Sixteen Years Old, The Fourth Generation of Mizukage

"Hey, Lian~"

"Huh? What's wrong?"

Seeing Rei Kaguya taking her to a newly opened restaurant in the village to check out the restaurant just after the meeting, Terumi Mei couldn't help but press her eyebrows and look at the Mizukage Mikami on her body. Kaguya Rei, who hadn't even changed out of her robe yet, complained:

"Can you please stop being so ridiculously relaxed in private? I'm not asking you to maintain Mizukage's majesty and demeanor in front of everyone, but...can you stop trying to deny it just now despite all the opinions? After coming up with the proposal to select a new Jinchuuriki from the village, you immediately ran out to find food like a normal person?"

"What you said is that work is work and life is life. If you can't figure out the boundaries between the two, it will only make the atmosphere in the workplace worse and worse. I hope that Kirigakure in the future can become a place where people have different opinions. I have to perform my duties and don’t build a country that is ineffective and involuntarily all day long. Then as a Mizukage, I must not give others a bad start."

While dealing with the angry Terumi Mei, Kaguya Rei greeted the restaurant owner who had just come here to seek development because of the new policy issued by Kirigakure Village:

"Hey, boss, do you have any new goods today?"

"Of course, of course, Mizukage-sama, I wonder which type of food you prefer?"

"I don't have any taboos, what about you Terumi Mei?"

"I... neither did I."

"Then feel free to customize today's dishes according to the amount for two people, and show off your housekeeping skills. If the dishes are unique enough, I will consider recommending you to the famous names in the Land of Water and other countries. .”

"You must do your best!"

With a flattered expression, the boss bowed deeply and ran back to the kitchen to start working at full strength. Kaguya Rei and Terumi Mei also entered a quiet private room under the leadership of a young waiter and continued to play. Let’s bring up the topic just now.

"But I still don't quite understand why you refuse to select a new Jinchuuriki now..." Terumi Mei looked at Kaguya Rei who casually put the Mizukage hat aside, and said helplessly: "You know you When they rejected this proposal, how shocked were the expressions on the jonins who attended the meeting, Rei?"

"Then does any of them volunteer to accept this task and become the Jinchūriki of the Six-Tails?" Kaguya Rei whistled and asked with disdain: "If so, I can directly promote him to become my second Protect him, and personally preside over the entire process of creating a jinchuriki, to ensure that he will never go berserk during the process of becoming a jinchuriki...is there any?"

"...Except for Goju Yagura, there is no one." Terumi Mei gave the answer with a complicated mood.

"Isn't that the end?" Kaguya Rei tapped the table with her fingers and said unhurriedly:

"Except for Yagura, who was once trained by the Sandaime as a candidate for the Yondaime, and truly learned to care about the village, and is not afraid of gossip and malicious slander, no one is willing to sacrifice their future to become a Jinchūriki. Such a result , can’t it still explain the reason why I rejected this proposal?”

"Kirigakure was secretly deprived of most of his foundation by Uchiha Madara. Now I can only rely on myself to support the situation. But for the country of water, which is isolated and difficult to defend and difficult to attack, as long as it does not take the initiative to launch external attacks. In a large-scale war, with my own force as the trump card, there is no need to worry about the invasion of foreign enemies. Selecting new Jinchūriki is just a subconscious fear of insufficient firepower."

"But... if there are Jinchuuriki, there are some things that you don't need to do personally, right? Rei?" Terumi Mei recalled that in order to deal with the large number of difficult tasks that had been backlogged some time ago, Kaguya Rei had to go to the village while Continuously turning around, he created a scene of a dozen more bone clones running around outside, and spoke softly with an unabashed concern.

"Are the people in the village ready to accept the new Jinchuuriki? Do they have the consciousness to respect the new Jinchuuriki as they respect the members of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen?"

Kaguya rolled her eyes speechlessly and asked Terumi Mei a question that she didn't know how to answer.

Do jinchūriki...should also be respected?

This question, let alone Terumi Mei, no matter which village in the ninja world you go to, there are very few people who can give a positive answer without hesitation.

The jinchuriki is the container that seals the tailed beast, and the tailed beast is a walking natural disaster that everyone fears like a tiger. Under the premise that most ninja villages have experienced disasters caused by rampant tailed beasts, and most jinchuriki cannot reach reconciliation with the tailed beasts in their bodies, the jinchuriki is nothing more than a walking and uncontrollable human bomb. , how many people would be willing to get close to a bomb and have a good relationship with it?

"You see, the Jinchuriki itself is an existence that needs to use its own spirit to fight against the erosion of the tailed beasts. And in this case, the people around him will instinctively isolate him because of their fear of the Jinchuriki and the tailed beasts. stand up……"

Kaguya Rei stared out the window at the area that was almost razed to the ground by the Vulpix Tailed Beast Jade, and sighed and said:

"A person's spirit and will are always limited. If he cannot obtain satisfaction and supplementation from the outside, how can he resist the erosion of the tailed beast... And once the jinchūriki's spirit reaches its limit, the tailed beast in the body will break down. Leaving the body and going on a rampage will not only take away the life of the jinchuriki, but also further deepen people's fear of the jinchuriki and the tailed beasts."

"Unable to solve this vicious cycle, the Jinchuuriki will never be able to get rid of the position of a time bomb. And this kind of time bomb with a low upper limit and may hurt one's own people is meaningless in my opinion."

Terumi Mei listened to Kaguya Rei's speech full of humanistic care. While feeling a little awkward, she also felt that Kaguya Rei looked good like this. After staring at her slender white fingers for a while, she asked in a low voice. :

"Then, wouldn't the situation be better if the new Jinchuuriki were selected from those who have harmonious family relationships, or who have strong bonds and spiritual support?"

"Is your body growing too fast recently, so your brain is a bit insufficient? Terumi Mei?"

Kaguya Rei cast a puzzled look at Terumi Mei, "No matter how harmonious the family is, after a loved one turns into a monster who may self-destruct, everyone will become more cautious and careful in their words and deeds. Do you think For those who have become mentally fragile and sensitive because they have become a Jinchuuriki, what is the chance that they will not be able to detect this deliberately created care and indifference?"

"Once the care and bond deliberately disguised are discovered, the Jinchuuriki will only become more aware of the fact that they are already irreversible monsters... Unless the Jinchuuriki family members are as strong as me and sincerely I don’t think tailed beasts are much of a threat, otherwise, how could they not show any flaws from beginning to end?”

"...So Rei won't look at the people around him differently just because they have become Jinchuuriki, right?" Terumi Mei lowered her head and murmured to herself as loudly as a mosquito.

"That's what I say, but how can I have relatives and friends who are strong enough to become a Jinchuuriki and who are so dedicated...ah?"

As he spoke, Kaguya Rei felt that something was wrong with what he said.

Let's just talk about the Jinchuuriki. Why did it suddenly come to the people around me?

As someone who has always been by his side and knows many of his secrets, why does Mei Terumi feel that she needs an unstable Jinchuuriki to share the pressure of work? And while talking, he guided the topic to the bonds and spiritual support that jinchūriki needs...

Kaguya Rei narrowed her eyes and looked seriously at the brown-haired girl who was lowering her head and pointing her fingers, not daring to look at him.

Is this a decision you made on your own after having a love brain attack, or... is it an idea that someone pretended to inadvertently instill in you, Terumi Mei?

I was deceived into participating in the monthly pass event, so let’s try to get more tickets...