Sunny and cheerful Konoha Genin

In the end, it took a lot of effort for Toru Ito to finally coax Yuina into submission.

It's not easy...

The exhausted Ito Toru lay there, feeling emotional.

Beside him, Yuina hugged one of his arms tightly, with a smile on her face, and fell into a deep sleep.

And the other side.

Zabuza, contrary to his usual behavior, fell on the bed and fell asleep.

He was just too tired.

The mental torture had already pushed him to the brink of collapse, but what Mei Terumi said to Toru Ito finally gave him a small sense of security.

And this bed, which had been slept in for a night, exuded a scent that made him feel at ease.

but.

He still had a nightmare.

……

Early morning on day 2.

!!!

Zabuza was breathing rapidly in his sleep and suddenly opened his eyes!

"It turned out to be a dream..."

When he saw the ceiling, his eyes were blank.

I just had a nightmare.

In the dream, those people he had killed before surrounded him in a circle and just looked at him quietly. Zabuza picked up the knife and killed them all again.

After the killing, a black shadow whose face could not be seen suddenly stood in front of him, laughing strangely.

Although he couldn't see the other person's face clearly, Zabuza in his dream immediately confirmed that the other person was Cardo!

He wanted to kill Cardo, but the opponent's figure suddenly rose infinitely taller and stepped on him!

And just after being stepped on, Zabuza woke up.

This made him feel a little depressed and upset.

I wish I could go back to sleep so that I could cut Cardo into eight pieces in my dream!

This is a big loss!

I was actually suppressed by Cardo in my dream...

But now it was already dawn, Zabuza got up from the bed, quickly tidied the quilt, and walked out the door.

He slept in his ninja clothes, so he didn't need to put on more clothes.

This is the basic vigilance that the Anbu need to maintain.

However, as soon as he reached the door, he was stunned.

"Hey, you're awake, Zabuza."

Ito Toru looked at him with a smile.

"We had a guest here this morning, so I entertained him a little warmly. It seemed that he came for you."

At his feet, there was a man tied up.

The neat suit that the man was wearing was now covered with dust and wrinkles, and looked disheveled.

"Ahem! Lord Cardo will not let you go. You don't know what kind of horrible monster you have provoked!"

Even though the man was being stepped on, he still roared angrily: "You're in trouble! I'm telling you, you're in big trouble!"

"Do you think you're stepping on me? You're stepping on Lord Cardo's face!"

"Really? Then I'll step on it a few more times." Toru Ito didn't care at all. He stepped on his mouth and crushed it a few more times.

"Ugh!!" The man showed an expression of humiliation in his eyes, but he couldn't say it out loud. He could only stare at Ito Toru with anger.

"Okay, I won't tease you anymore."

Hearing the sound of another door opening, Toru Ito knew that Bai and Yuina should have woken up by now, so he stopped teasing them.

"drink!"

He formed seals towards the man and released an illusion!

Is this an illusion?

Zabuza was a little confused. Ito Toru's hand seals were very simple. He could even perform the basic hand seals of illusion.

However, this kind of illusion can generally only work on children, and ordinary people who have not practiced the way of ninja cannot control it.

However, as soon as Ito Toru finished using it, the man's eyes suddenly became confused.

It actually worked?!

Zabuza looked confused.

What are you doing?

This simply subverted his cognition.

"Why are you here?"

Ignoring Zabuza's shock, Ito Toru began interrogating him.

"Because of the order of that bastard Cardo, that big sand pen asked me to come to this lousy place to monitor a little brat, and by the way, find an opportunity to kill two people to scare him."

"..."

You really have been thoroughly fooled by this illusion.

Zabuza and Ito Toru were both silent for a moment.

When people are under the influence of an illusion, they will use their subconscious mind to speak.

It seems that this person's subconscious is very dirty.

"Tell me all you know about Cadore."

"Okay, that bastard Cardo, I know a lot about him..."

10 minutes passed.

"That's all. I don't know about the others, I'll send them."

"Well, next you go into the sea and drown yourself."

"Ojibak, no problem."

The man walked towards the sea without hesitation and disappeared in a short while.

"Why is your illusion... so weird?" Zabuza had an indescribable expression.

Although the information we just got about Cardo is not much, it is enough.

But compared to these, Ito Toru's illusion really opened his eyes.

This has simply gone beyond the scope of illusion, it's mind control!

How can they extract information so smoothly?

"As long as it works."

Ito Toru shrugged, "Okay, hurry up and pack up and get ready. We'll set out after we finish breakfast to deal with Cardo!"

……

The Land of Water, a series of islands and shallow white beaches.

The scenery here is beautiful, with the sea and sky merging into one.

The warm sea breeze blew gently, and the thick fog that shrouded the entire water country disappeared completely here.

It's like being in a mirror.

In this beautiful scenery, the island manor with white as its main color stands on the small island in the center.

It was a manor with luxurious decorations and an expensive style.

There are several small sentry boxes around the manor, with fully armed guards standing inside.

And inside the manor.

The wisps of incense waft up, giving off a calming and mind-relieving scent.

"Hahahaha! Envoy, come and try this. This is fine tea picked from the top of the mountain in the Land of Thunder. It costs 10,000 taels per gram."

Cardo's face was full of wrinkles as he smiled, and he treated the envoy from the Daimyo of the Land of Water in front of him warmly.

"Ah."

The messenger had a feminine look and lowered eyelids: "Then I'll try it~"

He picked up his tea and took a sip.

"It's just average, not as good as the good tea from our famous family."

"That's right, for a crude person like me, this is the best I can offer."

Cardo smiled.

He's like a fat guy with a good personality.

"Oh... don't say anything extra. When will the important matter of my family be completed?"

"This, today! It will definitely be accomplished today!"

Cardo kept giving assurances as cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

"really?"

The messenger glanced at him and said: "Then I will stay here today. I will go back when it is done."

"The daimyo is still waiting for news from me. If I convey your words to him, it will be my head that comes to see you next time."

"How could that be? Messenger, you really know how to joke! Hahahaha!"

Cardo continued to smile awkwardly and then took out a small square of cloth and wiped the sweat off his face.

"Don't worry, messenger! We will get it done before noon today!"