By the small river not far from the meeting place.
"Will you come back to see me?"
Before they parted, Hydrangea grabbed Giyu's sleeve. She was very grateful to Giyu for saving her life, as well as the incident on the carriage and the death of Sansho Fish Koga.
Xiaonan also stared at Yiyong's eyes, wanting to see if the child's thoughts had changed after last night's conversation.
The reason why she wanted to make Yiyong aware of the difference in their stances in advance was to draw a clear line between the future ninja of the great nation and Hydrangea, the seedling of the Kingdom of Rain. Otherwise, the better the relationship between them, the more they would meet and confront each other again in the future.
time, it becomes even more painful.
She had imagined in her mind what it would be like when she, Nagato, and Jiraiya meet again after the organization is established in the future - things and people are different, enemies are not friends. But just imagining it, Konan felt a blur of consciousness and heartache.
New goals that were just established soon became difficult to maintain.
She didn't want this to happen to the two children in front of her.
"Won't."
Yiyong's words made Ziyanghua's face startled, and her eyes dimmed quickly. Xiaonan also nodded in understanding, thinking that what she said yesterday had an effect.
Until Yiyong said the next sentence.
"My family is under strict control, so I probably won't have the chance to be so far away from home again."
He seemed like such an obedient baby, but said something completely unworthy of the strength he showed, which almost made Hydrangea and Xiaonan laugh at the same time.
"Okay, it's getting late, what else do you want to say?"
Konan's paper clone has a time limit, and the chakra will be exhausted soon.
"Um……"
Hydrangea pondered for a while and wished: "Yiyong, I hope you can find your missing friend."
"I will." Yiyong nodded and said at the same time: "I also hope you can find a new family."
Hydrangea's eye circles were a little red.
Xiaonan spread her wings, raised her right hand slightly, and hundreds of pieces of paper flew up, dragging the hydrangeas, "In this case, let's say goodbye..."
"Wait."
Yiyong called out to Xiaonan.
"What else?"
"I need one of your hairs."
Tanjiro mentioned to Giyuu that Kasumashira and Tokito Muichiro's favorite thing to do is origami.
He must really like the ability to not only deform the paper at will, but also dye it and turn it into an explosive charm.
In the past, the two sap had little contact with each other, but origami was undoubtedly a very good breakthrough point to enhance their relationship.
"What do you want your hair for?"
Xiao Nan's expression turned strange.
She had heard the story about a witch from the land of ghosts who could cast a love spell on others through a piece of hair. It was Jiraiya who told her this story.
Yiyong bluntly said, "Let another person like me."
Xiao Nan's face was as calm as ever, and she was shocked in her heart, and then it turned into a joke like an adult looking at a childish child.
She waved her hand, and a piece of hair fell down, but it turned into a thin paper thread on the way to the ground.
"This is just my clone. Even if you take it away, it will be of no use."
There was a trace of confusion on Yiyong's face. Because Xiaonan was not an enemy and she was not injured, he had not used the Transparent World to explore. He did not expect that she was not a real person.
"But we can make an agreement."
Konan grew wings and slowly floated into the air, "If you are not a ninja from a great country next time we meet, I will give you a hair."
[I’m afraid that even if he has this opportunity, he won’t ask me for it again.]
Yiyong thought for a while with his eyes half-opened.
The conditions for resurrecting Kasumi Pillar and Muichiro Tokitou are that the two breathing methods of water and wind must reach the normal level at the same time.
At present, only Itachi can stably brush the Breath of Wind resolution. Although Uzumaki Naruto can brush it, the chance is low. If you want to brush it to 100%, it will take at least several years. Just wait.
There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with getting the gene carrier later.
Thinking of this, he raised his head again and nodded solemnly to Xiaonan: "Then we have an agreement."
Seeing his extremely formal look, Xiaonan couldn't help but feel dumbfounded, but her face remained calm. Without even saying goodbye, she took Hydrangea and flew away into the distance. Only the latter kept waving to Yiyong, who responded with a look.
.
It's a pity that Xiaonan couldn't put a smile on her face, let alone tell others about this matter as if it was an interesting story.
Whether it was Nagato's dream, the suspicious Madara or this country, each one of them overwhelmed her and made her breathless.
But there is such a fun thing in her heart, and there is nothing wrong with it occasionally making her laugh when she is alone.
After Konan flapped her wings and the hydrangea disappeared completely into the shrouded sky, Giyuu turned around and walked towards the place where he had an appointment with Shisui.
When they separated, Shisui sent a crow to follow him.
But then Yiyong planned to go on an adventure to Fortress No. 14, so he used his shadow clone to lure the crow away.
Now if Shisui returns to the agreed place first and fails to see him, and cannot find him through crows, he will probably be very anxious.
With this in mind, Yiyong rode the waves and finally arrived at a place where crows were everywhere on the treetops fifteen minutes later.
He walked to a boulder, opened his Sharingan and turned it around, unlocking the genjutsu attached to the stone, the Art of Here and Now (which can change the appearance of an object in the eyes of others). Instead, there was a
A small wooden house.
"You're finally back, Yiyong."
Before Giyuu knocked on the door, Shisui had already opened the door. Uchiha Itachi followed behind, but his face was a little haggard, as if he had suffered a mental blow.
But seeing the bandages wrapped around Yiyong's body, he cheered up and his eyes became dangerous: "Are you injured?"
"It does not matter."
Yiyong interrupted the topic, leaving the two of them quite speechless. This is not important, what else could be important!
Especially Shisui, who was responsible for taking care of him, could think of the situation when he apologized to Fugaku and his wife Dogeza after returning to Konoha.
He originally wanted to find a reason to prevent Yiyong from entering Yuyin Village, but he didn't expect that this guy got rid of the crow and came back injured.
"I found the angel."
After entering the house, Yiyong directly stated his "investigation results", "The matter should have nothing to do with her. She is just a female ninja who takes care of children in the Land of Rain.
As he said that, he cast an inquiring look at Shisui, while Itachi stared at his bandage and inspected it carefully, "Where are you?"
"I found the body of Uchiha Enhuo in Amegakure Village."
As Shisui spoke, he used three magatama to cast an illusion on Giyu, and a line of subtitles appeared in Giyu and Itachi's field of vision.
【Don’t resist.】
The two were slightly startled, and their mental bodies were pulled into the illusion space, but the physical bodies outside were still chatting intermittently, completely controlled by Shisui's illusion.
"what happened?"
In the illusion space that was exactly the same as reality, Yiyong frowned slightly, "Why are you here?"
"Since I stepped into Yuyin Village, I have been under surveillance by the enemy. Some of the things I know were made known to me by the other party, and some are things that the other party does not know that I know. I can only tell them here."
With his hands in a row, the three of them came to a laboratory with white walls. Four naked corpses lay neatly on a cold tray. This scene was formed based on Uchiha Shisui's memory, one to one.
Percent restoration.
Giyuu's breathing stopped for a moment, because one of them was none other than Uchiha Flame.
The other three people were mostly in their teens.
"My process of finding Uchiha Enhuo's corpse was too smooth, as if someone had drawn directional arrows for me along the way."
Shisui walked to the safe in the laboratory and said, "This is the laboratory of Sansho Hanzo's youngest son, Sansho Koga's family. In addition to Yan Huo, there are three other teenagers with different blood inheritance limits.
.According to the documents here, it is said that the Sansho Koga planned to test the compatibility of the Sansho fish venom sacs with the blood successor ninjas, so they opened the openings in their abdomens and implanted the Sansho fish venom sacs."
"According to records, Uchiha Fumi was the first one to die from the poison. His body has been destroyed."
He paid attention to Jiyong's expression, but the latter's face was as dark as water, and he was not affected. Instead, he retorted: "But the ninja dog named Kuromaru has already made a judgment, saying that judging from the amount of blood loss, Congwen should have died on the spot.
die……"
"Yes, this is the first point that made me suspicious of the document."
Zhisui nodded and replied, "It seems that Wen's body was severely damaged and may even leak more information, so he is not displayed here."
"Since it's an experiment."
Giyuu walked to Uchiha Yanhuo's right hand and pointed at the injury that penetrated to the back of his head, "How do you explain this?"
"The report said that Uchiha Enhuo woke up before the poison sac was implanted. When he was still very weak, he tried to resist and used genjutsu on the researchers. One of them overreacted and stabbed his skull directly.
, causing his death.”
Shisui paused and pointed to the remaining three blood successor ninjas, "Yanhuo's body surface only has incisions, but the remaining three people still have inactivated Sanshou fish venom sacs remaining in their bodies. This is the transplant experiment they conducted before their death."
Evidence. It seems that whoever arranged all this wants me to believe that this matter was done by Sanshouyu Koga. And Yanhuo's body should have been moved here after his death..."
He glanced at Itachi and said, "In order to further verify this matter, I wanted to go to the No. 14 Fortress to see what happened. But unfortunately, although I found Itachi, I did not find Sansho Koga himself, and this matter ended there.
If we interrupt, we can only find opportunities later.”
"Sansho Koga is dead."
Yiyong's expression was a little complicated. He didn't expect that he had killed the killer, but the investigation into this matter had reached a dead end.
"I killed him."
"What?!" Shisui and Itachi exclaimed at the same time.
Zhisui looked at the bandages on Giyuu's body and asked solemnly: "What happened after we separated?"
So Yiyong told the story, explaining that during his journey to find the angel, he became suspicious when he met Yu Ren, and deliberately sneaked into the No. 14 Fortress. When he talked about the collapse of the ceiling
, Itachi's face suddenly turned pale, and Shisui immediately stopped.
"What's wrong……"
Giyuu didn't understand, this was in the illusion space, how could Itachi become like this.
Shisui's eyes flickered back and forth between the two of them, but he still didn't speak. Finally, Itachi adjusted his breathing and said to Giyuu: "I'm sorry, Giyuu... you said that the intruder who caused the explosion and caused the ceiling to collapse should be us.
."
"..."
The illusion space suddenly fell into a deathly stagnation.
"What are you doing up there?"
After a long time, Yiyong asked in a cold voice, "The people in the laboratory told me that up there is Sansho Koga's office, and all the materials for the venom sac transplantation experiment are there."
"Giyu, this is a confidential mission involving Itachi——"
"Let-him-speak."
A clear cold shout and a rare high-pitched voice from Yiyu interrupted Shisui.
A layer of cold, moist water vapor surged around his body, pushing away the car carrying the body, and the atmosphere in the room was chilling.
Not to mention Shisui, even Itachi had never seen his younger brother angry. But he could understand it. After all, Giyuu almost died there, so anyone had the right to be angry.
However, Itachi completely misunderstood the reason for Giyuu's anger.
"Yiyong, I also want to answer you, but the task is the task..."
"You went to destroy the experimental materials, so you caused the explosion?"
Yiyong's expression looked the same as before, but after the past few days, his emotions had already accumulated to a critical point. He remembered Konan's method of testing whether he was lying, and his eyes looked through Itachi's chest, desperately
Stare at his heart and feel the changes in heart rate.
"Or is your mission to take away all the experimental data so that the village can continue their research?"
Itachi's heartbeat paused briefly, revealing the answer and letting Giyuu understand - there was someone exactly like Sansho Koga in the Leaf Village.
"Who gave you your mission?"
"Giyu!" Shisui quickly pulled at Giyu's clothes.
"He doesn't have to answer, he just has to listen to me."
Giyuu didn't expect Itachi to give an answer. He was just observing Itachi's heartbeat reaction after each word was given.
"Hokage? Jonin? ANBU? Clan? Advisor Elder——"
Once again, Itachi's heartbeat changed.
Giyuu revealed the name of the only Konoha advisor elder he knew, the guy Uchiha Enhuo said had repeatedly stopped him from becoming a Jonin.
"Mitomonitis?"
After a brief pause, he said softly: "It seems to be another elder."
At this point, Itachi and Shisui both understood that although they didn't know how Giyuu did it, as long as he wanted to track it down, he would definitely end up with that name.
"Itachi, now I can only tell him."
Zhisui sighed and advised: "Besides, the attack on Yanhuo and Wen was probably coordinated by an insider. That person was already a big suspect. Coupled with the previous incident of the two root ninjas, his
It’s even more suspicious.”
"What root ninja?"
This is the first time Yiyong heard this word.
"Konoha ANBU's team Gen."
Looking at Uchiha Itachi's ashen face, Shisui explained directly to Giyuu.
"This time Itachi is carrying out Gen's mission. It seems that on the surface, it is to steal the materials for the Sansho Fish Transplantation Experiment. But after I used my illusion to detect it, the real mission they received is regardless of the apparent mission.
Whether you succeed or not, you have to sacrifice yourself in front of Itachi, and the best thing is to let Itachi kill them himself."
Yiyong frowned, not understanding the brain circuits of these people.
"If a comrade-in-arms dies, those who survive will be responsible for the death of their comrades-in-arms and feel the need to inherit their will and take action themselves. This will lead to more emotional investment and guilt."
Shisui explained the logic of the Root Ninja's actions.
"This is the second time Itachi has experienced this kind of thing. It is very likely that he will be deeply affected and will be more inclined to the roots in the future. This is their old method. Changing Itachi's own intention is what they released the mission this time.
The true purpose can also guide Weasel's code of conduct in the root direction."
After finishing speaking, he specially added: "So Giyu, those two explosions, including the ceiling falling, were all caused by the root ninja. You must not blame Itachi for this...
"
"I never blamed him for this."
Giyu's focus is not on this at all, but he has a new understanding of the dark side of ninjas.
"What do you mean by Gen's code of conduct?"
"In short, as long as a person poses a threat to Konoha, the root can ignore the evidence, ignore the rules and regulations of Hokage and Konoha, and directly eliminate the other party. This principle also applies to other countries, all possible threats can be eliminated
To eliminate hidden dangers in Konoha while they are still in their infancy, this is the root's style."
He continued, "The root ninjas do not need to have their own will, they only need to obey the judgment of their leader, Shimura Danzo."
Yiyong looked stunned. He had just heard this name from Xiaonan yesterday.
The innocent and childish peace organization that Xiaonan mentioned that did not resort to force was destroyed by this man and Sanshouyu Hanzo together.
"What does this person have to do with Yan Huo's death?"
"It's just speculation at the moment. We only know that Yan Huo's route was probably betrayed by someone, and he has the ability to provide this information; he has a criminal record when it comes to human experiments; this matter will lead to conflicts between Konoha and Uchiha.
He also has this motive for breaking up with us; the reason why he wants to exert influence on Itachi should also be for the purpose of guarding against Uchiha in the future."
Zhisui concluded, "So, instead of staying here and continuing to be monitored and deliberately misled, we should go back first and start with this person to find out the truth."
Of course, his most important purpose is to try his best to give ready-made answers to the clan and resolve the conflicts between Konoha and Uchiha first. Investigations can be carried out slowly and secretly.
It was the first time that Giyuu had encountered such a complicated situation, but now that Yan Huo's body had been found and the Sansho Fish Koga that could be used as a clue had been killed, there was no point in further investigation.
"Let's go back."
He agreed to Shisui's proposal, then looked at Itachi and said seriously: "But you have to give me the report on the Sansho Fish Transplantation Experiment. I can't let you take that thing back."
"I see."
－－－－－－Digression－－－－－
On the shelf at 12 o'clock
There is another chapter, Big Brother’s, in the afternoon
