Chapter 139: Ascendant
n. a position of dominance or controlling influence.
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The Kage's eyes widened minutely as they shot towards the single window of his office, before a grin stretched across his borrowed face.
Suna was bathed in power, it made the hair on the back of his neck stand on end, but the slight pinpricks of fear were quickly overshadowed by greed. Wherever this power was coming from, he would control it.
"Kage-sama?" questioned a voice beside him, "What's that?"
"Perhaps it'll be the help we need to get Suna out of its Economic Depression," harmlessly suggested the Kage, as if he hadn't played a part in Suna's increased desperation.
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