MTLNOVEL Chapter 263: Raikage
Jiraiya felt that Tsunade's words made sense, but he couldn't possibly gamble, not in this lifetime, he was afraid of pitfalling his disciple.
"I understand, I will fully support Minato, but let's forget about gambling."
Hearing Jiraiya's words, Naruto and Kushina both breathed a sigh of relief, even Minato was a little affected.
Although everyone present felt that Tsunade's gambling luck shouldn't be that evil, and that previous events were most likely just coincidences, it was still unsettling.
Only Tsunade was dissatisfied: "What, how boring."
Jiraiya tried hard to put on a carefree expression, and said with a smile: "If you're bored, I'll accompany you for a drink."
"Okay, you're paying." Tsunade turned and left.
"No problem." Jiraiya agreed readily, in fact, he himself needed a drink to calm down.
Naruto wanted to remind them that it was working hours, but he held back the words, it's better to give the old folks some time to adjust their mood.
...
It wasn't just Jiraiya who needed to adjust his mood, but also the Fourth Raikage.
In all the years since he became a ninja, this was the first time he had felt this sense of powerlessness.
Watching helplessly as the village was destroyed, watching his brother being captured, yet being unable to do anything.
Even when he met Minato Namikaze more than a decade ago, A felt that he could defeat him if he was just a little faster.
But this time the enemy he encountered was too strange, a mere six people dared to break into Cloud Village to find the whereabouts of the Eight Tails.
Those powerful and mysterious Summoning Beasts.
Those strange explosive weapons.
That ability to absorb all Ninjutsu and Chakra.
That power to extract souls.
That powerful repulsive and attractive force.
And... the seemingly ubiquitous Exploding Tags.
Each of these abilities, taken alone, could be described as troublesome, but when these abilities were concentrated together and cooperated with unparalleled tacit understanding, what they brought to the Raikage was unprecedented pressure.
Even if he led the village's elites to besiege them, they only defeated three, and they only sealed one with the Amber Purifying Pot.
But in the end, he was defeated by that Ninjutsu that razed the entire village to the ground.
Even if Killer Bee joined the battle, completely Tailed Beast transformation, he was only sealed in a stone ball and taken away...
"Cough, cough..." The Raikage opened his eyes, awakened from painful memories, and tried to prop himself up to sit up, but suddenly felt a pain in his right arm.
"Raikage-sama, you can't exert force on your right hand yet." Mabui hurriedly came over to support him.
The Raikage looked at his right arm in a splint, and then remembered that when he used One Finger Spear Hand thrust before, he was blocked by a repulsive force and broke his arm, but he was not in the mood to care about this now: "Mabui, how is the intelligence analysis going?"
"There has been some progress. The 'Pain' that we sealed with the Amber Purifying Pot is good at using Summoning Technique. He has many of these Black Rods inserted into his body, suspected of being devices for receiving signals. In addition, with their strange ability of 'shared vision', we speculate that these six Pains may all be similar to puppets."
Mabui showed the Raikage the small Black Rod in her hand. They only kept this one Pain, the others were recovered, that is, she saw that the situation was not good and instantly used Heavenly Transfer Technique to send the Amber Purifying Pot away, otherwise it would be hard to say whether it could be preserved.
The Raikage was silent for a moment, then said with some dejection, "So, we fought with the strength of the entire village, and we didn't even see the enemy's main body?"
"...Yes, and there's another Pain who hasn't shown his abilities, so we can't analyze him yet." This was also a blow to Mabui. No matter how she arranged the tactics, they couldn't withstand that one Super Shinra Tensei.
Feel the pain! Mabui felt that she would never forget this sentence in her life.
"Any news about Bee? Where did that guy named Pain go after he left? That huge stone ball should be easy to track, right?"
The Raikage knew that Killer Bee being captured was likely a bad omen. The enemy probably wouldn't forget to counter-reconnaissance, but the one captured was his brother, so he still held a glimmer of hope no matter what.
"I'm sorry, Raikage-sama." Mabui's tone was a little dejected, "None of the people who went to track him came back intact. According to them, the stones, flowers, trees, and even inconspicuous puddles on the road would suddenly turn into Exploding Tags, so..."
"Damn it!" The Raikage raised his left arm to smash it against the cabinet by the bedside, but when his fist was only a few centimeters away from the tabletop, he suddenly stopped—Cloud Village probably didn't have any new cabinets for him to replace...
The Raikage casually threw on a coat and prepared to get out of bed.
Mabui quickly stopped him, "Raikage-sama, your body..."
"It's just a minor injury. I want to go see the villagers. As for you, Mabui..." The Raikage looked at Mabui's tired expression and bloodshot eyes, and continued, "You've worked hard these past few days. Get some rest."
Mabui stubbornly said, "You should take good care of your injuries. I know you didn't get much sleep at all last night, and the Five Kage Summit is coming up in a while. If you collapse at this time..."
"What about the Five Kage Summit! The more this is the case, the more I should stand in front of the villagers and give them courage! Collapse or something... Listen well, Mabui, anyone can fall, but I can't, because I am the Kage of this village!"
Mabui stared blankly as the Raikage's large hand pressed on her shoulder, forcing her to lie down and rest.
"I will never let go of the guy who turned the village into this!" The Raikage left a sentence and turned to walk out, leaving Mabui with a broad back.
Mabui looked at the closed door for a while, put the notebook in her hand on the pillow, and closed her eyes.
"Even if he suffers a temporary defeat in battle, the Raikage-sama is still the Kage who can bring a sense of security." Mabui's restless mood these past few days seemed to be swept away.
As long as the Raikage-sama is still here, he will definitely be able to defeat the enemy and lead us to rebuild Cloud Village! With hope for the future, Mabui, who hadn't rested for several days, fell into a deep sleep.
...
As Minato expected, the matter of Cloud Village quickly spread throughout the Shinobi World.
People suddenly realized that there were people in the world who could flatten a large ninja village in a single day.
The various ninja villages, especially those in small countries, suddenly became panicked, fearing that they would wake up one day and find that the village was gone, or worried that they would simply sleep and never wake up again.
Fortunately, the five great ninja villages quickly announced that the Akatsuki's goal was to collect the Tailed Beasts, which made the leaders of those small ninja villages feel a little relieved: Oh, they're capturing Tailed Beasts, then it's okay, we don't have any.
Except for Hidden Waterfall Village, their small broken country's small broken ninja village actually had the Seven Tails. Isn't that amazing?
So Shibuki, the leader of Hidden Waterfall Village, and Fu's childhood sweetheart, the Jinchuriki of the Seven Tails, began to have a headache.
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