Just as he was about to teach Hyuga Akira a lesson, the person before him vanished.
"Actually, besides losing my memory, I also go berserk." A voice sounded beside his ear.
Niko Style: Flame Sky Form: Ghost Step.
A sudden pain struck his chest. He looked down and saw a bronze blade piercing his heart from behind.
"I love it when coworkers don't get along." Hyuga Akira appeared behind Shigure and pulled the blade straight out.
Shisui staggered two steps and turned to look at Hyuga Akira in disbelief. "How... dare you?"
He could no longer speak. Darkness swallowed him, and he collapsed to the ground.
[Experience 124]
Hyuga Akira scanned his surroundings with his Byakugan, quickly took out Konoha's Summoning Technique scroll, and spread it on the ground.
His hands rapidly formed Hand Seals.
Boar-Dog-Bird-Monkey-Ram.
"Poof!"
A cloud of smoke rose, and Shisui's body disappeared. Hyuga Akira quickly rolled up the Summoning Scroll and put it into his Inventory.
There was also the item Shisui had dropped.
[Low-Level Magic Potion]
"That's a nice drop." Hyuga Akira put away the [Low-Level Magic Potion]. It could replenish depleted chakra.
He turned and sat where Shisui had been sitting, taking over his work.
Having regained command of the military camp, Hiruko could finally hold his head high.
Tsunade and the other two had left. All the Shinobi here were now under his command. Though it was only temporary, it still satisfied his vanity for a while.
He was sorting intelligence in the commander's tent. After all, that was his only job.
Just then, a "Poof!" came from the Summoning Scroll beside him, and a corpse appeared on it.
Hiruko stared at the Rain Ninja Forehead Protector on the corpse's head and fell into thought.
What exactly had Hyuga Akira done? Why had he sent over a Rain Ninja's corpse?
That Summoning Technique wasn't for him to dispose of bodies!!!
And was he really not going to blow his cover doing this!?
Wasn't this far too brazen?!
"Where's Shisui?" Kusen returned to the High Tower, only to find Hyuga Akira alone.
Hyuga Akira looked at Kusen with an inscrutable smile. "He was too noisy."
The implication was rather obvious.
Kusen fell silent. Only after a long while did he say, "You'd better control yourself. Don't kill our comrades without permission again."
Muyu was a certified mental patient, and there was little he could do about it.
As for comrades killing each other in Amegakure, this was hardly the first time.
Amid the confrontation between Shōzō and Hanzo, quite a few people had turned their blades on fellow villagers.
Until a definitive victor emerged between the two, such incidents were considered trivial.
"It's too boring. If things stay like this, I can't guarantee how long I'll last." Madness showed on Hyuga Akira's face. With [Naufra]'s ability, no one could actually see through him.
Everything he did came from genuine feelings.
Yet Kusen nodded in satisfaction. "You really are suited to serving Lord Hanzo."
After hesitating for a while, he took a mission scroll and a ninjutsu scroll from inside his clothes.
"This mission was issued by Lord Hanzo. If you complete it, you'll have the honor of meeting him in person. I requested the ninjutsu scroll for you."
He had originally wanted to observe Muyu a little longer to guard against the possibility that he was a spy planted by Shōzō, but Shōzō's men would never kill their comrades.
He tossed both ninjutsu scrolls to Hyuga Akira.
Hyuga Akira opened the ninjutsu scroll first.
"Water Release: Wild Water Wave. Water Release, huh." Hyuga Akira felt disappointed.
Water Release wasn't among the things he wanted, and he had no water affinity himself.
His chakra affinities were fire, lightning, and wind.
If it were a game skill, he could learn it directly, but with a ninjutsu scroll like this, he needed to learn it from scratch.
Without a water affinity, he couldn't learn it anyway.
Keeping his expression unchanged, Hyuga Akira put away the Water Release scroll and opened the mission scroll instead.
"Assassinate Kojima Kōji."
Kojima Kōji was the lord of this city and a member of the nobility.
"Just an ordinary person?" Hyuga Akira was a little disappointed.
Kusen shook his head. "He supports that old bastard Shōzō. A substantial portion of Amegakure's finances comes from his support. Kojima Kōji will definitely have Shinobi around him."
Hyuga Akira frowned. "If there's a Jonin, or even a Special Jōnin, I'm giving up."
Kusen gave Hyuga Akira a surprised look. Even after losing his memory, did he retain some memories concerning Shinobi?
Still, he had completely disregarded Chunin. Was he saying he could kill one?
Impossible.
It was probably a result of his memory loss. This fellow had become arrogant.
Kusen said gravely, "Kojima Kōji is only protected by one Chunin and a few Genin. Special Jōnin and Jonin don't have the time to guard him."
To put it bluntly, Kojima Kōji was only one of Shōzō's supporters. Shōzō couldn't possibly use his precious Jonin to protect him.
Hearing this, Hyuga Akira nodded. "Then I can give it a try."
A Chunin was worth over a thousand experience. If I killed Kusen at the same time...
That would be over two thousand experience. Then I'd only need to find another fifteen hundred to level up again.
He was level fifteen now, just three levels away from a Class Change.
Being a mental patient was a very useful cover.
The mission scroll in Hyuga Akira's hand suddenly caught fire. It quickly burned to ashes that fell to the ground.
"This must be kept secret. We can't let it get out."
"Then what about the time and place?"
Hyuga Akira asked.
"I'll notify you when the time comes," Kusen said coldly.
He glanced at the documents on the desk. "You're free to move around for now. Someone will come to handle the documents."
Judging by Hyuga Akira's current state, he didn't seem capable of handling documents anyway.
"Got it." Hyuga Akira waved and headed toward the stairs.
Konoha's mission was for him to monitor Iwasuna, the two Ninja Villages, not Konoha's movements.
These materials really weren't much use.
Only Kusen remained, watching Hyuga Akira leave with an unfathomable gaze.
There was no telling what he was thinking.
Chapter 40: Leveling up was never difficult
Hyuga Akira emerged from the High Tower, holding a list of addresses.
Being undercover didn't mean he couldn't grind experience.
According to the intelligence he had read, quite a few Wandering Ninja lived in this city.
After the Five Great Nations sealed their borders, the Wandering Ninja had gathered in the smaller nations.
The Land of Rain was particularly hard-hit by Wandering Ninja.
The Ninja Villages in other small nations would actively drive Wandering Ninja out, but Amegakure's policy of nonresistance extended even to them.
He had noted down all their addresses.
"Just how afraid is this guy of the Five Great Shinobi Villages?" Hyuga Akira couldn't understand why Shōzō, Amegakure's current Rain Shadow, would issue such a policy.
Wandering Ninja without restraints were capable of anything.
He walked straight to an out-of-the-way house and knocked on the door.
"Who is it?!" a wary voice called from inside.
"Your ancestor!!"
Hyuga Akira kicked the front door clean off, revealing several Wandering Ninja carrying blades inside.
His gaze quickly swept through the room, spotting dark red bloodstains on the floor.
According to the intelligence, the family of four that had originally lived here had all been killed by Wandering Ninja.
"A Rain Ninja?!" A bald man by the door looked alarmed and uncertain, but his companions didn't hesitate at all. They drew their long blades and charged straight in.
Byakugan.
The Transformation Technique disguise concealed the changes in his Byakugan, leaving only the impression that Hyuga Akira's eyes were shining.
Hyuga Akira raised a hand and blanketed them with Shuriken.
"Shuriken! Heavy firepower!"
The Shuriken enhanced by Kumate rapidly pierced the people inside the room.
[Experience 80][Experience 77][Experience 95]...
Although the eight people in the room barely managed to block one or two Shuriken, more pierced their bodies.
In the end, he obtained [Experience 645], five money pouches, and one Special Kunai.
[Wandering Ninja's Kunai: Increases attack power by 20]
Another off-hand weapon.
"They weren't even as strong as Genin." Hyuga Akira wiped the blood from his cheek. One Wandering Ninja had been too close, splashing blood onto his face.
After retrieving all the Shuriken he had thrown, Hyuga Akira planned to move on to the next house.
Hyuga Akira had already committed the intelligence on this city's Wandering Ninja to memory.
These people could provide him with some experience.
Stepping outside, he frowned and looked beneath a distant tree. Through his Byakugan, he saw an enormous amount of chakra behind it.
"That amount of chakra rivals a Jonin's." The Bronze Battle Blade appeared in Hyuga Akira's hand, and he shouted sternly toward the back of the tree, "Who's there!!? Come out!!?"
A red-haired little boy stepped out from behind the tree, looking at Hyuga Akira in panic.
"I didn't see anything!!"
He turned to run.
Hyuga Akira flipped through the air and landed in front of the red-haired boy. The boy's bangs covered his eyes, preventing him from seeing them.
But that appearance...
"Are you Nagato?!" Hyuga Akira asked curiously.
Nagato crouched down and clutched his head, still looking terrified.
How did he know his name? He was too frightened to answer.
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