I'm undercover in Hokage

In a hidden cave somewhere, several illusory humanoid images appeared one after another.

"Penn, why did you summon us here? Kakuzu and I are still wet in the rain." A dissatisfied voice sounded.

"Hidan, don't complain. I have called you here to inform you of something important." Pain's figure standing at the front said.

"How can I not complain? I'm either accepting commissions or doing tasks every day. I'm so annoyed."

Hidan's voice grew louder in dissatisfaction.

"I said, Akatsuki's purpose is simply to collect money. This is the one I hate the most among all the reasons for fighting."

"Yes, the current goal is indeed money." Payne responded, "But Xiao Xiao's ultimate goal is not here."

"To achieve that, we need significant funding."

"What?" Hidan's voice added a hint of resentment, "I'm a new member who just joined. I haven't even heard of your introduction. You actually let me work for nothing and then do other things behind my back."

"Hey, are you in a mood?" Payne's illusory figure glanced at him, "Forget it, it's time to tell you."

"Xiao's ultimate goal is to be accomplished in three stages."

"The first stage is to collect money."

"The second stage is to use this money as the basis to establish the first war mercenary organization in the ninja world..."

"Hey, hey," Hidan interrupted impatiently, "Isn't this the same as other ninja villages? You get rewards by completing tasks. Are you going to be the head of a small village that no country is willing to hire? Are you bored?"

"Huh, no country is willing to hire you. What a mistake."

Payne shook his head.

"Let me explain it to you in order."

"For a country with a strong ninja village, ninja business accounts for a large proportion of the country's income. Ninjas make huge amounts of money by participating in domestic and foreign wars, and they can be said to be the economic backbone of the country."

"In other words, if you want to obtain the benefits of stabilizing the country, you need a war of corresponding scale."

"But in today's era, small-scale wars often occur, but the big wars in the past have disappeared. The consequence is that the country has to reduce the size of the ninja villages, leaving many ninjas without a place to go."

Payne paused at this.

"It's ridiculous. Ninjas exist for war. They sacrifice their lives for their country and get such rewards."

"The five major countries are okay. The countries and ninja villages are large in size and very trustworthy. There are also many commissions from other countries, so they are still very stable."

"However, the situation is different in small countries. If the Ninja Village is to be maintained at or close to the state required during wartime, a large amount of money will be spent in peacetime. However, once the size of the Ninja Village is reduced, it will not be able to cope with sudden wars."

"Wait...what do you mean by saying so much? What does this have to do with us?" Hidan was confused. He now regretted asking this question.

Compared with listening to the other party chanting sutras, he still found it more interesting to accept the entrustment and complete the task.

"Don't you understand?" Payne looked at him again.

"To put it simply, we at Akatsuki want to establish an organization that does not belong to any country, is prepared to have the ninjas needed when necessary, and has the necessary power to accept war commissions from all small countries or small ninja villages that spend money on us."

"In the beginning, we took it no matter what the price was, thereby monopolizing the war market. Then we used tailed beasts to cooperate with the war market to cause wars, and finally mastered and controlled all wars."

"As a result, the ninja village system of Daikunomon will also collapse, and we will have to turn to our Akatsuki organization for help. Then, we can achieve the final goal, which is the third stage of the goal."

Payne stretched out his right hand and made a grasping gesture.

"Conquer the world..."

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The girl returned to the bar. She sat in her seat, twirling the wine glass in her hand, wondering what she was thinking.

However, it was clear that she had no idea what had just happened.

Because she raised the wine glass and brought it to her lips.

Yeyue and Ren originally wanted to shout to remind each other, but they swallowed the words hard when they reached their lips.

He found that the hooded man hiding in the booth next to him actually took out a kunai.

I'm afraid that if he shouts here, the hooded man on the other side will rush forward.

It seems like it's not as simple as drugging a girl to stun her...

Yeyue and Ren realized that something was wrong.

This is obviously because he wants her life.

In this case, the drink was probably not drugged, but poison.

He immediately stood up from his seat, pretending to leave the bar and quickly approached the girl.

Five meters, three meters, two meters...

The distance between him and the girl was getting closer and closer, and the hooded man on the side also changed from being indifferent at the beginning to taking it seriously, staring at him with eyes exposed outside the mask.

damn got noticed

Yeyue and Ren's hearts sank, and they unconsciously took two steps faster.

His unintentional move completely aroused the hooded man's suspicion.

The hooded man rushed out and stabbed the girl with a kunai, but the girl was still holding the wine glass to her lips, not noticing what was happening behind her.

In desperation, Yeyue and Ren ignored the shouts and rushed over with a single stride, raising his hand and knocking over the girl's wine glass.

"Small..."

Before the word "heart" came out of his mouth, there was a warmth on his cheeks.

The girl's fair skin was stained with bright red, and the warmth on her face must be the same thing.

But this blood does not belong to either of them.

Following the girl's gaze, Yeyue Kazuto turned his head dullly, only to see the kunai in the hooded man's hand being taken upside down and pierced through his chest.

The hooded man's body slowly fell, and an increasingly rapid hissing sound came from his mouth and nose, but like water after reaching the boiling point, the sound soon became silent.

he died.

How is this going

why he committed suicide

Yeyue Kazuto turned his head back stiffly and found that the girl's right hand had a strange seal, pointing at the body of the hooded man.

Is it a ninjutsu that can control other people's behavior...

He seemed to understand something, but there was no way to prove it.

The girl also turned her head and met his eyes.

Delicate skin, exquisite facial features, even at such a close distance, this is a flawless face.

But those eyes, which were like black gems, were filled with hatred.

"Are you in the same group with him?" the girl said.

"What..." Yeyue and Ren's brains seemed to have shut down, and they couldn't react for a while.

"You and this dead man are in the same group." When the girl spoke again, a kunai was already placed on his neck.

"No, no." Feeling the coldness coming from his neck, Yeyue and Ren finally reacted, "He and I are not in the same group."

"I came here to save you."

"Cheat"

The girl held Kunai's hand harder and harder, and the sharp blade almost penetrated his skin, "You want to cooperate with him to kill me, right? I've seen people like you a lot."

"I really want to save you. What can I say before you believe it?"

Yeyue and Ren wanted to cry but had no tears.

Is the real-life story of the farmer and the snake about to happen?

Jingle bell...

When he was at a loss what to do, the door of the bar was suddenly pushed open, and the wind chimes in front of the door swayed and made a crisp sound.

"Ai Aoki, put the kunai away." Konan's voice sounded.

"The ones who assassinated you were Hanzo's old subordinates."

"He is one of our own."