บท 39: the beginning of the end of the war

After using the Body Flicker Technique several times in a row, I had already left Konoha.

After running for about 10 minutes, I arrived at a town very close to Konoha and headed towards the largest building in the town.

This building was a huge hotel building and there was a logo engraved on the wall of the hotel. There were only three letters engraved inside the logo, when looking at the letters E.S.C engraved inside the logo, this abbreviation stands for

"Eren Shimura Construction"

You can currently see this logo in every city of the country of fire. The construction company I founded in the past years continued to grow rapidly even though I had no control over it, because my father assigned one of his root ninjas to manage this company in line with my wishes.

As I entered the building, I remembered the painful truth I learned while this company was growing rapidly.

Building a six-story building like this hotel cost only a few hundred thousand yen and took nearly a year to build. So, my company's net profit in a year by building 3 different buildings at the same time and then selling them was the same as the profit of an A or S rank mission.

With the money you spent on eating ramen in Konoha, you could have spent the night in a hotel in the capital of the country of fire. In short, even the poor of Konoha were very rich in the outside world.

I went to the orange haired girl who was the receptionist and asked her to open a room for me.

When the receptionist girl lifted her head from the romance book in front of her, she saw a tall young man with short black hair and a baby face. The girl looked at the man in front of her in surprise for a while, then a sad expression appeared on her face.

"We're sorry, sir, but we don't have any spare rooms left."

To transform into my current appearance, I just stood in the woods and removed all the effects of the idle transfiguration technique on me.

The image I have now is very similar to Toji Fushigiro in terms of height, physique and hair type. My hair color was dark black, just like my father's, and my physique was very developed due to the templates.

If it wasn't for the slightly childish nature that destroyed all the handsomeness on my face, I'm sure every girl who saw me would fall in love with me at once.

"Sir, did you hear me?"

" * Cough sound * * Cough sound * yes, I heard you. Is the manager here? "

The girl looked at me with a suspicious expression and said she was in the principal's office.

"Tell him that Shimura Eren is coming and call him here."

The receptionist stared at me in shock for a few seconds, then didn't hesitate, stood up, greeted me, and ran towards the back hallway.

A few seconds later, the manager came and kicked out one of the hotel guests and prepared his room for me.

Before going to the room, I told the manager to wake me up an hour before sunrise and to arrange a new kimono for me. Then I entered my room and threw myself into the arms of the giant bed.

As soon as I felt the softness of the bed, my consciousness left my body and was transported to the world of dreams.

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I was woken up by the receptionist girl for a while with the sounds coming from my room door.

After putting on the white kimono the girl brought and hanging the katana around my waist, I started running quickly and reached the battle line in a short time.

The Konoha ninjas were retreating and setting traps on the roads they came from.

I approached one of the ninjas who set the trap and asked him what was going on. When the ninja turned his head and saw me wearing a white kimono, he was confused at first, then he saw the Konoha forehead protector attached to my arm.

"Don't you know about the new order?"

"What order?"

"Suddenly the hokage ordered us to retreat"

"So why do you look so angry?"

When the ninja heard my question, he pulled the wire in his hand too much, causing it to break.

"What do you mean, why am I angry? I have witnessed the death of many of my friends on this front and now the Hokage has ordered us to give up and retreat."

When the middle-aged Ninja suddenly started shouting, the surrounding Ninjas turned their heads and looked at us. The other Ninjas made approving noises among themselves when they heard what the middle-aged ninja said.

"Maybe he has a plan or something, I don't know, maybe he will use a powerful explosive or something."

The ninja laughed contemptuously when he heard what I said.

"Do you think I don't know if there is such a possibility? Years of war have exhausted Konoha so much. If there were powerful explosives, they would have used them by now."

"Maybe hokage-sama is planning to use the tailed beast."

When Ninja heard what I said, he stopped what he was doing, stood up and continued talking after holding my shoulder with one hand.

"Young man, I don't know where you heard about the existence of tailed beasts, but listen carefully to what I say. If Konoha decides to use its tailed beast, it will not stop at the other villages and they will take their tailed beasts to the battlefield. If tailed beasts really descend on the battlefield, no one will be happy even if we win this war."

The middle-aged ninja lowered his voice so that the other Ninjas could not hear him as he said his last sentences.

The ninja remained silent for a moment, then muttered, "There are no winners in war," and ignored me to continue his unfinished job of setting traps.

After I finished my conversation with this ninja, I thanked him and continued walking through the forest.

After a while, the only thing I could see in the forest were traps hidden everywhere. Thanks to the Falling Blossom Emotion technique, I destroyed these traps in a straight line and started running towards Iwakagure.