From undercover in Konoha, to I am the Hokage!

Chapter 35 What do you mean? (Two in one)

"Huff, cough, cough."

The sudden change of scene made Tsunade, who was half-kneeling on the spot, unable to stop retching.

The short-term excessive mental exhaustion also made her clearly feel the weakness from the deepest part of her body, as if all the cells in her body would collapse like a castle built of sand if she moved even a little.

However, thinking back to the scenes she had experienced in "Kato Dan's memory", Tsunade couldn't help feeling a little lost.

When she saw the reflection of her tightly clenched hands in her field of vision, she forced herself to gather her strength and recalled what had happened before in bits and pieces.

Tsunade's voice was hoarse, and there was a hint of pleading in her eyes:

"Why, why did you stop suddenly?"

"I'm not done yet!"

Sahara Kiri looked at her haggard appearance and shook his head with some regret:
"I'm sorry, Tsunade-sama."

"I'm afraid I can only get so far today. I'm already halfway through using up my chakra."

Tsunade was startled when she heard this.

Only then did I notice that the sky outside had changed slightly. It seemed that a long time had passed.

"Tsunade-sama, the dead are gone, but the journey of the living must continue." Sahara Wu persuaded sincerely, "My father once told me when I was young that being too obsessed with the past will backfire."

However, Tsunade at this time could not hear anything. She grabbed his wrist with incredible force and said anxiously:
"Wait a moment!"

However, before she could say anything else, she saw Sawara Kiri suddenly looking at her with a very unfamiliar look, and at the same time, he stretched out his fingernails and without hesitation scratched a clear bloody mark on his arm.

The blood flowed down his arm and slowly fell onto Tsunade's knuckles as she grabbed his wrist.

"Well!?"

Almost at the moment she saw the blood trail, Tsunade felt like she was electrocuted. Her pupils constricted. She suddenly let go of his wrist and subconsciously shrank back, hitting the stone wall with a bang.

The thin line of blood dripped onto the ground, leaving a shallow mark.

"really."

Seeing her like this, Sahara Kiri, who was already experiencing a series of deep-seated problems, let out a sigh, "Has it made your fear of blood even more profound by providing a place for weak minds to escape?"

"Lady Tsunade, you should calm down a bit by yourself."

In addition, after hearing Xiao Po Tongzi's reminder, he also needed some time to calm down.

Said Sahara Kiri, his eyes flicking towards Tsunade who was leaning against the wall, trembling all over.

Now, he could not imagine how Tsunade in the "Final Bond Path" became the kind of "familiar xx", "island xx", "office xx", "master and apprentice xx" and so on.

Although this world is so weird that even the most ignorant can wear the MAGA hat, reality still has to have a little logic, right?
In short, Sawara Kiri didn't dare to attack Tsunade unilaterally just for a few points as she did before.

He needs to think carefully about which "path" to take next and what impact it will have on his daily life.

Also, do Yayoi and Yukie have similar "hidden dangers"?

However, before Sawara Kiri could walk out of the cave, Tsunade's voice came from behind, still holding some hope, even with a hint of caution:
"Well, wait until you recover. No, after you return to the village."

"Can you"

Sawara Kiri turned her head and looked at her:
"Tsunade-sama."

"I should have said this before I started this technique, right?"

"Only this one time."

"If you continue to sink."

"Have you ever thought about what this will cost?"

Hearing this, Tsunade was stunned and looked at him blankly.

Sawara Kiri didn't say anything more and walked out of the cave on his own.

But he didn't notice it.

His original intention of saying this was to make Tsunade back off and buy him some time to think, but it instead caused the other party's expression to change slightly and become hesitant.

"The price?"

Tsunade looked down at the blue crystal that she was holding tightly in her hand and murmured, as if she had thought of something.

The legacy of the Senju family is extremely profound.

Ninjutsu, sealing techniques, medical techniques, various historical records of the ninja world, hundreds of categories of forbidden knowledge, and the second generation Hokage's past research reports.
The huge legacy even had to be guarded by multiple Anbu teams and large barriers all year round.

It is inevitable that some people covet those things.

It was obvious that Tsunade also regarded Sawara Kiri as one of them.

"This guy"

"A bastard who took advantage of the situation."

but.

Tsunade recalled the time she had just spent in that strange scene.

During this nearly half an hour of real time, she seemed to be in a maze of memories, experiencing a whole week from the first day she met Dan to the date after the Jonin meeting.

At the same time, during this period of time, she seemed to have completely forgotten what happened in reality, and relived every scene of her encounter with her first love with the same emotions as back then.

It was not until I came out of that scene that I suddenly woke up and recalled everything that had happened in reality.

The conflict between the two made her feel an intense sense of separation deep in her heart, as if she had suddenly fallen from a happy paradise into the reality of hell.

The young man's cold voice made Tsunade realize clearly.
What I just saw are just memories.

All the good feelings she had stored in that memory had been torn apart by this harsh reality.

"hateful."

After struggling alone for a long time, Tsunade suddenly cursed and seemed to have made a decision.

"If he wants those useless things, just give them to him."

"He also saved my life."

"not to mention"

"I am the only one left among the Thousand Hands."

As if she was talking to herself, or as if she was trying to convince herself, Tsunade unknowingly placed Da Lei on her knees, clasped her arms around him, and murmured softly.

His voice became lower and lower, and his expression was full of sorrow.

However, Tsunade didn't realize it at this time.

At the end of this "path" where the two people are running in both directions, what is about to be eaten by Mr. Sawara is not just a few items.

"There are only two states of being alive."

"One is bitter, the other is hungry."

"Sawara Kiri - you are full now!"

Looking at the panel that suddenly popped up, Mr. Sawara, who had just finished his meal, waved his hand with obvious disgust, and leaned against the tree roots to close his eyes and rest.

No shyness in public!
Unexpectedly, Sister Tongzi suddenly became anxious and kept urging me.

"Why don't you look to the side!"

"That Uchiha guy is looking at you with eyes that are almost tearing."

"I will execute her right now in public, and I will get the middle level knot right away. Then you can eat whatever you want, and drink whatever you want! (With great pride)"

Fuck you!

Sawara Kiri finally discovered that his broken system was indeed inhumane.

However, he did raise his head and glance to the side.

Miss Yayoi, who was leaning next to him, was startled, as if she didn't expect that her little peeking action would be discovered. She immediately turned her head away in embarrassment.

It was not until a moment later that she suddenly realized that her current 'identity' was different from that in the ninja school.

Now, she is a quasi-lover who can call "Mist-kun" by name and eat dinner together. Her status stands at the level of "more than friends"!
Almost subconsciously, she turned her head again and stared at him openly.

Sawara Kiri didn't know what he had to look at. However, considering the "Final Bond Path" that had just appeared, he thought about it and asked:

"Yayoi?"

"I'm just watching!" The girl looked righteous and a little silly.

"That's not what I'm asking." Sahara Kiri organized her words. "I want to ask if there's anything strange about your body recently?"

"Eh?!"

Uchiha Yayoi reacted immediately, her cheeks flushed, and she subconsciously covered her small drum: "How do you know the time of my 'that'?"

Sahara Kiri's face darkened: "Besides relatives coming?"

"No, no more?" Miss Yayoi said as she glanced around cautiously, afraid of being heard by others.

Girls of this age are still very thin-skinned.

"That's it."

Sawara Kiri looked at the still empty blue halo above her head and nodded slightly.

The absence of intelligence is itself a kind of intelligence.

Based on the process of the emergence of the shallow emotional knots of Yukie, Yayoi, and Tsunade, Sawara Kiri can roughly judge the following three points.

[First, if he wants to complete the Heart Knot mission, he must have a certain degree of "bond" with the target, at least more than an acquaintance. ]

【Secondly, the Heart Knot Halo can only be seen after encountering certain "events". 】

[Finally, his different ways of dealing with the knot will lead to different "final paths" between him and the object of the bond. So no matter what, he needs to choose his approach carefully.]

During this entire process, the bonded object will not show any degree of physical abnormality except that the relationship with him becomes "better".

Sawara Kiri was thinking halfway when he suddenly turned his head and looked in the direction of Yayoi.

However, no matter how he clicked on "Bond Query", there was no response from Miss Yayoi.

"It's no use."

"In a single cycle, you can only query the final bond path of one object."

Sister Tongzi's voice lazily sounded in his mind.

"You have to find a way to defeat that blonde who's standing in front of you first - at least reach the 'shallow' standard first, then you can find a way to reach the deepest part of the souls of other beautiful girls!"

"Didn't I tell you that you are bound by that thunder?"

Hearing this, Sawara Kiri frowned instead.

It has nothing to do with whether he is a lolita complex or not, and he doesn’t dislike Da Lei.

The key point is that Tsunade's identity is too sensitive.

"It seems that we have to wait for a suitable opportunity."

Sawara Kiri leaned against the tree, thinking this in his heart.

However, he did not expect that this opportunity would come so suddenly.

"boom--!"

The next day after the group returned to Konoha.

A deafening noise exploded again at the Hokage Building, which had just been repaired not long ago.

The Hokage's office on the fourth floor was dug out with a huge gap that was transparent from front to back, with plenty of light and good ventilation.

Sarutobi Hiruzen stood in the office, his eyes widened, he looked at his disciple and shouted:

"Tsunade!"

"What on earth do you want to do?!"

Tsunade stared back without showing any weakness, swearing through gritted teeth: "What did I do? I wanted to ask you what you did, you old bastard!"

"The Hokage Building, the most central office in Konoha, is well-defended by barriers and ANBU, and is guarded by many veteran jonin!"

"How could a few Iwagakure pawns snatch away the information openly?!"

"Stinky old man! What the hell are you doing sitting here?!"

Sarutobi Hiruzen's face trembled suddenly.

Utane Koharu beside him scolded with a serious expression: "Tsunade! As a jonin of Konoha, how dare you challenge the authority of the Hokage with words?"

"Do you know what this crime is?"

This old woman speaks in an administrative manner.

Tsunade didn't buy it. She pointed at her nose, clenched her fist, and stiffened her neck: "What's wrong with scolding you? I'm going to beat you up!"

"There are eight jonin, eight elite chunins, and four sharp blade teams. Now there are only two left alive! One of them is about to die."

"What? Are you bastards determined to force the Senju clan to exterminate their bloodline?"

"what?!"

As soon as these words were spoken, no one present dared to respond.

Although Konoha F4 is very successful nowadays, their success also needs a lot of support.

Among them, status is the most important support point.

All of them are disciples of Senju Tobirama.

In this world where family and master-disciple relationships are extremely strong, secretly harming the teacher's relatives is a sin that even the Third Hokage cannot bear.

Seeing this, Mitomon En immediately stepped out to act as a peacemaker and smooth things over: "Tsunade, no one could have predicted this incident. Losing so many elite soldiers is a common loss for Konoha. Hiruzen is also very sad."

"Yeah, he must be sad."

Tsunade stood there, looking at the few people with a cold gaze.

Finally, the focus was fixed on the man who was at the back of the group and remained silent the entire time. The voice was cold and hard:

"How could a spy sneak into the Hokage Building, which is so heavily guarded? Is he highly skilled enough, or is someone covering up for him?"

"The breach in the barrier of the Sealed Chamber is top secret. How did they know about it?"

"How did the unsealed S-level intelligence appear in the hands of another village?"

"Also, the Third Raikage accidentally said something when he thought he had won."

"He told me that someone among Konoha's high-ranking officials sold some of our information to the Hidden Cloud Village for 20 million taels."

"Coincidentally."

"Our team randomly selected a secret location to hide in, and they discovered it from the very beginning."

"Do you want to discuss in advance how to explain these things?"

Tsunade dissected these doubts one by one in a tone as cold as a knife and placed them in front of them one by one.

The other people present were not unaware of the possible problems, and they also suspected that the Third Raikage was trying to sow discord.

However, after Tsunade finished saying this.

Everyone present turned their heads at the same time and looked at Danzo Shimura who was standing at the back.

The entire Hokage's office fell into inexplicable deathly silence.

"."

"What do you mean?"

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　　There is no eunuch, don’t talk nonsense.

　　I came back late today, so I combined two chapters into one.

　　It was posted at 24pm yesterday, and there has been more than hours between this chapter and the last one, so it shows as updated a day ago.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)