Mizukage's Pokémon Ninja Scroll

Chapter 257 Three Months

The location where Jianchuan Ju launched the signal flare was not far from the front-line camp.

Before long, dozens of Hidden Mist ninja arrived first.

However, the group of Kirigakure ninjas were initially excited, thinking that a large number of enemies had invaded and that they might encounter a difficult battle.

Upon arrival, all they saw was a huge, round ice block frozen on the sea, two strangely posed humanoid ice sculptures, and a poor guy lying unconscious on the ground, with bored Lan Zai piling sand on him.

Oh, and there's also Jianchuan Ju, who's standing there with one hand in his pocket, trying to look cool.

"Jonin Kenkawa, what's going on here?"

Upon seeing the newcomer, Tachibana Kanagawa had nothing to hide and spoke directly.

"I've spotted several suspected Cloud Village agents disguised as infiltrators here and have captured them. Is everything alright at the camp?"

Although he didn't immediately understand why Tachibana Kenkawa asked that question, the Jonin leading the team answered honestly.

"There's nothing unusual at the camp. It was Lord Qing who sent us to investigate after seeing the signal flare."

Upon hearing this, Jianchuan Ju nodded.

It seems that even if there are other ninjas who have secretly infiltrated Uzushima, their numbers shouldn't be too large. Otherwise, if they saw the signal flare and knew they had been exposed, they would probably launch an attack immediately.

"Alright, I'll go back and report to the commander first. You guys can take these guys back."

After saying that, Jianchuan Ju immediately dispelled Lanzai's summoning spell, and before anyone could react, she disappeared in a flash.

All that remained were the Hidden Mist ninjas, who had been eager for a great battle, looking at the six prisoners in bewilderment.

After returning to the camp, Tachibana Kenkawa briefly explained to Ao about discovering the intruder, and then didn't ask any further questions.

It's better to leave this kind of thing to the higher-ups to deal with.

Afterwards, Jianchuan Ju still planned to continue her outing as originally intended.

After all, even if you stay in the camp, there aren't many tasks to do on the front lines, and the Air Force has a lot of work to do. You might not have as much time to practice and develop ninjutsu as you would to go out and explore freely, and you might even trigger some new achievements along the way.

The next morning, after greeting Qing, Jianchuan Ju prepared to leave the camp with a new mission scroll.

However, they had only just reached the entrance of the camp when they were stopped by the Snow Clan elder who had come to negotiate earlier.

"Elder Xue Huo, what has this matter now?"

"The clan chief sent me to deliver the agreed-upon ninjutsu to you."

Jianchuan Ju casually took the scroll handed to him, but his mind was elsewhere.

"Clan leader? Yukikaze hasn't relinquished his position as clan leader yet? Interesting."

However, none of this was of much concern to him, so Tachibana Kenkawa immediately prepared to open the scroll in his hand to see what kind of ninjutsu the Yuki clan had given him.

However, his actions were immediately stopped by Xue Huo.

"Lord Jianchuan, this is just a sealed scroll. I suggest you do not open it here."

"Heh, it seems the Snow Clan is quite sincere?"

Jianchuan Ju didn't have any reason to be stubborn. He simply stuffed the scroll into his pocket, nodded in acknowledgment, and walked straight out of the camp gate.

However, after leaving the area around Whirlpool Island, Tachibana Kenkawa first found a secluded spot and opened the scroll to take a look.

It's not that Tachibana Kanagawa doesn't know that it would be more convenient to open the sealed scroll directly in the 'secret space'.

However, one should always be wary of others.

In case the Snow Clan, those guys are incorrigible and have sealed some strange things inside the scroll, it would be easier to deal with them if I could unlock the seal from the outside.

However, it is clear that Tachibana Kanakawa was overthinking it.

A burst of white smoke exploded, revealing a dozen or so ninjutsu scrolls neatly stacked on the ground.

I casually picked up a few scrolls to examine them.

Ice Release: Ice Pillar Swallow

Ice Release: Ice Rock Hall Mu

Ice Release: Ice Clone

Ice Release: Ice Blade

……

"Good heavens, the Snow Clan has really gone all out this time!"

With so many Ice Release ninjutsu existing, Ice Release has surprisingly become the ninjutsu that Tachibana Kenkawa has mastered the most.

However, it's too early to say that he has mastered them. After all, unlike the system's lottery system, Tachibana Kenkawa still has to learn these ninjutsu one by one.

Moreover, many of these ninjutsu techniques are only useful for enriching Tachibana Kanagawa's knowledge of Ice Release techniques.

Ultimately, he will probably only choose a few of the more practical core ninjutsu to learn.

"Sigh, it looks like the rest of the journey is going to be quite busy."

……

Battlefield of the Land of Fire.

Kaminavi Bridge.

The ancient kingdom of Loulan.

The Land of Grass.

The land of rain.

……

In three months, Tachibana Kanagawa traveled to almost half of the ninja world.

Even in the last two months, Jianchuan Ju didn't return to the front-line camp even once, relying entirely on Qing to support him.

Until once again, as agreed, the daily dispelling of the psychic spell was carried out to exchange information with Qing.

"Is this an important task issued by the village? Looks like I have no choice but to go back!"

Kanakawa Tachibana adjusted the bone mask on her face and muttered to herself.

Rainwater flowed down the grooves on both sides of the mask.

"Hey, Tachibana. What are you doing over there? Come help me."

A young man with orange hair and a cheerful smile shouted from afar. Even the gloomy, rainy weather couldn't hide his bright and sunny disposition.

The orange-haired youth carried a huge wooden beam toward Jianchuan Ju and reached out as if to help Jianchuan Ju, who was sitting on a rock, up.

"Yahiko, I'm leaving."

"ah----?"

The orange-haired youth before them was none other than Yahiko, the disciple of Jiraiya, one of the Legendary Sannin and the first leader of the Akatsuki organization.

However, upon hearing that Tachibana Kenkawa was leaving, Yahiko showed none of the composure expected of an organization leader. He threw the massive wooden beam to the ground, splashing water everywhere, and opened his mouth wide, repeatedly letting out surprised shouts.

"What's wrong? What's wrong?"

Several ninjas dressed in black robes and wearing Raingaku headbands rushed over upon hearing Yahiko's shouts.

Seeing that Yahiko was still in a daze, Tachibana Kenkawa had no choice but to explain himself.

"It's nothing, I just told Yahiko that I was leaving."

"Huh—?" xN

Well, now even more people are dumbfounded.

Jianchuan Ju looked at them with a black line on his face. The guys, who seemed to have stepped out of a gag manga, were speechless.

Fortunately, at that moment, a blue-haired girl came out from behind and looked at Jianchuan Ju with a worried expression.

"Tachibana, are you really leaving? Why?"

The speaker was Konan, another disciple of Jiraiya.

When Jianchuan Ju heard this, he simply shrugged.

"I said before I joined Akatsuki that I am not a ninja from the Land of Rain. I joined you recently because I admire your ideals."

"But I still have my own identity, and it's time for me to return to it."

(End of this chapter)