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Chapter 137 Hello, Orochimaru! (Third Update)

Danzo's eyes lit up when he heard Li Chuan's words, and his gaze towards Li Chuan immediately showed much more goodwill.

He heard a subtext in Li Chuan's words: in the eyes of the Daimyo, Danzo was the most suitable person to become Hokage, second only to the Third Hokage.

Does this mean that once the Hokage dies, the Daimyo will support him to become the Hokage?

"Your Highness is too kind. If I were to stand in the position of Hokage, I would certainly dedicate myself to the entire Land of Fire and Konoha without sparing any effort."

Danzo tried his best to put on a seemingly kind and sincere smile on his old and sinister face.

However, in Li Chuan's eyes, that smile was indeed more sinister than not smiling. It just goes to show that if a person's mind is too dark, it really affects their temperament.

"That's what I think too."

Li Chuan nodded in approval.

Danzo's smile widened:

"If Your Highness needs anything in Konoha, please feel free to come and find me."

After saying that, he looked at Tianzang next to Li Chuan:

"A, His Highness the Prince is of noble status, so he must not slack off in his work."

"Lord Danzo, I am no longer called Kou, but Tenzo. I will not slack off on the tasks assigned by the Hokage."

Tenzo looked at Danzo and replied expressionlessly.

He meant that he no longer belonged to Root and was no longer under Danzo's control. He was not completing the mission diligently because of Danzo's orders, but because of the Hokage's instructions.

"Whether you are Konoha's Konoha or Tenzo, you are a Konoha ninja."

Danzo gave Tenzo a meaningful look, then smiled at Li Chuan:

"Your Highness, please continue your enjoyment. I must take my leave now."

Once the Third Hokage dies, Danzo will become the Hokage, and Tenzo will become his subordinate ninja again. This is the subtext he is trying to convey.

Tianzang couldn't grasp the subtext of that sentence, but Li Chuan understood it perfectly.

However, Li Chuan secretly laughed at Danzo's wishful thinking, because even if the Third Hokage died, the Konoha leadership and the Daimyo would not choose him, but Jiraiya. And Jiraiya would also refuse and choose Tsunade.

Danzo was a staunch hawk, and once he became Hokage, he would inevitably launch a war. The Daimyo and other high-ranking officials of Konoha, like the Third Hokage, were doves, and they preferred the current stable and peaceful situation.

"Kawa, does the Daimyo really admire Lord Danzo?"

After Danzo had walked away, Tenzo frowned and asked.

After spending time together, and with Li Chuan's deliberate efforts to befriend him, plus the involvement of Kakashi and Naruto, Li Chuan and Tianzang had become quite good friends.

Therefore, Tenzo no longer uses honorifics and, in private, he calls Kakashi by his name directly.

"How could that be? My uncle hates him the most. He's always advocating for war and disrupting our peaceful lives."

Li Chuan waved his hand and replied without hesitation.

Tianzang was stunned upon hearing this:

"And what did you just do?"

"Of course I was lying to him just now. My uncle said not to offend any of the higher-ups in Konoha, so I just said what he wanted to hear. It's a white lie, isn't it?"

Li Chuan laughed heartily.

Tianzang nodded. He wasn't good at politics, but he roughly understood Li Chuan's approach.

"Oh right, isn't today the Chunin Selection Exams written test? Let's go see if Naruto and the others have passed."

After leaving the vicinity of the training ground, Li Chuan and Tianzang arrived at the Ninja Academy, which served as the venue for the first written exam.

In his opinion, neither Danzo nor the Third Hokage were good people.

Danzo was thoroughly evil. The Third Hokage was a bit better than Danzo. He would only abandon his principles and make cruel choices when he had to make sacrifices for the benefit of the village.

Did the Third Hokage not know about the bad things Danzo did? He certainly knew most of them and had the ability to stop him, but he chose to remain silent.

That's normal, though. In a world like this, if the Hokage, who leads Konoha, were a completely good person, he would probably have been devoured by other villages long ago.

People make different choices depending on their position.

Unless you are someone like the First Hokage, who could single-handedly crush the entire ninja world, you don't have the right to choose kindness.

"Looks like the exams are over."

When Li Chuan and Tianzang arrived at the school, they saw Naruto and a group of ninjas walking out of the school.

After a brief chat, Naruto and his two companions passed the first written test. Tomorrow, they will take the second survival test at Training Ground 44, a place known as the Forest of Death.

The second round is a team-based death survival test. Each team will receive a scroll, half of which is for the sky and half for the ground.

By stealing other people's scrolls, possessing both the Heaven and Earth scrolls, and traversing the Death Forest within five days to reach the tower in the center of the forest, one can advance to participate in the preliminary selection competition.

Therefore, at least half of the participants will be eliminated in this round.

However, none of this concerned Li Chuan. The only person he was somewhat concerned about was Orochimaru, who was disguised as a Grass Ninja.

He needed to find out where the forbidden scroll of Konoha was hidden from Orochimaru before the Konoha Collapse Plan took place.

He has now scoured the entire village of Konoha. Basically, as long as he knows the location of the forbidden scroll, he can simply Apparate nearby and forcefully break in to take it away when the Konoha Collapse Plan falls into chaos.

After Naruto's theft of the forbidden technique scroll, Konoha must have already placed the scroll elsewhere for safekeeping, and the exact location is probably only known to a few high-ranking officials.

He had considered seeking out Danzo, but it wasn't a sure thing. Danzo was bad, but he might not necessarily give the village's forbidden techniques to a stranger.

But Orochimaru is different. As an S-rank rogue ninja, he's about to destroy Konoha with his own hands. Why would he care about forbidden techniques? As long as the conditions are right, he can naturally reach an agreement.

However, the prerequisite is that you must have the strength to negotiate with him at the negotiating table.

So early the next morning, Li Chuan brought Tianzang to the 44th training ground.

"Your Highness, what brings you here?"

The examiner for the second round, Mitarashi Anko, was explaining the rules of the competition when she suddenly saw Li Chuan and Tianzang approaching. She immediately stopped explaining and hurried over to greet them.

Prince Li Chuan has been making a high-profile appearance in the village for several days, and everyone has naturally come to know him.

Hongdou was surprised that Li Chuan would come over now, because according to the arrangement, Li Chuan was not to be invited to the tower to watch the preliminary selection on the fifth day.

"Anko, you go ahead with your work. I'm just here to cheer Naruto and the others on!"

Li Chuan smiled and waved to Naruto and the others, but when he looked away, his gaze lingered for a couple of seconds on a ninja dressed in Grass Ninja attire in the crowd.

Hello, Orochimaru!

(End of this chapter)