Regarding Mizunotsuki Shigure, everyone except Fuguki Suikazan strongly agreed with it.
They all nodded.
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Seeing that several people agreed to Mizunotsuki Shigure's proposal, which was also the proposal that Fuguki Suikazan didn't understand the most, at this moment, he began to wonder if the four patriarchs had been brainwashed.
"Wait a minute."
The voice is hoarse, but the tone is strong.
"I agree that we are cooperating with Kumogakure. I also agree with forming an alliance. But 'fully supporting Kumogakure to unify Shinobi World' and 'being the first to surrender' - this is not an alliance, this is sending Kirigakure away in a package."
No one spoke in the secret room.
"I know Shaoyu is very strong."
He paused.
"But we are Kirigakure. We just killed Kutsuki Baidiao, we just took the village back, and we are about to hand it over - I can't figure it out. 'The first one to surrender', give me an explanation."
Terumi Iroha was silent for a moment, with a rare and inexplicable expression on that reef face.
"Have you seen Uchiha Shaoyu? Have you seen him take action?"
Suikazan Fuguki shook his head.
"If you had actually seen that man's power, you wouldn't have any doubts about this offer."
Suikazan Fuguki finally looked at Kaguya Momotaro. This was the part he couldn't understand the most.
Kaguya Momotaro is the most belligerent, unruly, and unwilling to bow down among the four tribes. How could such a lunatic be convinced by another ninja?
"Kaguya Clan Patriarch, do you agree?"
Kaguya Momotaro leaned on the back of the chair, his gray-green eyes half-squinted.
He looked at Suikazan Fuguki for a while, then took away his fingers from tapping the table and sat up straight.
"I agree, Uchiha Shaoyu's power is not something we Kirigakure can resist."
Suikazan Fuguki was silent for a long time.
He understands, but he is not a person who can change his position based on a few words from others.
You can cooperate, you can form an alliance, you can also admit defeat, if the other party is really stronger than him.
But before confirming it with his own eyes, he would not just hand over the fate of the entire village.
Mizunotsuki Shigure has been observing his expression, and in those eyes squeezed into slits by flesh, there is no recognition, no wavering, only a persistence that refuses to be easily persuaded.
Mizunotsuki Shigure nodded in his heart.
This is the Suikazan Fuguki he knows.
It's not the fat man kneeling on the ground and being slapped in Mizukage's Office, but the orange beast in Second Shinobi World War.
Although he is very greedy and has embezzled a lot, his bones have not been softened by his eighteen years of Anbu career.
Once this kind of person truly determines the direction, he will be more reliable than anyone else. But to make him decide, words alone are not enough.
"Captain Watermelon Mountain."
Mizunotsuki Shigure stood up.
"You have been at Anbu for eighteen years, and you know better than me - intelligence can deceive people, analysis can deceive people, but what you can see with your eyes cannot. You have never seen the power of Uchiha Shaoyu, so you have questions, which are reasonable. Reasonable questions should be answered."
His hands formed a seal in front of him.
That seal is very strange. It is not the starting move of Water Release, Ice Release, or any common ninjutsu of Kirigakure.
The way the fingers are interlaced is half a knuckle off, like some kind of specially modified Summoning Technique.
On the floor of the secret room, the shadow of Mizunotsuki Shigure began to move.
It's not movement caused by changes in the light source, but the shadow is moving on its own, spreading outward from under the feet, becoming darker and darker in color, from light gray to pure pitch black.
Something is rising from the dark depths.
The surface of the shadow cracked. A dark crack opened silently, and what came out of it was not light, but deeper darkness.
A sharp bird call exploded from the depths of darkness.
The sound was extremely harsh, like metal scraping against glass, bouncing back and forth in a sealed chamber, causing the frost flowers on the ice crystal walls to rustle down.
Suikazan Fuguki instinctively squinted his eyes and put his hand on Samehada's knife handle.
In the darkness, a huge bird's head poked out.
The upper body of that thing was in the shape of a bird, or, in other words, nearly bird-shaped.
A huge head rose from the shadow, with a short and wide beak, and the corners of the mouth were split all the way to the bottom of the ears. The entire face was covered with a pale white bone mask.
There were no nostrils on the mask, only two black eye sockets, and two groups of faint green light shone deep in the eye sockets, like two clusters of phosphorus fire burning in deep water.
The surface of the mask is covered with fine cracks, and each crack glows slightly, as if lava is flowing in the cracks.
After the bird's head is the neck, and after the neck is the trunk.
The process of it rising from the shadow was eerily quiet. It was big enough to fill half of the secret room, but it made almost no sound.
Its lower body is a mass of pure darkness, with no legs or claws, only a turbulent black semi-fluid connected to the shadow under Mizunotsuki Shigure's feet.
Every time the black mass surges, the light in the secret room becomes darker, as if it itself is swallowing up the surrounding light.
E Tu.
Its size is almost as large as Mahoraga, and its head almost reaches the dome of the secret room.
The bone mask looked down at Suikazan Fuguki. There were no emotional fluctuations in the dark green eye holes, only a pure, emotionless gaze.
Like an owl examining a field mouse in the grass.
Suikazan Fuguki's first reaction was to raise his head. He has stayed in Kirigakure for most of his life and has seen many large psychic beasts.
Sea snakes, giant seals, and even a killer whale that someone has channeled and lived for hundreds of years.
But the thing in front of me is not a psychic beast. It has no breath of life, no fluctuations in chakra, and even no body temperature.
It just hung in mid-air, with the black semi-fluid in its lower body slowly tumbling, like a living swamp.
"This is Lord Uchiha Shaoyu's psychic beast, named E Tu."
Mizunotsuki Shigure stood at the edge of the shadow cast by E Tu, his white hair fluttering slightly due to the weak air current emanating from the thing.
"Master Shaoyu gave it to me temporarily during the last contact. It was originally used to deal with Genji's Anbu. It was not used that day."
He raised his hand, and a very thin ice crystal formed on his fingertips and flicked towards E Tu's eyebrows.
The ice crystal shattered the moment it came into contact with the mask, and a streak of blue light flashed away.
"Now, its attack target is locked on you. The time limit is three minutes. You can use any method - attack, defense, dodge, whatever you want."
Mizunotsuki Shigure Put your hands back into your sleeves.
"Didn't you say you need to confirm it with your own eyes? Now, please."
Terumi Iroha, Kaguya Momotaro and Hozuki Suichu have already retreated to the corner of the secret room. Their movements were so fast that it seemed that this was not the first time they had faced such a scene.
Kaguya Momotaro even dragged the chair over.