Sunny and cheerful Konoha Genin

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Just as Darui was gathering his strength, the window opposite him suddenly opened.

? !

Darui was startled and subconsciously looked over there, just in time to meet the gaze of Ito Toru who was quite speechless.

This guy!

How come you're there?

An awkward atmosphere suddenly spread.

The air almost froze at this moment.

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At this time, the door next to him also opened.

"Brother Darui! I met the Konoha ninja you mentioned and brought him here! Tell him the information you know!"

Omoyi walked in excitedly, then was stunned.

He saw Toru Ito standing outside the open window opposite, and his brain was a little slow to react for a moment.

"Master Ito, why are you over there?"

Behind him, another Toru Ito also walked in.

Then with a bang, it turned into white mist and disappeared.

"It's a shadow clone, you are amazing..."

Darui let out a long breath.

"But this way, we finally have someone more reliable."

"..."

Toru Ito climbed through the window and entered the house in a chic manner.

"Tell me, what's going on."

"Omoi."

Darui first looked at Omoi next to him.

"Yes."

Omoyi understood, took out a lollipop from his arms and put it in his mouth, then walked out and started patrolling outside the door.

“It’s safe here.”

Darui sighed slightly.

"But I guess there won't be many days left."

"Lord Ai... has fallen into a state of complete madness. I don't know if it was his own intention or because of some other influence."

“How crazy is it?”

Ito Toru frowned slightly.

"Now nearly one-fifth of the ninjas in the Hidden Cloud Village have died."

"And most of them died in internal fighting..."

Darui rubbed his bloodshot eyes.

"Lord Kirabi has been imprisoned, and the other high-ranking officials have either chosen to surrender, or have been killed or imprisoned."

"I guess by now, the integration of resources within the Hidden Cloud Village has been completed."

"It won't be long before war once again engulfs the five great nations!"

"No one can stay out of this. This will be an unprecedented war to the death!"

He finished speaking in one breath, picked up the water cup beside him and took two sips, then he breathed a little easier.

"But aren't you a ninja from the Hidden Cloud Village?"

Ito Toru looked into his eyes, thought for a moment and said:

"Is this...really okay? Tell me such important news."

"If people knew about this, you would probably become a traitor, right?"

"..."

Darui bowed his head and remained silent.

"Yeah, I've thought about this a lot before."

"Why not just go with the flow? When the war breaks out, I just need to fulfill my duties as a ninja, just like a tool, to complete the tasks assigned by my superiors."

"but……"

At this moment, many memories suddenly flowed into my mind.

Darui thought of his friends and the subordinates who died to cover his escape.

There were also the panicked civilians we saw along the way.

as well as……

The guy outside, Omoyi, has been grateful to him until now and even risked his life to accept him just because he gave him some money.

At this moment, all these vivid faces seemed to have gathered into a picture in his mind.

"I love my country and my village dearly."

Darui said in a low voice.

"And now, the man I once respected is destroying everything I love so much."

"I want to save him."

"I need your help for this, please!"

He moved his body with difficulty and sank slowly.

Because he was about to become a taxi driver who completely abandoned his self-respect.

It's hard.

He had been taught to be a man of integrity since he was a child, but now...

But apart from this, he couldn't think of any other solution.

"All right."

A pair of strong hands supported his shoulders.

"Don't do these meaningless things. This is not like your style."

Ito Toru helped him up and patted his shoulder.

At this moment, Darui seemed to see the figure he had longed for before.

I remember that the figure also helped me up, but that was after I had already prostrated myself on the ground.

In this comparison, Ai's originally tall figure is now outshined by Ito Toru's not-so-tall figure.

No!

How could I do this!

Although Lord Ai has changed now, he was still the Raikage who took care of him before.

A sense of guilt arises from the bottom of my heart.

Darui shook his head, forcing himself to dismiss the thought.

"So, what's the plan?"

"Is such that……"

Darui began to slowly describe his plan.

……

Three days later, in the Hidden Cloud Village.

Raikage Building.

The Raikage Building is now more desolate than before, and there are fewer people coming and going.

Every passerby had a bitter look on his face.

The entire Hidden Cloud Village seemed to be shrouded in a gray atmosphere.

As the Raikage, Ai stood in front of the huge glass window, like a statue, silently looking at the village below.

His eyes were calm and dull, like an extinguished coal.

"Lord Raikage..."

There was the sound of a door opening behind me.

A dark-skinned girl wearing glasses walked in timidly.

"The information you requested earlier has now been retrieved."

"Put it there."

"Yes……"

The girl breathed a sigh of relief, then quickly placed the thick stack of information in her arms on the table, and then fled out, closing the door behind her.

Only after she had done all this did she breathe a sigh of relief.

After all, no one knows how many of our own people have died at Ai's hands in the past few days.

No one knows whether they will be killed by the weird-tempered Ai in the next second.

but……

She thought of the information she had just brought in, and some doubts arose in her heart.

What does Lord Raikage want the information about the Kinkaku and Silver Kaku units for?

Those two ambitious people should have been executed long ago...

And in the Raikage's office.

The shadow on the ground twisted, then rose up to form a humanoid object.

It was Black Zetsu.

"let me see……"

He picked up the document in front of him and began to read it.

"As expected... the current Nine-Tail is not the complete Nine-Tail."

The more he flipped through the pages, the more annoyed Black Zetsu became.

The other tailed beasts are fine, even if some chakra is scattered, it can be easily replenished.

But the Nine-Tailed Beast is a little different from the other tailed beasts.

As the strongest tailed beast, it has the most scattered chakra.

And because it is sealed, it cannot replenish chakra from the outside.

Plus, we still don’t know who the current Nine-Tails Jinchuriki is.

"We have to confirm it through the scattered Nine-Tails chakra..."

"Ai, I'll leave it to you to find where they're buried."

After looking at it for a while, he lost interest and threw the information to Ai.

"Continue to streamline the staff and recruit anyone with a bit of ninja talent."

"clear."

Ai nodded mechanically.

Then Black Zetsu merged into the ground again.

His body fell into the soil, and soon fell into a new cave.

This is a cave with various white tree roots intertwined. Because there is no light, everything in it is dark and cannot be seen clearly.

One could only vaguely see some oval objects wrapped densely with a thread hanging from them.

When Black Zetsu appeared, he brought a little wind.

These oval objects sway slightly like this.

The thread on one of them suddenly broke, and the oval object hanging below fell to the ground!

The white silk thread wrapped around it suddenly spread out, revealing the pale human figure inside.

"Another successful transformation so quickly?"

Black Zetsu came in front of the human figure and raised his hand to inject his own chakra.

Yin power can create the body, while Yang power can infuse the soul.

Although the Yang power that Black Zetsu possesses now is only a pitiful bit.

But it is enough to create some insane humanoid figures.

The defeated humanoid staggered to his feet, and in the darkness, his green hair and long yellow eyes could be vaguely seen.

This is a newborn White Zetsu!

"Just a little more would be nice."

Black Zetsu nodded in satisfaction.

And in this underground space, there are nearly ten thousand cocoons densely packed together!