Remnant bones

"When I heard the message from below, I wondered if it was you." The third generation was still the same, wearing Hokage's iconic robe, with a pipe in his mouth but not yet lit: "Welcome to Konoha, Kaguya-kun!"

Because it was indoors, the bamboo hat was placed on the desk.As if he didn't notice the change in my appearance at this time, when he saw Junmaro beside me, Sandai's original movement of lighting a cigarette also stopped.Putting the pipe aside, his face was filled with the same sincere smile, but the wrinkles were deeper: "The little guy next to you is your younger brother?"

"En." In response, I patted Jun Malu on the shoulder and signaled him to say hello: "Three generations of grandpa."

"My name is Huiye Junmalu." Junmalu said obediently, and bowed to salute: "Hello, grandpa of the third generation." He also used honorifics, and it can be seen that he has a good impression of the third generation, and he didn't Because of the harmonious appearance, the hidden strength behind it is ignored.

"Hahaha...a polite child, unlike Naruto's troublemaker, who only causes headaches all day long..." Sandai smiled heartily, and when he mentioned the name Naruto, his face was full of helplessness and guilt. But it is only a momentary thing.Later, he turned his face and asked me: "Are you planning to settle here?"

"Yes." I replied simply, without explaining why.Sandai blinked his right eye in understanding as a gesture.

"This is no problem! However, the ninja in charge of the household registration has not yet come to work, and I don't know where there are vacancies." The third generation flipped through a booklet and said with a headache: "Let's do this! If you don't mind, Kaguya-kun will stay and chat with the old man and me, and wait for a while. If Jun Malu feels bored, you might as well go for a stroll on the street and familiarize yourself with the environment in advance. If you don’t know the way, just ask the passers-by. How about it? ?”

"Brother?" After hearing Sandai's proposal, Jun Ma Lu was a little at a loss, but looked at me with unconcealable excitement.He had never visited such a big village before, so he couldn't help being curious.

"You go. If you have something to do, contact me purely. If there is a conflict, try not to do anything." I nodded slightly in agreement, and I asked him to put down his luggage, and gave him some money, and said: "It's fun." Following my movements, a slender white shadow in the cuffs rushed into his sleeves in an instant.

"Okay!" Jun Malu responded happily, patted his sleeves, and couldn't help showing a long-lost smile on his face: "Then I'm leaving, brother, and three generations of grandpas."

Watching that small figure disappear into the corridor behind the door.

After Junma Lu left the office, the smile on Sandai's face gradually disappeared, and he put down the roster in his hand with a serious expression.Picking up the pipe again and lighting it up, taking a puff slowly, he said in a deep voice, "Kaguya-kun, can you explain why you came here?"

The matter of the Uchiha clan has not been long in the past.Even though the other villagers didn't notice, in fact, the village is still in the alert period, and even the tourist season, which was supposed to open half a month ago, has been pushed back for nearly two months.Konoha's senior management needs time to deal with the aftermath of the incident. After all, no matter how the Uchiha family falls, they are still the largest family in Konoha. The huge inheritance does not mean that it can be solved immediately. .

However, even though the sky is dark and busy, it can be said that the three generations who have not had a good rest for a long time have not forgotten the most important thing - half of the reason why I came to Konoha for the first time was related to the Uchiha extermination The "real murderer" in the incident, Konoha Renren, Uchiha Itachi.

Even though Anbu, who was in charge of tracking and observing me at the time, did not find any evidence or intelligence that was directly related to that incident.But it is undeniable that doubts are not completely absent.

Regardless of the purpose of my visit to Konoha, whether it is really what I said to him at the time, for the entrustment, for the herbal medicine.Just why I left Konoha without warning on the night before the genocide incident... That extremely "coincidence" time made my relationship with this incident undoubtedly become ambiguous.

And yet, I came back here, a month after that night.

Three generations have never had anything to do with the word idiot.It is impossible to ignore my suspicions and approve my application so easily, at least... before he gets an explanation and chips that satisfy him and the elders.

"Kunmaro and I are both from the Kaguya clan." Since I'm standing here, I'm naturally ready for everything, including being confident that I can get what I want.

"I know." Repeatedly emphasizing me like this, the third generation couldn't help but arouse a little interest, and replied cooperatively.Everyone can notice this matter from the undisguised surname.

"You don't know..." If I really let you know easily, I wouldn't open my mouth, and use this as a signal to start the "negotiation": "We are all the blood succession limit owners of the corpse vein."

Just as I expected, a look of shock flashed through Sandai's seemingly cloudy but extremely sharp eyes.In today's peaceful era, no one knows better than him as Hokage what the owner of a blood successor boundary with a special role represents.

For this reason, the third generation's tone couldn't help but add a trace of solemnity: "Evidence."

I raised my left arm, opened my palm, and secretly operated CKL to manipulate my sleeping favorite knife, bit by bit breaking through the wrapping of skin and flesh and blood, revealing the jade-like handle.Hold it with your right hand, and pull it straight out from the broken gap, drawing a beautiful residual white arc in the air.

Although based on my control over the bone veins, such a scene is far less terrifying than what Jun Malu used.But seeing with his own eyes that a person can pull out his own bones without changing his face, even the third generation who had already made up their minds couldn't help but widen their eyes in amazement.

Slender and delicate, the "Bai Ji" who looks more like a decoration than a murder weapon, after being flexibly played with a sword in my hand.I casually submerged the handle into the thick wall almost effortlessly, and then retracted it, leaving only the long and narrow hole that did not bring out any residue after the knife.

The pure white blade reflected a glamorous luster under the sunlight shining through the window into the room.

"It's been almost 11 years since I awakened Xueji, and Jun Malu has been around for more than five years." After making sure he saw it clearly, I took "Bai Ji" back in front of him in the same way, and continued: " And I can be sure that there will be no other Kaguya clan survivors in this world."

> We are the last inheritors of the corpse bone vein.

"..." Closing his eyes, he digested what he saw, and after three generations, he said, "Why did you choose Konoha?"

Having such power, but not intervening in the Uchiha genocide incident, is enough to prove my position.If I'm really on the side of the Uchiha clan, even though I'm just one person, their plan can't be carried out so smoothly.And in the same way, if I were from the "root" side, there would be no reason to come to him.

Hokage and the Presbyterian Church are two separate factions. In the eyes of many discerning people, this is not an unknown secret.

What Sandai really couldn't understand, like what he asked, seemed to be general without any actual focus, but many things that didn't need to be stated directly could be inferred from his answers.

"It's just that I want to find a shelter for Jun Malu and him..." I lowered my eyes, and I couldn't help showing a wry smile when I said this: "Strength is never a gift from heaven." '. Awakening Xueji for so many years, I have fantasized more than once... If Jun Malu and I are just a pair of ordinary brothers, it would be great."

"It's as if I am what I am now because of the mutation of that power. In the days when I was carrying the so-called 'strongest melee blood successor', until today, my time... is running out." Eyesight like three generations , from the first meeting, he should have seen my bad physical condition that I can't even cover up: "I can't guarantee myself that I can watch Jun Ma Lu grow up and become an adult. It's because... He got sick for the first time a month ago."

"... Konoha's medical level may not be able to solve this problem." Even the third generation couldn't help being slightly moved when they heard the last sentence.Knowing Konoha's strength, he knows that things like genetic diseases are never something that can be easily solved in one generation.

And that well-behaved child who looks no different from other people of the same age, actually...

"I know, I'm also a doctor." I replied calmly.

Not a medical ninja, but a doctor.In this world, a doctor is not a title that can be given to a person who simply knows how to heal wounds.Familiarity with pharmacology is basic, qualifications are even more important, but more, it is a kind of dedication to the profession itself.

"I know that the choice I made is not only to treat the pain, but more importantly, to protect Junma Lu's smiling face..." Long, long ago, I established the unstoppable Shaken oath.

"Guardian..." It seemed to be associated with some past memory, and the seemingly cloudy eyes of the third generation flashed a sympathy for a certain memory in the past.But because of this, I never let my sensibility outweigh my rationality: "You just trust me that much?"

Even knowing the possibility of not being able to obtain more additional combat power, one has to inherit a part of the owner's body, or even a corpse, in order to study and obtain benefits, ignoring it as a so-called bargaining chip and swallowing it privately.It is not impossible for Hokage, who is more beneficial to the village than anything else, to do such a thing.

Just like this, he showed his bargaining chip in advance, without worrying about his breaking his promise... It's not even considered breaking his promise, because he hasn't promised anything so far.Where does that confidence come from?

> "Uchiha genocide incident." The sudden change of topic made Sandai slightly taken aback, and then my words made him unable to sit still: "I am one of the 'insiders'."

Itachi didn't hide any "secret" from me.

"You and Itachi..." Sandai opened his eyes wide, and at that moment, no less than six eyes full of murderous intent focused on me.

"In the eyes of Konoha's senior management, Itachi and I 'have nothing to do with'." Forcibly suppressing the instinctive impulse to fight back, I squinted my eyes, and there was no need to repeat the hint and emphasis in the words.

"Basically, I've been entrusted here to take care of someone." In the end, I concluded a seemingly useless sentence, but only those who know the meaning can appreciate it: "A person who doesn't know the deadline , commissioned."

After finishing speaking, I will not speak anymore.

The words have come to this point, whether to decide or not depends on the third generation's own judgment.I have said everything I can say, and I have done everything I can do. For the time being, there is no need for me to exist.

His deep but majestic eyes kept wandering around my body.The hands of the third generation were held and loosened, and they were given and held again. In the two condensed gazes, there was no lack of killing intent that made people's hearts tremble.However, after finding out that I was completely unmoved for a while, the coercion that seemed to condense the air disappeared without a trace in an instant.

He waved his hand to signal the people in the dark to lift their guard.The third generation slumped back on the chair, smiled at me helplessly but couldn't hide its appreciation: "Kaguya-kun, sometimes... I can't imagine that you are only fifteen." How much harder to deal with.

"As far as I am now, no one will believe that it is fifteen." Knowing that he has agreed to my conditions, I made a rare joke that was not a joke.

"Indeed..." Sandai laughed.

Isn't that right, the stern man in front of him, who at first glance appears to be in the middle of his thirties, but looks closer to his early twenties, how can people connect with the boy who was once childish and even more indistinguishable from male and female.

"But no matter what, I want to welcome you..." Standing up, Sandai stretched out his right hand, and said solemnly and solemnly: "Welcome to become a member of the big family of Konoha."

Silent back grip, I do not speak.

"home"?Maybe... For me, "home" is where there are Kimaro and Itachi.