16 years old, fourth generation Mizukage

Chapter 235 The Night of the Thinkers

The night wind is cool.

The sea breeze with a slight taste of the ocean blows the coast of the island. Even with the terrain surrounded by mountains as a barrier, the sound of the continuous waves can still be faintly transmitted to the ears of the keen-hearing ninjas.

Jilai also leaned on the railing of the corridor of the Shuxue Hall specially built by Kirigakure for the convenience of the exchange team from Konoha Village, staring at the Kirigakure Village, which seemed to be covered with a layer of white gauze under the moonlight, in a daze. He was not so familiar with the air blowing his white hair from the temples.

There was a "squeak" sound, and not far from him, a door was pushed open from the inside, and Tsunade, who was wearing a very relaxed nightgown, walked to Zilai with two small wine jugs in his hand Ye's side, handed one of them towards him.

"Can't sleep?"

"Aren't you too?"

Jiraiya laughed helplessly. He turned around and took the refined sake from Tsunade's hand, which he bought from the restaurant at dinner time. He raised his head and took a sip, then slowly exhaled a mouthful of white breath .

"How dare you, Kaguya pity that kid... There is no difference between Konoha and the blood mist controlled by Uchiha Madara secretly, only a guy like him who doesn't know what is in his head, Can you tell it?"

"But if you look at it from his perspective, there is nothing fundamentally wrong with this statement, right?"

Tsunade sighed, and said in a daze:

"If he hadn't mentioned it, I would have almost forgotten what my grandfather told me about the Warring States Period..."

"Who said no?"

Jiraiya's expression and tone were also melancholy and complicated, "The sooner you graduate from ninja school, the sooner your hands will be stained with blood, but the sooner these children who graduate early and are promoted early, the easier it is for them to become the children of the village and family. Those who place high hopes on... Even if they realize the value of peace in the days to come, it may be difficult for them to realize the problems in this evaluation method by themselves, right?"

"Especially when everyone in the ninja world is doing this." Tsunade poured some clear liquor into his mouth and said vaguely.

"Yeah, everyone is doing this, so naturally no one will think there is anything wrong with it."

After drinking with his head back again, Jiraiya looked at the half-empty jug in his hand, but his eyes were extraordinarily clear.

"Any plans for the future, Tsunade?"

"Me? I should follow Mitarai Anko to see the so-called commercialized curse seal that she and the fourth Mizukage worked together, and then consider whether to accept the invitation that Kirigakure threw at me." Bar."

Tsunade stopped his sipping, turned his head slightly, and looked at Jiraiya's resolute face, "What about you, Jiraiya? What are you going to do?"

"I want to go to the historical research meeting organized by Kaguya Rei."

Jilai also turned his head and said with a firm gaze:

"Before today, I think he studied the history of Uchiha Madara's secret manipulation of Kirigakure, just to find out the methods used by the other party, improve Kirigakure's experience in dealing with similar incidents, and also apply this method On top of Kirigakure's external penetration..."

"What about now? Now you, what do you think he wants to do, Ziraiya?"

"I don't know, but I have a guess."

Ji Lai also took a deep breath, his eyes awe-inspiring.

"In order to survive the chaotic times of the Warring States Period, it is only natural to delve into how to clench your fists to be the most lethal... But delving into this matter to the point of becoming obsessed, even how to If the fist is loosened, and the common sense that the fist can be loosened is completely forgotten, it is absolutely abnormal.”

……

At the same time, in the room of Hatake Kakashi and Uchiha Itachi.

"Kakashi-senpai, are you asleep?"

"No...are you the same, Itachi?"

"Ah."

Seeing that neither of them wanted to sleep, the two simply sat up from the bed, turned on the light in the room again, sat down face to face, and started chatting.

"Senior Kakashi, do you think... what Mizukage-sama said to us at dinner today was intentional?"

"Intentional is definitely intentional. The Fourth Mizukage is someone who can make a genius like Uchiha Shisui, who is praised by everyone, give up everything and go to him. In the matter of using words to sway people's hearts, no matter how overestimated A strength that can't be overstated." Hatake Kakashi looked at his right hand and said with a complicated mood.

"Senior Kakashi thinks, how many of those intentional words are worthy of our serious consideration?" Uchiha Itachi asked with a slightly confused expression while hugging his knees.

"I do not know about this."

Hatake Kakashi buried his head in his knees with a wry smile, and then replied in a dull tone:

"Looking at the expressions of Jiraiya-sama and Tsunade-sama, they should have been touched by the words of the four generations of Mizukage, right? But in my opinion, between Konoha and Kirigakure during the period of the blood mist, there must be There's a difference...a big, big difference."

"But what Mizukage-sama said about the criteria for evaluating a child's value as a ninja, I... feel that they are indeed consistent."

Uchiha Itachi pursed his lips, and a big question mark twirled in his small head, "Children who graduate from ninja school early are better than those who learn all the processes step by step and take several years to graduate, but If you graduate early and become a ninja, you will inevitably take the lives of others in the process of carrying out the mission."

"Is there really such a huge gap between taking the life of a stranger and taking the life of a friend who loves each other?"

"Who can tell?"

Hatake Kaka turned his face to the west, looked at the starry sky covered by mist outside the window with his only remaining right eye, and muttered to himself in the same confused tone:
"Perhaps in that person's opinion, it is unacceptable for a young child to take the initiative to take the life of others. But even if it is really like what he said, a ninja is a person who can only clenched fists and weapons The deplorable group of . . . what can we do after we let go of our fists?"

Uchiha Itachi doesn't know the answer to this question.

But he felt that since Uchiha Shisui asked this question to his devoted Kaguya Rei, then he must have given the answer to this question in the process of communicating with Uchiha Shisui.

So should I take the initiative to seek this answer from him?
Even when you know that the other party cares about you?
Itachi Uchiha also didn't know the answer to this question.

　The status is not good, write and delete

　　Alas, I originally thought that I would write a chapter during the day, which was a satisfactory update, and then make persistent efforts to pursue the victory at night
　　Coughing and coughing, my brain started to fog up
　　
　
(End of this chapter)