[Hokage] Terukawa

I took half a step back, but didn't take any more, not because I suddenly changed my plan, but because... the bandit in front of me landed in front of me by stepping on a tree trunk.

……Chakra.

But the way the gangster uses Chakra is very rough, and Pingyi Chakra's posture walking on the tree is quite staggering because of this.

In this way, the scope for guesswork is already very small.

I quickly came to a conclusion.

Not a ninja, but it must be related to a ninja.Judging from the fact that he owns Chakra but is unfamiliar with using it, it is nothing more than the existence of ninjas in his family for several generations, so that he has the talent to refine Chakra.In addition, it is the familiarity and practice of chakra.This person's mastery of Chakra is completely appalling, and his gestures are filled with "unfamiliarity" and even unconscious "rejection" of this strange power—in other words, he has not adapted to using Chakra at all. Carat's life.The time he possesses and uses Chakra must be extremely short, only about two or three months, no more.

My mind turned, and I already had a rough guess.

Just at this moment, there were several heavy breathing sounds that fluctuated vaguely, and before I could listen carefully, those breathing sounds came from far to near with a harsh metal friction sound—like a zipline or something Something—finally, with a neat "click" sound, the dry leaves were crushed into powder, and the ambush uninvited guests were already in place.

There is no need to look back, I know that I must be surrounded by no less than six people at this moment.It was clear that it was snowing white and clean weather, but in this narrow encirclement, there were several different smells of sweat tormenting my nasal cavity together.

I controlled my expression, glanced around roughly, then stood still, and then didn't even say a word, just raised my eyes, and stared at the leader who would use a little chakra with a guarded expression.

After watching for a while, I suddenly heard a bandit on the right ask, "How?"

"Yes, it looks like a fat one."

It was the leader in front of him who answered.He has been sizing me up for a while, probably from looks to clothes to demeanor—the eyes are like inspecting a piece of goods that just arrived.

"Can you make a big deal?" the person on the left asked immediately.

"Idiot, whoever is really rich will run to such a place where no shit?" someone sneered behind me.

"You... the boss said that you look fat!"

"That's called relative terms."

"Obviously you know a few words and always want to pretend to be a show off!"

"You fucking—"

With just a few words, the circle of people around me burst into flames one after another like a powder keg on fire. The content was not nutritious, and the voice was so loud that it was three-dimensional to me. Stereo surround sound.

Fortunately, I am not the only one in the field whose senses are more acute due to mastering Chakra.The leader standing in front of him like a stake coughed twice deliberately, and the ordinary gangsters who were scolding each other quickly quieted down, only the idiot stretched his neck and asked very straightforwardly: " Boss, are you cold?"

"It's okay." The leader nodded reservedly, then he glanced at me and raised his chin: "Boy, it's considered unlucky for you to run into us today, but you can only blame yourself if you want to blame. Did this ghostly weather enter the mountain? Our brothers are..."

Hearing his tone pause, as if a little hesitant, I became playful and quickly answered: "Bandit."

"That's right, Shan... What bandits! What bandits!" He answered subconsciously, but he felt something wrong halfway through, and said angrily, "There are bandits... are there bandits like us!"

This excitement... It seems that the new chakra is indeed not long ago.

I said with a half-smile: "You are clearly doing things that only bandits would do, but you still say you are not bandits? Is it because you are doing bandit things that you are not called bandit things, or are you bandits like you?" Isn’t it Bandits?”

"you……"

Before the leader's words were fully uttered, the literate bandit behind me sneered and said, "Smart teeth, but it's a pity that farts are useless. You choose to enter the mountain in this weather, and you are dying. Do you die in the snow or die in our hands?" Aren’t they all going to die? The left and right are just looking for short-sightedness, and there is only one dead person, so why are they so particular about it!”

He pointed his head at the leader again: "Boss, in this hellish weather, one counts as one, and the disobedient ones are beaten and disabled and taken away."

"Don't, I'm obedient, can't I go with you?" I immediately calmed down and stopped challenging the leader's patience.

—— Acting in a full set.Besides, bandits with Chakra are indeed more threatening than those without. In order to complete the mission smoothly, even if he doesn't take me away, I should take the opportunity to find out about him.

The leader had already stepped forward without saying a word, and his palm, which was about the size of a face plate, was aimed at my neck.I frowned and turned my head to dodge according to the reaction of ordinary people. In the end, I dodged my neck but not my side cheeks. He pulled the flesh on my side cheeks and brought a big face close to my eyes.

"Little sissy, you'd better be quiet," he said with his eyes wide open, "whether you go to the mountains to commit suicide or not, whether it's life or death, easy death or... death uncomfortable, it's all in our minds Between. Think clearly about the consequences before you speak or act.”

After finishing speaking, he let go of his palm and waved his hand: "Brothers, tie it up and let's go!"

I stared as the two men untied the thin ropes around my waist that were used for airborne landing, and tied them around my wrists round and round.

"...Can't you be gentle? You're strangling my wrists." I clenched my fists calmly, and covered the tiger's mouth with my thumbs, tightly hiding the callus in my palm.

The next moment, the strength of the thin rope binding was a little stronger, and I let out a "hiss".

"Don't even think about it, we brothers have never been used to such a noble and sissy bastard like you." The person who spoke was the one who showed a bit of naivety in front of the leader--inwardly and externally, he was really Two faces.

A person next to him asked: "Didn't these nobles like to bully us like dogs before, why didn't they tie his neck and lead him away?"

"The rope given by the leader is not suitable for this. If you don't control your strength well, your head will fly out." The literate man who has been paying attention to this side sneered, looking over as if he was looking at a dead person, "Crawling on all fours The dog nobles are not real dogs after all, their speed is too slow...too much time-consuming."

This time, everyone stopped choking, but grinned and laughed in unison.

My expression remained the same, but I also kept silent quite wisely—like every ordinary person surrounded by a group of lunatics.

The leader lit up a dim light in front, but he used a relatively old lantern, which is quite understandable. The light penetrating power of the flashlight is too strong, after all, it is too blatant for people like them, and...

My eyes twinkle and my mind is clear.

This pitiful darkness in the forest can't affect people with chakra much, so it is very clear who this lantern is for.

——Only the leader of this bandit gang has Chakra.

And I don't know if it's my illusion... This composition of five "team members" led by a "team leader" has a strange sense of sight no matter how you look at it, and it makes me feel a little bit familiar, which makes me a little It's ridiculous.

... The ninja behind the bandits was probably born in one of those big ninja villages.

The snow fell harder and harder.The snow curtains that covered the fields were blurred and dim, and the dim warm light of the lanterns lit them up like incandescent points of light.I was dragged by the rope that tied my wrists, and I staggered and followed the end of the team at a controlled speed, while the whole team followed the warm light at the head of the team step by step.

And that warm light followed a brightly lit house on the mountainside.

…………

……

"Go in." The leader opened a small remote door.

"What are you doing in there?" I asked.

"Of course I'm waiting to die." He laughed, and slammed the door with a "bang", followed by the sound of the lock being locked.

Staring at the closed door in front of me for a few seconds, the stiff smile on my face disappeared in an instant.I turned around and began to take everything in the house seriously.

So heavy blood smell - this is my first reaction.

There are fewer people than expected - the second reaction.

There was no electricity or open fire in the house, so at this time and under this weather, there was only darkness left here, and the night at the end of winter came early here.I avoided a few scrutinizing or probing sights, looked around the house, and finally found a fireplace on the wall that had been extinguished for an unknown period of time. I could vaguely see the dry and dark wood inside, although I hadn’t checked it up close. , but most of them have been affected by damp, so they can't easily light a fire.

Three of the four corners are already occupied.On one side were three or two well-dressed but tattered young men in panic—they looked like fleeing nobles; on the other was a mixed group of seven or eight raggedly dressed people who looked like frightened birds, including men, women, young, women, and children— They are probably ordinary peasants; another is a pair of young men and women with conspicuous hair, one is dark red and the other is blue and purple, and they are also wearing ninja robes and steel foreheads that I am familiar with—that pattern Is it Urenin?Yes, but... Considering the complex entanglement of various forces in the Kingdom of Rain, since they were captured and locked up here without any scruples, there is a high possibility that they are Langren or mercenaries.

...the atmosphere is a bit subtle.

Except for me, almost all eyes in the room are focused on the two young ninjas, resentment, fear, ridicule... It's still the same old ones, it can be said that it is a very standard ninja gaze baptism package, and these packages No matter how the details have changed, the core has never changed—it’s nothing more than the maliciousness of the packaging.

The two young ninjas were probably already used to this situation. They ignored all the malicious gazes, and only stopped their eyes on me for a few seconds before moving away, obviously not suspicious.However, in the short few seconds of looking at each other, I was very keen to capture some thought-provoking details: their breathing was not stable, and their reactions were also a little slow, obviously not in the right state.

I thought of the Chakra Seal almost instantly.

If you want to imprison a ninja, the Chakra Seal is the simplest and most core prop.The ninja who is sealed can no longer refine chakra at any time, and it is too simple to use the storage in the daily life, so the ninja cannot cast ninjutsu as he likes, and his strength has been weakened a lot.At the same time, the weakness permeating from within will also bring about an extraordinary sense of anxiety, and many irrational decisions are made under such circumstances.

Therefore - the Chakra Seal can already be said to be a powerful weapon with immediate effects against ninjas, and things with such lethality will naturally not be common goods that can be seen everywhere, so... If it is the Chakra Seal that caused the two ninjas to become weak So far, this nest of bandits will never be a cat or a dog that can be easily solved. On the contrary, it is at least supported by one force.

So far, the nature of this bandit stronghold has completely changed: Will someone really invest in the Chakra seal just to help a group of bandits consolidate their territory?

- What a joke!

... Therefore, the establishment of this stronghold is likely to have special significance.

Wanting to understand this important relationship, I began to rejoice that I had never acted rashly during the process of being escorted. Now I have not been sealed by Chakra, and I was able to enter here in a reasonable way. Find out some useful information.

As for these two ninjas...

My eyes fluttered over the feet of the red-haired young man—the dark color of the wooden planks soaked in blood had already spread under his body. At this moment, the light was dim, and the room was in chaos. The dark color seemed to be death. The shadow left here.

But it's just a shadow, he still can't die, at least not in a short time...

"Ah, sorry, please forgive my offense." I smiled apologetically and bowed my head to the red-haired ninja who turned away when he noticed my gaze.

In the darkness, the red-haired young man seemed to look at me for a while, and then looked away without saying a word.

—See, I said so.

"Oh, ninja!"

Another sharp voice came in at this time. The owner of the voice seemed to be so thirsty that his voice was rough and hoarse, and a few syllables were bitten to pieces.

I followed the direction of the sound - I could vaguely see the well-dressed but shabby "down and out nobles".

"Hey, that newcomer, you are not a ninja without the shackles, and you don't look like those muddy legs farming, do you want to come and squeeze with us?" The owner of the voice said again.

me……"

"Or do you want to get together with those disgusting ninjas?! Don't forget, our cities, our houses, our farmland, our families... were all destroyed by them! These damn Your executioner deserves to be chopped into pieces!"

Before I could finish speaking, a hoarse roar echoed in the small wooden house, and the malice and hatred that erupted were so strong that a pair of blood-red protruding eyes almost appeared in my mind.I subconsciously glanced in the direction of the young ninja, but they were indifferent from the corner of my eye, and didn't even respond to their glances. The civilians in the other corner just curled up tighter, as if they could never exist. Draw some warmth from the fire, or reduce your own sense of existence to zero.

I took a half step back belatedly, as if I was taken aback by his roar just now: "Uh...I, I haven't seen such a big disaster as you said, and the conflict between you is just I don’t know much about it... Anyway, anyway, I’ll stay here first.”

While talking, I took a few steps back, and it seemed that there was the last empty corner behind me.

"Another self-deprecating thing, the mud that can't support the wall." The shadow in the corner sneered.

Is this person almost insane?Is there any way to appease him?I don't want to... well, what a hassle.

It might be cleaner here.

Thinking of this, I was going to sit down in this last corner, but I thought of something halfway, and after a little hesitation, I stood up straight again and walked towards the broken fireplace that was lacking in every way. .

"I brought a lighter," I whispered, and I didn't know who I was explaining to. "It should be able to light it."

"You're not the only one," the mad noble immediately sneered, "I've tried it a long time ago, that damned fireplace is—"

"Snapped".

A bit of soft and fiery orange lighted up, and then a few golden sparks popped out, lighting up everyone's eyes.

There was a sudden silence in the field.

I laughed.

--lighter?Of course there is no such thing, and I don't smoke, so it's useless to ask for that thing, but a small, silent fire escape is everything you need.My body has already blocked the line of sight, and the effect of using the small fire escape with snapping fingers is outstanding.

If this can calm everyone in the room a little, then I have no reason to refuse.

When I sat back in the corner again, the room was as quiet as if I had entered the night in advance, only the sound of shallow or heavy breathing and the crackling of the flame heart lingered in my ears from time to time, and even the flying dust in the air Under the reflection of the firelight, they are all exquisite and delicate.

People stared blankly at the flames, even though their eyes were already weeping because they had not seen the light for a long time.