retire earlier, and then travel together at that time.
The two of them soon arrived at Rōran.
In this time, Rōran had long since turned into ruins. The once bustling and prosperous streets no longer existed.
Although Queen Sara had led the people of Rōran to survive, she did not rebuild Rōran. The Dragon Vein had been sealed by Minato Namikaze and had remained hidden in the ruins of Rōran.
"There's no one to clean up after us. If the Dragon Vein goes berserk..." Shimura Danzō said in a deep voice.
He naturally knew how powerful the Dragon Vein was.
In the time they came from, the Queen of Rōran handled the aftermath and sealed the Dragon Vein. But in this time, it looked like there was no one who could seal the Dragon Vein again after they left and it had just been opened.
"Don't panic. I already thought of a solution long ago," Renya said softly to reassure him.
Before coming to this time, he had prepared a large number of backup plans, precisely to prevent something like this from happening...
As he spoke, he took out a chunk of flesh from a storage scroll.
Shimura Danzō: "..."
Just how much of other people's flesh had this guy brought along?
Earlier he had summoned Uchiha Madara. Now who was he going to summon?!
"Guess whose flesh I got?"
Renya shook the chunk of flesh in his hand, with no intention of saying it outright.
Shimura Danzō: "..."
How would he know his good friend's way of thinking? He seriously suspected that Renya's storage scroll was stuffed with the flesh of a bunch of Konoha powerhouses.
It might even include his own flesh and tissue...
He really didn't know whether it was good or bad that Teacher Tobirama had let him learn the Edo Tensei technique.
This guy was way too good at stirring things up!
"Really not going to guess?" Seeing Danzō remain silent, Renya immediately felt bored. "You've got no sense of humor at all."
Although after his training since childhood, Danzō hadn't turned into someone as selfish and self-serving as the so-called Pot Shadow.
But fundamentally, that aloof, taciturn personality hadn't changed.
Renya didn't plan to use Edo Tensei right away. Instead, he tossed the flesh to Danzō, then looked toward the ruins ahead.
"You've followed us all the way. You can come out now, right?"
...
Hidden in another space, Uchiha Obito: "???"
Damn it! When exactly did he notice me?!
Hidden underground, Black Zetsu: "???"
He isn't talking about me, right?
It had lived in the shinobi world for thousands of years and was extremely confident in its own methods of concealment.
The Uchiha in front of it was powerful, but not to the point where he could discover its existence, right?
As long as it wanted to hide, even someone like the Sage of Six Paths wouldn't be able to know it existed!
Let alone just an Uchiha clansman with the Mangekyō Sharingan.
Thinking this way, Black Zetsu immediately felt relieved.
Renya definitely wasn't talking about it. It must be someone else who had followed them.
"My patience is limited. I don't want to repeat it a second time!"
Renya stared at the ruins of Rōran in front of him and said in an icy voice.
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