Chapter 194: Capable Subordinate
Clan Annihilation, in the original work, is just a cold term. A bit more complex at most adds a Night of the Clan Annihilation.
Real clan annihilation is countless living people being brutally slaughtered.
Uzumaki Clan Annihilation, Uchiha Clan Annihilation, Fuma Clan Annihilation, Kaguya Clan Annihilation, and many unrecorded clan annihilations.
After a ninja clan’s annihilation, they can be arbitrarily humiliated and cursed, as if their clan annihilation was their own fault.
It’s not because they were guilty of heinous crimes, but because no one will ever come forward to refute it again.
Konoha still has a few good people, doesn’t that mean the Uchiha Clan has not a single good person?
Konoha Village has given its final verdict on the Uzumaki Clan’s annihilation.
The Uzumaki Clan’s annihilation was because they greedily plotted to seize the Hidden Mist Village’s Three-Tails, bringing upon themselves utter destruction.
Whether it was truly because of the Uzumaki Clan’s greed, no one cares anymore.
After Yuka Uzumaki calmed her emotions, she wiped away her tears and began handling the scene.
All the research scrolls were taken away by Yuka Uzumaki using sealing jutsu.
Yoru then pasted exploding tags on the head of every corpse, first destroying these experimental materials with explosions, then burying the entire cave with earth release.
Carrying two unconscious Uzumaki Guardian Ninjas, Yoru and Yuka Uzumaki arrived outside the base.
Holding Yuka Uzumaki tightly, Yoru said:
“Sorry, Yuka, I can’t accompany you to the Land of Rain. I still have to deal with Root’s upcoming investigation. I can only help you this far.”
Yuka Uzumaki had regained her calm, no longer as panicked as when she first heard the news about her father. She said:
“I understand, Fox. Conducting an investigation inside Konoha is extremely dangerous, far more so than us hiding in the Land of Rain. You must be very careful too.
Thank you for letting me know about Father’s news, for letting me see Father one last time, for sending Father on his final journey. I’m already content.
You also rescued two clan members, Kaicho Uzumaki and Gencho Uzumaki, two jonin. I’ll treat them well; they will recover.
Sorry, you took so many risks for us.”
Yoru just held Yuka, feeling Yuka’s breath on his neck.
“Yuka, Nagato Uzumaki is now with Konoha’s Jiraiya and is temporarily safe. Don’t go contacting Nagato Uzumaki; it’s very dangerous around him, not something you can get involved in.”
“Okay, I understand. I’ll listen to you.” Yuka Uzumaki said: “Fox, if possible, can you use the Stone Panda’s reverse summoning to come see me?”
Yoru said: “I’m about to become Anbu Captain. Once I become Captain, I’ll have much more freedom. Then I’ll go to the Land of Rain to see you.”
Yuka Uzumaki first summoned Stone Panda Hakuji, then Hakuji disappeared.
Hakuji reverse summoned Yuka and the two unconscious Uzumaki Clan Members in the Land of Rain bamboo forest.
Yoru also quickly returned to the camp.
As the primary combat force of the Kiiroinu Battalion, it wasn’t appropriate for him to be out of Kiiroinu’s line of sight for so long during this critical war period.
Yoru had prepared his story and wasn’t afraid of Kiiroinu’s suspicion.
He entered Kiiroinu’s tent, and Kiiroinu immediately signaled the others to leave.
“Fox, you’ve been gone for many days. What have you been doing?”
After the great victory in the ambush battle, there were still many things for Kiiroinu to handle. Without Fox, many of Kiiroinu’s arrangements couldn’t proceed.
Yoru first glanced at the assistant Butterfly nearby.
Kiiroinu said: “Butterfly is absolutely reliable. No need to doubt.”
Yoru said: “Captain, I had a premonition that the Hozuki Clan or Hidden Mist Village would retaliate again, so I went to the coastline for advance reconnaissance.
As a result, I discovered Suikazan Fuguya had killed a certain Leaf Ninja. And that Leaf Ninja…”
Yoru paused, then said: “Was Root’s Otsu!”
“Otsu?” Kiiroinu stared at Fox in surprise: “Really Otsu?”
Yoru said: “Absolutely certain. I carried out a mission in the Land of Rain with Otsu before. Otsu is an elite jonin of the Aburame Clan with extremely formidable strength.
But he was no match for Suikazan Fuguya.
I don’t know why the two encountered each other, but from the scene, the parasitic insects were dead on a large scale. I suspect Otsu has already been killed by Suikazan Fuguya.”
Hearing this, Kiiroinu’s heart stirred with excitement.
Otsu was Danzo’s most important subordinate.
Ama was Orochimaru, given the Root number one code name Ama more out of respect.
Otsu was Aburame Ryoma; he was Danzo’s most capable subordinate.
Without Otsu, Danzo couldn’t arrange many things, just like how without Fox, Kiiroinu felt like he had lost an arm.
For high-ranking officials, capable subordinates are more important than family.
A capable subordinate can make many arrangements simpler and increase one’s control.
Now Fox had scouted that Otsu might be dead. If it were anyone else, Hippopotamus or Yak, it would be impossible to discover intelligence of this level.
Kiiroinu said: “This is important. I’ll go to the Commander-in-Chief’s tent right now to see if Otsu is still there.
Right, Fox, don’t leave the camp these next few days. We’ll soon go to the Land of Whirlpools border to pick up Advisor Mito Mon’en.
Advisor Mito Mon’en will lead the negotiations with Hidden Mist Village. The war is about to end.”
“Got it.”
Kiiroinu entered the headquarters tent and found not only Otsu missing, but Danzo gone too.
Uchiha Kane said he didn’t know where the Commander-in-Chief had gone.
Kiiroinu thought to himself, Root must have had a major event. Could Otsu really be dead?
20 kilometers southeast of Kyoto, Land of Whirlpools.
Danzo brought four Root Ninjas to the side of the secret base.
The entire base was completely destroyed, with only a solitary exploding tag wall remaining, proving this had once been a secret base.
Danzo stood before the exploding tag wall, looking at each exploding tag.
Someone had used powerful sealing jutsu to crack This Place is Not a Barrier and entered the base from the true entrance.
Prop stepped forward and said: “Lord, we’ll start digging right now and strive to salvage something.”
“Don’t waste it.” Danzo said:
“The enemy has mastery of sealing jutsu and must have destroyed everything inside.
Digging it up would be futile.
To so easily destroy This Place is Not a Barrier, the enemy can only be remnants of the Uzumaki Clan.
No news on Otsu yet?”
Prop said: “Lord, Otsu went to see the Walking Witch, and there’s still no news.”
At that moment, Rei quickly came before Danzo and said: “Lord, someone found the Witch’s code at the seaside. She left a scroll; please take a look.”
Danzo opened the thin scroll, which said that after Suikazan Fuguya was deceived, he flew into a rage and had been relentlessly chasing and killing her.
Otsu intervened to block Suikazan Fuguya but unexpectedly died at Suikazan Fuguya’s hands.
Yakushi Nonou also said that Jin and Kogi were killed, someone had swapped the intelligence scroll with fake intelligence, leading to the Mist Ninja’s failure to seize the sword and her own exposure.
Yakushi Nonou was now facing overwhelming pursuit by Mist Ninja; this was the last contact with Root for now, and she temporarily couldn’t appear.
Danzo finished reading the scroll and crushed it to pieces.
Kiiroinu…
The monkey cub has grown up and is starting to eat people, even sabotaging all his arrangements?
