Living your daily life in a shonen anime seems to be wrong.

But Kakashi ignored it.

He still didn't quite understand these intricacies.

Of course, it might also be because they felt the Third Hokage wouldn't show them any mercy.

Perhaps it's just a matter of him persuading Shichiya.

"I understand."

He responded and then set off.

The Third Hokage was still sitting there, smoking.

To be honest, he was still willing to believe Shichiya. After all, he had investigated and found that although Shichiya often discussed things with Orochimaru, he had never done any experiments with Orochimaru.

This shouldn't have involved Qiye in the first place.

But Danzo made his move.

Yes, it's Danzo.

The Third Hokage was also quite helpless about this.

"They really are the type to rather kill the innocent than let the guilty go free!"

Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Pursuit

The land of snow.

This is a sparsely populated area, mostly covered by virgin forests, all of which are covered by a thick layer of ice and snow.

Whenever God is unhappy, another snowfall will come.

Therefore, the people of the Snow Country live in the cities, with only a few villages outside.

Because of their environment, the people of the Snow Country are very united.

There's nothing we can do about it; it's snowing everywhere, and if we're not united, we won't even be able to get food.

Seven Nights arrived here.

He came on a merchant ship, alone, and only had some money with him.

In the ninja world, money is universal, measured in taels. Generally, having a few hundred taels is enough to enjoy a whole day of fun.

However, that applies to wealthy people. For the poorer ones, a few hundred taels might be enough for ten or fifteen days' worth of food expenses.

Moreover, whether they can even produce it is another matter.

The saying "Behind the red gates, meat and wine go to waste, while on the road, frozen corpses lie" perfectly illustrates this point in the world.

This is a world with a huge gap between the rich and the poor. Rich people are willing to spend hundreds or even tens of thousands of taels to buy Nanaya's doujinshi, like a certain Kakashi.

People without money might not even be able to come up with a hundred taels, let alone tens of thousands of taels. When they are starving, they have to dig up wild vegetables to fill their stomachs.

Many people were forced to become outlaws, especially those living near the battlefield.

That is, people from small countries are better off than those from large countries.

The Land of Fire, in particular, is relatively prosperous and stable.

This situation has persisted for hundreds, even thousands of years.

Logically speaking, someone should have risen up long ago, overthrown those countries, and established a unified nation.

However, because ninjas dominate this world, ordinary people can't even come close to their fighting power.

Ninjas used to be based in clans and had a strong sense of clan honor. Even if some betrayed their clans, they could not shake the rule of those clans.

Of course, whether or not one has that thought is another matter.

The ninja world struggle, primarily centered around clans, only came to an end with the appearance of Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha.

They ended the clan-based ninja world combat model and established ninja villages first in the Land of Fire, uniting the various clans together.

This also ushered in a larger-scale and more brutal battle mode centered on ninja villages.

The Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, established the Ninja Academy, allowing many people of commoner origin to learn ninjutsu, breaking the monopoly of clans and further expanding the scale of the war.

In fact, the Third Shinobi World War was the most brutal period of war between the major ninja villages, but Shichiya didn't know much about it.

They neither paid attention to the number of participants from each ninja village, nor to the progress of the war, and they were even less concerned about casualties.

He only cares about his own affairs.

I originally planned to live a peaceful life in Konoha, but so many messy things happened, and now I have to leave that awful place.

And the reason for this is all the fault of those ninjas.

"As expected, ninjas are the real destroyers of world peace!"

Qiye felt indignant about this.

If it weren't for them, he wouldn't have bothered coming to this remote and impoverished place, the Land of Snow.

Despite the wind and snow along the way, Qi Ye remained dressed the same as before, in thin clothes with a white coat over them.

It was windy and snowing, and there was no one around.

A person walking on the thick snow looked very desolate.

"They say Daming Prefecture is in this direction, but we've been walking for so long and still haven't seen it... Maybe it's better to just fly there?"

Speaking of this, Qiye suddenly remembered something.

He can fly, he just didn't want to reveal it to avoid trouble before, but now nobody sees him.

Moreover, having escaped Konoha and killed several pursuers, their identities were exposed even if they hadn't intended to.

"Alright, let's hurry up and talk to the daimyo of the Land of Snow to establish the shrine."

Although the Land of Snow also has a Snow Village.

But now, Shichiya dislikes those ninjas and doesn't want to go looking for them.

Moreover, the daimyo is the leader of a country, and at least nominally, the ninja villages have to listen to the daimyo.

So it's better to go to Daiming.

The Land of Snow is far from the Ninja Continent, and the pursuers were wiped out without leaving any trace. It's estimated that Konoha won't be able to find this place.

Since there is no war in the Land of Snow, it should be possible to live a normal life there.

Gritting his teeth, he thought for a moment, then took off and flew away.

……

Kakashi is investigating clues about Nanaya's whereabouts.

To be honest, he didn't think there was anything wrong with Nanaya escaping, nor did he think Nanaya would threaten Konoha's safety.

There was no other reason; it was simply because Nanaya was too lazy.

That guy was so lazy that he couldn't even be bothered to pick up the snacks right in front of him, so he created two mechanical arms to solve the problem once and for all.

Such a lazy person, even if they run away, they'll probably just find a quiet place to continue being lazy.

So here's the question: where is this quiet place?

There are indeed many quiet places.

But it has to meet Seven Nights' requirements.

Nanaya certainly doesn't want to get involved in the ninja's conflict again, and he definitely doesn't want to have anything to do with Konoha anymore.

So it must be a place far away from Konoha.

Go to another country and live under an assumed name?

That seems unlikely. Although he's lazy, Shichiya is someone who can't stay idle.

The main issue is with the shrine.

That guy is willing to interfere in the war in the ninja world just to boost the sales of his doujinshi.

So even though they ran away, they will definitely still want to continue building shrines and selling doujinshi.

However, that was already Shichiya's signature, so Shichiya would not continue to build shrines in any of the five great nations, nor would she sell doujinshi here.

So you went to some small countries?

It's definitely not on the Ninja Continent; it's very likely that they've set sail.

There are also many island nations on the high seas.

However, Kakashi also received another message.

It is said that in the past, Shichiya had inquired about the Land of Snow.

Yes, the Land of Snow.

Although it's uncertain whether Nanaya will go there, it's quite possible.

Let's go find them one by one.

Kakashi thought to himself.

Actually, it's true that Qiye is lazy, but he's not exactly diligent either.

They will definitely slack off when they have the chance.

It's a good time to go out and relax.

Obito Uchiha is dead, Rin Nohara is dead, his master and his wife are dead, and he is all alone now.

Then, the Seven Nights defected, and I couldn't even read the doujinshi anymore.

Do you think he's depressed or not?

Well, although Shichiya isn't a ninja, he still holds the title of a club president, so it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call him a defector.

Kakashi also works in the Anbu, and hunting down traitors is one of his jobs.

Whatever happens, it's a good opportunity to relax and use this time to do something for personal gain.