Chapter 206: Alright, Minister
Purple Cat, waiting far from the Stronghold Fortress, saw Fox Captain bring back a corpse.
“Purple Cat, you first process the corpse, ensure that intelligence can be obtained from the corpse afterward. After processing the corpse, we go support the four squads of the squad first.”
Purple Cat said: “Okay, the Yamanaka Clan has a secret jutsu that can preserve the memory area of the corpse’s brain for a long time.”
After Purple Cat processed the corpse, the two quickly headed to another Stronghold Fortress.
“Purple Cat, I see your secret jutsu for processing corpses is similar to some kind of sealing jutsu?”
“I don’t know how the clan recently obtained a new sealing jutsu from some channel, which can better preserve brain tissue.”
Yoru thought to himself, this is just one whale falls and all things are born.
After the Uzumaki Clan Annihilation, the sealing jutsu level across the entire Ninja World visibly rose.
Cloud Village’s development of jinchuriki rose to a new level, becoming a stable weapon in the decisive battle with Stone Ninja.
By the time Yoru arrived at the Stronghold Fortress where Hanashika and others were feinting, he saw thick smoke rising from the fortress from afar.
The battle was over, and there were no traces of the four Anbu Squads nearby.
Yoru assessed the battlefield; the battle intensity wasn’t very high. After the four squads blew up the fortress, they quickly escaped.
Yoru changed direction and headed to the rendezvous point agreed upon with the squads.
Under a certain waterfall in the northern Land of Waterfalls, Yoru waited for his squad.
The abundant rainwater in the Land of Rain flows southeast, becoming the many rivers in the Land of Rivers, and flows northeast, becoming the many lakes and waterfalls in the Land of Waterfalls.
The waterfall roared.
Purple Cat was reading intelligence from the corpse, Yoru looked into the distance, expecting his squad to return smoothly.
Not long after, gliders appeared at the end of the horizon one by one.
Seeing the number of gliders, Yoru breathed a sigh of relief.
It seemed there were no large-scale casualties.
After the gliders landed, the four squad leaders came before Yoru.
“Report your battle situation and losses.”
The four squad leaders reported in turn.
The feint attack went very smoothly. Earth Release ninjas used the Earth Movement Vibration Reduction Seal to reach the base of the Stronghold Fortress walls, and the Stone Ninja didn’t discover them.
They planted exploding tags and used the exploding tags to blow up a section of the wall.
They pretended to attack inward, attracting the enemy’s attention, then the Earth Release ninjas quickly escaped backward.
During the escape, two team members were sacrificed.
Gliders that had been prepared in advance descended from the sky.
Some gliders dropped exploding tags from high altitude, harassing the Stone Ninja.
Some gliders picked up the Earth Release ninjas.
Two more gliders seized the opportunity to retrieve the corpses of two Anbu members, avoiding intelligence leaks.
After luring the Stone Ninja far away, the Stone Ninja became increasingly chaotic.
Staring at isolated Stone Ninja squads, several squads captured prisoners.
Aries had parasitic insects burrow into the prisoners’ bodies, controlling these prisoners; they could not commit suicide and lost control of their bodies.
Yoru nodded repeatedly.
After being tempered by war, the judgment, strength, and more of Aries and others had all improved.
Such a dangerous feint mission was completed with only two team members sacrificed.
Purple Cat also obtained enough intelligence and wrote it on a scroll.
Yoru looked at the scroll, and the first thing he saw was a term: Partial Tailed Beast Transformation!
In the memory of the Stone Ninja Jonin, Cloud Village’s Two-Tails Jinchuriki Ryuuha had come to the front line.
Ryuuha partially tailed beast transformed on the battlefield, attacking Stone Ninja with a Tailed Beast Ball.
During the battle, the partially tailed beast transformed Ryuuha had clear consciousness and clear targets, without friendly fire on Cloud Ninja.
This shocked the Stone Ninja from top to bottom.
Hidden Stone Village’s two jinchuriki would lose their reason after borrowing too much Tailed Beast Chakra, unable to distinguish friend from foe.
Hidden Stone Village was very afraid of Jinchuriki Han and Roushi.
If Han and Roushi participated in battle, after the battle, Stone Ninja would have to help suppress the Tailed Beast, often resulting in casualties.
Ryuuha’s performance proved that jinchuriki could perfectly control Tailed Beast Chakra.
The fortress-guarding Stone Ninja saw with their own eyes that the partially tailed beast transformed Ryuuha was covered in dark brownish-red chakra cloak; normal kunai and exploding tag attacks were ineffective.
After the battle ended, Ryuuha ended the partial tailed beast transformation. Apart from burns all over her skin, there was nothing abnormal.
This Stone Ninja Jonin participated in the battle against Jinchuriki Ryuuha throughout, leaving behind valuable intelligence.
What level of attacks the jinchuriki completely ignored, what kind of attacks the jinchuriki would dodge—these were all important firsthand data.
Yoru said: “Squad mission successfully completed, we return to the village!”
It took more than ten days for Yoru to return to Konoha Village.
Ninja income is low, one major reason being too much time spent on the road.
A trip to the Land of Earth border takes more than 20 days round trip, and a month passes.
After returning to Anbu, Yoru handed the mission scroll to Lord Kiiroinu Vice Minister.
“Lord Kiiroinu, we obtained reliable intelligence: Cloud Village’s sealing jutsu level has clearly improved.
Two-Tails Jinchuriki Ryuuha enters partial tailed beast transformation on the battlefield, with clear consciousness, able to distinguish enemy from ally.
After battle ends, no large troops needed to suppress Tailed Beast Chakra, no one else needed to help her control the Tailed Beast; she withdraws safely.
This scroll has detailed records, including firsthand battle conditions against the jinchuriki in partial tailed beast transformation.”
Lord Kiiroinu nodded repeatedly, carefully reading the mission report. After finishing, he said:
“Come with me to see Hokage. Cloud Village’s sealing jutsu level is worrying.
Encountering this kind of jinchuriki on the battlefield, casually firing a Tailed Beast Ball with an explosion diameter of over a hundred meters—how are we supposed to fight?”
Yoru said: “Lord Kiiroinu, Purple Cat, Aries, and Hanashika performed well in this battle.
Purple Cat’s perfect reading of corpse brain intelligence saved me the steps of capturing alive, interrogation, and more.
Aries and Hanashika perfectly completed the dangerous feint mission, retreating unscathed in front of 5 Stone Ninja squads, including the supporting Stone Ninja.
Their judgment, execution, and combat strength all meet Special Jonin standards.
Regarding their S-rank missions and Special Jonin recommendations?”
“I agree to recommend them as Special Jonin.” Lord Kiiroinu would not refuse the request of his top squad leader; he said:
“First report the Cloud Village jinchuriki intelligence to Hokage. You fill out the recommendation materials today; I will have Kuroari, Golden Eagle, and you—three jonin—recommend Purple Cat, Aries, and Hanashika as Special Jonin.”
“Okay, Minister.”
“Why are you calling me Minister? I’m Vice Minister, call me Vice Minister.”
“I know to call you Vice Minister, Minister. By the way, Minister, do you have any thoughts on going further?”
“What, you want to be a minister-level Vice Minister too?”
“Minister, I think you can go straight to the top, directly become Fourth Hokage. Then I save on being some vice-minister-level minister; I directly become Anbu Minister. What do you think?”
Yoru had followed Lord Kiiroinu for a long time and guessed that Lord Kiiroinu was Hiruzen Sarutobi’s eldest son who had always served in Anbu, Konohamaru’s father.
Teasing Lord Kiiroinu to become Fourth Hokage, not only would he not get angry, but he would secretly be delighted.
The Senju Clan had consecutively produced two Hokage; what did the Sarutobi Clan lack—why couldn’t they consecutively produce two Hokage?
Lord Kiiroinu thought, Senju brothers as dual Hokage, Sarutobi father and son as dual Hokage—wouldn’t that be a beautiful story?
But he said: “Fox! That’s going too far!
Our main task now is to complete missions for Hokage! What Fourth Hokage or not, how could I have such ambition?”
“Minister, you’re even panting as you speak—is that a laugh under the mask?”
