[Hokage] Terukawa

No one could answer Yang Yi—of course no one could, so he just kept silent, and then let out a voice that seemed to be laughing blankly: "Maybe that child is very lucky, or maybe it's the root of the guard on duty that day." Shinobi is so unlucky—that’s probably what people who didn’t escape the purge thought of us back then.”

There was some vague irony and relief in his tone, but I didn't know who was mocking and who was comforting—I only saw the three figures sitting behind him in a row gestured back and forth to each other a few times, then A bandaged hand reached out and gently patted Yang Yi's shoulder.

Um, wait... This clean and tidy bandage looks like it was made by me, it must be Yang Er.

In response, Yang Yi also raised his hand, and gently touched the back of Yang Er's hand with his fingers.

...Maybe there is another possibility.

"Miss Pharmacist, when did you resume your job and settle here?"

I seemed to have figured out some key points and asked a question.

"Is it possible...the child who is the experimental subject should have been your helper, or was it your eye watching?"

"Captain Black Fox was joking. Although I haven't been lucky enough to see the real 'cutting technique', I can still get a glimpse of the truth from your description-it must be a very high-profile, even shocking, large-scale ninjutsu .”

Pharmacist No Naoyu immediately denied it, with a dignified tone.

"No matter what the reason is, it is a bad idea to use Wooden Dun so high-profile at that time and place. I can be sure that even now, there are countless spies from the major ninja villages staying in Tang The country, just to find out what happened that day.

"You have to know that this is not a question that can be discussed with Konoha head-on, and Konoha will pretend to be ignorant for the next period of time, and everything will be as usual-provided that the major ninja villages are in the Tang Dynasty. The country's actions are really useless.

"Captain Black Fox, as an ally... I don't suggest that you underestimate any 'Information Network'."

I was uncommonly silent.

This silence is not because of the intelligence network or not—I never thought that the cutting technique of that day could avoid everyone's eyes and ears. Ninjas and psychic beasts with sharper and more eccentric abilities were not bred to be amusing either.

What I'm thinking about is the unfinished meaning in Yakushi Nonoyu's words.

If it is true that other ninja villages sent spies to Tango Country, then the current situation is read as calm and balanced in writing.As long as the spies fail to find anything, Konoha's feigning death tactics will be unassailable for a day.

...So Konoha must be doing two things right now.

One is to interrogate Shimura Danzo, and ask about the situation of all the laboratories—at least find out which one the child who can escape from the wood emerged from, and it is impossible to jump from a big rock outside the village came out?Even Senshou Zhujian has parents - Senshou is not Monkey King.

The second is to send people to Tang Country to do things. As for what to do...of course, you can do anything.Capture the escaped Mutun experimental subjects, collect samples and evidence on the spot, and even kill all the spies from other ninja villages... What are you doing?For ninjas, as long as it is conducive to achieving the ultimate goal, the method has never been taboo.

But, send someone, send someone... Who will he send for three generations?

To be powerful enough to deal with most of the enemies; to be loyal and trustworthy, never to betray; to be able to see those open and secret struggles clearly, and to know what can be done and what can be said.

You have to recognize those pathetic paths, you have to distinguish the dross of wood escape ninjutsu, you have to be sensible, calm and alert, quick-witted, and decisive...

The team leader is still unclear, but the team members... just write Hatake Kakashi's name directly.

After all, Kakashi was the only person who was sober from the beginning to the end of the trip to the country of soup, and he was with me all the time. He was very familiar with my thinking, and he would not even have any difficulty in replaying the incident, so who You don't have to go, but he can't.

...No wonder I missed Kakashi to say goodbye before leaving the village... If only he remembered to say hello to me.

No, you can't think that way either.We had just had a big fight at the time, and he was probably still angry, so it was normal that he didn't want to talk to me.

I pursed my lips.

There are also Shizhi and I and the four old subordinates who were lucky enough to survive, they must follow suit.

But why didn't they call me when they went to Tang Country to do finishing work?I'm the central figure in the report, am I not?And this kind of thing can't be delayed for too long, it should be arranged immediately after I confirmed the wood escape ninjutsu... Wait, it's not right.If I were the one who arranged this matter, I would arrange the staff before the confirmation, and let them go as soon as the conclusion is confirmed.

...So I was completely deceived by them, right?

Carefully recalling the events before leaving the village—not only was Kakashi missing, but Haruhiqing also had a lot of wounds on his dominant hand.At that time, the answer he gave me was "the injury he received in the assessment for promotion to captain"-now it seems that it is not necessarily a lie, but it must not be the complete truth.

They...they really have completely lied to me!

"...Hey, it turns out that the "Walking Priestess" will have to prepare for himself one day? But with all due respect, the method of holding two time bombs around him really seems... extremely advanced."

"No one can be at ease forever, Yoichi. Humans are swordsmen, and I am fish, so meat that can use time bombs can always jump longer. I planned to use them to force Shimura Danzo to release people... If he refuses Spare my child, and I'll have to spare the young men who see him as the enemy."

"Then he was bombarded to scum the moment he released him?"

When I was distracted, Yang Yi didn't talk about the old things of "back then", and the pharmacist No Naoyu also tactfully did not ask, and continued to straighten out the current mess——Yang Yi and the others need time to reorganize the old days grievances, and she has long been used to wandering and waiting in the dark.

"On the way here, I have already made up my mind to die, and the fact is that once I die, my child will lose the value of threatening me."

Her eyes were curved with a smile, her lips were pale, and her tone rose at the end of her words.

"As for those two young men... If I let go, the one who kills me will be the poor man who is revenge; Multiple choice questions, but I know that the process of making my choice is not tortuous."

At the end, she even winked at me and said briskly, "You all understand, right?"

"...is a choice."

I suppressed the anxiety that had just arisen in my heart, and reluctantly nodded.

As long as Shimura Danzo still wants to be Hokage, it is impossible to turn a blind eye to Yakushi Nonou's manipulation—especially the two time bombs are students of Jiraiya.

I don't think Yakushi Nonoyu couldn't catch those two young ninjas.

"But I changed my mind quickly." Pharmacist Nonoyu said again.

"Because you met us." Yang Yi raised the corner of his mouth.

"Especially when I quickly discovered your true purpose - to seize the city."

Pharmacist Nonoyu covered his lips with a smile.

"And, Captain Yangyi, please allow me to correct your words—not only did I meet you, but you also met me... So, I prefer to call it a wonderful encounter arranged by fate, the two captains."

What a hell of a wonderful encounter, who still remembers that this is just an ordinary mission to suppress bandits?It's ridiculously close to home.

I complained in my heart.

The word "beautiful" cannot be said to be exactly the same as the current "encounter", it can only be said to have nothing to do with it.

...Unless I met Kakashi who came out to do the finishing errands recently - it doesn't matter if I don't have enough time, as long as I can say a few words, I have to apologize for the "arrogance" that Kakashi accused at that time .

And...why?

To be precise, why can't I always control myself when facing Kakashi?

I've always had a good memory, and I've never forgotten the words I said that day, so I know...the words that came out of my mouth really hurt.That's certainly not my day-to-day speaking style -- if I had been talking like that everyday, I probably wouldn't be alive today.

So I certainly didn't realize that those words hurt people until today.

But...

It's just that I don't seem to realize until today that I don't want Kakashi to alienate me at all - especially since it was me who made the mistake, not him.

Sounds like some kind of fucked up crematorium, maybe I'm actually being mean to Kakashi... so childish.

I couldn't help cursing, I wanted to laugh a little, but I quickly realized that some thoughts I had hidden in the dark were popping up uncontrollably——

It's just that I always have to leave Konoha... I always have to go back to the land of water, don't I?

What am I guaranteed?I can't guarantee anything.If it is not guaranteed to be alive, naturally it cannot be guaranteed to return-if this is the case, then it may be considered a good thing to alienate Kakashi.

...But this is not right, is it?

Other thoughts immediately retorted.

Is it a good thing to intentionally use words to hurt someone you like... someone you have a crush on?Kakashi didn't feel sorry for me - he was even one of the people in the world who cared about me the most.

So why should I hurt him?Is it because he cares about me?

... Then what am I?

The pharmacist No Naiyu standing opposite was sketching on the stone wall with a piece of chalk that came from nowhere.I read it article by article and found that she was putting together the coincidences of our meeting here.

She pointed her gaze at Yang Yi from afar: "When I met Captain Yang Yi and you guys here, the first thought that flashed through my mind was... Maybe I don't have to die. Since then, I have been thinking about Prepare for today's cooperation. I'm upstairs in the room..."

"Preparing for today's cooperation?" Yang Yi asked suddenly, seemingly unintentionally, "Then when you saw Captain Black Fox here, what was the first thought in your mind? Stay away and don't meddle in your own business'?"

He seems to be in a good mood—he has time to mess with me.

I glanced at him: "You don't have to be honest to this extent."

"I was just asking Miss Pharmacist, but I didn't say whose idea it was."

He blinked blankly.

I looked at him blankly for a few seconds, and finally put on a standard smirk.

"You're right, I just wanted to ask Senior Pharmacist—did you feel very unlucky the moment you met Captain Yangyi? I know that this kind of situation is quite rare, but the 'Captain Yangyi' itself belongs to the There is no problem in special circumstances, right?

"In short, my thought at the time was 'Garbage bandits, I will let your heads move in a while', but now I have to admit that the bandits played by the bandits are indeed vivid and vivid, enough to confuse the real ones, if not for Chakra , I will definitely think you are real bandits."

"Don't worry, Captain Black Fox doesn't need to worry too much about this."

Yang Yi continued with a drawn-out tone.

"Those guests who came up the mountain uninvited without seeing Chakra are sleeping soundly now-no one sleeps better than them."

The smirk on my face disappeared.

"...I left a note in the upstairs room because I knew that Captain Yangyi and the others had to kill me if they wanted to seize the city, and if they wanted to kill me, they had to consider the three exits of the underground sewer."

Yakushi Nonoyu's flat voice sounded at the right time, making it hard to hear the slightest emotion in it.

"I expected that you wouldn't miss the message in the room, but I didn't expect that the person who came would be Captain Black Fox from Anbu... To be honest, I was taken aback, but maybe it's me... Should I die?"

Having said that, Pharmacist No Naoyu smiled slightly.

"You chose to cooperate to deal with the 'Masked Woman', which makes my arrangement still useful."

I moved my gaze away from Yang Yi, and let out a "tsk".

"...Senior Pharmacist, don't you think that I was sent by Anbu to kill you? Don't worry, the minister and his old man and Shimura Danzo are not too hard to deal with, and they won't force me to be a dog to Shimura Danzo."

Yang Yi was much more comfortable, and now his focus had shifted to the "note".

If you don't like it, you can't get used to it. I won't make trouble for him in business.

Raising my hand, I passed the six fishy notes, I squinted at Yang Yi to read them one by one, and then bowed my head at the end in a thoughtful gesture.

I know that he must have many doubts in his heart at this moment—just like me at that time.

"Why six? And... it's the smell of blood."

I heard him whispering to himself, and the soft rustle of the six notes flipping back and forth in his palm as he picked them up and sniffed them.

Until a certain moment, both the self-question and the light sound stopped.

"...It was you who killed the other six 'guards', Pharmacist No Naoyu."

Yang Yi's voice is deep and cold, every syllable is so determined that it seems to sink into the cold river flowing by our side.

"If you kill them, and then reveal your identity, in our eyes, it will become...a threat, or surrender, and no matter which one we consider, we will definitely come here...to meet you."