Pokémon Ninja Scrolls of the Mizukage

Chapter 53 Meeting on the Boat (Fourth update! Please subscribe!)
Jianchuan Tachibana gave Shimotsuki Ichiro an apologetic smile, then stood up and opened the door.

Outside the door was Mei Terumi, who looked a little anxious.

"What happened?"

Seeing that Mei Terumi looked a little strange, Jianchuan Tachibana immediately became serious.

Mei Terumi glanced at Ichiro Shimotsuki standing beside her somewhat uncomfortably.

"Teacher Qing asked us to come over. There is something that needs to be notified."

"What about the mission to protect Mr. Shimotsuki?"

After all, he is the protection target of this actual mission, and it is not good to always leave the old man alone.

However, as a man of great age, Ichiro Shimotsuki could tell from Mei Terumi's expression that something important must have happened.

He said with a very cheerful smile.

"It's okay, you go ahead, Orange boy. What kind of danger could there be on the ship? I'll study this ninja tool here, and we'll talk when you come back."

"Thank you Mr. Shimotsuki for your understanding. Lanzai, you stay here to protect Mr. Shimotsuki's safety."

He first apologized to Ichiro Shimotsuki, and in the second half of the sentence, Jianchuan Ju made arrangements for Lan Zai.

"Quack~ (v)"

The combat power of Lanzai, who has just evolved, is not weak. On a passenger ship sailing like this, even if he encounters danger, there will be no problem in making some noise to delay the arrival of Jianchuan Ju and others.

The old man just smiled when he heard it and didn't take it too seriously. Instead, he waved to Lanzai to show his friendliness.

However, Jianchuan Ju's words when he walked out of the cabin still made old man Shimotsuki excited.

"Mr. Shimotsuki, I will consider the weapon forging. You can use this time to think about the forging direction."

After saying that, without caring about Ichiro Shimotsuki's excited expression, he closed the door and followed Mei Terumi who seemed a little anxious.

"What happened?"

"Come in first and then talk."

Since the team members bought tickets and boarded the ship together, their rooms were basically next to each other. It only took them a few steps to reach Qing's room.

The first thing Jianchuan Ju saw when he entered the room was not to look at Qing and Zabuza who were already seated, but to look at the two small coffins standing in the corner of the room.

"Two living people were sealed in ninja tools for so many days, and Qing teacher was able to sleep well."

Seeing that Mei Terumi had already brought Jianchuan Tachibana over, Qing did not explain the situation directly.

Instead, he habitually formed hand seals and released a perception ninjutsu to make sure that no one else was eavesdropping.

Then he looked at his three disciples and spoke.

"Just now, I received information from Ninjago of Yagura Karatachi. The Land of Water has officially declared war on the Land of Fire."

After saying this, Qing paused and looked at his disciples.

However, when Jianchuan Ju heard the news, his heartbeat just quickened slightly, and he didn't have any other special reaction.

When I first learned that the Third Ninja World War was about to begin, I was nervous and anxious for a long time.

However, the Hidden Mist Village has yet to officially intervene in the war, and has long since calmed down.

Hearing this news now, I felt like a rock had finally fallen from my chest.

Zabuza put his hands behind his head and spoke with an indifferent look on his face.

"The village has been preparing for war for two months. It's not surprising that they've officially declared war now, right?" Qing didn't feel unhappy when he heard Zabuza's somewhat arrogant voice. Instead, he felt relieved.

After returning to the village, they might directly receive war missions. What Qing is most worried about is that the two disciples who have just graduated for less than a year may have problems with their mentality.

But now seeing the condition of Jianchuan Tachibana and Zabuza, Qing was no longer worried and continued.

"Kokutagi Jonin's original intention was that if we had not completed the mission, we should rush back to the village as soon as possible. He probably didn't expect that we would find the target of the investigation so quickly."

The few of them couldn't just get off the boat and run back to the village from the sea now. Besides, there was a living person, Ichiro Shimotsuki, who needed to be escorted. The so-called rushing back as soon as possible was naturally nonsense now.

"So after we return to the village, will we be assigned war missions?"

Mei Terumi, who had been a little nervous from the beginning, asked.

This is also the issue that Jianchuan Ju is most concerned about. After all, the village cannot send all the ninjas to the battlefield as soon as the war starts. It would be best if they could have more time for development.

"It is not certain yet, but the first batch of troops to establish an outpost may have already set out. Even if we receive a war mission in the future, it should be an independent mission in the form of a small team."

In fact, Qing didn't tell the whole truth.

According to common sense, new jonin like Qing are not important combat forces and will not be transferred away specifically.

However, Qing is still a perceptive ninja.

The Hidden Mist Village is not like Konoha, which has the Hyuga, Aburame, Inuzuka, and various other sensory ninja families, and can easily form a professional sensory team.

If the village really needed to organize a sensing unit and transferred Qing away, the team would probably be disbanded. In order not to worry the disciples, Qing did not mention this possibility.

As the disciple who had followed Qing the longest, Mei Terumi vaguely guessed some of the situations, but after thinking about it, she chose to remain silent.

But after all, participating in the war is something he will do after returning to the village, so Qing decided to change the subject.

"I called you here for another reason. I have already sent the general information of this investigation back to the Jounin Kujira through the Ninja Owl. I didn't intend to tell you which family was specifically doing the smuggling."

"Captain Qing is afraid that we will be involved in the internal fighting in the village." Jianchuan Ju made a timely comment.

"Yes, but considering that you may need to be more careful in the future, I decided to remind you."

Having said that, Qing rubbed his eyebrows and his voice became slightly lower.

"It is recorded in the account books this time that the Xuezhi Clan and the Taitun Clan were both involved in smuggling. But it is not certain which family trained the pirates before."

"The Snow Clan?"

Jianchuan Ju was a little surprised. He didn't have much impression of the Taitun family, but the Xue clan was the famous Kirigakure bloodline family.

Since the character Bai, who is a member of the Snow Clan in the original work, is very likable, Jianchuan Ju has a certain filter for this family.

But think about it, in such a large ninja family, how could it be possible that all the people are as pure and flawless as Bai and snow?

Zabuza may have no good feelings towards these ninja families because of Karatachi Yagura. He sneered and said.

"They'd better not think about doing anything behind my back!"

Qing did not refute anything. He said these things to his disciples just to remind them to be safe.

It’s okay inside the Hidden Mist Village, but on the battlefield, the attack may not necessarily come from the front.

"In short, you should be more careful next time."

Jianchuan Ju and the other two nodded in agreement at the same time.

(End of this chapter)