The legendary old man’s long journey of saving money

..... Three days ago.

On the roof of the Hokage Building in Konoha Village, Ape Fei Ashima, a tweed trench coat, was anxiously smoking one cigarette after another.

Having just completed his mission from the Land of Earth, he held a thick brown paper bag in his hand and waited for the arrival of the deceased.

The blazing light shone through the dusty glass cover of magnesium lights, casting an eerie image of a black bat on the dark clouds of Konoha Village. Once upon a time, this black bat image was a warning to all the perpetrators of Konoha Village, and it was also a refuge and promise to every villager in Konoha.

Now the Black Manta lantern has been dusted during his time away from the village.

Sarutobi Ashima and a group of Konoha village masters are about to set off to explore the new amusement park built by the Uchiha clan. Just a few hours ago, Sasuke Uchiha, the third young master of the Uchiha clan, posted in all the publications of Konoha provoking the ninjas of all Konoha villages to participate in his three challenges and promising a lot of money.

The rest of the ninjas on the team are bound to win a prize of one million taels. But for some reason, Ashima always had a sense of foreboding, and wanted to deal with the information she had just discovered in the Land of Earth before heading to the playground.

With a sound of footsteps coming from the stairwell at the door of the rooftop, Ashima stepped on the cigarette butt in her hand and turned in the direction of the door. The person who appeared in front of the door was Konoha's good young man Uchiha Itachi, who was dressed in a guard uniform.

"Itachi, what are you doing here? What about Black Bats? "

Ashima has always felt that she and Itachi have a tacit understanding, and as a black bat, she should provide confidential information for the black bat in the upper echelons of Konoha Village, while Uchiha Itachi, a member of the security department, dresses up as a vigilante, and Kurobat is secretly fighting crime and maintaining order in Konoha Village.

The ferret dressed as a black manta never revealed his secret identity to him, and Ashima was happy to pretend not to know.

But I don't know why, when he resigned his post as guardian of the twelve ninja and returned to Konoha Village after completing his mission, he found that all the vigilantes, including Black Manta, had disappeared and were no longer active. What's more, the Uchiha clan has taken over the task of guarding the security of Konoha Village by the Hyuga clan.

"These are top-secret documents that I got from the vaults of the Land of Earth! These documents can prove that through some secret channels, the three tribes of Pig Deer Butterfly secretly transferred a large amount of military supplies to the Land of Water. Ironclad evidence: This time, we can definitely take down the arms dealer Yamanaka Haichi.

"We need black bats now! For the last time, I promise you, this is the last time we will act as a black bat. After the fall of the Yamanaka clan, we can transform the village in an upright manner and no longer act as a vigilante!"

Ashima handed a thick stack of papers to Itachi, but Itachi frowned and did not answer.

"I'm sorry Ashima, Black Bolt won't be there again. My brother Sasuke has persuaded the red fox and the ghost spider to wash their hands, and I will not continue to act as a vigilante. During this period of your absence, the Uchiha clan has completely taken over the security of Konoha Village, and under the supervision of our Uchiha clan, it can now be said that the crime rate has been the lowest since the establishment of Konoha Village!

Itachi's gaze was deep, and he stared at his friend and said word by word: "The time of ninjas has changed, and there is no longer a need for vigilantes to maintain law and order."

When Ashima heard this, she slammed the file bag on the ground: "What? Are you crazy? Konoha Village is rotten from top to bottom! Do you really think that everything will be fine by relying on the patrol of the Uchiha clan to catch a few little furry thieves on the streets?

"Konoha's stubborn disease is at the top, in the advisory group! It won't be good if we don't remove those corpse vegetarian borers from the roots, Konoha Village! My father doesn't understand this, you shouldn't understand it! The

more Ashima spoke, the more excited she became, and her words became more out of line.

"I'm sorry, Ashima. All this has already been decided, and no one can change it.

"Then why are you still here?"

"I'm here to persuade you on her behalf, and I want you to give up the mission to Sasuke's playground tomorrow." Father-sama has ordered the entire clan to make the playground a forbidden place, forbidding any of Uchiha's clansmen to go.

"She knows she can't convince you, and before everything is irreparable, she wants me to try to get you back one last time." If not, she will accompany you tomorrow. Listen to me, you can't leave the maze on your own. The

ferret spoke in a flat tone, as if he was saying a trivial matter that was not important.

"Do you think I can't protect her?"

Ashima was greatly displeased when she heard this, how could she, as an elite Shangnin, not even be able to deal with the playground designed by a little fart child?

"The ninja of Konoha Village will never give up the mission as long as he has a breath!"

Itachi sighed: "It seems that words alone will not convince you." The

ferret stepped forward and turned off the power of the Black Manta lamp, blood and tears streaming out of his eyes. In the scarlet eyes, the trichoba spun rapidly.

Itachi exhorts one last time: "Seek salvation in the illusion of delusion, and in the end you will only get endless pain." "

......

Hokage Office, ten years later.

"What's wrong? Naruto-sama? Miss

Shizune, the secretary beside Ashima, asked, waking Ashima from her memories. Ashima in a Hokage suit shook her head: "I'm a little tired, silent, you go back first." Shizune

, who was a little blessed, nodded and bowed away with a worried look.

Exactly ten years have passed since Ashima cracked Sasuke's labyrinth of illusions, and now he is the Hokage-sama respected by everyone in Konoha Village by day and the vigilante Black Bat feared by all Konoha criminals at night.

Not only that, but he also completely dissolved the entire advisory board, and vigorously promoted honest people like civilian ninjas and the Uchiha clan.

Under his resolute reforms, in the past ten years, Konoha Village has swept away its sinking and has become the strongest ninja village among the five major countries.

If there was heaven, this would be the best life he could imagine.

There was a sound of footsteps, and a weasel dressed in a follower costume appeared at the door.

"Itachi, today we continue to fight crime on the street night patrol like yesterday, what do you think?"

"Good."

Today's ferret is uncharacteristically cold and cold.

Ashima laughed heartily, "Remember ten years ago? When I returned from the Land of Earth, I returned to the wood industry with a bag of top-secret materials captured from the Land of Earth, but you were not willing to put on a cape again as a black bat to accompany me in the fight against pigs and deer butterflies?

"Remember." Itachi is still concise.

"I remember we almost got into a fight..." Ashima's eyes showed a puzzled look: "Because who is coming?"

"Forget it, that's not important." Ashima shook her head to dispel her confusion.

Compared to his great success today, it doesn't matter who he and Itachi were rough because of at that time.

"I advised you at the time that you can't get out of that labyrinth on your own. You shouldn't insist on putting the water in danger!

Itachi's tone was cold, and the three-curved kaleidoscope writing wheel in his eyes shed blood and tears.

Ashima was struck by lightning.

"Ashima, you are still in the labyrinth of illusion."

"You never left."