Chapter 171: This Is My Reward
Shirakumo Hayama came to Yoru’s side: “Thank you, Copper Fox Jonin. If it weren’t for you, my squad and I would all be dead.”
Yoru said: “Your Wind Release Sword Technique is not bad. One hand seal can release several Wind Blades.
Fewer hand seals, faster speed, strong attack power. Once this technique is mastered to the extreme, it is enough to become a jonin’s core ability.”
Shirakumo Hayama replied: “Copper Fox Jonin, this technique is called Vacuum Sword. It was the reward Lord Sakumo gave me after I completed the required number of missions on the Land of Rivers Battlefield.
I am very grateful for the reward from Lord Sakumo. Otherwise, I don’t know how much time I would have wasted to find a core ninjutsu suitable for myself.”
“So that’s how it is. It’s Lord Sakumo.”
Yoru knew all about it. He had just seen Sakumo Hatake grant the ninjutsu to Shirakumo Hayama in the Land of Rivers. He just wanted to hear Shirakumo Hayama’s evaluation of Sakumo Hatake from his own mouth.
“Hayama, you handle things here. I still need to go interrogate the captured Seven Ninja Swordsmen.”
“Understood, Copper Fox Jonin.”
Yoru came to the place where Ling and the other two were guarding Hozuki Ringo, signaling the three to leave first. He wanted to interrogate Hozuki Ringo alone.
He threw the charred, cervical vertebrae-broken, high paraplegic Hozuki Ringo behind a reef. Yoru sat on a stone, with a water droplet on his drooping finger.
Seeing that the Konoha Anbu kept silent, Hozuki Ringo couldn’t help but ask: “The Hokage’s lackey, I won’t say a word!”
Yoru smiled and said: “You’re overthinking it. I won’t ask a single word.”
He raised his finger, and a Water Gun Technique water droplet appeared at his fingertip. He said:
“I’m interrogating you just to find an excuse to say that my Water Gun Technique was interrogated from your mouth.
As for whether you say it or not, I will get this secret jutsu anyway. Why bother exerting effort?”
“What!” Hozuki Ringo’s eyes widened hugely. His charred eyelids cracked open, and thick water and blood flowed into his eyes, but he was completely unaware, staring deadly at the Water Gun Technique on Yoru’s finger.
“Where did you learn the Water Gun Technique from! This is our Hozuki Clan’s secret jutsu! Did the village betray me!”
In pain and despair, Hozuki Ringo’s screams grew louder and louder, echoing along the seaside.
Ling looked toward the reef from afar in the distance. He didn’t expect the squad leader to have such an exquisite interrogation technique. Why hadn’t he seen the squad leader use it before?
Was the gap between himself and the squad leader so big?
Look at how miserably Hozuki Ringo was being interrogated. Even clan annihilation wouldn’t be this miserable, right?
After high paraplegia, no matter how Hozuki Ringo struggled, it was just his head thrashing around wildly. He couldn’t even see the Fox’s mask.
Yoru remained unmoved and continued practicing the Water Gun Technique in front of Hozuki Ringo.
One Water Gun Technique after another pierced through chunks of reefs.
Shooting speed and water droplet intensity both required chakra to maintain. This technique might look like a no-hand-seal ninjutsu, but it consumed quite a bit of chakra.
When Hozuki Ringo shouted until he was tired, his eyes glazed over as he stared at the Fox.
“Who wants to kill me? Is it that old bastard Elder Yuan Shi, or the Kusagakure Clan?”
Yoru was stunned by the question: “I’m right in front of you. Of course it’s me who wants to kill you. How can you slander others?”
Yoru thought for a moment and realized this was Hozuki Ringo’s own imagination.
“Hehe, heh heh, haha.” Hozuki Ringo’s voice was desolate:
“In the battle with you, I felt every one of my moves was seen through by you.
Whether sword technique, taijutsu, ninjutsu, or secret jutsu, you knew them all clearly.
You knew all my weaknesses thoroughly and exploited them perfectly.
Taijutsu hard-countered Twin Blades Flounder, Lightning Release restrained my Water Transformation Technique, Fire Release severely injured me.
Now, you brought out my Hozuki Clan’s secret jutsu.
There’s only one possibility: someone in the Hidden Mist Village betrayed me.
No…”
Yoru thought to himself, this is actually my second time fighting you. Of course I know your abilities clearly.
In ninja battles, intelligence is extremely important.
If Yoru’s intelligence leaked, and someone used Lightning Release to attack his Absolute Defense Copper Light, he would suffer a big loss too.
Hozuki Ringo continued:
“No! It’s not betraying me, it’s betraying the Hozuki Clan!
After Second Mizukage Hozuki Gengetsu, the clan head, died in battle, the Third Mizukage continuously suppressed the Hozuki Clan, forcing the Hozuki Clan into humble hibernation.
The Third Mizukage died, and the Hozuki Clan strongly returned.
The treacherous dog Yuan Shi, the Kusagakure Clan, the Kaguya Clan, none of them wanted to see the Hozuki Clan return to its peak.
The treacherous dog Yuan Shi allied with other ninja clans, forcing my Hozuki Clan to hand over some of the Seven Ninja Swords.
We clearly expressed our sincerity in cooperating with the village and handed over Needle-Blade Sewing Needle and three other swords to the village. Why did the village high-ranking officials still want to exterminate us completely?
Not only deliberately leaking my intelligence to the Konoha Anbu, but also leaking the Hozuki Clan’s secret jutsu.
In the future, how will my Hozuki Clan face Konoha? They won’t be restrained everywhere? They want my Hozuki Clan wiped out!”
Yoru listened with great interest. So the internal infighting in the Hidden Mist Village was so intense. He followed Hozuki Ringo’s words and said:
“Save your breath. I was just commissioned by your Hidden Mist Village to kill you.
Your life is very valuable. The Water Gun Technique and Twin Blades Flounder are both my remuneration.
I pretend to have interrogated the secret jutsu from you, and then pass the news of you leaking the Hozuki Clan’s secret jutsu back to the Hidden Mist Village, and the mission is complete.”
“You’re so ruthless! You’re so vicious!”
“Not ruthless, how can one be a ninja? Not vicious, how can one be Anbu? Calm down. It’s just death anyway. I’ll send you to see the Second Mizukage.”
Everything was to intensify the chaos within the Hidden Mist Village.
A Water Gun Technique appeared at Yoru’s fingertip. One Water Gun Technique shot through Hozuki Ringo’s forehead.
It was over.
Yoru emerged from behind the reef and beckoned Ling over.
“Take this person’s corpse. Let’s go quickly.”
The Fox Squad didn’t delay and quickly searched for the Kiiroinu Captain.
The Kiiroinu Captain was not far from the three squads.
Seeing the Fox carrying the strangely shaped sword over, Kiiroinu’s eyes lit up.
As expected, it had to be the Fox to complete the mission so neatly.
“Captain, this is Twin Blades Flounder. Please seal it quickly so it doesn’t get summoned back by the Hozuki Clan.”
The Hozuki Clan had a summoning scroll for the Seven Ninja Swords. Even if lost, it could be summoned back with Summoning Jutsu.
Before Kusarinotsurumaru contacted the Hozuki Clan, it had to be sealed quickly.
Kiiroinu signaled his assistant Butterfly to bring the Sealing Bandages. Under the control of the Sealing Jutsu, the bandages flew out circle after circle, wrapping Twin Blades Flounder tightly.
Then, Kiiroinu took five minutes to complete the seal, completely cutting off the connection between Twin Blades Flounder and the Hozuki Clan’s summoning scroll.
Kiiroinu said:
“This sword can’t be used even if we take it. Fox, next we formulate a plan to use Twin Blades Flounder as bait to lure out the Mist Ninja, set a trap, and kill them.
Best to intensify the conflict between the Hidden Mist Village and the Hozuki Clan, letting them kill each other.
As for Hozuki Ringo’s corpse, seal it and send it to Root. Root will dissect the corpse.”
“Captain, I also interrogated a secret jutsu. Now this technique has become my secret jutsu.”
The Kiiroinu Captain asked with interest: “Oh? You interrogated a secret jutsu? What secret jutsu?”
