From undercover in Konoha, to I am the Hokage!

Chapter 179 Attack (1w)

The next day, early in the morning.

Although Konoha is not near the sea, the climate is still slightly humid because it is deep in the forest. There is still a hint of damp chill in the air in the autumn morning, which makes Sawara Kiri's arms, which are stretched out from the quilt, feel a little cold.

Looking out from the top-floor window of Konoha New Castle, one can just see the "Humanity Continuation Guarantee Agency" standing on the western edge of Konoha Village, standing tall like a steep peak. Its external name is the Science Research Department's Astronomical Observation Tower.

Konoha's earth escape project is quite guaranteed in terms of speed and quality. It has been some time since the completion of this building.

At this moment, bright spots of light are shining on the surface of the astronomical convex lens located at the highest point of the tower.

It's getting late.

"Going back?"

Yayoi's voice was still soft and came from his side, as if she was awakened by his small movements after waking up.

But when she opened her eyes, she turned her head to look at him with a slightly softer look, and put her hands on his arms, as if she was reluctant for him to leave.

"Xuehui should make breakfast. If you don't go back, you will be scolded." Sawara Kiri pinched her nose, then gently let go, enjoying the warmth coming from her side in the morning, and her heart felt like it belonged.

“It’s really strict.”

"There should be another mission today, right? Are the ninja tools ready?"

"Yes Yes."

It has to be said that Yayoi's earnest advice, like that of a young wife, really made people feel as satisfied as if they were trapped in a gentle land, and made Sawara Kiri not want to get up.

However, when he thought about the huge gap in his heart points after getting Xiao Xiaoti, he suddenly became motivated again - in fact, even if Xiao Xiaoti did not exist, the bond between him and Xuehui would be impossible to break.

Sawara Kiri lay down for a while, forced herself to get up, and took a quick shower after Yayoi finished.

When I came out, Yayoi had already put on an apron and started preparing breakfast at the kitchen counter.

Sahara Kiri stretched out his hand and hugged the girl's slender waist from behind:
"I'm going out first."

"Humph."

I don’t know if it was because she finally recovered some strength after being tossed around for half the night, or if she was secretly resenting him as a scumbag who ate here and there, but Miss Yayoi snorted in annoyance and pushed him back.

Sawara Kiri just smiled and didn't take it seriously at all.

I have to say that Yayoi's leg training in recent days must have yielded results, as her already plump and round legs have become even more elastic.

However, even so, before he left, Yayoi still reminded him:
"Don't be careless during the mission."

"Yes~"

When he returned to the Senju residence, the shadow clone took over the shift from him, just in time for dinner time at the Senju residence.

After learning the lesson last time, he always remembered to keep a backup for himself - however, even the shadow clone had to be touched with caution, as if it accidentally hit something, it would explode and be exposed.

However, even with such complete preparations, when the meal was served, Miss Xuehui still sniffed her nose sharply, as if she had sensed something unusual, and immediately glanced in his direction with a look of resentment.

Tsunade ate her meal as if nothing had happened and even had a small glass of sake in the morning, otherwise she wouldn't be able to concentrate at work - obviously, this was the unique twisted logic of this great medical expert, but no one was qualified to refute her.

"You don't even know how to spray some perfume on yourself. Xuehui has changed all the shower gels in the house recently. I can smell it if the smell is not right."

It was not until the two of them walked side by side to the Hokage Building that Tsunade whispered a reminder to him.

Sawara Kiri was suddenly startled.

So it was revealed like this?!
Once she noticed the figure in the corridor, Tsunade regained her usual solemn and dignified demeanor and strode into the Hokage's office.

Sawara Kiri also followed in.

Taking advantage of the convenience of living in the Senju residence, he would be the first to receive tasks as soon as he got to work every day. Most of them were assigned by name, and a small number of them were too high-level and only he was suitable for doing them.

Although he has been indulging in a lot of romantic matters these days, he does not spend all his time playing horse jumping with Yayoi. On the contrary, since the end of the war, he has received more and more mission requests from all over the world - or in other words, most of the strong people who are recognized to have the strength of Hokage but have not become Hokage, most of them are treated like this.

The master and apprentice pair of Minato Namikaze and Jiraiya is a very obvious example. The number of missions recorded in their personal files is ridiculously large.

Now, the same situation happened to Sawara Kiri.

Especially after he was recognized as the 'No. 1 in the contemporary ninja world', the wealthy people from various countries would rather spend three to five times the price, using A-level or even S-level money, to buy their safety for a certain period of time.

Therefore, Sawara Kiri cannot rest.

However, there are other issues that need to be resolved before this.

Long before they came in, Orochimaru, who lived and ate in the Hokage Building and the Astronomy Tower, had already walked in with a pile of documents and charts, looking very excited.

"Lord Orochimaru."

Sawara Kiri greeted politely.

Then, he strode over, unusually excited:
"fog!"

"Your idea is feasible!"

Just one sentence attracted all of Sawara Kiri's attention.

Orochimaru was completely unaware of his slight change at this moment. He placed one hand on his pile of treasures and spoke quickly:
"Last night, our space-time research team completed the first dragon vein space-time change experiment. After this verification, we can be sure that the huge amount of natural energy possessed by the dragon vein has a 3% chance of affecting space-time changes. Although in most cases it is a chaotic space-time fluctuation, in the case of reaction with a large-scale chakra source."

Sawara Kiri seldom saw Orochimaru so excited and disregarding his image, so he immediately calmed down and listened to his narration quietly.

However, after listening to it, I still felt a little disappointed.

The experiment they conducted yesterday only proved that large-scale dragon vein energy, when reacting with huge amounts of chakra, could potentially carve a hole in the wall of space.

As for how humans can travel through time and space, and how to keep real-time attention on each time and space, there is absolutely no idea.

However, this is already a breakthrough from zero to one.

As long as we have this starting point, the future application of time and space escape techniques will be greatly improved on this basis.

No wonder Orochimaru was so excited.

For him, this is equivalent to opening up a whole new scientific research direction.

At the same time, it also shows that the application direction proposed by Sawara Kiri has considerable pioneering value.

After finally venting his anger, Orochimaru finally calmed down and gradually returned to his usual cold and indifferent demeanor. He still patted the pile of information heavily in his hand and instructed:
"In short, this information must be kept at the highest level of confidentiality."

"Yes, I understand." Saihara Kiri said, and then smiled, "Thank you for your hard work during this period, Lord Orochimaru."

It is no exaggeration to say that it was hard work. At this moment, Orochimaru's pale face had two deep dark circles under his eyes.

Obviously, development work was carried out day and night during this period.

Orochimaru just grinned and didn't take it to heart - his interest lay in this area, and being able to do his hobby as a job was something he wished for.

As he was speaking, he seemed to suddenly remember something, glanced in the direction of the Anbu outside the Hokage's office, took a step closer to the two of them, and said in a low voice:
"In addition, we have also achieved certain results in extracting dragon vein energy to enhance the human body."

"However, let's keep these things secret from Jiraiya for now."

Upon hearing this, Sahara Kiri and Tsunade were both stunned.

In the end, it was Tsunade who reacted first and nodded solemnly.

In fact, it was not that there was any conflict between the three ninjas, but that Jiraiya himself had too deep a connection with Mount Myoboku - which was actually an inappropriate thing.

Although Myoboku Mountain is one of the three holy places, and the Toad Sage who has lived for a thousand years has made many contributions, this is also the bad point.

Among the three holy places, except for the living slug sage who doesn't care about worldly affairs, the other two are too deeply involved with the human world, and even built a very large intelligence network - Jiraiya's intelligence is so well-informed, it didn't come out of thin air, and no one can say how much contribution the toads of Myoboku Mountain have made in it.

In addition, the magic that has not been spread in the human world is also really frightening.

Even the Sannin had no idea how much power was hidden in the three holy places. They only knew that if they could just throw out a little bit, they could create a super-giant summoning technique which was the Sannin's 'trump card'.

This kind of power can never be ignored.

Any qualified politician, no matter what his relationship with the three holy places is, is inherently extremely wary of them.

As a ninja, having a simple heart is naturally a good thing.

But the reason why Jiraiya is not suitable to be the Hokage is because of this point. If humans develop their own "Xian Jutsu", how will the three holy places react?

No one said it was bad.

Sawara Kiri could understand this principle.

As she was speaking, Tsunade seemed to remember something and casually handed a small pink bead to Orochimaru: "By the way, don't forget to test this thing when you have time - it was sent by the fog."

Orochimaru was stunned, and after taking it subconsciously, he glanced in the direction of Sawara Kiri with a puzzled look.

But when he looked at Tsunade and noticed that she didn't react, he immediately understood.

This is another 'magical little work' that Wu found from somewhere.

As for these 'little secrets', the three ninjas already had a tacit understanding. Tsunade pointed this out last night just to prepare Kiri a little.

In fact, ever since the appearance of the 'Universal Capsule', Orochimaru already had some of this idea in his mind - nothing in this world came out of thin air, even the most precious treasures have a source, not to mention a real scientific research creation like the Universal Capsule.

Noticing that Orochimaru glanced back at him with a slightly subtle look, Sawara Kiri grinned awkwardly.

It's not advisable to be too clever.

Just as he was thinking this, Tsunade called out to him and said:
"Wu, come over and take the mission!"

"I have so many assignments piled up, and you don't even bother to work harder!"

"Your Excellency, Ninjas also have their own lives to live. Please be more understanding."

"What do you mean by my own life? I haven't gambled for a long time. I still want to have my own life!" Tsunade scolded angrily, flipped through the tasks and found the page with the highest reward, and slammed it on the table, "Go! Take it. Until I have my own life, you can't have one either!"

"Eh--?!"

Orochimaru looked at this scene and couldn't help but reveal a wicked smile.

Although his recent job suits him well, it's clear that he has no life of his own.

By the time Sawara Kiri completed a series of procedures and walked out of the Hokage Building to meet up with the corresponding Chamber of Commerce team, it was already nine o'clock in the morning.

Ever since he became famous and the war ended, Sawara Kiri's original powerful team was disbanded.

The reason is also very simple.

What on earth do you want to do by maintaining this highly efficient assassination team of Kage-level masters in Konoha? Can we still do business peacefully without any cost?

Even if there was only Sawara Kiri, he would be enough to kill all the people from the remaining four major ninja villages tied together. This kind of complaint was heard all the time.

The reason is simple: I just feel uneasy!

In order to ensure Konoha's sincerity in doing business peacefully, and also to improve the village's efficiency in completing high-level tasks, Kiri, Minato, and Yayoi were split into three teams.

Now following him on the mission are three outstanding graduates who have just graduated from the Ninja High School. Each of them has the strength equivalent to that of an elite Chunin.

Their names are Kono, Harada and Uesaka.

Although the jonin ranking system has already begun to be implemented, due to time constraints, it has not yet been fully rolled out. I'm afraid we have to wait until there are enough jonin-level ninjas before we can start large-scale testing?

After all, if those famous jonins who have been boasted about in the ninja world for a long time are rated second or even third class due to some shortcomings during the test, it would be a bit of a blow to their reputation, wouldn't it?
Sawara Kiri thought so with some malice in his heart.

"Thank you for your hard work, Lord Sawara."

When he appeared in front of the caravan leader with his three subordinates, he saw the middle-aged leader who was tying ropes to the goods on the car trotting out from the crowd. He did not have the arrogant attitude of ordinary Chamber of Commerce nobles. He must be a retainer, or he must have heard of his reputation.

He rubbed his hands together, the smile on his face squeezed the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes into a line, and said kindly:
"If there weren't a big shot like you here to keep us safe, we wouldn't know how many dangers we would have to face on our way back to the Rainbow Country. Thank you so much."

"It doesn't matter."

Sawara Kiri nodded in agreement and smiled, "If there is anything, I will do my best to resolve it. However, you are familiar with the rules of Konoha. If we encounter an enemy beyond the scope of an A-level mission, I can only try my best to ensure the safety of my subordinates."

"I understand. I understand."

The Chamber of Commerce I met this time was relatively knowledgeable about the rules and was not as unreasonable as some of the nobles I met before, which made me feel a little relieved.

He has met quite a few similar people recently. Just because of their noble status, they really treat him as the boss. Some of them even asked him to assassinate the daimyo of a small country in exchange for a B-level mission - that is an S-level mission.

Until now, Sawara Kiri still found it difficult to understand where the so-called nobles who were unable to grasp power got such confidence from.

Perhaps it is the residual bad habits brought about by the worldview created by the original work based on the history of daily life.

However, this kind of days shouldn’t last long.

Sawara Kiri got on the caravan's carriage and headed out of the village along the main road. From afar, he could see white dust rising from the industrial area on the edge of the village.

There, the power of industry will be slowly injected into the world.

To be precise, it should be the power of large-scale explosive productivity.

The entire journey was unremarkable. In fact, this was the way travel was in this era. Although Konoha had initially entered the era of electrification, most of the territory of the Land of Fire was still in a small peasant economy, and self-sufficiency was the normal situation - this was one of the reasons why the aristocratic system could be maintained until now.

However, due to various reasons, this small peasant economy is easily destroyed, and the landless people will suddenly become refugees on the road or bandits.

Most of the time, the ninja's enemies are these weak guys.

However, most of the graduates who were younger than Sawara Kiri were restless. They looked around the caravan along the way, and their work procedures were very rigorous without any sloppiness.

It made Sawara Kiri look a little tired.

He himself always maintained the "Six Eyes" and observed the source of chakra in the distance - in fact, there were very few sources of chakra. Apart from a few large and small ninja villages, there were not many places in the world where one could learn the method of refining chakra.

Although it seems that there are ninjas everywhere in Konoha Village, the protection of basic technology is quite strict, and the ninjas themselves have a similar consensus.

The same is true for Sawara Kiri.

However, on the third day, after the caravan completed basic supplies in a small village and was back on the road, he suddenly discovered something different.

Sahara Kiri sat in the carriage and frowned subconsciously.

Then he suddenly shot out from the carriage, leaped to the front of the entire caravan, and raised his hand in the distance.

"Stop!"

Almost the moment his figure appeared, the experienced caravan leader immediately held his horse and looked in the direction of Sawara Kiri in surprise and doubt.

The next moment, two figures dressed as ordinary ninjas suddenly jumped out from the woods and surrounded Sawara Kiri at both ends.

Sawara Kiri looked in their direction with some confusion, then glanced at the other two people who were lying in ambush in the woods, thinking they were hidden - they should be a ninja team.

However, both the total amount of chakra and physical fitness are quite average.

Where did they get the courage?
"Don't you know who I am?"

The figure standing in front of him grinned somewhat stiffly and said:
"Sawara Kiri, bounty of 300 million taels."

"We have been waiting for a long time for the opportunity for you to leave the village."

Are they just some ignorant and desperate criminals?
Sawara Kiri thought this subconsciously in his heart - he had met more than one similar person.

However, just when he was about to get rid of these idiots, the "Six Eyes" in his field of vision behind him suddenly noticed something unusual.

There were strange blood-colored runes on the surface of these people's bodies under their clothes.

At the same time, the positions where the four people stood formed a standard rectangular shape.

"boom--"

The next moment, the figures of these four people exploded at the same time and turned into blood mist.

However, Sawara Kiri, who had been prepared, had already flown out and escaped from the encirclement ahead of time.

Then, they saw that the area they surrounded had turned into a prismatic hole.

However, before he could breathe a sigh of relief.

A pale hand reached out silently from behind him and pointed directly at his heart.

(End of this chapter)