"Lord Shiraishi, there is information coming from Kirigakure Village."

As usual, the staff of the Intelligence Department reported to Shiraishi the intelligence they had obtained recently, including information about the Kirigakure ninja village, which the staff of the Intelligence Department attached great importance to.

"What happened over there?"

Bai Shi thought about it for a moment and asked.

The Kingdom of Water is isolated overseas. The Kirigakure Ninja Village within the territory adopts a closed policy all year round, and management is very strict regardless of entry or exit.

The reason why Aster Flower Pharmaceutical Company was able to open a branch within Kirigakure Ninja Village was because the shrine maiden Maitreya wrote to the Daimyo of the Land of Water, and for reasons of country-to-country diplomacy, it was allowed to open a branch within Kirigakure Ninja Village.

Of course, this included a thank-you gift to win over the great names of the Water Kingdom and many of the Water Kingdom's great nobles.

Otherwise, it is not that easy to place manpower inside the Kirigakure Ninja Village.

The level of xenophobia in this village is simply beyond the imagination of outsiders.

When he was in Konoha in the past, Shiraishi also learned about some of the situation in this village. But at that time, although Kirigakure Village was exclusive and closed to outsiders, it was not to this extent.

People who enter Kirigakure Village are under surveillance by Kirigakure ANBU ninjas 24 hours a day, and all they can get are relatively fragmentary information.

Moreover, neutral personnel from the Kingdom of Ghosts will only be allowed in and out once every month. If this number is exceeded, they can be forced to be imprisoned. This is also what was signed in the agreement, and the review is very strict.

"There seems to be a serious power change within Kirigakure Village. Although it is impossible to determine who is guiding it, the personnel stationed in Kirigakure Village in the past month can often hear the sounds of fighting at night. Even outside, they can often hear the sounds of fighting.

There was a fight."

If you hear it by chance, you can think of it as an invasion by a foreign enemy.

If the sound of fighting could be heard every night and foreign enemies could invade, Kirigakure Village would not have the power to become one of the five great ninja villages.

Obviously, this was an internal dispute among the Kirigakure ninjas themselves. Because some kind of conflict was too intense, it led to conflicts between factions, leading to the tragedy of killing each other in the village.

"What's the specific reason?"

"Based on the available intelligence, it is speculated that it may be related to the Ninja School Graduation Examination in March and April this year. This has led to the intensification of conflicts."

"A ghost incident?"

Shiraishi nodded.

A recent graduate of the ninja school named "Momochi Zabuza" in Kirigakure Village, in this graduation exam, he killed all the candidates in the same class, and only he graduated.

This incident was not limited to Shiraishi. The other villages must also have received this information one after another, and they may also be gloating about it.

In recent years, Kirigakure Village has adopted an exam in which two people fight against each other, and the winner graduates from the ninja school.

Therefore, the legend of "The Bloody Mist" was created.

And according to most ninjas’ impressions of Kirigakure ninjas, they also use words such as ‘ferocious’, ‘cruel’, and ‘bloody’ to evaluate them.

Although the number of ninjas has been reduced to a certain extent, the Kirigakure ninjas who managed to survive are all elites who can see blood at any time, and can be called ninjas among ninjas.

However, this year there was an accident where only one candidate graduated. Even if Kirigakure followed the 'elite' route, the senior management could not remain indifferent.

It is likely that there were various discussions and opinions on this matter.

According to what Shiraishi knows, not all senior officials in Kirigakure Village like their village to be called the "Blood Mist Village". If this happened again this year, it will inevitably lead to further conflicts.

The internal fighting in Kirigakure Village probably took this opportunity to completely break up the factions.

One side wants to continue to implement the policy of "Blood Mist", and the other side wants to immediately cancel this unreasonable examination method.

However, since Kirigakure is one of the five great ninja villages and has always practiced secrecy, Shiraishi can only make this level of inference.

More clues can only be seen from the follow-up actions of Kirigakure Ninja Village.

"Let the personnel stationed in Kirigakure not act rashly and do their job well."

"yes."

After the staff of the Intelligence Department went down, Shiraishi began to think deeply.

The xenophobia in Kirigakure Village is becoming more and more serious. As a result, sooner or later, the personnel stationed in Kirigakure Village will definitely be kicked out. Even if the daimyo of the country of water and the big nobles provide guarantees, this deal cannot be taken lightly.

Heart.

Moreover, a lot of guarantee fees are paid to the daimyo and the great nobles of the Land of Water every year.

If it weren't for the purpose of laying some chess pieces inside Kirigakure Village and obtaining more information, he would not want to have any dealings with the nobles of the Kingdom of Water.

As far as Shiraishi knows, the reason why Kirigakure Village has become like this is inseparable from the fact that the nobles of the Land of Water have continuously reduced the funding of Kirigakure Village.

The Kingdom of Water is isolated overseas. Except for participating in the first Ninja World War, it has been dormant since then and has not had any intensive contact with the countries on the mainland.

As a result, the ninjas of Kirigakure Village were almost useless.

Unlike Konoha, the Fire Country is surrounded by enemies from all sides. Therefore, among the five major countries, the annual development funds given to Konoha by the Fire Country daimyo are figures that make other ninja villages jealous.

However, Kirigakure wanted to develop, but the daimyo and nobles of the Land of Water were unwilling to bear the heavy military expenses. After all, the ninjas only needed to maintain the status quo and did not need to expand externally. It was enough for the daimyo and nobles to protect the country.

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Although this is a very stupid policy in Shiraishi's opinion.

But from the perspective of those with vested interests, the daimyo and nobles also cut down the expenses of the ninjas based on their own interests, and spent their own extravagance and enjoyment.

As for the common people, they are the poor and weak class that are collectively ignored by the ninjas and nobles.

If the Kirigakure Village wants to change and break this deadlock, most of its senior officials will inevitably be implicated, and it may even involve the daimyo and nobles.

"Let's wait and see for a while."

In the end, Shiraishi took no countermeasures.

The current situation in Kirigakure Village is not clear, and it is not certain to what extent the fighting between the factions has reached, and what the status of the leaders of each faction is.

As a neutral person, he only needs to do his job well.

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"Cough cough... cough cough..."

In the pure white room, there is a dark yellow light shining.

Under the late night environment, the room was filled with a shadow of death.

A woman was lying on the hospital bed in great pain. She could barely open her eyes, staring at the light on the ceiling with a dull expression. Her face had an abnormally pale color, and she was extremely ill.

At this moment, a figure wearing a mask and a ninja suit walked in from the door, holding ten thousand medicines in his hand, and slowly approached the woman on the hospital bed.

Wearing such a costume means that he is an ANBU ninja directly subordinate to Kirigakure Mizukage.

They are also the notorious Kirigakure pursuit force.

Through the eye holes of the mask, this ninja's eyes were revealed to be cold and merciless. He was just following Mizukage's orders and came here to perform his mission.

"Master Yuyuri, it's time to take medicine now."

The woman on the hospital bed turned her head and looked at the bowl of soup in Kirigakure Anbu's hand. There was fear in her eyes, and she shook her head on the bed.

"I'm not sick... take it away..."

"Only patients can say that they are not sick. This is the medicinal soup prepared by Mizukage-sama himself. It will be of great benefit to your body. Drink it while it is hot."

The Kirigakure ANBU tried to slow down his tone and said to the woman on the hospital bed.

"...Take it away..."

"You are one of our Seven Ninja Swordsmen of Kirigakure. Don't be so willful. After recovering from your illness, you still have to go into battle to kill the enemy. I'll feed you."

Saying that, ignoring the struggle of the woman on the hospital bed, Kirigakure Anbu forcefully grabbed the woman's shoulders, made her stand up, and placed the mouth of the bowl filled with medicinal soup forcefully against the woman's pale lips.

Just when Kirigakure ANBU was about to tilt the mouth of the bowl and force the woman to drink the medicinal soup, he suddenly noticed something and dodged to the side. The bowl filled with medicinal soup broke to the ground, and the medicinal soup was scattered all over the floor.

Click!

The sound of a broken neck.

After dodging in time, he still couldn't escape the attack of the sneak attacker.

His attainments in the teleportation technique were obviously far greater than that of this Kirigakure ANBU ninja.

The visitor walked to the hospital bed, looked at the woman whose face was twitching in pain on the hospital bed, and sighed softly.

The woman on the hospital bed regained her breath, looked at the person who came to the bedside, and opened her lips slightly:

"Long time no see...I heard that you defected to the Third Generation...are you here to kill me?"

The man didn't answer, but stretched out his hand directly and put it on the woman's forehead.

The woman on the hospital bed immediately felt tired and fell asleep on the hospital bed.

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Early morning.

Sunlight shines through the mist on the buildings of Kirigakure Village.

On this silent morning, a troop of more than a dozen ninjas rushed towards the outside of Kirigakure Village.

The leaders were two male ninjas.

A woman with long yellow spiky hair, a Kirigakure Anbu mask on her face, and slender limbs as young as a young woman, but her real gender is male, and she is carrying a tool as long and slender as a needle on her back.
To be continued...