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Facing of the other party's questioning, Kisame replied with a smile:

"Everyone, don't be nervous, and don't get me wrong. I'm a bounty hunter, and this time I came to Takigakure with the body of the traitor."

As soon as he said that, he took out Kakuzu's body from the Box of Ultimate Bliss.

"This is…"

The Taki ninjas led by their head saw the Taki Shinobi forehead guard with a cut on it, and after carefully recognizing the latter's appearance, someone suddenly shouted in shock, "It's Kakuzu! "

Kakuzu.

This name made everyone's heart beat violently, thinking of the unbearable past of Takigakure.

At that time, after Kakuzu killed the senior officials of Takigakure and defected, Takigakure did issue a bounty for him. But as the decades passed, Kakuzu disappeared without a trace, and no one was ever able to find him, let alone kill him.

Until now.

This is what Kisame planned.

Although he came for the Hero water, he did not intend to rob it directly, but take out something equivalent to it and exchanged it with Takigakure.

He also didn't want to disagree with them and make a mess that would cause a lot of people to lose their lives.

However, the head's response made Kisame narrow his eyes and frown slightly.

"Is this really Kakuzu's corpse?"

The head frowned as he looked at the corpse on the ground a few times, then looked at the Kisame, and asked with suspicion.

Kakuzu defected from Takigakure, around thirty years ago. After such a long time, the people in the village almost forgot about it, and only few people could recognize Kakuzu.

Therefore, he had reason to suspect that this suspicious man wearing a mask in front of him forged Kakuzu's corpse and came to Takigakure to get the bounty.

Facing his questioning, Kisame expressed his understanding. He then squatted down beside Kakuzu's's corpse, then grabbed one of the corpse's arms and pulled it hard.

'Swish.'

As the arm was ripped from the corpse, a large number of black wires at the joints of the arm were also exposed to everyone's eyes.

"You should be familiar with this kind of black wires, right?" Kisame threw the arm connected to the black wires to him.

"This is... Earth grudge." The head was shocked and no longer doubted the identity of the corpse.

Earth grudge is a secret technique unique to Takigakure, and it can be said to be the treasure of the village. However, this secret technique has been lost to the village ever since Kakuzu killed all the senior members of Takigakure and took it away.

Thinking of this, he stared at Kisame with a greedy look, and asked in a deep voice, "Is Earth grudge in your hands now?"

He thought that Kisame would be vague and avoid this question, but the latter nodded directly:

"Yes."

As soon as these words came out, all the ninjas in Takigakure, including the head, had their eyes lit up and breaths quickened.

"Hand it over." He continued, his eyes growing sharper, and his tone was somewhat threatening.

As if Kisame was unaware about it, said with a smile:

"Earth grudge is the secret technique of Takigakure, and it is natural to return things to the original owner, but before that, let's talk about money first. The bounty is 50,000,000 ryo, and for the earth grudge, for my hard work, I think it's around 50 million ryo, give me a total of 100 million ryo."

One hundred million ryo, this number is not something that Kisame asked outrageously.

The 50,000,000 ryo bounty for Kakuzu was set by Takigakure itself. As for the Earth grudge, in Kisame's view, this kind of secret technique that can make people immortal, not to mention 50 million ryo, even 500 million ryo is not too much.

However, this number changed the expressions of the head of Takigakure and the others.

Since the decline of Takigakure, it has been almost isolated from the world. The ninjas in the village cannot receive tasks, and sometimes they cannot even have enough to eat.

Now asking them to pay 100 million ryo is simply a fantasy, and even selling the entire village is not enough.

But the Earth grudge must be brought back.

So, the head signaled at his group of subordinates, and everyone understood, and they all took their weapons and further approached Kisame, and surrounded him firmly.

As long as the head gave an order, they would rush up and hack the mysterious masked man to death.

"Before you start, I have to remind you."

Kisame saw through everyone's intentions, and still said to them calmly, "How do you think I killed Kakuzu? Also, although I came here alone, outside the waterfall, maybe there are companions waiting to meet me?"

When he heard the words, the head narrowed his eyes, and immediately made a gesture to signal his subordinates not to act rashly.

Indeed, being able to kill Kakuzu, who had practiced the Earth grudge, alone was enough to show the strength of the mysterious masked man in front of him.

He is a hard bone.

If they force this person to do something, it will definitely be a war. At that time, not only will they suffer a large number of casualties, but if they let this person escape, they won't be able to get back the Earth grudge.

Considering these circumstances, the head was no longer aggressive, but slowed down a bit and said to Kisame:

"Frankly speaking, we can't take out 100 million ryo. This amount of money is too much. Look, can we take credit first? I promise you as the leader of Takigakure, I will collect this money as soon as possible."

"That won't do."

Kisame folded his arms and shook his head, rejecting it on the spot. Seeing that the head was about to get angry, he changed his words and said, "However, it doesn't matter if you don't have money, you can exchange other things of equal value with me for Kakuzu's corpse and the Earth grudge. "

"So... what do you want?" The head narrowed his eyes, already vaguely guessing the other party's true intention to come to Takigakure.

He guessed right.

"Hero water."

As soon as the ninjas of Takigakure heard these words, they immediately exploded.

"No! The Hero water is a treasure that has been passed down for thousands of years. From ancient times to the present, only ninjas called heroes in the village are qualified to take it, and it is absolutely impossible to give it to an outsider."

An older Taki Ninja said decisively.

Hearing what the man said, Kisame immediately answered: "I killed the S-rank traitor of Takigakure and regained the secret art of Earth grudge for the village. Aren't I a hero of Takigakure? As for you saying that I'm an outsider, that's easy, I can join Takigakure right away."

"Uh..." The man was speechless, because what Kisame said seemed to make sense.

At this time, another person stared at Kisame and warned:

"The Hero water is only born once in a hundred years. Drinking it will make the chakra in one's body soar tenfold, but if you aren't a powerful person like the head, you might not be able to withstand that power, and you would explode on the spot. Even if you get the Hero water, I am afraid you are not qualified to drink it."

"You don't have to worry about this. I'm very confident in myself. Although I'm not a Jinchuriki, everyone calls me a human-tailed beast. I can drink a bottle of Hero water without stopping."

Kisame seemed to be boasting and showing off, but in fact, he has said it very modestly.

"Enough."

The head interrupted everyone's quarrel, stared at Kisame with deep eyes, suddenly smiled, and stretched out a hand to the latter, "Deal! The corpse of the traitor Kakuzu along with the Earth grudge Kinjutsu, for the Hero Water, it's a very reasonable deal in my opinion."

"Refreshing! In order to show my sincerity, I will hand over the Earth grudge to you first."

Kisame smiled back, and took out a scroll from his arms and threw it directly to him.

In this scroll, there is the genuine method to train the Earth grudge, but after obtaining this Kinjutsu, Kisame has already left a backup, so it does not matter if the original version is returned to Takigakure.

After he took the scroll, the head glanced at Kisame in surprise, because he did not expect the other party to be so generous. Then, he couldn't wait to open the scroll and read it carefully.

It is indeed Earth grudge.

When he confirmed that this was indeed Takigakure's long-lost Earth grudge, he was overjoyed and hurriedly put the scroll carefully close to him.

"Where is my hero water?" At this moment, Kisame asked again.

"Haha. My friend, don't worry."

When he heard him, the head said to Kisame very enthusiastically, "It will take a little time to collect the Hero water. Why don't you stay in Takigakure tonight, and tomorrow morning, I promise to hand the Hero water to you."

Kisame glanced at him with a half-smile, and readily agreed: "Okay, it's up to you. I'm a little tired from running all the way, I will take a hot bath and sleep comfortably."

As soon as he finished speaking, he strode past them, pushed the crowd away, and walked towards Takigakure on the shore of the lake.

Kisame is not worried that they will cheat him.

From the moment the other party accepted his conditions and accepted Kakuzu's corpse and the earth grudge scroll, this hero water was destined to be his possession.

'I hope these guys from Takigakure doesn't plan die. If they dare to play tricks or even break the contract, I can kill them with peace of mind.'

Kisame smiled and unknowingly crossed the wooden bridge over the lake and entered Takigakure Ninja Village.

"Where is the leader home?" He grabbed a random villager and asked.

"There, over there." The villager was frightened by the terrifying aura, pointed to a house not far away, and said while trembling.

"Thanks."

Kisame smiled, revealing two rows of fangs, then swaggered across the street, pushed open the door the house and walked in.

'Huh?'

As soon as he entered the yard, he saw a woman in plain clothes, she had a beautiful face and a good figure and was doing laundry there.

On her back was a less than one-year-old baby with short green hair, which looked like the head's child.

Then, this woman should be Ye Feng's wife.

"Who are you? Why did you suddenly break into my house?"

When the woman saw Kisame, coming in wearing a mask, she was so frightened that she threw away the clothes she was washing, and took two steps back in horror.

"Sister-in-law, don't be afraid. I'm a friend of your husband. I was invited by him to stay at your house for one night and I will leave early tomorrow."

Kisame approached the woman with a familiar tone.

Looking at the woman up close, he realized that although the other party was beautiful, her brows were full of fatigue, her face was covered in sweat, and she looked extremely haggard.

It looks like she worked too hard to do housework alone with a child.

"Tsk tsk." Thinking of this, Kisame shook his head.

"Why are you shaking your head...what are you doing, why are you staring at me?" The woman felt uncomfortable being watched by Kisame, so she asked through gritted teeth.

"That guy is going too far, to let a woman who just gave birth to a child do so much housework, I feel sad for you."

Kisame said.

The woman was startled when she heard the words, and then murmured: "I am the woman in the family, these things are what I should do..."

Before she finished speaking, Kisame suddenly rolled up his sleeves, picked up the clothes in the basin and wringed them dry, and said, "Sister-in-law, I'll help you."

The warm hearted Kisame is online again.

When the woman saw this scene, she was stunned for a moment, and she felt an inexplicable emotion in her heart. However, when she came back to her senses and found that Kisame had picked up a piece of clothing again, she hurried up.

That's her underwear.

"No." The woman blushed slightly, trying to grab the clothes from him.

"It's okay, sister-in-law, go and take a rest and wipe your sweat." Kisame didn't care, and continued to wring the clothes and hang them to dry.

Then, he probably thought that washing clothes like this was too slow, so he simply made a seal.

Under the surprised eyes of the woman, he made a big water pool, wrapped all the clothes in it, and rolled and stirred it. After that, Kisame used his chakra to create heat and quickly dried the moisture in the clothes.

This magical technique not only made the woman look dumbfounded, but the little baby on her back also open eyes wide, danced, and made a sound of "ah woo ah woo" from the small mouth.

"...Thank you." The woman whispered to Kisame.

"It's just a little effort, sister-in-law doesn't need to be polite."

While talking, Kisame stretched out a finger, teased the baby on the woman's back, and asked curiously, "This child is so cute, is it a girl? What's her name?"

"Her name is... Fuu, she's my daughter."

When the woman saw the child giggled at Kisame, she was also infected by this atmosphere and showed a smile.

The tall, eccentric masked man in front of her, while intimidating, was actually surprisingly approachable and considerate.

Thinking of this, the woman's tense nerves finally relaxed, and her attitude towards Kisame became gentle.