Tsunade, you're really drunk!

Chapter 487 Transaction Established

Half a month later, Ōnoki's long-awaited visit to the leader of the Nadeshiko Village, Nadeshiko Teika, finally arrived at the Iwagakure Village accompanied by Jiraiya.

As for why there was a transaction between Nadeshiko Village and Iwagakure Village, and why Jiraiya would accompany them.

That's unknown.

In the conference room, Chiya and Jiraiya sat on both sides of the conference table. As for the two ends, they were naturally Oonoki and Tingxiang.

"Chiye, this is a deal between our Iwagakure and Nadeshiko Village. Jiraiya has come a long way, why don't you find a place to rest first."

Oonoki was the first to issue an order to expel the guests.

Jiraiya's presence is no big deal, but if Qianye stays here, who knows what trouble he might cause, which would make him uneasy.

"Hey~"

"Tsuchikage, what are you talking about?"

"I am sitting here as the president of the Ninja Association."

"This commission is a large-scale war mercenary mission. The Ninja Association is a large organization in the entire ninja world, and Iwagakure and Nadeshiko Village are members of the Ninja Association. Naturally, there must be a neutral bystander to supervise."

"After all, Fushiko Village has been closed off for many years and is not very familiar with the outside world. It is my responsibility to take care of it."

Oonoki originally wanted to take the opportunity to increase the price and make more money, but unfortunately, when Qianye said this, he knew that his idea had failed.

Then, he looked at Jiraiya who was standing beside him.

"then you……"

"I am naturally here as Konoha's representative to oversee this hiring mission."

"After all, this was originally a commission from Konoha, but in order to achieve balanced development among the villages, we gave this opportunity to the Hidden Rock Village. In order to maintain the reputation of our Konoha, we naturally have to be responsible for supervision."

"Otherwise, it would be bad if it ruined the reputation of our Konoha."

Jiraiya repeated the words that Qianye had told him in advance exactly as they were said, and as he spoke, he glanced at Tingxiang.

After Tsunade and Shizune underwent a night of surgery and half a month of recovery, Tingxiang, who was originally thin, pale, and sickly, has now completely changed.

The body became visibly fuller and the skin became smoother. Although it cannot be described as snow-white and delicate, this slightly wheat-colored skin tone also has a unique beauty.

The originally atrophied calf muscles have recovered to their original state, becoming round and full. Wrapped in the black tight combat suit, they present a posture that makes his heart flutter.

Jiraiya seemed to want to hide his burning gaze, and thus another strange scene was formed.

Everyone could notice that Jiraiya's eyes would occasionally drift towards Tingxiang, but only Jiraiya thought that his little action was not noticed by others.

This made Tingxiang feel a little embarrassed.

"Mr. Tsuchikage, let's get started without further delay. Let me first explain this mission in detail."

Seeing that even Fushiko Tingxiang, the initiator of this commission, didn't say anything more, Ōnoki naturally didn't know what to say and could only nod silently.

"This commission is expected to take 40 to 60 days. Nadeshiko Village has already collected the current power distribution of the former Otonin Village in advance."

"There are more than 20 wandering ninja groups of all sizes, and three of them are the most powerful. They are the Honglian Shishi led by the Crystal Release Ninja - Honglian, the Sound Ninja formed by the remaining subordinates of the mysterious leader, and the Scarlet Arena formed by the famous Miyashiro En in the black market."

"The total number is expected to be around 1,500 to 2,000 ninjas."

"Five hundred ninjas from Nadeshiko Village will participate in this mission, three hundred Genin, one hundred and fifty Chuunin, and fifty Jonin."

"We in Nadeshiko Village estimate 90 million ryo to deliver this mission to Iwagakure."

After listening to this, Ohnoki remained silent, but his expression looked a little unhappy.

Ninety million taels! Who gave her the courage to say such a price?

Thinking of this, he looked at Qian Ye beside him with anger in his eyes.

Qianye's mind was completely empty at this moment. He stared at the ceiling with empty eyes and a dull look on his face. He just opened and closed his mouth to make an "Aba Aba" sound.

It means it has nothing to do with me.

"Too low. Even if your Nadeshiko Village is willing to send out 500 ninjas, most of them are mid-level and low-level ninjas. Moreover, this mission is different from a war. The ninjas have to go deep into where the villagers live. That's street fighting, and the danger level is extremely high."

"Add to that the food and ninja tools consumed during the mission, and that's a terrifying amount of consumption."

"Moreover, the mission deadline is less than two months. In order to complete the mission within the specified time, the Hidden Rock Village must dispatch at least four thousand or even five thousand ninjas, which is almost half of the Hidden Rock Village's strength."

After saying this, he stared into Fushiko Tingxiang's eyes with a sharp look, trying to overpower her with his power and lower his voice.

"At least... 500 million taels."

After hearing this number, Tingxiang was stunned for a moment. How much?

Five hundred million?

The reason why she offered the price of 90 million taels was because this was the only amount of money that the entire village of Fuzi could afford. This amount of money was enough for several thousand people in Fuzi Village to live on for about two years.

After all, almost everything in Fushiko Village is self-produced and self-sufficient. Only some things that cannot be produced locally, such as spices and clothes, need to be imported by caravans. Everything else is a self-contained trading system there and has nothing to do with the outside world.

Thinking of this, Tingxiang glanced at Jiraiya, and Jiraiya immediately withdrew his gaze from Tingxiang's thighs, and his eyes swayed left and right, indicating that he could not agree, and he was too excited.

Tingxiang adhered to the principle of lowering the price as much as possible and began to increase her offer.

"One hundred and fifty million taels."

"After all, there are many wandering ninjas there, and their strengths vary. Only the leader-level ninjas have reached the level of elite jonin at most. The rest are mostly genin, or even not genin. They are just rookies who have mastered the basic three-body technique and can only show off in front of ordinary people."

"That's wrong. It's the area that was ruled by the mysterious leader back then. Naturally, it has undergone some systematic ninja training. Not to mention that it borders the Iron Country. It has not been taken down for so long. Naturally, it's because of its impressive strength."

"Since both Nadeshiko Village and Iwagakure are members of the Ninja Association, I will give you a 10% discount. The price is 450 million ryo!"

The two of them were arguing with each other, and Jiraiya would occasionally use his eyes to signal Tingxiang whether the price was reasonable.

After all, Jiraiya had participated in two Ninja World Wars and served as the leader of a ninja army. Naturally, he had an extremely sharp eye for the cost of war and the entrustment of ninja missions.

Finally, after the two sides had been haggling for nearly two and a half hours, the price was finally settled at 300 million taels, which was in the middle range and slightly below.

After all, the Iwagakure Village is short of money now, and because of this, he couldn't refuse even if the price was slightly lower than the market price. After all, if he raised the price any further, Tingxiang might get unhappy and turn around and leave to find the Kumogakure Village, which would be a big loss for him.

Chapter 488 Orochimaru rescues people

Just as Oonoki was discussing with Nadeshiko Teika in the meeting room of Iwagakure Village how to clean up the former site of Otogakure Village.

At the former site of Otogakure, in the old base once abandoned by Orochimaru, an unknown event is happening.

"Since that trip to the Sand Village, I have never returned here."

"Now that I look at it this way, the experimental equipment here is really rudimentary compared to Konoha's."

The dark underground passage was covered with old pipes as thick as forearms. Water dripped from it from time to time, and there were large and small puddles of water on the ground.

"Lord Orochimaru, since we lost contact with you, several riots of varying sizes have occurred not long after."

"At first, Tayuya, Toss and the others helped suppress it."

"Until that day when Shigeki went berserk, I was suppressing Shigeki, but I didn't expect that they would join in the rebellion. Now there aren't many people left here."

Behind Orochimaru, a woman with a high ponytail, long sideburns, light purple hair, and wearing a matcha long gown looked lost and her tone was full of self-blame.

Kimimaro paused, clenched his fists, and there was a crackling sound between the joints of his fingers.

"A bunch of ungrateful, opportunistic trash."

"If it weren't for Lord Orochimaru taking them in, they would never have been able to gain strength and continue to survive."

"They have dared to betray Lord Orochimaru, they have already received their doom!"

As his inner emotions fluctuated, tadpole-shaped snake patterns spread from Kimimaro's neck, covering half of his body.

"Kimimaro, those lovely children must have their own difficulties. At the beginning, they and I were just taking what we needed."

"They need power, and I just need experimental subjects. Let them go."

Orochimaru's tone was very calm and relaxed, as if he didn't care at all.

But his eyes were cold at this moment, as if he had turned into the person who was willing to do anything for victory and had no moral or human bottom line in the Ninja World War.

"I understand, Lord Orochimaru."

After saying this, he seemed to remember Shigeo, the former best friend that Honglian mentioned just now.

He had not forgotten the oath he made to Shigeo. He had promised him that he would become his cage and calm him down when he lost control and ran wild.

It’s a pity that I broke my promise when I left that year. I don’t know how Shigeo is doing now.

When he thought about how Shigeo had been imprisoned in a dark, enclosed room all these years like before, he fell into deep self-blame.

"Lord Orochimaru, can you take Jūgo with you this time?"

Kimimaro's tone was pleading and questioning.

Orochimaru stopped, turned to look at Kimimaro, raised his hand and gently stroked Kimimaro's cheek.

"Kimimaro, Jūgo has always been your companion, so I will not leave him here."

"Besides, I am no longer the same person I once was. We are all part of Konoha."

"Isn't it what a Konoha ninja should do to bring his companions home?"

Looking at Kimimaro in front of him, Orochimaru suddenly felt the passage of time for a moment.

When they first met, Kimimaro was still a little kid less than half his height, but I didn't expect that so soon he would be only a head shorter than him.

From now on, I can no longer treat him as a child and touch his face at every turn.

After hearing this, Kimimaro's eyes flickered, and his inner loyalty to Orochimaru became even stronger. At the same time, his inner sense of identification with Konoha also continued to increase.

In the future, I must protect my companions in Konoha and Lord Orochimaru!

loyalty!

After hearing what Orochimaru said, Honglian finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It seems that this time Lord Orochimaru is planning to pack them up and take them away at once. They can finally leave this barren place where conflicts break out at any time.

Especially the task of looking after Jūgo, she can finally be freed.

You know, every time that guy Chougo goes berserk, she has to consume a lot of chakra to create crystals to trap him continuously until he is exhausted.

At first, she could still rely on her age advantage and chakra to subdue the opponent, but as Jūgo grew older, she felt increasingly powerless in the past two years. Fortunately, Orochimaru came, otherwise, she might have died suddenly in a future suppression.

The three continued to move deeper into the pipe, and stopped only when they saw a thick iron door that was almost deformed from being beaten and had fist marks all over it.

In the closed room, Chougo, who was originally resting with his eyes closed, suddenly sensed two other familiar chakras besides Guren.

"This is... Kimimaro, and Lord Orochimaru!?"

He subconsciously became excited, and because of this emotional fluctuation, the uncontrollable natural chakra in his body went into chaos, running rampant in his body, causing his limbs to swell, and his skin to change from normal flesh color to gray-brown and become hard.

"Ahhh!"

"What is this...?"

Hearing Jūgo's suppressed, painful roar, Kimimaro frowned.

"As his body develops, the amount of natural chakra in Jūgo's body increases, making it easier for him to run away and become more difficult to control than before."

"I hope Lord Orochimaru can put this child out of this pain."

Kimimaro walked forward slowly, and the curse seal quickly spread all over his body, covering his skin and turning it into dark brown. Special black lines unique to curse seals also appeared on his body.

Six thick bone spurs grew on the back, and a thick bony tail grew directly from the coccyx, which was thick, strong and powerful.

"Lord Orochimaru, leave it to me."

"This is the promise I made to Shigeo."

As he spoke, he pulled out a bone whip from the back of his neck.

"Roar!"

The beast-like roars showed cruelty and murderous intent, and the sound of "bang bang!" continued to be heard from the iron gate.

Kimimaro turned around and used his tail to break the iron gate open, then swung the bone whip in his hand and wrapped it around the wrist of Jūgo who had gone berserk.

Jūgo pulled back with all his strength, trying to pull Kimimaro over.

But unfortunately, Kimimaro today is no longer the sickly blood disease patient he once was, but the healthy Kimimaro!

You no longer have to worry about the impact of the blood disease and can do whatever you want!

He threw the bone whip in his hand downwards, knocking Chongwu to the ground. Then he held the whip with both hands, turned around, used his shoulder as the axis, and swung it again!

"Snapped!"

The irrational Jūgo was thrown to the ground in front of him again by Kimimaro.

Honglian was completely dumbfounded when she saw the scene in front of her.

Why is Kimimaro so powerful?

This, this fighting style is nothing like the former Kimimaro!