Kurosaki Ichigo in Konoha

Although he seemed a little hasty when escaping, Aihara Sogo obviously would not neglect this, so when Kurosaki Ichigo entered his secret room, he found only dozens of miserable corpses.

Not giving up, Kurosaki Ichigo searched the secret room carefully, but the result was in vain and nothing of value was found.

Of course, this value is for finding the whereabouts of Aihara Sogo. In other respects, Kurosaki Ichigo is not without gains. The proof is the bulging ninja bag on his waist and the several brands he is holding in his hand.

Those plates were found from the items left behind by Sogo Aihara. They were the identity plates of the ninjas of Yugakure Village. Naturally, they were of little use to Sogo Aihara, but they were not useful to Ichigo Kurosaki. It's the same, after all, he came to Luci Woodland after accepting an investigation mission.

It is written on the scroll of the investigation mission that if the identity plates of the Yuno Kuni ninjas can be recovered and the investigation process is described, the mission can be regarded as completed. Now Kurosaki Ichigo has found these nameplates. It is already certain that the mission bonus of 300 million taels will fall into his pocket.

Moreover, what Kurosaki Ichigo found was not only these identity plates, but also a large amount of property that Sogo Aihara did not have time to take away when he left in a hurry.There were 200 million taels in cash alone, and they were all big bills of 1 taels each. These were all put into the ninja bag by Kurosaki Ichigo without ceremony.

However, Kurosaki Ichigo was not dazzled by this windfall. He quickly calmed down, left the secret room, and searched around the village a few more times.

But ninjas like Aihara Sogo who have experienced wars are obviously not comparable to ordinary people like Taro. Kurosaki Ichigo couldn't find any traces of Aihara Sogo's escape after wandering around for a long time, so he could only choose to give up angrily.

After returning to the nameless village, Kurosaki Ichigo dug a big hole outside the village and hastily buried dozens of corpses in Aihara Sogo's secret room.

Facing the stone slab he found at random and half-buried in the ground to serve as a tombstone, Kurosaki Ichigo clasped his hands together and bowed several times, "Although I don't know if there is a concept of soul in this world, I hope that if you have a soul, you will reincarnate. Reincarnate and don't become a being like Xu, otherwise you and other mortals will fall into pain."

After paying homage, Kurosaki Ichigo returned to the secret room and searched out all the belongings. Since he was the one who chased Aihara Sogo away, he felt no guilt in taking these things.

After making sure that nothing was missing, Kurosaki Ichigo embarked on the return journey.

At the same time, thousands of miles away in Konoha Village, the third-generation Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen, ANBU Minister Shimura Danzo, the leader of the advisory group Tanakomura, Mito Monen, Akimichi Tifeng and Uchiha Kagami, etc. Currently, the big guys in the ninja world are gathered together and are discussing the matter of Kurosaki Ichigo.

"After investigating the entire Kingdom of Iron, we can preliminarily confirm that Uchiha Ichigo has appeared in the Kingdom of Iron, and even lived in the Shijie Mountain area within the Kingdom of Iron for a period of time."

The one who spoke was Shimura Danzo. During the Great Ninja War, he was appointed as the Minister of ANBU by Senju Tobirama and had control of a large amount of ANBU resources. However, after his lifelong enemy Hiruzen Sarutobi became the Hokage, he knew that his life was about to end. I was having a hard time, so my tone of voice wasn’t very good either.

After turning to bed, Koharu frowned, feeling a little familiar with the location Danzo Shimura mentioned. "Isn't Shirotsuyama the dojo of a village within the Sword Saint City of the Land of Iron?"

"That's right," Danzo Shimura nodded in response, "And according to our inquiries about the transport team from the Kingdom of Iron, Uchiha Ichigo should have brought with him Hiro Sanada, a disciple from the village within the castle, when he left Mōkyōzan. Hao set off as a companion."

"This guy" mentioned Sanada Hirohiro. When Koharu went to bed, he thought of the beautiful woman who had first revealed her amazing charm a few years ago. She felt a little angry for some reason and said to herself through gritted teeth.

Sarutobi Hiruzen glanced at Koharu, who was sleeping, and secretly sighed that women were really difficult to understand. Then he asked, "What about the rest, such as Uchiha Ichigo's next route or the purpose of his departure? Is there any progress?"

Danzo Shimura shook his head, his expression not very good. Obviously the lack of ANBU intelligence capabilities made him very dissatisfied. "Now except that Uchiha Ichigo appeared and lived in the Kingdom of Iron, we can't confirm anything. After all, this matter must be extremely serious." Investigate carefully, otherwise just kill all the people in the mountains and ask the village in the city. Uchiha Ichigo has lived with him for so long, and even took away his disciples. There is no way there is no relationship between them."

Sarutobi Hiruzen sighed, how could he not know such a simple and crude solution? Doing so would be tantamount to directly telling those who are interested in all the truth they want to hide.

Ignoring the sighing Sarutobi Hiruzen, Shimura Danzo turned to Uchiha Kagami sitting aside, "By the way, you initiated this meeting, Kagami, have you discovered anything about Uchiha Ichigo's whereabouts?"

"I haven't discovered that," Uchiha mirror shook his head and denied, but then his voice changed, "But I did have a new discovery about Master Ichigo's reason for defecting."

"what"

The other five people in the room were all shocked, and all looked at the Uchiha mirror.

"What's going on?" Danzo Shimura was the first to speak. After all, these things should be done by their ANBU, but now he was overtaken by Uchiha Kagami, which made him feel a little embarrassed.

Uchiha Jing looked at the others and found that they also had a look of seeking knowledge on their faces, so he cleared his throat and said, "In this case, I wonder if you still remember a person named Hedi?"

"Hedi, the publisher of the Nariko mission." Shimura Danzo clearly remembered this name, so he immediately revealed the identity of the owner of the name, "I remember that the second generation didn't lock him up before. Could it be you?" What came out of his mouth?"

After Shimura Danzo mentioned this, the four Sarutobi Hiruzen suddenly realized Hedi's identity, especially Sarutobi Hiruzen. He still remembered that Senju Tobirama immediately imprisoned Hedi after learning that Kurosaki Ichigo had defected. , at that time, he was still dissatisfied with Senju Tobirama's cold approach, but soon afterwards the Ninja War swept across the entire continent. Kurosaki Ichigo's tracking work came to a standstill, and this person was also forgotten by them. The back of the head.

Among the few people, the most impatient one was Koharu. After hearing that Uchiha Kage had obtained information from Hedi, he immediately couldn't help but ask, "What information did you get to know about Uchiha Ichigo?" Why did you leave the village?"

Uchiha Mirror nodded, "There are some features."

"Speak quickly," Sarutobi Hiruzen was also dissatisfied with Uchiha Mirror's slow attitude and urged him.

"We knew before that the task given by Hedi was to get us a family heirloom gem called the Grayl Stone from the woman named Nariko. After several interrogations, Hedi still insisted on this. This explanation." Uchiha Mirror explained to them.

Danzo Shimura interrupted impatiently, "I know all these things, let's talk about the key points quickly."

Uchiha Mirror made a calm gesture to him, "After experiencing the war, my Sharingan's illusion ability has been greatly enhanced, so I interrogated Hedi again a few days ago and learned about Grell from him. The existence of the book."

"The Book of Grayl" Sarutobi Hiruzen frowned and repeated, making sure that there was no information about the Book of Grayl in his memory, so he turned to ask Mito Kadoyan beside him, "Monday, You are the most knowledgeable, have you heard of this book?”

The usually taciturn Mito Kaden shook his head, "I haven't heard of it, so let's continue to listen to what the mirror has to say."

Upon hearing this, Hiruzen Sarutobi turned his gaze back to Uchiha Mirror and heard him continue, "Grel is the name of a prehistoric country. At that time, they had a magical ore called Greel's Stone, which contained terrifying power. , people at that time relied on the power of this ore to establish the Greer Empire that unified the entire continent.

"However, this country was later destroyed in the civil war over the Greel Stone. The descendants of the royal family of the Greel Empire sealed the only remaining Greel Stone vein, and revealed the location of the seal, the method of unlocking the seal, and the secrets of Greel. The usage of the stone is all recorded in a book called the Book of Grell."

"Wait a minute," Akimichi Tifeng, who had been listening with interest, asked strangely, "Is this true? Why does this prehistoric super empire sound like a fairy tale? Why have we never heard of it?"

Uchiha looked around and found that the other people's faces also had some doubts, so he explained to them, "Because those descendants of the Greer Empire later left this continent and moved to another continent, and Hedi is Came from that continent.

“It’s just that although he has captured the Book of Grayl and knows the location of the mineral vein, he must have the help of the Grayl Stone if he wants to unseal the mineral vein and obtain the terrifying power contained in the mineral vein.

“After many inquiries, he learned that one of the descendants of the royal family of the Greel Empire had stayed on this continent and had mastered a Greel Stone, which was Nariko’s family.

"But he tried to seize the Grayl Stone several times but was repelled by Nariko's guards, so he thought of looking for help from the Konoha ninjas. Who knew that Master Ichigo had defected and was imprisoned by us? , until I learned the truth with my Sharingan."

Hearing that there were such twists and turns and bizarre things behind this incident, Akimichi Tifeng was astonished, "I didn't expect that there were such bizarre things. It's just that you said that Hedi's purpose was to get the Grayl Stone to unlock the vein seal and obtain it." Could it be that Uchiha Ichigo learned this secret from somewhere, so he took Naliko to defect with this purpose?"

Uchiha mirror shook his head, "No one can be sure about this now, but now that we have difficulty finding Master Ichigo, we have another option to possibly find him."

"What choice?" Xiaochun asked with concern when he went to bed.

Uchiha Mirror's eyes became wise, "Just wait and wait. If Master Ichigo really defected for the Grayl Stone mine, we can go there in advance to ambush him. One day he will go there."