Tsunade's eyes lit up, and she subconsciously swallowed.
"Uncle Renye, did you buy this for me?"
"Of course, take it and eat it." Renye placed the bag on the table.
Tsunade eagerly tore open the packaging, took out two skewers of dango, and handed one to Renye.
"Thank you, Uncle Renye, have one!"
This time, Renye did not stand on ceremony and took the dango, beginning to eat.
"Meow, meow, meow ~"
Tanuki Flower rubbed against Tsunade's feet, looking at her eagerly, its eyes full of longing for the three-color dango.
"Go away, go away." Tsunade waved her hand in distaste, with no intention of sharing her food. "You need to lose weight."
Her grandmother usually didn't let her eat sweets, and Uncle Renye had finally brought some dango, so she couldn't bear to share it with Tanuki Flower.
There were only five skewers in total; if she gave one to Renye, there would only be four left.
Tsunade didn't even have enough for herself, so how could she possibly share with a cat?
"Meow, meow, meow ~" Seeing that Tsunade was unwilling to share, Tanuki Flower went to Renye's feet, rubbing its face against his pant leg, and began to act cute and spoiled.
"You ugly cat are as gluttonous as ever..." Renye shook his head helplessly and placed the dango in his hand on the ground.
Looking at Tanuki Flower eating the dango with a satisfied expression, Renye smiled.
Who told this ugly cat to be adopted by Uncle Hashirama?
"Renye is here." Uzumaki Mito walked out of the house, a kind smile on her face.
"Grandma, you're awake, do you want some dango?" Tsunade handed the remaining half-skewer of three-color dango to her grandmother.
Uzumaki Mito always had a habit of napping, and she had been sleeping indoors, but came out when she heard the commotion in the courtyard.
She looked at the dango Tsunade offered, smiled, and shook her head, "Grandma doesn't eat, Tsunade, you eat it yourself."
"Aunt Mito, long time no see." Renye greeted her.
Since Senju Hashirama left and he was on a mission at the border, they hadn't seen each other for a long time.
Uzumaki Mito smiled and nodded in response, "Indeed, it's been a while. Have your missions been smooth recently?"
After Hashirama's death, Mito became more taciturn, and only felt better when she was with familiar people.
She began to stay indoors, always in the Senju Clan Land.
Senju Tobirama tried several times to persuade his sister-in-law to go out for a walk, but she politely refused.
He knew that his elder brother's death had a great impact on his sister-in-law, and he didn't say anything more about it.
"Aunt Mito, the mission was very smooth. I just returned from a mission and plan to rest for a few days," Renye said.
"Mm, rest well. The Ninja World isn't peaceful lately." Uzumaki Mito's face showed worry: "When Hashirama left, I knew war would come."
The peace that Hashirama had spent half his life establishing quickly disintegrated after his death.
If Hashirama knew, he would surely be very sad, right?
Renye looked at Mito's sorrowful expression and sighed helplessly in his heart.
He couldn't possibly tell Aunt Mito that Uncle Hashirama wasn't actually dead, but had just gone to find Uchiha Madara, could he?
He simply couldn't say such a thing. He had promised Uncle Hashirama back then, so he could only keep this matter to himself.
However, he believed that Senju Hashirama would return to the Village one day!
After all, Hashirama wouldn't just stand by and watch Konoha be besieged by various countries.
Between finding Uchiha Madara and protecting the Village, he would absolutely choose the latter without hesitation.
The Village, in Hashirama's eyes, was above all else.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have killed Uchiha Madara to protect the Village.
"Renye, you must protect yourself on the battlefield in the future," Uzumaki Mito instructed.
Hashirama was already dead, and she didn't want Renye, whom she had watched grow up since childhood, to die in the cruel war.
Mito's concern warmed Renye's heart.
"I will protect myself... Aunt Mito."
Uzumaki Mito nodded, said no more, and sat in the courtyard watching Tsunade and Tanuki Flower play.
Renye stayed for a while, then bid farewell and left.
After leaving Senju Hashirama's residence, he didn't rush home but went to the laboratory.
War was about to break out, and he needed to develop stronger poisons.
Inside the laboratory, Renye stood in front of the workbench, various bottles and jars neatly arranged, filled with bizarrely colored liquids.
Some were still bubbling, making "gurgling" sounds.
At this moment, he was carefully holding a dropper, extracting a green viscous liquid from a tube.
This viscous liquid was a mixture of essences from countless poisonous plants and insects that he had collected from all over the Ninja World over several months.
He slowly dripped the extracted green viscous liquid into the crucible in front of him, which already contained a bubbling purple liquid.
The moment the two met, a pungent smoke rose.
Renye immediately put on a gas mask, watching the green and purple liquids slowly merge, eventually turning into a pale green liquid.
War was about to break out, and Ninja troops from various countries were gathering at the border, ready to attack the Land of Fire at any time.
Renye knew that ordinary poisons were too inefficient and would not be able to turn the tide of the war.
Powerful Ninja could easily resist conventional poison attacks by relying on their strong Chakra and the special nature of their Ninjutsu.
Ninja could form a Chakra barrier on their body surface by refining Chakra, which could, to some extent, resist or alleviate the effects of toxins.
Unless an opening was made on the opponent's body with a knife, the released poison gas would be difficult to have an effect.
Renye was no longer satisfied with single-target damage...
Therefore, he had to develop a stronger, more lethal poison!
A wide-range poison gas that could ignore Chakra protection and directly destroy the Ninja's body cells.
However, developing such a poison was by no means easy and would take a long time.
But what Renye lacked most now was time...
"I remember Hanzou of the Salamander implanted a salamander's poison sac in his body, and the poison gas released through breathing could paralyze opponents."
Thinking of this, he prepared to catch a few salamanders for research.
Of course, Renye wouldn't be so insane as to experiment on himself.
This act of implanting a poison sac in one's own body could only be done by Hanzou of the Salamander.
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Northeast camp, fifty li from the Land of Fire border.
First Raikage A said to his guards, "Notify the Kage of each Village... The probing is over, it's time to launch war against Konoha."
He had already grown bored of this month-long probing.
He didn't understand what the other Villages were so afraid of?
Konoha, without Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara, was just a slightly stronger Village.
He believed that under the joint attack of the four countries, Konoha Village would not last long.
By then, the rich resources of the Land of Fire would be theirs, the Land of Lightning's.
Thinking of this, First Raikage A excitedly clenched his fists, and electric arcs flashed around him.
"Victory will definitely belong to Kumogakure!"
ps: Typing is so tiring, I feel drained, 嘤嘤嘤.