Sixteen Years Old, The Fourth Generation of Mizukage

As for Uchiha Shisui, who had been used by Uchiha Obito as a tool to muddy the waters of Konoha, he knew nothing about it at this time.

Under the extremely suspicious eyes of the Loulan survivors, he bit the bullet and explained to them the deal Kirigakure wanted to make with Loulan. He worked extremely hard to win the support of at least fifty percent of the Loulan survivors. With.

"You don't seem at all worried that he won't be able to convince my people."

Sara looked at Nagato, who was watching Uchiha Shisui being repeatedly tortured by the tricky and weird questions of the Loulan survivors with a gloating expression, and asked with some confusion:

"I thought you were at least companions with the same goals and positions, but it turns out that you are not?"

"As for companions, it should be considered," Nagato shook his head and helplessly spread his hands towards Sara, "But I am not a ninja from Kirigakure, and I don't know the Fourth Mizukage Kaguya Rei like Shisui. That guy’s weird brain circuitry, even if I wanted to go up and help win people over, I don’t know what to say.”

"...Are all ninjas like you now?" Sara looked up and down at Nagato, whose aura had gradually changed, with very suspicious eyes, and whispered in a low voice: "In the past, the ninjas of Konoha came to perform missions to eliminate When An Lushan was here, they didn't behave like this to you..."

"Oh? It seems that the queen is interested in telling me about Loulan's past?" Nagato raised his eyebrows and turned his eyes to Sara, who looked much better, with interest, "I don't mind being a good listener. Oh."

"It's unnecessary. No matter how many times I repeat it, Loulan is no longer the same Loulan as before." Sarah shook her head and said with a slightly emotional expression: "I am no longer the person who was manipulated by An Lushan at will but didn't care about it. Known as the puppet queen, the people of Loulan are no longer enslaved and oppressed by An Lushan's atrocities. We are now on the road of freedom of our own choosing."

"You will no longer be free soon," Nagato said kindly, recalling all the experiences he had had with Kaguya Rei since they got to know each other, "From the moment you were targeted by Kaguya Rei and made him interested, you There is no way to be the free self again.”

"Wha, what do you mean!?" Sara was startled by Nagato's violent words, "Yes, does it mean that the Fourth Mizukage has the power to control people's hearts!? That, that is too scary. ?”

"Well, if you want to understand it this way, it's not impossible, it's just," Nagato shook his head and said with a hint of self-deprecation: "He usually uses conditions and ideas that people can't refuse to change others. The idea is to make them his supporters and supporters. Even if he wants people to act as a target for him to attract attention, he will say it directly and clearly during communication...

Rather than saying that he is manipulating people's hearts, it is better to say that he has seen through each of our minds, and then formulated a plan to get us into a situation that we cannot refuse little by little. By the time we react, we have already been captured. Tie tightly to his chariot, there is no way to turn back easily. "

"Isn't this even scarier!?" Sarah's reaction was very intense. "No wonder, no wonder the conditions he mentioned to me before were all tempting for me to refuse. It turns out that just relying on With a little bit of chakra attached to the psychic beast, can he see through my heart?"

"Well..." Nagato touched the red hair hanging down from his temples, shook his head in amusement and said, "To tell you the truth, I can actually tell a little bit... although I can't do it like Kaguya Rei. Similarly, I will draw so many big cakes for you in Loulan that seem to be close at hand but are actually far away, but it is not difficult to seize the point that you want to revive Loulan and make an article to convince you."

"...Are we that easy to understand, in the eyes of you ninjas?"

"If you don't want to rebuild your home, why do you insist on staying in this desolate desert and living in the ruins of Loulan?" Nagato spread his hands and spoke calmly, "No one wants to lose anything. No one who has no home to return to his hometown wants to see his hometown turned into a ruin that can never be repaired. If we extend these ideas that each of us have to others, we will naturally get similar insights. ”

"It sounds like it's easy." Sarah expressed her dissatisfaction in a low voice.

"It's really not that easy at the beginning, but after you get better at it, it won't be that difficult," Nagato smiled gently, "It's always difficult to take the first step in a new direction, but Rei Kaguya That guy always has a way of giving us a goal worthy of taking this step... At this point, I am still very grateful to him."

"Then you also said... that after meeting him, you will no longer be free..." Sara was a little confused about Nagato's specific position, "Don't you look like you are enjoying it? ?”

"After all, this is letting your thoughts be dyed with the color prepared by others, and letting your heart plant the seeds provided by others. To a certain extent, it is indeed not very free." Nagato blinked and added with a smile: " However, in this life, who has never accepted the teachings of others and been infected by other people's ideas and thoughts? It is also a kind of experience and self-sublimation to bloom your own new flowers from the thoughts and ideas given to you by others. ah."

"After all that, do you still side with the Fourth Mizukage!?"

"Otherwise, why would I come to visit you with Uchiha Shisui as his envoy?" Nagato shrugged, completely indifferent to Sara's expression as if she suddenly understood, "Without his sudden commission, I wouldn't be able to do it now. You should have stopped in Konoha Village to prepare for whatever may happen there next."

"Konoha? Are you going to Konoha?"

Nagato mentioned Konoha, which made Sara feel refreshed. Her eyes widened, she grabbed Nagato's hands seriously, and said to him in a somewhat eager tone:

"Well, if you really want to go to Konoha, can you help me find out about a child named Uzumaki Naruto? Although several other Konoha ninjas who participated in the mission to conquer An Lushan at that time have said , Uzumaki Naruto is a ninja from the future, and he is a person who will inevitably return to his original world with the seal of the dragon vein. However, even if he is a person from the future, after so long, at his age, , should have been born in Konoha now, right?"

"...What are you going to do to him?" Nagato looked at Sara who was suddenly excited, as if something had been activated all of a sudden. It is absolutely impossible for me to agree to bringing him to Loulan from his parents."

"No, no, I just, simply, want to make sure whether he was born well and lived well in Konoha, that's all."

Sara bit her lips and said in an almost pleading tone:

"Please, just help me find him, and then help me make sure that he grows up well... I have known for a long time that nothing will happen to me with a child who has not been born in this era, but, I hope that he will It should still be possible to grow up healthily and into the shape I know, right?

Yes, if you can help me find out Naruto's whereabouts, I, I will help you convince everyone in Loulan not to be too opposed to tentative cooperation with Kirigakure, okay? "

Nagato looked at Sara, whose expression was serious and not fake, and took a deep breath.

"You don't need the latter one... If I just want to help you take a look at the child, I can still help."

"Thank you very much." Sara bowed deeply to Nagato with the etiquette of Queen Loulan.

Once again, I felt the pressure of a dead line.