Chapter 22 Someone actually came in After returning from Yahiko, Shiba Kiyokawa began to write a letter to Salamander Hanzo. He has no intention of surrendering to Hanzo, and even plans to kill this old Deng in the future and take away his gold coins! But now, he still has to find a way to stabilize this nominal guardian of the Rain Kingdom. The two main culprits for the demise of Akatsuki in the future are Hanzo and Danzo. Shiba Kiyokawa’s plan is to stabilize the former first and then concentrate on dealing with the latter! This is not only because Danzo is more hated, but also because Danzo Shimura now represents Konoha. As a Rain Ninja, Shiba Kiyokawa has the natural legitimacy to attack Konoha! On the other hand, Hanzo of the Salamander is still the apparent boss of the Rain Kingdom. Openly opposing Hanzo will only plunge the Rain Kingdom into civil strife ahead of time. Shiba Kiyokawa was not afraid of civil war. He didn't care about war and even liked to see rivers of blood. But he cares about timing and whether he can benefit the most from this civil war! Now is obviously not a good time. The Third Ninja World War had just begun not long ago, and those major events that Shiba Kiyokawa was familiar with in his previous life, such as the Battle of Kannabi Bridge, the Battle of Mount Kikyo, and the first generation of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen being kicked into the Three Auspicious Treasures, had not yet happened. This shows that the war has not really entered a white-hot stage, and the big ninja village is still in the stage of strategic exploration and stalemate, and everyone has not yet beaten their brains into dog brains. If the Rain Country suddenly fell into chaos at this point in time, the surrounding large ninja villages would surely be very happy to stop fighting first, divide up the Rain Country, and then continue fighting.
Just like they once joined forces to destroy the Whirlpool Kingdom! Only when the war escalates fully and all the big ninja villages are stuck in the quagmire and unable to extricate themselves, then will Shiba Kiyokawa feel that it will be the best time to deal with Salamander Hanzo! Before this, Shiba Kiyokawa's advice had always been to stabilize the demigod first. Be submissive on the surface to paralyze the opponent. Therefore, he was singing praises throughout the entire letter! A great deal of words were spent praising Hanzo of the Salamander for his outstanding contribution to the development of the Rain Country, and he fondly recalled the many glorious achievements of the demigod in the last Ninja World War, and boasted about Hanzo's wisdom and bravery. To sum up: I think Pisces has a good idea! He then hinted that the Rain Country is still undercurrent, with Sand Village and Iwagakure ninjas often roaming around. The Akatsuki organization has been working hard to protect the people of the Rain Country and wipe out these traitors. They are very loyal ministers! Finally, they sincerely hoped that Lord Demigod would trust them more, and at the same time, they offered some supplies as a token of their sincerity, hoping that Lord Demigod would accept them. Although this long letter was so flattering that Shiba Kiyokawa himself got goosebumps after writing it, in fact, apart from a bunch of flattery, Shiba Kiyokawa did not make any substantial concessions. He neither gave up the command of Akatsuki nor promised to stop the expansion of Akatsuki. Instead, he made a subtle request, asking Hanzo for more "trust". Once Salamander Hanzo is overwhelmed by this flattery and really makes a promise, he will be fooled by him! Tomorrow he will dare to use chicken feathers as a token of authority and rely on the trust of Hanzo Salamander to capture and kill all the Rain Ninjas who have blackmailed members of the Akatsuki organization! This is Shiba Kiyokawa's style of doing things. He doesn't care about surrendering for the sake of appearance, but only cares about real interests! It's a pity that one eighth of the supplies were wasted. But there was nothing they could do about it, as due to Yahiko's previous behavior of spending lavishly, the fact that they had seized supplies could no longer be concealed. It would be difficult to settle this matter without paying some friendship fee. After writing the letter, he gave the letter and the scroll that sealed the supplies to Konan, who then sent it to Hanzo the Salamander with Konan's paper butterfly. Shiba Kiyokawa has no plans to meet Hanzo in the short term. When the day comes when everything is ready, he hopes to kill the enemy the first time he sees him! After the letter is sent, all that is left is to wait.
Everyone in the organization was very nervous. A person's reputation is like the shadow of a tree. During this period, Hanzo of the Salamander still held great weight in the eyes of many ninjas in the Land of the Rain. Fortunately, just two days later, before the reply came back, many people had already felt the good changes in advance. On this day, a member of the Akatsuki organization returned to the base in surprise, and started shouting excitedly as soon as he opened the door. "Good news! Brothers, good news! All the ninjas outside of Luoyu Village withdrew last night. This morning I went to the woods outside the village to check and found that they had taken all their tents away. It seems that they don't plan to block us anymore." Then throughout the day, more and more members came back to report the good changes. "The people in the town to the south told me that the ninjas who had been threatening them the past two days finally didn't show up today." "The group of rain ninjas that had a conflict with us three days ago sent us a letter with a kunai today, saying that everything before was a misunderstanding." "I went out on routine patrol today, and finally I didn't encounter any unexplained attacks again!" By the evening, Yahiko finally breathed a sigh of relief. "It seems that Master Hanzo finally understands us." Shiba Kiyokawa happened to be staying in Yahiko's room waiting for a reply. He rolled his eyes when he heard this and said bluntly, "This has nothing to do with understanding. It's just that the money is in place." Yahiko wanted to defend his ideals, but before he could open his mouth, everyone started praising Shiba Kiyokawa. "Qinghe-kun, you have a solution! We were so worried when you didn't come back!" "As expected, I still have to rely on Qinghe-kun!" Yahiko was rendered speechless by this scene. Although I was very unhappy, I couldn't find any reason to refute it. Because before Shiba Kiyokawa came back, he really couldn't find a solution himself. This is his failure as a leader... What made him even more upset was that this time even Konan and Nagato didn't come to comfort him. Xiaonan wasn't even looking at him. Instead, she closed her eyes and looked daydreaming. It seemed that she was controlling the paper butterflies flying outside. After a while, Xiaonan opened his eyes and said in surprise, "The reply has arrived!" Everyone's spirits were lifted! The paper butterfly flew into the room with the letter. Yahiko was about to reach out to catch it, but unexpectedly the paper butterfly flew over him and landed in Shiba Kiyokawa's hand very smoothly and naturally. At that moment, Yahiko's expression froze slightly. Fortunately, everyone in the room was not paying attention to him at the moment. Instead, they were all staring at Shiba Kiyokawa, watching him open the letter and read it. This was a good way to avoid Yahiko from feeling embarrassed... Soon, Shiba Qinghe finished reading, and everyone noticed that his expression was not right, and their hearts, which had just calmed down, were all lifted up again. "What's wrong, Qinghe? What did Hanzo say? Could it be that..." Shiba Qinghe patted Xiaonan's hand soothingly, signaling her not to panic.
“Don’t worry, Hanzo didn’t show any hostility towards us in the letter, but instead praised us. The matter has been resolved satisfactorily, and everyone should be able to sleep well today." Everyone in the room breathed a sigh of relief, and then expressed their gratitude and praise to Shiba Kiyokawa. Only Xiaonan was still a little worried and asked, "Why did you look so weird just now?" Zhiba Qinghe handed the letter over and said, "Sister Xiaonan, take a look at it yourself. I'm afraid we will have an additional mission in the near future." His strange expression was not because the result was bad, but simply because he was a little surprised. In his letter to Hanzo, in order to exaggerate the crisis situation in the Rain Country, he made up a random sentence, saying that the Sand Village and the Iwage Village were wreaking havoc in the country recently. The original intention was just to exaggerate the external threat and remind Hanzo Salamander not to start a civil war at this time! Consider the consequences yourself! Who would have thought that Salamander Hanzo actually gave him a task in his reply letter - Go and deal with the Sand Village ninja team roaming in the southwest of Rain Country. It is conceivable how difficult it was for Shiba Kiyokawa to maintain his expression when he saw the letter. I just made it up, but a Sand Village ninja actually sneaked in? Shit! What on earth is this Rain Country? Can anyone come here whenever they want?! (End of this chapter)