Midori is more than a bit surprised when she can see Yukari transform herself into a much smaller lizard in order to clamber inside and go searching, and the Genin holds back on pushing more chakra into the Kesshoton orbs surrounding her hands; there's no need for her to see what's happened to Snape, so long as the older and higher ranking kunoichi can help to complete the mission. And so she simply watches as far as she can when Yukari goes deeper into the cave. After a few moments, she saw that Yukari was dragging out something limp, and she grunts a bit when she can see that it's another lizard, probably having died of old age. As Yukari reaches her in lizard form, Midori lifts the dead lizard, careful not to crush it in her hand as she halts the flow of chakra to both her hands and allowing the older woman to come fully out of the cavern that she'd been inside of. Although the mission had been boring, at least it had been quick.
At this point, Midori carefully clambers back down over the clone's back, to hold tightly to her shoulder with one hand and gingerly keeping hold of the body of Snape in her other, with her legs holding back onto the clone's sides so that the clone can focus on getting her down safely. Once they're finally back to the ground, Midori looks over the dead lizard in her hands, finding it was certainly quite limp and lifeless.
"Well, that sucks. I hope this doesn't affect the pay... Well, we'd best get this thing to the shopkeep, he'll probably want proof that we did find it. Ah... Thanks, Tokonatsu-san."
With that, Midori starts walking back towards the shop, feeling a bit more mild, but still handing off the body of Snape to the merchant. She doesn't really give much care or attention to the man as he bawls and sobs over the dead body of his mascot, while the Genin pulls out a nail file and removes a glove, filing her nails with a bored expression on her face.
"Yes, yes, I'm very sorry for your loss... Anyways, Lord Ryu probably wants to know that this guy's done for, so I'll leave you to it while I go ahead and collect the funds. Tokonatsu-san, since you're the higher-ranking shinobi, I'm assuming you'll need to report this death to Lord Ryu? If so, I... hope to see you again."
With that, Midori somewhat awkwardly leaves the shop, feeling somewhat odd about genuinely wanting to see someone again. She puts the thought aside for later, though, because now she wants to focus on getting paid for the mission.
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