Sixteen Years Old, The Fourth Generation of Mizukage

"Fist? Palm?"

Tsunade frowned and thought carefully about the two concepts Kaguya Rei casually proposed.

As a ninja, she has experienced hundreds of battles, as a doctor, she has seen life and death, and as an elder, she has traveled all over the world. All her life experiences so far tell her that the two words Rei Kaguya said at this time refer to more than just Kirigakure before and after being transformed by him, but she is not good at humanistic thinking and empathy, but the real answer is always like a river, a mountain, or a layer of veil. She can see it, but she can't. Can't see clearly.

But at this time, she was no longer the big fat sheep wandering aimlessly in the ninja world alone with her disciples.

So she turned her head and cast her pleading eyes on Jiraiya, who was also frowning.

And when the three people with the highest status present began to chat about what seemed to be serious topics, the other Konoha ninjas and Ninja School students who were chatting about various topics also fell silent and looked at the person with a half-smiling expression. Rei Kaguya, and Jiraiya who was about to speak.

Among them, Kakashi Hatake and Itachi Uchiha showed expressions of concentration and listening, fearing that they would miss any part of the next conversation.

"What you said about clenching into a more lethal fist...should not only refer to the Kirigakure Village that once turned into a blood mist, right, Mizukage-sama?"

"Then it depends on how you understand it, Jiraiya."

Kaguya Rei maintained a calm and calm expression, and her white eyes swept over every Konoha ninja present without concealment. After seeing each of them, they instinctively made a vigilant posture because of the sight that seemed to have an entity, and even Even Uchiha Itachi, who had just celebrated his sixth birthday, seemed to be no exception. After he retracted his gaze, he chuckled at Jiraiya and Tsunade, who were equally chilled:

"Answer me a question, Jiraiya... At what age did you kill someone for the first time? And at what age did you start mastering the skills necessary to kill a person?"

"...Is this kind of thing important?" Jiraiya narrowed his eyes slightly, a little confused as to what medicine was being sold in Kaguya Rei's gourd.

"It's just an introduction. If you don't want to answer, I can also use the two children Kakashi Hatake and Itachi Uchiha as examples. It's the same."

Kaguya Rei paused for a moment, then tilted his head and looked at the two people who couldn't help being slightly startled when his name was mentioned, and continued with a half-smile:

"Hatake Kakashi, according to your Konoha's official data, he graduated from the ninja school at the age of five and was promoted to chunin at the age of six. If you use this data to answer the question I asked you, he was almost five years old. At that time, he had completely mastered the ninja skills necessary for killing people, and had taken the lives of others with his own hands.

With this record, even for Kirigakure during the period of Blood Mist, only Zabuza Momochi, who was called a ghost by everyone and forced the third Mizukage to modify the ninja school graduation exam rules, could do better than him. Better... maybe not necessarily? After all, even though Zabuza killed all the candidates in that class, he still only officially became a chuunin a few years later. "

"As for Uchiha Itachi, although he entered the ninja school one year later than Hatake Kakashi, according to Uchiha Shisui's evaluation, he had also mastered it when he was five years old or even earlier. The skills necessary to take another’s life.”

"In the eyes of you Konoha people, they should be regarded as the kind of rising stars that can support Konoha's future, right? But even in the blood mist, the evaluations they receive cannot be as high as they are now. Konoha has received a higher rating."

At this point, Kaguya Rei stopped speaking. He squinted his eyes, as if he were a painter admiring the lifelike paintings he had carefully drawn. The corners of his mouth were raised slightly, and he looked at it with pride and joy. Jiraiya's body was shaking uncontrollably.

"Jiraiya..."

Seeing Jiraiya's reaction, Tsunade was also a little panicked. She first stepped forward and stroked Jiraiya's back to confirm whether there was anything abnormal in his body. After getting a negative answer , she turned her head to look at the happy criminal Kaguya Rei again, biting her silver teeth and asked:

"What on earth... do you want Jiraiya to answer!?"

"A very simple problem, but one that had been ignored intentionally or unintentionally by Kirigakure, Konoha, and even the entire ninja world before this."

Kaguya Rei reached out and filled a small glass of sake for herself, then raised her head and drank it all in one gulp. The sake brewed with a special technique surged down with a strong burning feeling, and quickly spread over Kaguya Rei. There was a faint layer of red on the somewhat pale skin. He put down the wine glass, still maintaining the playful expression that seemed to be a smile but not a smile, and spoke again, but this time the person he asked the question was replaced by a frowning man. Tsunade Hime.

"If you still can't figure it out, Tsunade-hime, then I'll ask you another question. Don't worry, for you who are from the Senju clan and have had direct contact with the first Hokage, this question is definitely very easy to answer. …”

"Tell me, as well as all the Konoha ninjas here, before Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara joined forces to quell the troubled times and established the Konoha Ninja Village in the Warring States Period, at what age did the genius boys from each ninja clan know how to step into the world? Go to the battlefield and become a killing tool with blood-stained hands?"

This time, it was Tsunade's turn to be silent.

But soon, she took a deep breath to stabilize her emotions, and said in a complicated tone:

"Grandpa Tobirama once said that at the end of the Warring States Period, children over the age of five would be regarded as soldiers who could participate in wars and fights, regardless of their talent level...and those geniuses who could kill the enemy alone at a young age , will be regarded as the future and hope of the clan, and will assume more responsibilities."

"You see, this moment is just like that moment."

Kaguya smiled, but his smile didn't bring any warmth. Instead, it seemed extra cold, extra sarcastic, extra... condescending.

"During the turbulent times of the Warring States Period, people sent young and ignorant children to the battlefield, expecting them to show their talents in killing enemies on their own. In this way, they selected the next generation who could lead the family forward. The more they killed, the better. The faster, the higher his status in the clan will be."

"In the blood mist that was considered the darkest and cruelest in the era of ninja villages, Uchiha Madara set the graduation exam of the ninja school to kill his closest companions, using the speed of his movements and the size of his emotional fluctuations when killing his companions. , to evaluate the full value of a ninja who is still a child... Those who dare to strike are worthy, and those who hesitate deserve to die."

"Then from the time when Konoha Ninja Village was established until now, how do you evaluate a child's talent? See if he can graduate from the ninja school early? See if he can attend the ninja school while his peers are still there? His hands were stained with blood when he was young, and he became a chuunin of his peers or even seniors? Then, these children who left school early and stepped into the darkness, with their hands stained with blood, were called geniuses and regarded as the future and hope of the ninja village? "

"There's no difference."

Saying that, Kaguya Rei stood up and began to walk out of the reserved restaurant. However, before formally stepping out of the door, Kaguya Rei stopped, turned her face sideways, and faced her struggling self. Laiya and Tsunade, as well as Uchiha Itachi and Hatake Kakashi, who were in the midst of huge pupil shock, coldly and lightly dropped a shocking comment:

"From the beginning to the end, Senju Hashirama who established the first ninja village in the ninja world, Uchiha Madara who survived secretly and let Kirigakure fall into the blood mist, you who ruled and brought Konoha into an era of prosperity, and the major ninja villages There is no difference between all the previous generations of movies... You are just a group of walking zombies who are still living in the troubled times of the Warring States Period."

"You seem to have never thought about why you take holding a weapon for granted, why you judge the value of your children's lives by the age at which they let their hands be stained with blood, and you even think that I want to take away the weapons in your hands. Part of the weapon was reforged, trying to teach the people of Kirigakure that it is incredible that human hands are not limited to clenching fists to grasp weapons."

"It's so sad. People who are haunted forever by the bloody ghosts called ninjas and nindo, with no way to escape, yet imagine that they long for peace."

I took advantage of some inspiration in my mind and quickly output it, eh