Gene Potion

Iron Bone felt a chill down his spine under Kosuke's stare, but he didn't understand what the other party had just said. He could only chuckle and scratch the back of his head.

"Answer me, what was the previous sentence?"

Facing Iron Bone's honest expression, Kosuke's demeanor didn't relax at all. The Chakra within him even began to stir again.

"The... previous sentence??" Iron Bone looked at Kosuke with confusion, his eyes full of doubt. "River Demon... River Demon gnawing on White Bone?"

After hearing this, Kosuke's expression froze.

"Damn it! What was I even thinking?"

"If someone really transmigrated into the Kaguya Clan, wouldn't they just slit their wrists and start a new account?"

"Cough, cough, cough..."

As he thought this, a rapid coughing sound suddenly came from behind Kosuke.

He quickly turned around and saw that Skeleton's mouth was already flowing with brown blood. He was looking at Kosuke with dying eyes, begging him to heal him.

Skeleton's pleading gaze fell upon Kosuke like a scorching flame, making his face feel slightly hot.

Just now, he had confidently told Skeleton that he could free him from his pain and grant him power. Now, because of Iron Bone's interruption, Skeleton had fallen into a near-death state.

"That's right, this is Iron Bone's fault..."

Immediately, Kosuke suspended one hand above Skeleton's body, emitting a verdant green light. With his other hand, he took out a tube of milky white reagent from his ninja pouch and, under Skeleton's gaze, directly injected it into his vein.

As the reagent was injected, slowly, Skeleton's complexion gradually changed from deathly pale to ruddy. A look of comfort even appeared on his fierce face.

The bone spurs protruding from his joints also slowly retracted until they disappeared.

The three behind them, Iron Bone included, witnessed all of this with their own eyes. No matter how crazy or honest they were, they knew that the reagent Kosuke injected into the waste on the Stone Platform was a good thing.

Their eyes widened, and their greedy gazes constantly flickered between the reagent and Kosuke.

However, they were intimidated by Kosuke's terrifying strength and dared not make a move to snatch it.

They could only fixate on the discarded test tube that Kosuke had casually tossed aside.

An hour passed.

Under the treatment of the reagent and Medical Ninjutsu, Skeleton's vital signs finally stabilized.

However, the bones that Kosuke had shattered could not heal and could only recover slowly.

Looking at Skeleton, whose mental state had greatly improved, Kosuke turned and sat down on a half-broken stone pillar that was still standing nearby. He lowered his head, pondering how to arrange the Kaguya Clan.

The next second, after Kosuke left the Stone Platform, the three of them, Iron Bone, suddenly rushed forward, all attempting to seize the test tube for themselves.

The Iron Bone, who had declared himself a Divine Envoy, picked up the test tube half a second earlier and instantly moved away from the stone platform.

He raised his hand, looking at the residue in the test tube, and let out a mad laugh not far away.

"I am the Divine Envoy, and you dare to snatch from me?!"

"Mine! That's what the god gave me!" The Skeleton's spirits improved greatly, and he yelled with his still weak voice, "Iron Bone, how dare you snatch the Clan Head's things?!"

"Clan Head?" Iron Bone, while warily watching two tribesmen slowly surround him, swept his gaze dismissively over the stone platform. "You're a piece of trash now! How dare you compete with a god for the position of Clan Head?!"

The noisy commotion woke Kosuke from his contemplation.

Seeing them on the verge of a fight over the test tube he had casually discarded, an idea suddenly popped into Kosuke's mind.

"Iron Bone, notify your tribesmen to pack up and prepare to go to the Land of Fire with me."

"God!" Just as the two Kaguya were about to close in, Iron Bone heard the sound. He roughly pushed them aside and rushed towards Kosuke without any defense.

"God, can you bestow this thing upon me?"

Iron Bone's humble expression made Kosuke's eye twitch. "Are my subordinates this pathetic?"

"Enough, throw it away. When we get to the Land of Fire, every one of you Kaguya tribesmen will receive a treatment agent every month."

The agents that could have cured their Bloodline Disease with just one or two tubes could be diluted slightly upon their return, making them undetectable, and thus extend their treatment period.

At that time...

"One tube every month?!"

Iron Bone, the others, and the Skeleton lying on the stone platform all had their eyes light up at the words.

Especially the Skeleton, who had used the reagent and experienced its effects, was trembling with excitement.

Even though the intense pain stimulated his nerves, it couldn't hide the ecstatic joy on his face.

Kosuke silently watched the expressions on their faces and couldn't help but recall how even more excited he had been when he first developed this Gene Reagent.

He shook his head slightly and let out a wry smile.

After Kosuke finished speaking, Iron Bone unhesitatingly discarded the test tube, turned, and used the Body Flicker Technique to disappear before Kosuke.

The Skeleton, who remained in place and on the stone platform, looked with surprise at the test tube arcing through the air.

But the Skeleton could only lie powerlessly on the stone platform and roar weakly, watching helplessly as the test tube fell into the hands of two tribesmen.

"God, the tribesmen have finished packing. We can depart for the Land of Fire now!"

Iron Bone was very fast. Fifteen minutes later, he brought his tribesmen gathered around Kosuke.

Kosuke looked around, then loudly repeated what he had told Iron Bone and the others earlier, instantly drawing countless shouts.

This explanation caused Iron Bone, who had been hatching his own plans, to visibly deflate.

Kosuke paid no mind to Iron Bone's expression and directly ordered his men to carry the skeletons and set off for the Land of Fire.

In the days that followed, large groups of Kaguya tribesmen could often be seen on the official roads of the Land of Water and the Land of Fire, appearing brazenly before merchants. The merchant caravans they encountered would halt, only resuming their journeys after the tribesmen had passed.

While Kosuke led the Kaguya towards the Land of Fire, his omnipresent intelligence operatives were also working silently within the various powers of the ninja world.

The operatives collected seemingly insignificant information, organized it, wrote it onto scrolls, and transferred it out.

In a border town in the Land of Wind, a reclusive old man obsessed with puppets; in a quiet valley on the fringes of the Land of Tea, a down-on-his-luck wandering apothecary who was always researching strange reactions between herbs and minerals...

Before returning to the Uchiha Clan grounds, Kosuke settled the Kaguya clan downstream of Lake Naka.

He sternly warned Iron Bone that after establishing their clan grounds, they were not to venture out or cause trouble, or the supply of treatment reagents would be halted!

Afterward, Kosuke returned to the clan grounds, submitted his mission, and reported the presence of the Kaguya downstream of Lake Naka to the clan, preventing any conflicts between the clan guards and the Kaguya.

Then, without delay, he returned to the academy next to the ancestral shrine.

He sat in his own office.

Kosuke carefully reviewed the intelligence passed up by Shita, the head of intelligence.

His gaze lingered slightly on the information from two inconspicuous scrolls, and a subtle curve formed on his lips.

"Obsessed with puppets" and "wandering apothecary," huh...