77 Chapter 77: The News Spreads

The three of them quickly stood up, nodding with seriousness. This matter must be investigated clearly.

Since the newspaper mainly talked about the Matsumoto family, the three of them found it after some inquiries. Unfortunately, Mrs. Matsumoto was not at home, and it was Chihime Matsumoto who came to open the door.

Opening the door slightly, she stepped out and looked strangely at the three jōnins standing in front of her house, and said quietly, "Hello uncles, what's going on?"

Genma looked at Chihime, then crouched down, looking at her at eye level and asked, "Child, is your mother at home? I want to ask her some questions."

"My mother is not at home. She went out to do a part-time job. If you have any questions, I can answer them on her behalf!"

After she finished speaking, a hint of impatience flashed in her eyes, but she hid it well.

Aoba pushed his glasses and immediately caught the point, lowered his head and asked, "Does your mother usually go to work so early?"

After nodding, Chihime pursed her lips and remained silent for a moment, then said, "My mother has to pay for my education, so it's usually very difficult. If uncles don't have anything else, I'm running late for the Academy."

"Ah... Alright, study hard." Genma couldn't help but stroke Chihime's long, soft hair and then stood up.

Seeing the three ninjas leave her yard, Chihime curved her lips, no longer in that obedient way. This is already the third group of ninjas that arrived at her house this morning, who knows how many more will come, and she has to hurry and go to school after eating, she doesn't want to be questioned by a new group of people.

The three of them left Matsumoto's house. They looked at each other, and they all saw the heaviness in each other's eyes. From what the girl said earlier, they have at least confirmed that the living standard of this family is truly not good. The only adult actually has to go to work very early in the morning, leaving the child alone to go to the Academy.

Gritting his teeth, Genma said, "Come on, let's go see other houses!"

There are many families like this in Konoha Village. The three of them, Shiranui Genma, Yamashiro Aoba, and Hayate Gekkō, directly mobilized their chakra to investigate other families as quickly as possible.

After almost an hour and a half of investigation, the three visited over a dozen families and found that the content reported by Konoha Daily was completely true, and some families were even worse than what was written in the newspaper.

There was another widow who had up to three jobs, earning money to support her family. She was so exhausted that she fell seriously ill. If it weren't for the support of her late husband's former teammates and their own, she would probably die.

There are very few fake news in the Ninja World, which is completely different from modern times. Because there are too many out-of-context news and misinformation in the modern internet, after some news is published, internet users will let them fly around the internet for a while to see if there's any retraction.

People here have a high degree of trust in newspapers, and the huge Konoha village has a regular newspaper office: the Official Konoha Newspaper.

Under the influence of "Konoha Daily," the topic of a family's life after the ninja's death quickly caught the attention of the villagers. The influence and speed of spread of this matter far exceeded Yuya's prediction.

In fact, the main reason is that the news this time was too explosive. It mobilized the enthusiasm of a large number of gossipers and gave them something to talk about. Today, the newspaper sold out because of this incident! This has never happened before since the establishment of the Konoha newspaper.

Mr. Takagi is the president of a hotel in Konoha. He opened the door to his office at work today and saw Miyake, unusually, not greeting him but reading a newspaper filled with righteous indignation.

After casually closing the door, Mr. Takagi approached Miyake in a very strange manner, slammed the table, and asked, "Miyake, what are you looking at?"

"Ah?" Miyake was surprised. When he turned his head and saw Mr. Takagi, he immediately stood up in panic, bowed to him and said, "Mr. President, I'm sorry! I was a bit absorbed in reading the newspaper just now, so..."

"It's alright," Mr. Takagi shook his head and then said, "I haven't read today's newspaper, what's going on?"

Miyake immediately handed the newspaper on his desk to Takagi and said excitedly, "President, this time the 'Konoha Daily' gave a big news! Please take a look..."

Ignoring the tone, Takagi took the "Konoha Daily" and started reading. The more he read, the more he frowned. At the end of the reading, he shook his head, put down the newspaper, and said, "No matter who is involved in this matter, it won't end well."

Miyake nodded.

It wasn't until noon that this matter quickly fermented to the point that half the people in Konoha Village knew about it. The first sentence that many people came across was, "Do you know about it?"

Iruka was lecturing on it, with Ino supporting her cheeks in her hands, deep doubts shining in her eyes. She found that her teacher today was "out of line" and got lost almost ten times in this class.

This is not at all Iruka's style. He is a very responsible person, especially to his own students, as he can teach the elite class of the Ninja Academy.

Iruka made another slip of the tongue, couldn't help but stop and apologize to the students. He knew that his behavior was very rude, but after finishing reading "Konoha Daily" today, he really couldn't help it.

Iruka's parents were ninjas, both of whom died in the Nine-Tails Attack, and he was orphaned and grew up on Konoha's pension. Because of this, he is very grateful to the village, as he feels that without the village's pension, he would have starved to death, let alone become a ninja school teacher.

On his way to school in the morning, Iruka bought a copy of "Konoha Daily" to read as usual. After reading the first piece of news, he felt more and more wrong.

Upon reflection, his father was a Special Jōnin and his mother was slightly weaker but had the strength of an Elite Chūnin.

Their annual incomes were not small, and most importantly, his parents never spent money indiscriminately.

According to the data provided in the first news article in "Konoha Daily," Iruka fully agreed with this investigation.

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