Meanwhile, at Teuchi's ramen shop, Shinichi was leisurely eating ramen while pondering his next move.
The most pressing issue right now was the increasingly tense situation with Sarutobi Hiruzen. Ever since Shinichi had unsparingly refuted Sarutobi Hiruzen in public last time, the once reasonably harmonious relationship between the two had become like a bowstring stretched to its absolute limit, ready to snap at any moment.
First, Sarutobi Hiruzen had reeled off a laundry list of seemingly plausible reasons to arbitrarily strip Shinichi of all his official positions within the village.
Chapter 214