Konoha: The thirty-year-old Uchiha is not motivated.

In a humble dessert shop in Konoha Commercial Street, two men in dark cloaks sat opposite each other.

One of them lowered his head and looked around cautiously for a long time. After making sure there were no suspicious people in the store, he pushed a small object tightly wrapped in a black plastic bag over.
"This is the stuff you want."

The person sitting opposite him quickly took it, carefully opened it, and frowned.
"Yin Sansan, is this thing reliable?"

Looking at the thin little buckle in his hand, Danzo's face was full of doubt. In order to find a way to limit the power of the Tailed Beast Knight, he spent a lot of money, and all the money was his own.
"Even vaguely~"

After taking a bite of the store's signature dessert, Uchiha Gin was very satisfied with the sweetness on his tongue. His lifeless eyes narrowed into a slit in happiness.

"Our relationship as master and disciple has come to an end. From now on, please don't call me San San anymore."

Hearing the question from Xiao Tuantuan, he did not answer directly. Instead, he carefully looked at the disciple in front of him whom he had seen since childhood. His eyes swept across the white hair on his temples, and then he shook his head gently.

"Forehead"

Danzo, who was fiddling with a new toy in his hand, was stunned when he heard this, and looked at Uchiha Gin with a bit of weirdness in his eyes.

"Yin Sansan, you're not saying this because you feel guilty for cheating me, are you?"

"Can you please change your habit of making wild guesses?"

Uchiha Gin rolled his eyes and pointed at the new elder uniform under Danzo's cloak.
This is a high-end custom designed by F6 for himself, in order to show his superior status in the village.
"You guys have now successfully reached the shore, and those who need to be cut off need to be cut off as well."

"Silver Three Three"

Hearing this, Danzo's eyes flashed with a tangled look. Uchiha Gin was right. Their current status is no longer what it used to be.

Everyone in Konoha knew that they were the direct disciples of the Senju brothers, but few people knew that they had another mentor.
Although I paid a lot of tuition fees.

"In your resumes, you can fill in the teacher column with Senju Hashirama or Senju Tobirama, but it cannot be Uchiha Gin, a ten thousand year old Genin."

Uchiha Gin lowered his eyelids, his voice was filled with a hint of sadness. Danzo clenched his fists and wanted to say something, but in the end the words died out.

"Ugh"

A sigh is filled with the helplessness and bitterness of middle-aged people.

"I see. What should I call you from now on?"

Danzo was the most decisive of the entire F6. After weighing the pros and cons, he accepted the last lesson given to him by Uchiha Gin and chose to keep this master-disciple friendship worth ten boxes of strawberry milk deep in his heart.
"It's all right, but I personally prefer people to call me handsome."

Uchiha Gin chewed the yokan that the waiter had just brought him. His vulgar eating manner made it impossible for people to associate him with the word handsome.
"Let's talk about this first."

After a period of dead silence, Danzo didn't know what expression to use to face Uchiha Gin, so he could only shake the limiter in his hand to ease the awkward atmosphere.
"You can question my appearance, but you can never question my skills. Is it true that I deserve the title of Konoha's number one developer?"

"Okay, where's the instruction manual?"

After some ideological struggle, Danzo chose to believe in Uchiha Gin's technology, but it was just a prop without even an instruction manual, so how should he use it?
"The guidance fee is 100 million."

Uchiha Gin raised a finger and the lion said,

"cough cough"

Hearing this, Danzo coughed repeatedly because of being choked. As the anger in his heart rose, he subconsciously thought of Uchiha Gin's undisguised sadness when he took the initiative to cut just now, and his anger instantly disappeared by half.

"I have already paid 500 million just for customizing this thing. The Tailed Beast Knight Management Department was just established not long ago, and the funding issue has not been resolved yet. I paid the 500 million out of my own pocket."

"Didn't you collect so much in registration fees? Isn't this just a drop in the bucket?"

Uchiha Gin didn't believe Danzo's nonsense. So far, at least five thousand people have signed up for the Tailed Beast Knight recruitment examination. Where did each person's two million registration fee go?

"After paying taxes, there's not much left, and we still have to set up the venue."

"I know about the tax, it's only 30%. Are you trying to cheat an old widower like me?"

He had heard about tax collection from Jingzai, but even after deducting 30% of the taxes, Danzo should still have several billion in his hands.

"I"

Danzo was a little speechless for a moment. The fact that Sarutobi Hiruzen took 50% of the registration fee must not be leaked. Otherwise, with the monkey's narrow-mindedness, his position as an elder would be over soon.

"Can we discuss this?"

In the end, Danzo chose to bear it all alone.
Monkey, let me carry the hidden side of the village!

“Technology is priceless.”

Uchiha Gin shook his head firmly. This was already a friendship price. He hoped that Xiao Tuantuan could know herself and realize that a man of insight is a wise man.

"Okay, deal!"

The assessment was imminent, and the grand recruitment exam would be held tomorrow. Danzo made up his mind, gritted his teeth and took out a storage scroll from his small vault.
"It would be great if we could do this earlier so as not to waste everyone's time."

He took the scroll and scanned it, confirming the amount was correct, and then chuckled and said,

"I'm in a hurry, please give me instructions quickly."

For the safety of his own treasury, Danzo does not want to stay with Uchiha Gin any longer. He just wants to learn how to use the limiter and run away.

"You keep an eye on it."

Uchiha Gin still has the most basic professional ethics. Since he has received the money, he must do the job.
"First this, then this, and finally this."

As he spoke, he took the thin buckle and gently pressed the only exposed switch on it. Then he made a downward insertion gesture, and then rotated 180 degrees in one go.
"That's it?"

Looking at Uchiha Gin who had completed a set of smooth operations, Danzo felt that his IQ was being trampled on and rubbed hard by the other party.

"It's complicated, right? Just practice it a few more times and it will be fine."

Uchiha Gin threw the limiter back.

“I eat lemon”

After hurriedly taking the limiter, Danzo was about to raise his head and output Konoha slang, but he found that there was nothing in front of him except a few empty bowls. Uchiha Gin had disappeared long ago.
"Damn it! This big liar!"

When he thought about how he was secretly sad about the fragile relationship between master and disciple, his whole body couldn't stop shaking.

"Sir, please settle the bill."

After adjusting himself for a while, Danzo stood up and tried to leave, but was stopped by the clerk who had been waiting for a long time.

"I didn't order anything, why should I pay?"

Turning his head to look at the empty plates and bowls on the table, Danzo, feeling depressed, decided that he must find a psychologist to help him vent his anger when he returned, otherwise he would be angry to death before the monkey retired.

"The guest who just left said that you should treat me to this meal as a thank-you dinner for my teacher."

"Well, how much?"

"Fifty thousand taels."

"Huh?" Danzo, who had just pulled out a 10,000-dollar bill from his wallet, widened his eyes and asked in disbelief.

This table is worth at most 10,000 taels, how come it’s worth 500,000?
“Is this dessert of yours made of gold?”

"How is that possible? The prices in our shop are fair. It's just that the customer just packed up all the desserts from the kitchen and took them away."

“I eat %…￥…%￥%￥…#￥%￥%#%￥#@”

The next day, the much-anticipated Tailed Beast Knight recruitment exam of Konoha Village officially began. People from all walks of life gathered together just to catch a glimpse of the Nine-Tails Knight.

Due to the large number of candidates, Konoha chose to hold the exam in the Death Forest outside the village.
The Shimura clan, who were in charge of this exam, cleared a large area of ​​land overnight for the exam.

Several makeshift houses serving as temporary offices for staff are located in the middle of the open space.
In the largest room, the F6 who are now in power in Konoha gathered together to discuss important matters.

"Danzo, why do you look so bad?"

Sarutobi Hiruzen, who was reading the exam rules, was keenly aware of the unexpected aura emanating from his friend, so he asked curiously,

"Nothing, maybe I didn't sleep well last night."

Danzo, who had been tossing and turning all night and couldn't fall asleep, shook his head with dark circles under his eyes and replied,
"Danzo, work is important, but you must also take care of your rest."

"It's okay, Jing, I'll adjust after this is over."

It was obvious that the concern in Uchiha Kagami's eyes was genuine, and Danzo's resentment towards Uchiha Gin was somewhat reduced.
It is true that there are many different kinds of people. It would be great if all the Uchiha clan members were like Jing.

"There are so many people taking the exam. If they line up one by one, this exam will probably last for a month."

Pushing up his glasses, Mitomon Yan looked out the window at the bustling crowd of examinees and asked a pointed question.
"For safety reasons, not everyone taking the test will have access to the Kyuubi Card."

Danzo nodded slightly when he heard this. Even if the Nine-Tails was sealed in the Tailed Beast Card, just a little bit of its breath would be enough to scare ordinary people with less courage to death.

If every person who signs up is allowed to come into close contact with the Nine-Tails Card, I'm afraid many lives will be lost.

"Then what are you going to do?"

Looking at the confident Danzo, Akimichi Tofu blinked curiously.

"In order to facilitate the screening, I invited the famous sealing masters of the Uzumaki clan. They stripped a small amount of the chakra leaked from the Nine-Tails on the Tailed Beast Card and sealed it into a container prepared in advance."

As he said this, Danzo clapped his hands, and the Shimura clan members who had been waiting for a long time came in dragging a statue wrapped in white cloth.
"You see, a trace of the Kyuubi's chakra is sealed in this statue."

Reaching out and pulling down the white cloth, under the expectant gaze of the crowd, an ugly-looking mangy version of Nine-Tailed Fox, dragging nine short tails, stood in the cold wind.
"Uh, Danzo, who created this statue?"

Several people looked at the extremely ugly abstract statue of the Nine-Tailed Fox in front of them and asked with strange expressions,

“Due to limited funds, this statue was made by me personally.”

Danzo spent all his money on the blade, so he had no money left to hire a master to carve it, so he did it all himself.
"No wonder."

Everyone suddenly realized what was going on when they heard this. Looking at Danzo who looked very proud, they didn't know how to praise him.
All abstract and no art?

"By the way, you actually managed to invite the Uzumaki clan's sealing master?"

Feeling the rich aura of the sealing technique emanating from the abstract Nine-Tails statue, Utatane Koharu's eyes lit up.

"Someone in my group has plenty of connections."

Danzo smiled slightly, his face full of mystery.

"You should be thankful that the Nine-Tails has been sealed, otherwise even the Shimura family's ancestral tomb would not be saved with this statue."

At this moment, a powerful voice sounded in the ears of several people. The nerves of everyone in the room suddenly tensed up. The aura unconsciously emitted by the owner of the voice made them feel a little breathless.
Jingzi was obviously very familiar with the voice. The moment he heard it, he stood up excitedly.

"Lord Izuna! Why are you here?"

"Uchiha Izuna?"

When Danzo saw the person coming, he frowned slightly. Didn’t the Uchiha clan give up?
"Don't be nervous. I came here for no other reason than to witness who the person who inherited my eldest brother's power is."

Uchiha Izuna came alone, and several of his close followers were waiting outside the door.
The remaining F6 looked at each other. Although they have become the rulers of the village, it does not mean that they are the strongest in the village.
Old monsters from the old times like Uchiha Izuna are still a sharp blade hanging over their heads.
"Welcome, welcome~"

After a few seconds of silence, Sarutobi Hiruzen spoke first and stood up to greet them politely.
"Master Izuna, please take a seat."

Just because Uchiha Izuna once served as the Kage Assistant, he deserved to be called "Sir" by Sarutobi Hiruzen.
"No need, I just came to say hello. There are people waiting for me outside. You can do whatever you need to do."

Rejecting Sarutobi Hiruzen's politeness, Uchiha Izuna nodded to Jingzai, then turned and left.

"What a terrifying aura."

After Uchiha Izuna left, the tense people finally breathed a sigh of relief. Utane Koharu patted her full chest with lingering fear, her beautiful black eyes filled with unconcealed fear. Everyone nodded in agreement.
Several of them are quite strong, but in front of Uchiha Izuna, they are as immature as rookies.

Such old monsters stay in the village.
Sarutobi Hiruzen looked at Uchiha Izuna's gradually disappearing back, with an inexplicable gleam in his eyes.

On the one hand, Konoha needs such a strong man to be in charge to deter the villains.

But on the other hand, this kind of supermodel strongman is also a very unstable factor.
Whether it is against the village or against the Ninja Alliance.

"Ugh"

Suddenly, he glanced at Uchiha Kagami who was standing aside with a sad face. Logically, he should be happy that the strong man of the family came.
"Jing, what happened?"

"Master Izuna is about to leave the village to go to Wave Country to carry out a long-term mission. After he leaves, I will have a lot more work to do. I can't always rely on Elder Lucha for all the family affairs."

Uchiha Kagami said a piece of news with a bitter face, which made the others very excited, especially Sarutobi Hiruzen and Danzo, who almost had the words "open champagne" written on their faces.
"Ahem. Jing, this is your fault. Why didn't you tell us earlier that Master Izuna was leaving so that we could prepare and see him off?"

The F6 from the Ninja Alliance wished that Uchiha Izuna would leave now, and it would be best if he would never come back.

"I am just out on a mission, but the period is a bit long. I will arrange for Master Quanna to return to the village regularly to report on his work."

"No! No need. Since Lord Izuna likes Wave Country, let him be stationed there."

"But it's a mission."

"Mission? What mission or not? All the rewards will be returned to Master Izuna. Even if the mission is over, the village will regularly pay him pension. You can let him stay in Wave Country and enjoy his retirement."

"But the village doesn't have the funds for this?"

Looking at the anxious people, Uchiha Jing scratched his head in confusion.

"Now I have it, don't you think, Elder Danzo?"

"what?"

You want me to carry it again?

(End of this chapter)