Something's wrong with this Hinata in Konoha

Chapter 182 The Bet of the Mountain Clan
In fact, the main purpose of Hyuga Inaba's trip to the torture squad's base was to destroy the body of the Kumogakure envoy.

The encounter with Hiruzen Sarutobi was an accident.

He originally thought that forcing Sarutobi Hiruzen to go to the front line would be a long-term project that would take several days to lay the groundwork. He never expected to hear Sarutobi Hiruzen expose his weaknesses here by such a coincidence.

He came here today with the intention of wrapping up his previous actions and erasing the last possible flaw.

Although they had taken into account the risk of the corpse being retrieved as much as possible when setting up the trap, and used illusion suggestion rather than direct manipulation, judging from the memory after death, the envoy's actions were still based on his own reason, but he only made Some negative emotions were suddenly amplified several times when making the choice.

At first glance, there is nothing wrong with it.

But after all, it couldn't bear closer inspection.

After all, Hinata Inaba only had less than three days in total from the time he came into contact with Kumogakure Samui through the funeral bird and obtained information, to the time he returned to Konoha Shakito to ambush Kumogakure's envoys. There was really no way he could do it. Covering everything without leaving any flaws.

To be able to do this now is the best outcome of the right time, the right place, the right people, and a little bit of luck.

The last shortcoming could only be made up for by himself afterwards.

Fortunately today, luck was on his side again.

Although Sarutobi Hiruzen had guessed the problem before he came, and consciously came to the torture squad to try to investigate, it was a pity that he suspected the wrong person.

Sarutobi Hiruzen mistakenly thought that the Yamanaka clan responsible for extracting memories from corpses was protecting Hinata Inaba, so much so that he was almost defeated by the Yamanaka clan leader's confession.

In fact, the Yamanaka clan had no intention of covering up Hinata Inaba before this, otherwise the Yamanaka clan leader would not be working overtime here.

Nara Shikaku's words indeed showed that he was not optimistic about Sarutobi Hiruzen, but it did not mean that Ino Shikacho had completely fallen in favor of Hinata Inaba!

As a talker of the three clans who understands the overall situation and is sober in the world, Nara Shikaku has no intention of taking sides so hastily.

It's a pity that Sarutobi Hiruzen completely misunderstood today.

Sarutobi Hiruzen was confused, but this time he had a rare IQ. When two old guys, Koharu and Mito Kazuo, were still arguing stupidly and had no clue, he had already accurately found it. Where the breakthrough was, he even rushed to the torture class one step ahead of Inaba, catching the target quickly and accurately!

But let's call him smart...he collapsed again at the critical moment.

He misjudged the motives of the Yamanaka clan, misunderstood Nara Shikaku's camp attitude, and finally revealed his spiritual weakness after breaking through the defense. Hinata Inaba caught the weak spot and penetrated him hard!
There is really no step in this series of operations in the right direction, which makes people unable to even praise him.

It can only be said that today's Sarutobi Hiruzen has made some progress compared to three years ago, but not much...

So much so that the ending not only failed to progress, but actually regressed!
At this moment, his psychological defense line was penetrated by Hinata Inaba, and he broke through the defense and escaped. How could he resist Hinata Inaba, who was the elder, only leaving the clan leader in the mountain?

Hyuga Inaba requested that the body of the Kumogakure envoy be destroyed. Even if the Yamanaka clan leader guessed that there was something wrong, he did not dare to say it at the moment.

Not only didn't he dare to say it, he didn't even dare to delay it.

After Hinata Inaba made his request, he immediately sent someone to deliver the body.

The son of the clan leader and a friend of the same generation as Nara Shikaku: Yamanaka Kaiichi personally sent over the Kumogakure envoy who apparently died at the hands of Hinata Hizashi.

Then, in front of Hinata Inaba, they formed seals at the same time to activate fire escape, burning the corpse into a pile of ashes with indistinguishable ingredients!

No matter how great the memory extraction ninjutsu is, it is impossible to recover the memory of the deceased from this pile of ashes.

Seeing this, Hinata Inaba nodded with satisfaction and said comfortingly.

"Thank you for your hard work. Everyone in the torture class can take a short vacation for a while. As for this commission, I will pay you according to the price of an S-level mission."

Yamanaka Haiichi didn't know why, but the Yamanaka clan leader was so frightened that he waved his hands repeatedly.

"No need, no need! Elder Inaba, this is too ostentatious. For a normal task of extracting the memory of a ninja from an enemy village, the commission given by the village is generally considered to be C level. Only when very important key information is extracted, the commission level will be increased accordingly. , you were promoted to S-level at once, and we can't hand over any useful information, so it will inevitably arouse people's imagination." After hearing this, Hinata Inaba nodded, realizing that what the other party said made sense.

And what he was even more pleased about was that the mountain chief had already taken the initiative to help him consider the aftermath.

This conscious awareness is far more important to him than the remaining commission money.

"What you said makes sense, do you have any thoughts or suggestions?"

Hyuga Inaba directly handed over the autonomy to the Yamanaka clan leader.

The chief of the mountain clan was also very confused at this time.

He once again missed the young man from the Nara family who had always been lazy and unmotivated.

It would be great if Shikaku was here... That kid has a quick mind!
He didn't dare to keep Hinata Inaba waiting too long.

While he was deep in thought, he suddenly looked at his son Haiyi next to him. This gave him a flash of inspiration and said: "Elder Inaba, this commission is better to be C-level, so that it can be said to the outside world that we are actually extracting... The body was destroyed without any useful information. As for the extra reward, I ask you to take this incompetent boy of ours to the Kumogakure battlefield for some training."

"Oh?"

Hyuga Inaba did not expect that the Yamanaka clan leader would make such a request.

He could even say that he couldn't ask for this.

Yamanaka Kaiichi also appears in the original work. He is the father of Ino among the twelve young heroes in the future and the future leader of the Yamanaka clan.

Taking this person under your command is almost equivalent to recruiting half of the mountain clan!
The strong alliance between Inarakacho and the Sarutobi clan that has lasted for nearly a hundred years seems to be about to be opened by him from today on!

"Don't you need to ask your two friends for their opinions?" Hinata Inaba asked kindly.

Unexpectedly, the mountain chief smiled and said.

"No, this is actually a suggestion that the junior from the Nara family gave us earlier. I think there is no need to ask his opinion again."

Is this Shikaku's suggestion?
Hinata Inaba asked curiously: "What specifically did the Nara family suggest to you?"

The chief of the mountain clan replied: "That junior once suggested to us that an alliance does not necessarily have to advance and retreat together at all times. As long as we have enough tacit understanding and trust in each other, occasionally spreading our bets is also a desirable option."

"Ha." Hinata Inaba laughed.

He immediately understood what Nara Shikaku was thinking.

The three clans hugging each other and falling towards Hinata Inaba at the same time will inevitably arouse Sarutobi Hiruzen's extreme vigilance and panic, and the consequences may be unbearable for the three clans.

In this case, it is better to spread out and surrender slowly.

This requires enough trust among the three tribes!
But as luck would have it, they actually do.

At this moment, Hinata Inaba didn't resent such a little cleverness.

Because he knew very well that once this gap was opened today, as long as he continued to maintain his overwhelming advantage over Sarutobi Hiruzen, it would only be a matter of time before the three tribes completely fell!

He didn't mind waiting.

"Okay, then do as you say. I will take good care of Haiichi's child for you." Hinata Inaba replied.

　The speed of life and death can be regarded as catching up!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)