"Aoba Kamikawa, have you ever loved your village?"
Mei Terumī asked a question that has been hidden in his heart for a long time.
"Maybe."
Aoba gave an ambiguous answer. He actually didn't know the answer to this question himself.
Loving Konoha is an incredible thing for him. Because he has seen this village from a higher perspective and knows how bad everything in this village is.
But to this day, he has personally changed so many things about Konoha. It is impossible to say that he has no emotion at all.
"Maybe? Aoba Kamikawa, you are really not a qualified ninja."
"I have never said that I am a qualified ninja. In fact, I have never liked the profession of ninja."
"That's why you want to change it, and even prepare to eliminate the ninja profession?"
"No, saying eliminate is a bit too much. I don't intend to kill everyone. I just want to change the abnormal situation of Shinobi World."
"Why are you so sure, you must be right?" Mei Terumī was not convinced, because Aoba Kamikawa's words had a hidden condescension. It seemed to say that I am the only one in the world who is right. You are all a bunch of rubbish.
"I'm not sure now if I'm right. But when I'm done with this, I will be right."
"..." Mei Terumī was immediately silenced. This answer was even more extreme, but she couldn't refute it.
"I'm sorry, Aoba Kamikawa. I'm different from you. I'm a traditional ninja, and I hope to do something for my village in a traditional way."
"The traditional way in your mind is to go back and die?"
"It is the destiny of a ninja to die for the village. Of course, you may have different opinions, but unfortunately, I stick to my choice."
"Actually, I agree with this sentence. But there are still some issues that can be discussed. For example, who is a village?"
Who is the village? This is the question Aoba asked Kakashi back then. Kakashi spent a year thinking about it and finally decided to side with Aoba.
"Who is the village?" Mei Terumī subconsciously wanted to answer. But when he opened his mouth, he realized that Aoba Kamikawa's meaning was not that simple.
The other party should want to ask, who are they fighting for, the people of Kirigakure, fellow ninjas, or the top brass of Kirigakure?
Mei Terumī I want to say, I am for everyone.
But she also knows that such words are simply unrealistic. She can't even deceive herself, and she still wants to deceive people like Aoba Kamikawa.
"What do you want to say?" Mei Terumī asked.
"There is indeed something I want to say. First of all, you want to go back and die, or save your village, because you feel that your village is suffering, right?
There's actually an interesting thing here. Do you think Kirigakure will get worse under Madara Uchiha's rule?"
Mei Terumī was directly asked. Because she had the answer to this question in her mind. According to her idea, no one who rules Kirigakure can be worse than before.
The original Kirigakure was on the verge of collapse. That's why she wanted to save it.
"But, Madara Uchiha is the traitorous ninja of Konoha."
"Then do you know that you yourself are still Kirigakure's rebellious ninja."
"Aoba Kamikawa, what on earth do you want to say?" Mei Terumī couldn't answer Aoba and began to get angry.
"Haha, what I want to say is that the reason why you are in a hurry to go back is because the people and colleagues of Kirigakure are having a hard time. But in fact, in my opinion, everything will change soon.
If Madara Uchiha had won the previous battle with Land of Rain, Kirigakure might have been easily destroyed by him. But in that battle, he was the biggest loser. Therefore, Kirigakure is now his place.
Believe it or not, although Madara Uchiha seems to be a war madman, he is a pacifist at heart. But what he believes in is to obtain permanent peace through extreme means.
Now that he is in a weak position, it may not be a bad thing for Kirigakure. After all, the other party is the tycoon who once led Uchiha Clan and dominated Warring States Era."
"This is impossible. If Madara Uchiha really rules Kirigakure, will Kirigakure still be the original Kirigakure?"
Mei Terumī couldn't understand what Aoba said. But Aoba blocked all her follow-up with just one sentence.
"So, do you want an original Kirigakure, or do you want the people of Kirigakure to live a better life?"
"..."
Mei Terumī was asked again. She wanted to say that she wanted it all, but she couldn't say it anyway because she knew it was impossible.
Let alone Mei Terumī, even Aoba cannot have its cake and eat it too.
In the previous battle with Land of Rain, he wanted to kill Obito Uchiha, capture Madara Uchiha, and seize Rinnegan.
But in the end, none of these goals were achieved. If he hadn't obtained another Kamui Mangekyō Sharingan in the end, he would have been a complete loser in that battle.
Of course, there were many reasons for the failure of that battle. In the end, Obito became the biggest winner, which made Aoba feel a little creepy.
"Look, you actually don't understand what you want. You just want to fulfill your responsibilities as a ninja. But you chose the wrong person.
You want to make Kirigakure better. But Kirigakure is a very broad concept. There are civilians, ninjas, and Kirigakure high-level people in power.
The interests of these people of different classes are not the same. You are willing to die for this, but for whose benefit is it really?"
These are things Mei Terumī has never thought about. She just feels that the situation is out of control and there is no hope of recovering the country, so she wants to do something as a ninja.
But Aoba's words made her realize that what she was holding on to was not what she imagined.
"..."
Mei Terumī I don't know how many times I have been made speechless.
"What do you want to do? Kill me here, or take me back and continue working for you?"
"Haha, what I want is actually very simple. I want you to see the future with your own eyes. One day in the future, everyone in Kirigakure will live the life that Konoha has now, or even better than this.
I think at that time, you will decide whether you need to follow the ancient ninja fate and die for Kirigakure."