It is the afternoon of April 20th, Year 60 of the Konoha Calendar, in the country of Waves, at the mansion of the Daimyo of Wave Country.
Having learned almost everything from the daimyo's attendants, I next asked the two captured ninjas.
There was no torture to extract confessions, they directly confessed about themselves and Cardo.
They are wandering ninjas, the male is named Kotaro, a fire attribute chuunin, thirty-seven years old, and the female is named Nari, a water attribute chunin, she is only fourteen years old, and is not far from a senior chuunin.
They are not together. There are seven people in Kotaro's group and six people in Nari's group. Kado hires them for 50,000 taels of Fire Nation currency per group per month.
They didn't ask about Cardo's purpose, they just obeyed the order.
Cardo hired more than 500 thugs, more than 100 chakra warriors, and more than 30 wandering ninjas this time.
During the battle with a hundred chakra warriors and security forces from the Land of Waves, many thugs and chakra warriors died.
In the end, a ninja took action to calm the battle. That ninja should be the rebel ninja in Kirigakure, the elite jounin Momochi Zabuza.
Momochi Zabuza will help Kado. I heard that it’s because Kado promised to let Mochi Zabuza establish a ninja li here in the Wave Country after he takes control of the Country of Waves. Then Momochi Zabuza will not be a traitor to ninja. There is no need.
Don't worry about the assassination troops in Kirigakure anymore.
Later, when Cardo failed to force the Daimyo of Wave Country, he captured his grandson, and then let the remaining people stay, implying that they could do whatever they wanted in the Daimyo's mansion, but in the end they would have to kill them all without leaving any survivors.
They have been here these days, until a few days ago, Kado heard that Dazuna hired a group of ninjas from Konoha, so he arranged for some ninjas and a group of thugs to rob and kill at the border of the Land of Fire.
As a result, there was no news from them.
There are still four ninjas left in Kado, including Momochi Zabuza's group. The chakra warriors and thugs are all dead. Those were the last eight just now.
There were originally some injured people, but Cardo said he was sending them for treatment, but in fact he asked the ninja to kill them all, so that he wouldn't have to pay.
However, Cardo himself also has chakra warriors and thugs. He doesn't know how many of them are in his fleet. There are at least tens of thousands of them in total.
Cardo's fleet has not all arrived. There is only one giant steel ship and four large wooden ships outside the Kingdom of Waves. From the perspective of the ship, there are about a thousand people.
Kado himself is said to live on a giant steel ship, and Momochi Zabuza's group is said to be on an uninhabited island. I don't know where exactly.
Unable to ask anything about Cardo, Yamazaki stunned the male ninja Kotaro and asked the female ninja Nari: "Answer a question, how did you become a wandering ninja?"
"It was my mother. She met a wandering ninja and thought the ninja was very powerful, so she followed him. Then he died, and his companions took possession of my mother. I survived like this, and then became a
A ninja."
The story Neri told was very sympathetic, but what she told was emotionless, and she was obviously indifferent to the point of numbness.
Mei Daizi asked: "Where is your mother?"
Neri said: "He died a long time ago and was used as a pawn in a mission."
Yamazaki asked: "If I kill your companions, are you going to avenge them?"
Nari said: "No, we wandering ninjas all live for themselves. This is what my mother taught me with her life."
Yamazaki asked: "So, do you want to die?"
Neri said: "I don't know, or it doesn't matter."
Yamazaki asked: "You should be only fourteen years old now and already a chuunin, so why are you working so hard to become stronger?"
Neri said: "I tried to become stronger just because I didn't want to be violated by them. That was probably the psychological shadow my mother gave me."
"You didn't lie," Yamazaki asked, "Then, are you willing to become our subordinate?"
Neri said: "Okay, but if you want me to go back undercover, I have to kill that guy over there first."
"There is no need for you to go back and be an undercover agent." Yamazaki said, "We want you to be a subordinate because you have good qualifications and are worth training."
Neri said: "Okay, then I will be yours from now on."
Yamazaki said: "Fire Lilac, Nari will be led by you to practice first."
"Yes, sir." Huo Dingxiang responded.
Meidaizi asked: "What about this Kotaro?"
Yamazaki said: "Just keep him unconscious like this, feed him military food pills to prevent him from dying, and keep him until he passes through the capital of the Fire Nation. Then hand him over to the Fire Nation officials as evidence against Cardo.
."
"His backstage is the wife and concubine of the Daimyo of the Land of Fire. This way, even if he cannot bring down Cardo's backstage, he can still allow his backstage to maintain his reputation and get rid of Cardo and curb his influence in the Country of Waves."
"It must be like this," Mei Daizi said with a smile, "Perhaps the name of the Fire Nation is the ultimate mastermind."
Yamazaki smiled and said, "Ha, that's hard to say." Then he sighed, "In the case of Cardo, it's useless to just get rid of Cardo. If one Cardo is gone, there will be a second one."
"The resources of the Country of Waves and the population of the Country of Waves are huge benefits."
"In the past, if the Country of Waves had money, they could hire experts from the ninja to protect them at any time. But now that the Country of Waves has no money, they will keep an eye on them."
At this time, the waiter came to ask about dinner.
Yamazaki said: "No need for dinner, but help us prepare a small courtyard."
"Yes." The attendant left happily.
Mei Daizi asked with itchy teeth: "Really, why is he so happy and reluctant to give up dinner?"
Yamazaki said: "He is happy for us to stay so that we can protect them."
"So that's it." Mei Daizi smiled...
Huo Dingxiang led Neri to pile up all the bodies, and Huo Dingxiang burned them into ashes.
"Let's go, Nari."
"yes."
"There is no need to be restrained. Both Mr. and Miss take good care of us subordinates. Naturally, I will not deliberately embarrass you in your practice. You will know it later."
"yes."……
Shan Dai Temporary Villa.
Nari was not moved by the sumptuous dinner. Wandering ninjas either earn hard money or earn life and death money. When they have little money, they have to sleep on the street. When they have more money, they spend it wildly and excessively, lest they die without spending it all.
However, Nari was a little moved by the bathing medicinal ingredients she was given. These things were really not cheap. A few packets might be worth what a wandering ninja would earn from a life-or-death mission.
"Are these really for me?"
Yamazaki said: "For the time being, you can use the same medicine as Meidaizi, but first reduce the dosage by half, and then check if it is taken internally. If there are no side effects such as allergies after a few days of medicinal bathing, you can use the one taken internally. If nothing happens, you will
Just take the medicine with Mei Daizi."
"Although you are not as strong as us, you are a little older than us, so you should be able to withstand half the potency of the medicine, and then add more slowly."
"As for the hidden injuries and overdrafts you had in the past, you are still young, so you shouldn't need any additional treatment."
Neri was a little moved, "Thank you."
Yamazaki said: "Go take a bath and ask if you have any questions."
"Yes, sir."......
The next day, April 21st, morning.
Yamazaki went to find Team 7, passed by the woods, and found Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke climbing trees, so he did not disturb them.
Climbing trees and floating on water are things that should have been taught a long time ago. The ninja schools in Konoha teach some things that are not practical for ninjas...