Gene Potion

Iron Bone felt a chill run down his spine under Kosuke's stare, but he could not understand what Kosuke had just said and could only scratch the back of his head with a foolish grin.

"Answer me. What was the previous sentence?"

Facing Iron Bone's honest expression, Kosuke did not relax in the slightest. The Chakra within him even began to stir once more.

"The... previous sentence?" Iron Bone looked at Kosuke in confusion, his eyes full of bewilderment. "River Demon... River Demon gnaws white bone?"

Kosuke's expression instantly froze.

"Damn! What the hell was I thinking?"

"If someone really transmigrated into the Kaguya Clan, wouldn't they just slit their throat and reroll?"

"Cough, cough, cough..."

As that thought crossed his mind, a bout of urgent coughing suddenly sounded behind Kosuke.

He quickly turned around and saw brown blood already flowing from Skeleton's mouth. Skeleton looked at Kosuke with dying, pleading eyes, begging him for treatment.

Skeleton's pleading gaze fell into Kosuke's eyes like a scorching flame, making his face grow slightly hot.

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

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

Kosuke immediately held one hand over Skeleton's body, letting emerald-green light bloom from it. With his other hand, he took a tube of milky-white reagent from his ninja tool pouch and plunged it directly into Skeleton's vein under Skeleton's gaze.

As the reagent entered his body, Skeleton's complexion slowly changed from deathly pale to rosy after a short while. A look of comfort even appeared on his fierce face.

The bone spikes protruding from his joints slowly retracted until they vanished completely.

Iron Bone and the other two watched everything unfold with their own eyes. No matter how insane or simple-minded they were, they knew the reagent Kosuke had injected into the trash on the Stone Platform was good stuff.

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

Yet they did not dare leap up and seize it because of Kosuke's terrifying strength.

They could only fix their eyes on the test tube Kosuke had casually discarded.

An hour passed.

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

Only the bones Kosuke had shattered failed to heal, leaving him no choice but to recuperate slowly.

Seeing that Skeleton's mental state had improved considerably, Kosuke turned and walked over to sit on the remaining half of a stone pillar. He lowered his head and pondered how to settle the Kaguya Clan.

The next second, after Kosuke left the Stone Platform, Iron Bone and the other two abruptly rushed forward, each trying to claim the test tube for himself.

Iron Bone, who called himself the Divine Envoy, picked up the test tube half a second earlier and instantly moved away from the Stone Platform.

Looking at the residue inside the test tube, he stood not far away and burst into manic laughter.

"I am the Divine Envoy! How dare you fight me for it?!"

"Mine! That was given to me by god!" The skeleton had recovered somewhat and screamed wildly in a still-weak voice. "Iron Bone, how dare you steal the clan head's belongings?!"

"Clan head?" Iron Bone warily watched the two tribesmen slowly closing in while casting a contemptuous glance at the Stone Platform from the corner of his eye. "You're nothing but trash now! How dare you compete with God for the position of clan head?!"

The commotion pulled Kosuke out of his thoughts.

Seeing them at each other's throats over a test tube he had casually thrown away, an idea suddenly emerged in Kosuke's mind.

"Iron Bone, notify your tribesmen to pack up. Prepare to leave with me for the Land of Fire."

"God!" Just as the two Kaguya tribesmen were about to close in, Iron Bone heard him. He roughly knocked the two aside and rushed toward Kosuke without a shred of caution.

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

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

"Enough. Throw it away. Once we reach the Land of Fire, every Kaguya tribesman will receive a dose of treatment medicine each month."

The medicine that originally only required one or two doses to cure their Bloodline Disease could be diluted slightly after he returned. As long as they could not tell, he could extend their treatment period.

Then...

"One dose every month?!"

Iron Bone and the others, along with Skeleton lying on the Stone Platform, had a bright gleam burst from their eyes.

Especially Skeleton, who had used and experienced the reagent. His entire body trembled with excitement.

Even the intense pain wildly stimulating his nerves could not stop the ecstatic expression on his face.

Kosuke silently watched their expressions and could not help recalling how he had been even more excited than them when he first developed this Gene Reagent.

He gently shook his head and gave a bitter smile.

After Kosuke finished speaking, Iron Bone threw away the test tube without hesitation, turned around, and used the Body Flicker Technique to vanish from before Kosuke.

Skeleton, still on the Stone Platform, watched in delight as the test tube traced an arc through the air.

But Skeleton could only lie helplessly on the Stone Platform and roar weakly, watching with his own eyes as the test tube fell into the arms of the two tribesmen.

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

Iron Bone was fast. A quarter of an hour later, he had gathered the tribesmen around Kosuke.

Kosuke swept his gaze around them and loudly repeated what he had told Iron Bone and the others earlier, instantly drawing countless roars.

But Kosuke's explanation immediately made Iron Bone's face fall, as he had been harboring his own little schemes.

Kosuke paid no attention to Iron Bone's expression and directly gave the order to carry Skeleton and set off for the Land of Fire.

In the time that followed, large groups of completely unhidden Kaguya tribesmen often appeared on the official roads between the Land of Water and the Land of Fire. They brazenly entered merchants' sight, causing every merchant caravan they encountered to stop and wait until they had disappeared before continuing onward.

While Kosuke led the Kaguya Clan toward the Land of Fire, the intelligence agents under his command also quietly operated throughout the various powers of the Ninja World.

The intelligence agents gathered seemingly insignificant information, organized it, wrote it into Scrolls, and transferred it away.

In a border town of the Land of Wind, there was a reclusive old man obsessed with puppets; in a quiet valley on the outskirts of the Land of Tea, there was a down-and-out wandering apothecary who constantly researched the reactions of strange herbs and minerals...

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

He also sternly warned Iron Bone that after establishing their clan grounds, they were not to leave or cause trouble. Otherwise, the distribution of treatment reagents would cease!

Kosuke then returned to the clan grounds, submitted his mission, and reported the Kaguya Clan downstream of Lake Naka to the clan, preventing conflicts between the clan guards and those dim-witted Kaguya.

Then, without stopping, he returned to the Academy beside the Ancestral Hall.

He sat in his own office.

Kosuke carefully reviewed the intelligence delivered by Shita, the head of intelligence.

His gaze lingered briefly on the information in two inconspicuous Scrolls, and then an imperceptible curve formed at the corner of his lips.

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