[Hokage] Terukawa

I need to go faster... faster.

An unexpected change happened. I don't know how this change will mess up the mess in front of me, but I must hurry over it as soon as possible.

This idea came to my mind a second before the well water filled my eyes.

Then, the piercing well water flooded over my head.

Who is the message on the note for?

I have calmed down, and the answer is not difficult to guess - it is a latecomer, but it is not "I", but a member of the digital team.

There are a total of ten people in the pro-guard team, and six of them were taken care of here by the masked woman. Who should they leave for the digital team?

Of course, they can guess the medicine master Nonoyu from the "witch", and then think of Shimura Danzo and Nemo behind it.It's just that "you find your enemy" and "your enemy finds you" are two different things after all.The plan of the digital team to seize the city will be completely disrupted, and it will take time to make adjustments. The resulting flaw may not be fatal, but it is enough for the "walking witch" to communicate left and right and turn back and forth.

After clearing the first level, many questions have been answered, but unfortunately, there seem to be more new questions.

It is known that the "Walking Priestess" is the root person and the agent of Shimura Danzo's will, so it is difficult for me to look at her series of operations in the country of rivers without a certain conspiracy stereotype.

...Does Shimura Danzo want to do something here to add weight to his Hokage campaign?

It made sense, but if it was true, her attitude towards the numbers team seemed strange.

With the excellent observation ability that "Walking Miko" should have, I don't believe that she will discover the true identity of the number team just recently. On the contrary, I am more inclined to find out their true identities soon after the arrival of the number team. The bottoms are turned upside down, but this will lead to another question——

"Only the dead can't speak" is the consensus of most ninjas, especially for spies.The fugitive digital team can definitely be regarded as Shimura Danzo's confidant's serious trouble, so why didn't Yakushi Nonoyu kill them early?

Can't do it?But the talents of this type of people can never be guessed by common sense - they don't need to draw their own knives to kill people.

However, the fact is that the pharmacist No Naoyu not only didn't do anything to them, but also wanted to expose his identity through six notes... Logically speaking, this doesn't make sense.

What is she trying to do?I was struggling with this problem before I knew her identity, and I am still struggling with this problem after knowing her identity—like an onion, one layer after another is peeled off, the old torment king.

After passing through a layer of well water several meters thick, my feet stepped on the ground again.The touch under my feet was too wet and slippery, I adjusted my center of gravity in time, and finally landed firmly on the stone surface.

Pharmacist No Naoyu's actual actions and positions conflict, combined with her inexplicable comeback... what does this represent?

"..." Maybe it's an opportunity.

The water/body detects all the terrains that I have walked through clearly, so I don't even need to look up to observe the surrounding environment, and the most worthy of my attention here is actually directly above my head-the place where the number of The meter-thick underground river water layer "lifts" the giant ninjutsu scroll in mid-air.

The specific usage of this thing... probably is to remove it directly in times of crisis, and let tons of cold underground river water wash away this section of the tunnel.

……consciousness.

I didn't look any further, and continued flying forward.

Pharmacist Nonoyu's side...maybe it's an opportunity.

I repeated it quietly in my heart.

If the facts are as I guessed, then maybe I should smile, but there are so many expectations in the world, but only a few will not fail... Rather than being too happy about things that have not yet been planned, it is better to speed up speed.

After all, everything I conceived at this moment is based on one foundation - Yakushi Nonoyu is alive.

A dull environment will blur people's concept of time.

I carefully counted the seconds and estimated the approximate time, and there seemed to be nothing left to do except speed up.Fortunately, I know that this kind of time will not last for too long - the left and right are just passing through the mountainside obliquely. Although the upper mountain wall blocks my sight, this is the real stronghold of Yakushi Nonoyu after all. Whether it's information transmission or other paperwork... she always has to light the lamp.

My inferences are rarely wrong.

However, when I quickly turned another corner, my eyes suddenly caught a soft warm light in the darkness, and I stopped abruptly.

The environment is dry and comfortable, the lighting is warm and soft, the breath is calm and calm, and the face is peaceful and serene.

The mountain walls were chiseled for bookshelves, and trees were cut down to make tables and chairs.Stacks of books are neatly arranged, and the turbulent dark river murmurs into streams here, and the sound of lingling can be heard endlessly, wrapping all the lonely and cold in the belly of the mountain under the distant sunlight, even if the scene outside the entrance of the cave in the distance can no longer be seen. Clearly——Bai Xue was still a little too dazzling at noon.

"90.00%," I said.

Pharmacist No Naoyu didn't look up, she lowered her head, as if she was writing something: "What 90.00%?"

"On the way here, I have been guessing what kind of scene I will see," I looked around, "It seems that I guessed about 90.00% right now."

"The habit of prudence—it's still a child's age."

Her voice softened a little, probably as a compliment.

"With time, you will definitely become a powerful ninja."

Nonsense, I'm not really a kid.

"It's been a long time since anyone deliberately mentioned my age. I have to admit that this experience... I haven't seen it for a long time. The war, it was the war that changed everything."

I thought about it, and said something casually.

I really haven't heard the word "child" for a long time.If it was anyone else who said this sentence, I would think it was mocking or provocative, but she is the pharmacist Nonoyu, the pharmacist Nonoyu who became the dean of the Konoha Orphanage after retiring.

Sometimes a straightforward action can be worth ten thousand promises.

"You are very old-fashioned. The giant ninjutsu scroll that supports the entire underground water layer in the well does not contain ninjutsu of induction protection, but ninjutsu of large-scale destruction... This is completely beyond my expectation , worthy of the title of "Walking Priestess"."

Hearing this, she put down the brush, sat up slightly, picked up the paper she just wrote, and looked at it carefully under the light.

I seem to hear a faint sigh.

"Thousands of calculations, I didn't count that it was you who got the note... Captain Black Fox, Captain Black Fox, why did you appear here...?"

I stood there quietly, without words or movements.Pharmacist No Naoyu seems to have fallen into a momentary confusion, but regardless of the authenticity of this confusion - people often don't need the so-called "answer" at this time.

A little time, a little thought, a little muttering, that's all.

The warm yellow light... no, maybe it should be said to be the light of fire, filled from the lampshade of the kerosene lamp hanging in mid-air.The dancing flame flickers on and off, obsessively enveloping a corner from the dark territory. Light and shadow entangle and pull on the slender silhouette, bent joints and even the cold and knotted folds of the blond woman, making this dark scene Rendered like a drama, and reflected this cold and dark cave stronghold like a shrine.

... I hope Yang Yi and the others can calm down.

After a while, Pharmacist No Naoyu seemed to have figured out the answer. She revealed half of her beautiful and gentle face from behind the page: "Sorry, did I scare you?"

"Scary," I said, "your note was extremely successful, both as a prank with an ulterior motive and as a warning to confuse the public—I didn't expect it to say this when I got it. Kind of thing," I casually took out a note and spread it out in the direction of Yakushi Nonoyu, "It's like I didn't expect you to face the mountainside and turn your back to the cave entrance, and there is not even any cover between you and me— —I will face you head-on, and there is no way to avoid it.”

Pharmacist Nonoyu was smiling.She probably didn't intend to give any explanation.

"But that's not important," I said. "This is the end of the matter. Instead of getting entangled in the details, I am more concerned about your purpose now."

I fixed her eyes.

"Admittedly, you know that Yang Yi and the others are cautious and will never launch an attack before the people in the cave are in place, but you also know that this is not kindness, but a more perfect and thorough extermination— — Even so, even so — you still chose this facing away position.

"why?"

I raise my voice slightly.

"Why do you have to face to face with me? No, exactly...why do you have to face to face with the person who read the note?"

——Only this one.

I think.

The answer to this question alone is enough to verify my conjecture, and if this answer is "correct" enough...it can even solve everything right now.

This dark but bright space became quiet again.The two people in the bright place——Yu Naiyu and I, the pharmacist, are silent here, not saying a word, letting all kinds of thoughts and suspicions go with the cold river, and the two people in the dark ...in the dark...

I don't know anything about their plans, their positions, their tactics, but if I could, I hoped they had their weapons in hand by now.

"Excuse me, is this a threat?" Pharmacist No Naoyu suddenly asked.

"'Threat'?" I thought for a few seconds, then nodded, "Probably, but to be honest, that's not the ending I wanted to see."

Pharmacist No Naoyu was not entangled: "As long as you send out the signal, I will be killed in an instant, right?"

She tidied up the pile of paperwork beside her that was more than half a person high, and stacked the miscellaneous papers side by side and corner to corner.The candlelight from above couldn't light her drooping face, but my intuition told me—she didn't feel nervous at all.

It was as if she had held everything in her fist long ago, but now she just spread her palm and took a look at it.

"Whether the signal will go or not is not up to me, it's up to your choice."

Multi-standard villain quotes.

I thought, with a calm tone.

Even though the scene has been firmly surrounded and controlled, why do I still feel that I am passive?

Maybe it's because negotiating is not my forte.I'm clearly better at...threats, intimidation, intrigue, forceful repression, and...extermination than negotiating.

"I see, I promise you."

At this time, the miko got up and left her seat, and walked in front of me with a pace that was too flawed for a ninja.

"Captain Black Fox from the Anbu, and Team Yang from the Land of Fire, my choice is to go with you... To be exact, this is the reason why I have taken so much trouble to get here."

"It's not an exaggeration to say that I did a lot of things for Danzo Shimura in the Land of Rain and the Land of Rivers, just for his Hokage dream, for the scenery that he never had the chance to see..." I was probably amused by myself Yes, pharmacist No Naoyu adjusted his glasses and covered his own eyes, "What a pity."

She said as if sighing.

"And when I met you, it was God who helped me."