Buzz
The moment Water Release Mastery was activated, Yamanaka Kei heard a soft hum in his mind.
A massive amount of training memories and ninjutsu experience swarmed in, rushing towards his Memory Palace.
The vast amount of memories received in a short time made his head swell, and he couldn't help but let out a muffled groan.
"Ugh..."
"Kei, well, I remember you saying that it's never too late to pull back from the edge, and there's no greater good than correcting one's mistakes..."
Namikaze Minato's voice came from outside the dilapidated hut's door.
???
"What the hell! What Crazy Talk are you spouting!"
Yamanaka Kei was stunned for a moment.
Then he immediately realized that Minato, this pure little sun, had really been corrupted by Jiraiya, that old scumbag whose head was full of 18+ rated garbage!
What the heck was he talking about!
Suspecting that something intimate had happened between him and Yakura in the room?
Damn it!
Although Yakura's appearance was indeed good, and her figure was top-notch.
Her smooth, jade-like beautiful back added a bit of sexiness and allure.
She could be considered a top-ranked beauty in the ninja world.
But Yamanaka Kei wasn't that thirsty, was he!
So...
Jiraiya!
You really deserve to die!
Yamanaka Kei flung open the dilapidated door and dragged Namikaze Minato into the hut.
And after Namikaze Minato realized that he had misunderstood.
Faced with his best friend's disappointed gaze, his skin, which was still a bit thin, was so embarrassed that his neck turned completely red.
He stiffly began to change the subject.
"That... um... is the arrangement definitely settled?"
"What do you think?"
Yamanaka Kei replied through gritted teeth.
If it weren't for this accident, entirely because he had the spur-of-the-moment idea to seize the Greatsword Samehada.
And he was also thinking of having Minato help him cover up what happened today in the mission report after returning to Konoha.
He had to ask properly.
Was it that when Jiraiya was getting intimate with the ladies of Kabukicho, Minato was guarding the door for that old codger?
Otherwise, he had only groaned.
How could that lead to thoughts of unspeakable things?
"Ugh..."
A slightly pained groan came from the unconscious Yakura.
Namikaze Minato, whose face had just begun to cool down from the topic change, flushed purple again.
Yamanaka Kei rolled his eyes.
He gestured to retreat quietly.
Namikaze Minato, disregarding his embarrassment, quickly followed his close friend's pace and instantly disappeared from the small house.
Yakura, not long after the two left, struggled to wake up from her nightmare.
Rubbing her throbbing head, she cautiously surveyed her surroundings, recalled the 'scene before fainting,' and hurried out of the nearly collapsed house.
Looking at the battlefield filled with the corpses of her comrades and Hidden Mist Ninja.
She stood there blankly for a long time.
It wasn't until civilians gradually returned to check after the battle ended, cautiously.
Immersed in grief, she staggered to her feet and began to collect the corpses of her fallen comrades.
...
"Sigh..."
Leaning on the railing of the Three-Masted Sailing Ship returning to Konoha.
Namikaze Minato sighed deeply.
Perhaps it was the empathy from the shared experience, or perhaps Yakura's sadness at that time was too profound and moving.
Whenever he recalled the scene he saw before leaving.
He could always feel a faint sense of melancholy lingering in his chest, making him feel suffocated and irritable.
"Still thinking about Yakura?"
Yamanaka Kei saw the sighing Namikaze Minato.
He walked to his side, leaned against the railing, and closed his eyes to enjoy the caress of the sea breeze.
"...Kei, what exactly do ninjas exist for?"
"Conflict."
"You're really not afraid of discouraging me at all."
Namikaze Minato looked speechlessly at his friend's carefree appearance.
He knew it very well in his heart.
Although his friend's words sounded very cruel, that was the truth.
Regardless of how ninjas came to be in this world.
In the millennium of inheritance, strife is the eternal theme of ninjas.
Money, beauty, land, hatred, love, greed...
All desires breed strife, and strife brings conflict, violence, blood, and slaughter!
The reason why ninjas have been able to continuously develop and grow in the long river of history, replacing samurai, wrestlers, priestesses, monks, yin-yang masters and other professions, and become the mainstream of this world.
Isn't it because ninjas are better at fighting people?
"Don't think about those useless things. You feel sorry for Yakura, but aren't the civilians who died in their battles pitiful? Aren't the innocent passers-by whose houses were destroyed pitiful?"
Yamanaka Kei yawned lazily.
Possessing a soul from modern times, even after living in this world for nineteen years.
But he still found it difficult to empathize with ninjas.
In the end, in his opinion, ninja villages were more like a collection of mercenaries and terrorist organizations.
Possessing powerful force, disregarding life, cruel and bloody!
At the age of five, they have to go to the Ninja School to be brainwashed and learn various killing techniques, and at the age of eleven or twelve, they must graduate to perform tasks and 'see blood' under the leadership of a supervising teacher.
Which country's regular army in his previous life could do such outrageous things?
"Ninjas..."
Namikaze Minato sighed again, not only did he not feel comforted, but he seemed even more depressed.
A long time ago, he had asked Yamanaka Kei.
How to achieve world peace.
Yamanaka Kei also told him very simply.
On the premise of ensuring that social productivity can meet the survival needs and material needs of the vast majority of people.
There are only three situations in which a period of relative peace can be achieved.
First, possess power like Hashirama Senju, forcibly deter everyone, and obtain temporary peace.
Second, fight a war of unification, uniting all countries and ninja villages into one, standardizing writing, unifying the gauge of carts, and unifying education and culture.
Third, an enemy appears that threatens the entire ninja world and the survival of all people, shifting internal conflicts.
Namikaze Minato considered himself a genius, but he really didn't dare to even think about having the strength of Hashirama Senju.
As for the war of unification...
Only Shimura Danzo in the Konoha high-level might have such thoughts.
But not to mention that he also hated Shimura Danzo, just talking about Konoha's current strength, it was simply impossible to do this.
Only this last one...
"If only Madara Uchiha were still alive, a man who could compete with the First Hokage, he should possess the power to threaten the entire ninja world, the survival of all people!"
"???!!!"
Yamanaka Kei was caught off guard by Minato's words and felt terrible.
What the hell!
Bro!
What crazy talk are you spouting!
That old guy Madara Uchiha is really still alive!
Everyone is still in the development stage, contemporaries fighting contemporaries, isn't it better for us to develop well in this low-end game?
Don't you dare stir things up!
What if that old guy gets provoked by you and wants to dance, hitting us with a Heavenly Obstacle Quaking Star, giving you a little spiritual shock.
Believe it or not, I'll show you how to die on the spot?
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