Pokémon Ninja Scrolls of the Mizukage

Chapter 285: Is Konoha up to something?
Six days later.

Jianchuan Ju once again came to the secret room in Master Yuan's home.

However, this time, only Jianchuan Ju and Qing were waiting here, Quan Bingwei was also waiting outside the door, and the old man who was most looking forward to seeing Elder Yuanshi again was no longer there.

Time passed by minute by minute, but Jianchuan Ju and the others did not show any anxiety. They just sat quietly in front of the door waiting.

Until there was a slight cracking sound.

The intricate sealing runes on the secret room's door suddenly showed some cracks, which gradually expanded until they covered the entire door.

Suddenly, all the dark runes turned into points of glow and shattered and dissipated, as if they had never existed.

Seeing this, the two stood up and waited.

The next second, the heavy door was slowly pushed open from the inside, and the figure of Elder Yuanshi appeared in front of the two.

At the same time, in the room behind him, one can vaguely see a huge pottery jar covered with complex sealing runes. This must be the container that Elder Yuanshi wants to protect and seals the three tails.

"Elder Yuanshi."

Jianchuan Ju and Qing both saluted together.

The elder Yuanshi, who had just walked out of the seal, had a very calm expression on his face, as if he was not at all surprised that Jianchuan Ju would be waiting for him here.

But when Elder Yuanshi looked around, he did not see his old friend, and a slightly lonely look appeared in his eyes.

However, in response to the greetings from the two, Elder Yuanshi immediately suppressed the complicated emotions in his heart, nodded to Jianchuan Ju, and spoke with satisfaction.

"You did a great job, Ju."

However, Jianchuan Ju did not show any joy at the praise from Elder Yuanshi. He just quietly took out a scroll, walked up to it and handed it to Elder Yuanshi.

"This is... This is the last words left by the third generation master."

Jianchuan Ju, who had been trying to remain calm, finally couldn't suppress a hint of sadness on his face when he said the last two words.

Similarly, looking at the ordinary scroll handed over by Jianchuan Ju, Elder Yuanshi raised his hand several times but failed to take it.

Just now, when Elder Yuanshi saw that the people waiting for him outside the seal were Jianchuan Ju and Qing, he knew who the winner of the Karuju Yagura rebellion would be.

Although he did not see the Third Mizukage, the elder Yuanshi once comforted himself by thinking that the other party might have been injured or unable to attend for some other reason.

But the scroll that Jianchuan Ju took out still broke the old man's fantasy.

However, Elder Yuanshi had seen many storms and separations, so he calmed down his emotions first, took the scroll from Jianchuan Ju, and slowly opened it.

In fact, both Jianchuan Ju and Qing had read this suicide note on the day the Third Mizukage died.

The content is not very long, all of it is the Third Mizukage's arrangements for his death and his suggestions for the village.

The most important thing is that the Third Mizukage hopes that his death will not be made public first in order to stabilize people's hearts. After waiting for the elder Yuanshi to lift the seal, he will temporarily handle all affairs in the village, and Jianchuan Ju will assist in his studies.

He also suggested that Aoki serve as the Three-Tails Jinchuriki and launch an attack on the Konoha forces together with Jianchuan Tachibana, and explained how to fight this battle and to what extent.

It is suggested that his death be announced after the war is over and a peace treaty is officially signed with Konoha, with Tachibana Jianchuan taking over as the Fourth Mizukage.

The rest of the long text is all about reminding Jianchuan Ju how to balance the ninja clan and civilian ninjas, how to deal with the relationship with the daimyo, the importance of cultivating the new generation of ninjas, and the importance of improving one's own strength. It is also written to the elder Yuanshi, hoping that he can help Jianchuan Ju become an excellent Mizukage.

It seemed that this usually resolute old man suddenly became verbose and weak before his death, fearing that he had forgotten or missed something he wanted to say.

It seemed that he felt that the ten days of teaching by example was too short, and he wanted to put all his expectations in this scroll of his last words.

Time flows slowly.

Jianchuan Ju and the other person just stood quietly in the room, waiting for Elder Yuanshi to finish reading the contents of the scroll.

Until Elder Yuanshi finished reading the contents of the scroll, he slowly closed it.

"Old man, do I need you to tell me?"

Elder Yuanshi muttered to himself, as if he was complaining about his old friend for worrying too much, or as if he was reminiscing about something.

But then, Elder Yuanshi regained his spirit and looked at Jianchuan Ju and the others.

"How many people know about the Sandaime's death now?"

The two looked at each other, and finally it was Jianchuan Ju who answered.

"At present, only the two of us and your bodyguard Quanbei know about it. In the past few days, Qing teacher has been disguised as the third generation to work, but he only appears for a few hours every day."

This was all thanks to the operations carried out by Yagura Karuta when the Third Mizukage was controlled by illusion, so the others did not have too many doubts about the Third Mizukage's reduced outings.

Jianchuan Ju thought about it and continued.

"The Third Master's body is temporarily sealed in the scroll and I am keeping it."

In fact, Jianchuan Ju placed the scroll that sealed the body in the "secret space". Jianchuan Ju was not at ease placing such an important scroll anywhere else.

After hearing this, Elder Yuanshi just nodded silently. The person was no longer there, and there was no point in continuing to ask where the body was. Besides, with Jianchuan Ju keeping it, it would be safe.

Then Elder Yuanshi asked about the main business, what Jianchuan Ju and others had experienced in the past few days.

Jianchuan Ju simply started from the previous "Mission Zero" and told Elder Yuanshi in detail what everyone had done during this period.

At the same time, having come to this point, Jianchuan Ju did not hold back too much.

This includes the fact that the Third Mizukage was controlled possibly because of Konoha's Sharingan, as well as the two abilities of Wood Release and Mangekyō Sharingan that Obito had previously demonstrated, and the fact that the White Zetsu hidden in the village was codenamed "Madara". A series of things that Jianchuan Ju has been able to confirm, in addition to in-depth information such as the identities of Uchiha Madara and Uchiha Obito's mastermind, all of which have been revealed.

Even Qing was hearing a lot of this information for the first time.

After hearing this, the two of them immediately came out of their grief over the death of the Third Mizukage and their expressions became extremely solemn.

In fact, Jianchuan Ju said these things just to make these two future village leaders alert.

How to fight against the so-called mastermind behind the ninja world still needs to be figured out by himself, otherwise Jianchuan Tachibana would not have not even told the Third Mizukage. Knowing too much without sufficient strength will only add to his troubles.

However, Elder Yuanshi proposed another idea.

"Could it be that Konoha is behind all this?"

(End of this chapter)