Although Rōran's An Lushan seems to know each other very well, but Akaseki is not ready to leave Rōran at the moment...
After all, his current cowardice may be just a show. Until Sunagakure officially surrenders, Akaseki will further monitor Rōran and guard against Sunagakure contacting him!
This is just a task for Konoha. Akaseki himself also needs to study what is going on with Ryūmyaku and what is its relationship with Space-Time, in order to find a solution to the situation on Guang's body.
Seeing that Minato was still a little concerned about the situation of those "little thieves", Akaseki decided to go and see those little thieves tomorrow. I think An Lushan, who knows how to deal with them, would not object.
But...
That night, after the four Akaseki rested...
Bang--
Boom--
Clang--
A sudden commotion caused the four Akaseki people in the room to wake up immediately...
Whoosh whoosh whoosh--
Akaseki The four people arrived outside the tower in an instant, either attached their feet with chakra and stood on the tower, or rushed directly to the top of the tower and looked in the direction of the sound.
Ranwu looked at it in confusion at this time - Didn't you just receive ninja training recently? Did you make such rapid progress?
"It's Royal Tower... go and have a look." Akaseki said immediately.
The four of them followed the direction of the sound of fighting and arrived outside Royal Tower, but...
"Unidentified target... no approach..."
"Warning, warning, stay away..."
A group of automated Puppet stood in front of the four Akaseki.
These Puppet and Sunagakure are different in common styles. Each one is similar to a humanoid, but looks more like "armor", unlike Sunagakure's Puppet, which generally looks more like a "skeleton".
"We are here to help!" Ranwu said quickly.
"Warning... No approaching..." Puppet obviously didn't understand, and the Chakra-Infused Throwing Weapons in their hands flashed.
"Okay, are you still ready to communicate with these things?" Akaseki said, twisting his fingers, he rolled out a handful of Shuriken, and threw it at the Puppet who were surrounding them.
The number of Shuriken expanded rapidly, and when they reached the attack distance, they were like a dark cloud...
At the same time, from the perspective of Akaseki opening Sharingan, we have also seen another feature of these Puppet - modularity!
Compared with the standard Puppet of Sunagakure, their modularization is more thorough. Each Puppet is composed of several parts. It is indeed like armor. It is obviously a design that can be replaced with each other and facilitates division of labor production.
However, at this time, under Akaseki's exquisite Shuriken technique, each module was decomposed "without thickness and space" and pieces fell down.
After seeing Akaseki destroying many Puppets with ease, these Puppet modules that have landed on the ground have Chakra Threadss sticking out one by one, entangled with each other, and they seem to want to repair themselves automatically?
Just then...
Boom--
Royal Tower heard a loud noise from the top of the tower!
In the impact of the explosion, broken objects mixed with numerous bricks and Puppet fragments flew out from the top of the tower...
"Someone is attacking Queen of Roran? Let me go and have a look!" Akaseki saw that the location of the battle was at King's Tower Summit, and had no time to pay attention to these Puppet. He stepped on the tower and ran up.
Although there are automatic Puppet blocking them along the way, for Akaseki, just the Shuriken surrounding him will automatically clear them...
The scattered Puppet parts wanted to be reassembled at this time, but naturally they couldn't keep up with the speed of Akaseki.
"Huh?" Minato originally wanted to go up, but then he suddenly noticed something and looked in the direction of the explosion projectile.
"Be careful, prepare to meet Akaseki, I'll go take a look over there." Minato said, Body Flicker Technique left here.
Similarly, as Minato's figure flashed past, the Puppet passing around him scattered to pieces.
"Huh?" Ranwu also couldn't figure out why these two men were so anxious.
That's it, Akaseki, why is Minato so unstable?
Just leave the light to me?
"Guang, hide behind me!" Ranwu warned.
Light:...
"Okay." When Guang saw her volunteering, he didn't refuse.
Puppet kept coming around. At this time, Ranwu restrained himself and did not directly "Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave". Instead, he pulled out Water Flow Whip, and shattered the cores of all the Puppet who came forward one by one.
Akaseki rushed to the top of the tower in one breath, came in through the gap that had just exploded, and found what seemed to be Queen's bedroom. At this time, the room was in chaos. The little Queen, wearing pajamas, looked frightened. He was also shocked when he saw Akaseki appear.
An Lushan was standing aside, with his back to Akaseki, and turned around when he heard the sound.
"I'm really ashamed that I alarmed Konoha's distinguished guest." An Lushan said with a slightly stiff expression.
At the same time, Akaseki saw two Puppet dragging down a person who seemed to have fainted...
Since it was already halfway outside the door, Akaseki only saw one pair of legs dragging on the ground.
"What happened?" Akaseki asked An Lushan with a frown.
"Hey, I was too careless... Those little thieves pretending to be Konoha Ninja actually escaped from prison and had the audacity to attack His Majesty Queen. Fortunately nothing happened." An Lushan also looked scared at this time.
"Is it that group?" Akaseki was stunned when he heard this, and then asked, "Caught it?"
"One was caught, and the other three imps escaped." An Lushan shook his head helplessly.
"You are quite powerful..." Akaseki looked at the traces of the battle around him.
Although I don't know the specific battle process, it seems to have some momentum.
"After all, I have been wandering in Shinobi World for a long time, so I have some self-defense skills." An Lushan just smiled modestly.
The little Sara Queen was so frightened that he ran to hide behind An Lushan's thigh. An Lushan saw this and said, "Master Akaseki, His Majesty Queen was a little frightened. Look..."
"It doesn't matter! My Sharingan Genjutsu is very suitable for comfort!" Akaseki said with a big wave of his hand.
An Lushan:...
"Well... that's not necessary. Your Majesty Queen can just take a rest." An Lushan obviously didn't believe Genjutsu of Akaseki.
"Is that so? Okay..." Akaseki just gave up treating little Queen, but never mentioned leaving. Instead, he said dissatisfied, "What's going on with your automatic Puppet? They've been attacking us."
"I'm extremely sorry. They just took the initiative to complete the set tasks... I will send Identification Token to all the distinguished guests tomorrow." An Lushan said cautiously.
Akaseki looked at little Sara Queen again, and seeing that she was really scared, he nodded and said, "Well, we will also help you pay attention to those little thieves who escaped."
After Akaseki finished speaking, he left through the gap in the tower.
An Lushan also stopped smiling at this time and took a serious look at the back of Akaseki as he left.
The "assassin" was directly dealt with by An Lushan, and the riot quickly subsided. Akaseki, Ranwu, and Hikaru returned to Tower in Lodging, but Minato came back a little later.
"Minato, what's..." Akaseki was about to ask Minato if he had found anything. Unexpectedly, Minato couldn't wait to ask, "Akaseki! Have you seen the person who attacked Queen?"
"Ah? I saw it. He said it was the guy pretending to be Konoha Ninja." Although Akaseki didn't know why Minato was so anxious, he still replied.
"Who did you see?" Minato asked.
"This... I just saw the fainted back... it's only half of it." Akaseki said sarcastically, and then asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"
Minato showed an uneasy look on his face and said at the same time, "I just found this in the direction of the explosion..."
Minato said as he took out a short knife.
Akaseki After recognizing the origin of the knife, his pupils shrank and he quickly took it for a closer look.
"This is..." Akaseki really wanted to say it was a "fake", but I couldn't find any flaws when I looked left and right. On the contrary...
Akaseki After injecting chakra, the dagger immediately extended and formed a chakra blade...
Although the chakra blade appears to be a little shaky because Akaseki does not know the ninjutsu secrets to match it, it has undoubtedly been proven that this is indeed the real thing!
"White Fang..." Akaseki looked solemn and filled with deep doubts.
White Fang, of course, does not refer to Hatake Sakumo... but refers to the signature ninja dagger that he is famous for!
But...
"Why is White Fang in a place like this?" Akaseki was confused for a moment.
"What? Is it Ninja Blade, the monitor's Hatake? Could it be... that it was stolen?" Ranwu was also surprised and suspicious.
But regarding her guess, Akaseki shook his head repeatedly and said, "Hatake Squad Leader is not a new recruit, how could he not even be able to see weapons..."
Hatake Sakumo usually pins White Fang on the back of his neck. Whoever can steal White Fang from Hatake Sakumo's hands will be more difficult than killing him directly!
"The most likely possibility is that it is an imitation, but..." Minato's tone was also full of confusion.
Indeed, no matter how you think about it, they are all "imitations"!
But the problem is that "White Fang", as a ninja tool passed down from generation to generation by the Hatake Clan, is not so easy to imitate. Apart from anything else, just making a similar chakra Ninja Blade without considering "imitation" is already expensive.
Why does a "little thief" have such a ninja tool in his hands?
"Is it to frame us Konoha?" Ranwu guessed.
Indeed, I think this is the only reasonable explanation why the other party is willing to pay such a high price to imitate White Fang, but the problem is...
"But they have all been exposed, is this frame-up really still useful?" Akaseki wondered.
Guang, who had been silent for a long time, now opened his mouth and said, "Since you recognized the weapon, you didn't see clearly who the user is... Why don't you suspect that the owner of the weapon is here?"
"How is that possible!" Akaseki shook his head repeatedly and said, "It is impossible for squad leader Hatake to do such a thing, let alone... If it is really squad leader Hatake, that little Queen and what An Lushan are already at your fingertips?"
"But it is true that the guard also said that there were people with white hair in that group..." Ranwu muttered. Seeing Akaseki and Minato both looking at him, he quickly said, "Ah! What I mean is... he should be dressing up like this on purpose!"
It is too incredible for them to believe that Hatake Sakumo will come to assassinate Queen, and that they are actually stopped or even captured by a mere An Lushan...