This Water Shadow is very strong, but overly cautious.

This alone is enough to expose all the past mistakes of the Sandaime.

"Even now, the Sandaime is dead."

"But I still think this battle is the first achievement."

"It has to be the Third Mizukage."

"Therefore, I dare not take credit for this achievement."

"If the village insists on rewarding me."

"Before this battle, a group of Kaguya clan members surrendered to the Sandaime."

"Three generations had promised each other that they would be properly resettled after the war."

"I hope the village will return the Kaguya clan's land to these Kaguya clan members and forgive any sins committed against them in the future."

"This can be considered as the implementation of the Sandaime's last decree before his death."

After these words were spoken, no one spoke again.

In the eyes of all the Kirigakure ninjas, the image of Mizunoe Ryosuke has completely changed.

At this moment, it seemed as if beams of sunlight were bursting out from Mizunoe Ryosuke's body, making him look so majestic.

Especially some of the Mizunoe clan members who had a deep relationship with the Third Hokage, when they looked at Mizunoe Ryosuke, their eyes actually showed some hesitation.

When some people are happy, others are sad.

At this moment, Mizunoe Hideo looked at Mizunoe Ryosuke with gritted teeth, wondering why he hadn't thought of this trick just now.

Mizunoe Hideo only regarded all this as a means for Mizunoe Ryosuke to win people's hearts.

Little did they know that Mizunoe Ryosuke just really didn't have anything good to ask for.

For a moment, I remembered the crying faces of Mizunoe Rikka and Mizunoe Ren, and then I thought of clearing the name of the third generation.

This also made Mizunoe Rikka and Mizunoe Ren feel better, and at the same time, it also dealt with the previous affairs of the Hyuga clan.

Everything was arranged using the name of the Third Hokage.

Unlike Mizunoe Hideo, Ryosuke's other "rival" Hozuki Mangetsu thinks that this should be Ryosuke Mizunoe's true words.

At the same time, he also had a greater respect for Ryosuke as a person.

Because in Mangetsu's opinion, how could a person who dares to give up his bright future to become a jinchūriki tell lies at this time?

The "Miracle" Ninja is worthy of his reputation.

While thinking this, Man Yue sighed inwardly.

Chapter 80, Voting in Progress

"Mizunoe Ryosuke, I agree to your request on behalf of the village."

After a moment, Master Maeda spoke in a serious voice, his eyes slightly sank, and he seemed to have made some decision in his heart.

"Thank you, Captain Maeda."

Seeing that his request was agreed to by Master Maeda, Mizunoe Ryosuke also nodded slightly at Master Maeda.

All this was within his expectations, so he was not surprised.

"You two, I will send someone to deliver the village's reward to your residence later."

Then, Master Maeda turned his attention to Mangetsu Hozuki and Hideo Mizunoe.

Both of them had no objection to this.

But after this incident, all the jonin present looked at Mizunoe Ryosuke with somewhat different eyes.

Immediately afterwards, Master Maeda spoke again.

"Everyone is aware of the current situation in the village. The most important thing now is to find a qualified "Five Eight Seven" Mizukage to lead the village out of its predicament."

"So next, we will begin voting to select the Fourth Mizukage!"

As Master Maeda finished speaking, everyone knew that the most important part of the meeting was about to begin.

Especially Mizunoe Hideo, at this moment even his breathing became a little rapid.

"Due to the suddenness of the Sandaime's death, the village was not prepared for a change in the Mizukage."

"So this time the public election for the Mizukage started a bit suddenly."

"Therefore, based on my discussion with the Elders, the plan for the public election of the Mizukage will be changed this time."

What Master Maeda said made all the jonin look at each other in bewilderment.

Seeing that the three Mizukage candidates directly involved in this matter remained silent, the other jonins also remained silent and continued to listen to Master Maeda.

"This is different from the previous system where all the jonin voted directly to elect the Mizukage."

"At this jonin meeting, all jonin will vote to select three candidates for Mizukage."

"Then the village will examine the three of them, and the one with the best performance will be chosen as the Mizukage."

The candidate system proposed by Master Maeda is very different from the previous system used by the Hidden Mist Village to select the Mizukage.

According to normal procedures, there will only be one person from the Hidden Mist Village who is popular among the people and becomes the candidate for Mizukage.

Generally speaking, the candidate for Mizukage will be proposed by the previous Mizukage, and then directly appointed with the consent of the village elders.

After becoming a candidate for Mizukage, he or she will possess some of the rights of Mizukage.

Then, after a series of measures, as long as the Mizukage candidate can obtain half of the votes in the Jonin Conference, he can successfully succeed to the Mizukage.

In fact, the third Mizukage, Taki Mizunoe, was obstructed by the Kaguya clan and Yagura Karuta after he obtained the qualification of the Mizukage successor.

As a result, he never received more than 150% of the votes in the Jounin class, and it took him two years to become the Mizukage.

This time, the plan proposed by Master Maeda was very different from the previous Mizukage selection system of the Hidden Mist Village.

And there is actually nothing that can be done about it.

A civil war caused heavy losses to all major forces within the Hidden Mist Village.

Mizunoe, Kaguya, and Hozuki, who were originally ranked in the top three, have seen a serious decline in strength, and the village is facing a reshuffle.

The Hidden Mist Village is now in chaos and it is impossible to follow normal thinking.

No matter who is chosen as the candidate for Mizukage, it is bound to cause dissatisfaction among other forces.

It is also impossible for him to get more than 50% of the votes in the Jounin class.

Unlike the situation when the Third Mizukage took the throne, this time the Kirigakure is in a mess and urgently needs a Mizukage to take over and resolve the issue.

Of course, we can't delay it for another year or two and let the Mizukage candidate canvass for votes.

By then, the civil strife in the Hidden Mist Village will never end.

Moreover, the cause of this civil strife was actually the civil strife among the ninjas of the family.

The massive depletion of the family ninja's strength has led to a rise in the number of civilian ninjas within the village.

At this moment, no matter who forces himself to take the throne, as long as he does not get the support of civilian ninjas, he will still have to deal with trouble in the future.

The three people most likely to succeed the Mizukage currently have no objection to this.

They also knew in their hearts that the plan proposed by Master Maeda was the fairest.

"Everyone is clear about the rules, so let's start voting now."

Master Maeda glanced around the room and, seeing that no one raised any objections, he announced the start of the voting.

As soon as the voting began, Kuroshima Morita, a jonin from the Hozuki family, and another jonin from Mizunotsuki nominated Ryosuke and three others.

Afterwards, other jonins came together and nominated a few elite jonins.

The one hundred and forty jonin quickly began to cast their votes for their favorite candidates.

Meanwhile, Mizunoe Ryosuke, Mizunoe Eiro, and Hozuki Mangetsu all sat there motionless.

Soon, the voting ended, and the counting board at the front clearly displayed the number of votes for everyone.

First place, Mizunoe Ryosuke, with 27 votes.

Second place, Mangetsu Kizuki, 25 votes.

Third place, Mizunoe Hideo, with 19 votes.

Apart from that, the remaining few people can only serve as supporting roles, and not even one of them has a vote count exceeding double digits.

As expected, three of them became candidates for the Mizukage.

Beyond that, it's worth noting that all the votes counted totaled fewer than a hundred.

You should know that there were more than 140 Jonin attending the meeting, which means that at least 40 people chose to abstain from voting.

Among them, half belonged to Maeda Genshi's forces, and the remaining half were obviously civilian ninjas who maintained absolute neutrality.

It is foreseeable that whoever can gain the support of these civilian ninjas will be able to secure the position of Mizukage.

Most of these ninjas who have been around until today have no sect or school, and are individual investors who were looked down upon by the ninjas from the major families in the past.

Times have changed, and things have changed.

Who would have thought that these civilian ninjas who were not valued in the past would now become the key players in deciding the position of Mizukage.

At this moment, Mizunoe Ryosuke looked at his name ranked first on the counting board, and felt extremely complicated.

He never expected that he, who had the shallowest foundation and the weakest influence in Kirigakure, would win the first place in the votes with 2.2.

Among these 27 votes, in addition to the third-generation forces represented by Kuroshima Morita, some also came from some unfamiliar civilian ninjas.

It seemed that she was impressed by Ryosuke Mizunoe's performance just now.

Faced with the "wrong love" of these ninjas, Mizunoe Ryosuke was silent for a while.

Before he could continue to think deeply, Master Maeda spoke again.

"Okay, the vote counting is over."

"I think everyone is clear about the result, so I won't go into details."

"This concludes the Jonin meeting."

"Please go home and wait. The village will arrange an assessment for you three soon."

After saying this, Master Maeda was the first to leave.

He showed no desire to engage privately with either candidate.

All the jonin left the stage one by one, except for Mizunoe Ryosuke who remained sitting there.

Chapter 81: Security Team in Position

Suddenly, Kuroshima Morita's voice sounded in Ryosuke's ears.

"Ryosuke, everyone is waiting, let's go and get together with everyone."

"what do you think?"

As he spoke, Kuroshima Morita skillfully placed his hands on Ryosuke's shoulders.

Just because of the difference in status and strength at this time, Kuroshima Morita's arm no longer slapped Ryosuke's shoulder as hard as before.

The tone of his original carefree and reckless speech also turned into a negotiating tone.

Ryosuke also expected Kuroshima Morita's invitation.

It is understandable that Kuroshima Morita and other ninjas who joined the army in a hurry would be eager to establish a close relationship with Ryosuke.

"Captain Morita, let's forget about it this time."

"The village will arrange an assessment next, and I need to prepare first."

"If you want to get together, it's not too late to talk about it later."

In response to this, Mizunoe Ryosuke simply politely refused.

Upon hearing this, Kuroshima Morita smiled brightly and didn't say much. He also knew that Ryosuke must have a lot of things on his hands at this critical juncture.

After saying a few more words of encouragement, Kuroshima Morita left tactfully.

Seeing that everyone had left, Mizunoe Ryosuke did not linger any longer and turned to leave the meeting room.

27 Unexpectedly, at the corner of the corridor, a person had been waiting here for a long time.