Chapter 90
It was obvious—this couldn't possibly be something Haruto Saito buried here! There was no way it was a hoax!
The Black Armor of War had disappeared after the fall of the Black War Nation, vanishing for nearly seventy years. It had never resurfaced since then. Haruto Saito was only twelve years old. How could a treasure lost for seventy years end up in his hands? He was just a low-ranked ninja from the Rain Ninja Village. If the Black Armor of War had been in the Rain Ninja Village all along, then its owner would undoubtedly have been Hanzo, the leader of the Rain Ninja.
While this armor was a great treasure for samurai, it wasn't as significant for ninjas. However, its historical value made it extremely valuable!
The entire ninja world, including all ninjas from major and minor villages, rogue ninjas, defected ninjas, and those who had retired due to age or injury, barely numbered a hundred thousand. Meanwhile, the so-called mundane world—the ordinary people governed by the feudal lords—numbered in the billions!
Ninjas were merely a small fraction of the world's population.
This meant that the highest-valued objects weren't necessarily those useful to ninjas! The vast majority of wealth in the ninja world was still controlled by ordinary people—merchant tycoons, feudal lords, and aristocrats. They were the ones with real money!
If these people learned that the Black Armor of War, missing for nearly seventy years and with a thousand-year history, had resurfaced, who knew how many of them would bid astronomical sums for it?
Moreover, the Black Armor of War wasn't entirely useless to ninjas. After all, both ninjas and samurai used chakra!
How could such a valuable artifact have been in Haruto Saito's possession all this time?
And why would he take out such a treasure... just to play a trick?!
Tsunade didn't feel like she was being tricked. She didn't think this was a carefully designed scheme. This time, she truly admitted defeat. That made it all the more difficult to understand.