Shiyu's voice came from inside the prison, making Lady Sanjo both nervous and curious.
"Who is it?! Who are you? Don't sneak around like that." Lady Sanjo also ordered her two guards to be on alert, ready to deal with any possible situation at any time.
Shiyu wanted to deal with the current Lady Sanjo, it would be incredibly easy. Therefore, without the slightest hesitation, Shiyu appeared on the spot.
Lady Sanjo was greatly surprised.
"Who are you? The Light of the Shinobi World? Uchiha Shigure? Why are you here? Where is your daimyo?" Lady Sanjo asked.
"Lady Sanjo, hello. It seems you recognize me. What was that all about me being all talk and no action? Don't you know why I've been hiding for so long? Wasn't it to find you, the mastermind behind it all?"
Lady Sanjo was somewhat flustered; things seemed to be spiraling out of her control.
"This is the family matter of the Daimyo of the Land of Water. You have no right to interfere. If you return the Daimyo of the Land of Water, I can pretend nothing happened," Lady Sanjo argued forcefully.
Shiyu then couldn't help but laugh.
"Hahaha! Lady Sanjo, you can pretend nothing happened, but I can't. I know the whole truth now." Shiyu then said, "I was hiding in the prison, and I heard every word you just said clearly. Daimyo, I also rescued her."
"Unless you kill me now, and then kill the daimyo, then there will be no evidence against you." Shiyu began to offer advice to Lady Sanjo, saying, "Don't you still have two guards? If I'm not mistaken, they should both be highly skilled, right? You're really cautious! You're just as cautious when dealing with Ichikawa Haru."
Whether Shiyu was genuinely praising Sanjo or mocking her, her words were rather harsh.
Lady Sanjo sighed, "I didn't want it to be like this, but things have come to this point, I have no choice but to take the gamble! You two! Hurry up and capture him for me!"
Immediately afterwards, the two guards beside Lady Sanjo rushed towards Shiyu.
Shiyu smiled faintly and took a few steps back.
"Dealing with you is like dealing with two ants." With his Shiyu strength, few in the entire Shinobi World dare to oppose Shigure, let alone those two guards.
"Even if you are the Light of the Shinobi World, you may not be able to defeat us." The two guards were like frogs in a well, thinking that they were already very strong. They pressed forward step by step, thinking that Shiyu's retreat was because he was afraid of them.
"Smack!" Shiyu then grabbed the two men by the neck with both hands and slammed them to the ground.
"Bang!" Logically, their heads should have been smashed to pieces, but they must have some special abilities, because they were actually smashed into water.
"Oh? That's unexpected. I was wondering why you two were so confident; it turns out you have the ability to liquefy." Shiyu's tone revealed his surprise.
"Since you know our abilities, you should know that we are practically immortal!"
"That's right! Even if you are incredibly strong and defeat us time and time again, we can still dodge your attacks with our Water Transformation Technique. This is the special ability of our Hozuki Clan!" The two guards were still arrogant and thought that they were enough to hold off Shiyu.
"Sigh, I really don't know what to say about you. If I call you stupid, you really are stupid; if I call you smart, your words are somewhat inaccurate." After Shiyu finished speaking, his entire body instantly emitted a tremendous amount of lightning power.
"You probably only inherited part of the Hozuki Clan's abilities, right? Moreover, your Water Transformation Technique has a fatal weakness: it's countered by Lightning Release."
"You're already immobilized by this level of Lightning Release? How utterly disappointing." After Shiyu unleashed his Lightning Release, the two guards, who possessed the abilities of the Hozuki Clan, became completely dehydrated.
They were extremely weak, their bodies completely paralyzed.
"Now, you two lackeys are dead too." Shiyu then gently locked their necks, and then used the power of lightning to snap their necks.
The two were instantly, beyond dead.
"Lady Sanjo? Do you have any other support? If not, please come with me." Shiyu said calmly, without a trace of emotion in her words.
Lady Sanjo also wore an expression of disbelief. She knew the strength of her two personal guards; they could even take down Jonin. How could they have been killed in a single encounter with Shiyu, a mere twelve or thirteen-year-old child?
"Oh well, I have nothing left to rely on now. Go, go wherever you want to go." Lady Sanjo's heart was filled with despair.
Immediately afterwards Shiyu took Lady Sanjo away from the prison and brought her to Kakuno's room, because after Shiyu used the Flying Thunder God to rescue Ichikawa Haru, he handed him over to Kakuno for protection.
Hidden had hidden his father in his room. Now that Shiyu had brought back Lady Sanjo, Ichikawa In and Ichikawa Haru were facing Sanjo at the same time.
"What's there to ask now?" Lady Sanjo asked.
"You all should catch up first. Now that you know how much Ichikawa Noboru has done, I'll naturally bring him along too. Then your whole family will be reunited." Shiyu then used Flying Thunder God to disappear once more.
Ichikawa Noboru was also radiant and extremely proud. After pretending for so long, he could finally unleash his true nature without restraint.
"Toshio! I must thank you this time!" Ichikawa Noboru said to his retainer in his daimyo's mansion, "Ichiki Toshio! I owe you a great debt this time!"
"If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have been able to carry out these plans so smoothly, using Genjutsu on that idiot brother to make him assassinate me, and then dispelling the Genjutsu at the crucial moment to pin everything on him."
"If it weren't for you making him doubt my elder brother, I might never have become the daimyo," Ichikawa Noboru said with great pride.
The retainer below Ichiki Toshio, appeared extremely respectful, but then revealed a wicked smile and said, "Ah! I think it's because you, sir, acted so well. This shows that you possess the potential to become a perfect daimyo! I believe that soon you will become the most powerful daimyo in the world!"
While feeding Ichiki Toshio Ichikawa Noboru sweet talk, he said sarcastically, "But sir, that kid called the Light of the Shinobi World isn't all that great after all. You see, even though we made some mistakes, we still managed to trick him in the end."
One person, however, began to have doubts.