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  “Allowing your subordio establish a private guard, filled with Uchiha brats…”

  “Fourth Hokage, you will regret this!”

  Sm!

  Homura Mitokado stormed out, smming the door behind him. Even as he left, threats like “Write to Danze him to return immediately” and “Bring this matter to Hiruzen” could still be heard.

  Minato sighed, rubbing his forehead in exasperation. “Kaigetsu-kun, why do you always antagonize Elder Homura? Every enter leaves him fuming.”

  “Gentlemen may have different opinions, but they remain harmonious; small-minded people may agree outwardly, but harbor discord within~” Gojo Kaigetsu retorted nontly. “Besides, I’m already showiraint. Otherwise, the three elders might have e to blows with each other.”

  “e to blows…? Tell me, how would you have mahat?”

  “Oh, I call that pn ‘Two Soldier Pills, Three Elder Kills.’ However, givehick skin, it probably wouldn’t be very effective. I’ll save it for when another vilge poses a signifit threat.”

  “If Kaigetsu-kun prefers not to eborate, then so be it.”

  “However… what’s the deal with Guy? Were the marks oraining grounds really caused by him?”

  “Of course. I tested him personally. Guy ow opee of View.”

  “The Gate of View…”

  Minato recalled the Eight Gates description in the Scroll of Seals. “If that’s the case, Guy is a taijutsu prodigy.”

  “Give him awo years of dedicated training, and even I might struggle to react to his speed in bat.”

  Minato’s rea speed was among the top tier iire shinobi world. The limiting factor of the Flying Thunder God Teique was he jutsu itself, but the user’s rea time. ing from Minato, this was high praise fht Guy...

  “In that case, Kaigetsu-kun, submit a guard subsidy application, and I’ll approve the highest tier for in Might Guy.”

  “Which is… around 200,000 ryō per month?”

  “There are three others,” Gojo Kaigetsu corrected. The advisuard also included the three Uchiha youngsters.

  Minato’s expression turned serious. “Those Uchiha children… the oldest is o. This is preposterous; I ot agree.”

  “How b.” Gojo Kaigetsu stretched. “Speaking of which, it’s almost time fura’s admission to the hospital. Shall we go and greet him?”

  Minato’s expression softened. “Let’s go.”

  At the gates of Konoha, Gonbee and his ente arrived once more.

  After presenting the identification Kakashi had given them during their st departure, the gate guards quickly grahem entry, not even b to ihe tents of the carriage behind them.

  After all, this ed the Fourth Mizukage, a matter even Gojo Kaigetsu treated with caution.

  If leaked, the news could trigger severe sequences. For instance, if Iwagakure or Kumogakure were to learn about it, they might be provoked into ung a surprise atta Kirigakure.

  While Konoha hadn't eve aid to the nearby Uzushiogakure, they certainly would themselves for a newly formed ally like Kirigakure.

  However, suews wouldn't sound good if it spread. It would be a sp in the face for Konoha! Spping Konoha ping Minato, and spping Minato ping Gojo Kaigetsu!

  If some literary creators in the shinobi world caught wind of this, they might use it as inspiration, portraying Minato’s administration in a ive light.

  If that happehe carefully cultivated image of a civilized and grand vilge would crumble.

  After all, a vilge that wouldn’t even save its allies, how civilized could it truly be?

  If Obito was unaware, revealing Yagura’s presen Konoha might trigger a premature “Four-Tails Rampage,” a preview of the “ails Attack.”

  If the Sharingan in the Four-Tails’ eyes were seen, the Uchiha’s reputation would suffer another blow. The day, Konoha's streets would be filled with propaganda from Root-

  [Plot twist! The Uchiha is still the evil ! The true victims are Root!]

  [Case closed! The mastermind behind everything is Konoha’s white-haired advisor!]

  In short, maintaining secrecy was crucial.

  Over the past few days, Gojo Kaigetsu had sed Konoha thhly with his Six Eyes, but he hadn’t detected any traces of Bck Zetsu or Obitonbee waved his hand, direg the carriage towards Konoha Hospital.

  The Kirigakure delegation was signifitly smaller this time.

  As for the reason…

  It was likely because Mei Terumi had noticed that soon after his vilge “ected to the work,” the younger ninjas had indulged in “lewd” vices, being hopelessly addicted. As for why there was no violence… well, Kirigakure ninjas were arguably the most violent in the shinobi world.

  Gonbee had watched with trepidation, his fear growing with each passing moment.

  Mei Terumi was still the same Mei Terumi, not a bit gentler despite the end of the Bloody Mist.

  However, human nature was plex. Where there pression, there was resistance. Having withe dazzling world of Konoha, Gonbee felt an increasing it his feet.

  The journey from Kirigakure to Konoha had taken its toll on his aging body, and he longed food foot massage at a Konoha foot spa.

  “I wonder how many more opportunities I’ll have.”

  Gonbee sighed.

  He felt a twinge ret. He should have stubbornly refused Gojo Kaigetsu’s request and stayed in Konoha as a hostage. It would have beed his bae, and he could have indulged in regur foot massages using the funds allocated by Mei Terumi.

  “I must maintain good retions with Konoha. After all, Kirigakure and Konoha are allies now. I’ll suggest increasing exges betweewo vilges to Mei Terumi, which will greatly increase my ces of being dispatched here.”

  Gohought with noble righteousness.

  He wasn't motivated by the foot spas; he genuinely believed that, for both personal and public reasons, Kirigakure should learn from the advanced and prosperous Konoha.

  As for the possibility of introdug the advanced foot spa business model takure… even bringing back prohibited books from Konoha resulted in intravenous iions, let alone foot spas.

  From afar, Gonbee spotted Gojo Kaigetsu waving at him from the side entrance of Konoha Hospital, the Fourth Hokage by his side.

  He urged his ente t the carriage befojo Kaigetsu.

  L his voice, he said, “Advisojo, Hokage-sama…”

  “Do over! Addressing the Hokage after me? Gonbee-san, you’re making things difficult for me!”

  “?”

  “Hokage-sama, Advisojo… After receiving Mei’s secret letter, we didn’t dey for a moment. We loaded the Fourth Mizukage onto the carriage. He’s inside now.”

  “Alright, I uand.” Gojo Kaigetsu waved his hand dismissively. “Gonbee-san, please attend to your own matters. Leave the Fourth Mizukage to me. You rest assured.”

  “ht, please settle the initial treatment fees.”

  “Ah… right!”

  Gonbee’s mind was already at the foot spa. Although he felt a pang of guilt towards the unscious Fourth Mizukage aerumi, who would know?

  He took out a miniature ste scroll from his pocket and ha to Gojo Kaigetsu, then waved his hand, signaling his subordio quickly leave Konoha Hospital.

  Gojo Kaigetsu released his chakra to sehe tents of the scroll and nodded with satisfa. This money was earned so easily; it felt almost unreal.

  Peeking ihe carriage, he didn’t see the gruesome se he had imagined.

  Yagura y quietly on the carriage floor, his chest rising and falling at a slower-than-normal rate. If not observed carefully, one might mistake him for a corpse.

  Such was the tragic life of a shinobi.

  Even a Kage, when scious, was maniputed by genjutsu at will. When unscious, he was abandoned by his subordinates, perhaps sidered less important than the girls at a foot spa…

  Despite his sympathy, Gojo Kaigetsu felt ation. What awaited Yagura was “life-sustaining” but “a-indug” treatment at Konoha Hospital, tinuously draining Kirigakure’s limited funds.

  He would regain sciousness at crucial moments, only to fall bader the trol of the Mangekyo Sharingan.

  If Obito could trol him, why couldn’t Fugaku?

  “Minato, you better be careful. Don't end up like Yagura, lying on a carriage floor while others manipute your ‘corpse.’”

  “That… with Kushina and Kaigetsu-kun around, that’s uo happen.”

  Gojo Kaigetsu pulled a white cloth ura, then called for two o carry him into an ICU ward.

  The ward was now marked with Minato’s Flying Thunder God seal and equipped with various monit jutsu. Hyuga injas were stationed inside and outside for round-the-clock surveilnce.

  The entire pce was a fortress, protected by yers of security.

  If Bck Zetsu or Obito appeared, Minato would arrive instantly, and the Konoha Military Police would be on the se within three minutes.

  And Gojo Kaigetsu himself would unleash his stro Hollow Purple, bsting the traitor Obito away without giving Naruto any ce for a talk-no-jutsu.

  In a sehis was ihe safest ward in the shinobi world.

  A living Yagura was like a gold mine, stantly spewing s.

  “Tsk tsk, his injuries are quite severe. The flesh and chakra lost from Samehada’s bites haven’t been replenished.”

  “The most serious damage is to his soul. He’s trapped in the world of genjutsu, uo extricate himself…”

  After a brief examination of Yagura’s internal dition with his Six Eyes, Gojo Kaigetsu uood the situation and the reason fura’s eventual death in the inal timeline…

  The prolonged genjutsu trol by Madara and Obito had caused Yagura to lose himself in the illusion, or perhaps he simply didn’t want to wake up, unwilling to leave the beautiful world within his deepest heart.

  Uo distinguish betweey and illusion, Yagura was in a state of being awake but not fully scious.

  “If I hadn’t intervened, Yagura might have awakened on his own. But he would have indiscriminately destroyed everything in Kirigakure, believing he was eliminating enemies in the illusion.”

  “Uo differentiate betweewo worlds, he would cry out, ‘Mei! I truly ’t tell the differehen, to prevent further harm to the vilge he once protected, he would choose to end his own life.”

  “What a tragic story.”

  Gojo Kaigetsu sighed, while Minato beside him was utterly bewildered. Habitually dismissing the strange musings, Minato grasped the key point. “So, it’s not Tsunade-sama who will be treating Yagura, but you, Kaigetsu-kun?”

  Minato had assumed that having the Cloud kunoichi impersosunade was a temporary measure and that Tsunade would eventually return to keep Yagura alive.

  But from what he’d just heard… Kaigetsu-kun inteo ha himself?

  Was he joking?

  Did he not take the Mizukage seriously? If Minato remembered correctly, his best friend, after being promoted to in, had taken a career aptitude test.

  Presented before him were two certificates: a teag lise and a medical practitioner’s lise. Gojo Kaigetsu had passed the former, but as for the tter… it was best left uioned.

  “Don’t uimate me, Minato. I have my owhods when it es to treating ninjas.”

  Gojo Kaigetsu exuded fidence.

  “Then… how do you pn to treat him?”

  “That’s a secret. Alright, I’ll take over from here. Minato, you should head back to your office!”

  “Very well.”

  Minato gnced suspiciously at his best friend, ultimately choosing to trust him.

  First doubt, then trust – that’s what made them best friends!

  After Minato left, Gojo Kaigetsu lifted his blindfold, revealing his brilliant Six Eyes.

  “So, Yagura, you ’t distinguish betweey and illusion, huh?” Gojo Kaigetsu approached with a sinister grin.

  “Then fet both options and focus on surviving!”

  With that, Gojo Kaigetsu formed a single-handed seal, eling his chakra. His lips moved slightly.

  “Genjutsu: Unlimited Void!”

  Invisible chakra fluctuations spread, engulfing Yagura on the bed.

  Yagura’s nearly ft EKG spiked dramatically, his body vulsing violently as if experieng a seizure, before returning to stillness a moment ter.

  “There we go. o ponder reality or illusion; just focus on processing the cept of survival.”

  Feeling like he’d done a good deed, Gojo Kaigetsu pulled his blindfold back down, g his hands cheerfully.

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