Chapter 155 Land of Hot Water's Escort Mission

"Yo, Shikuro."

In front of the Hokage Tower, when Shibi saw Shikuro, he smiled and greeted while waving his hand, "Long time no see."

Shikuro nodded at him, and then his gaze fell on Minato.

Shibi understood in a second, and introduced with a smile: "Shikuro, this is Namikaze Minato, he is the disciple of one of the Sannin, Jiraiya-sama. Minato, this is Aburame Shikuro, the most talented Shinobi in our clan."

"Hello."

"Hello."

Shikuro and Minato greeted each other with a smile.

The two met in the Chunin Exams last time, so this was the second time they met.

"I didn't expect you to be one of the Sannin, Jiraiya-sama's disciple…"

Shikuro was surprised, after all, that is the legendary Sannin!

After chatting for a while, the two sides separated.

Kanpū and the others went to the mission center on the first floor, while Minato and the others went to find Hiruzen.

"Shisui, do you have paper and pen?"

After the two groups separated, Kanpū poked Shisui in the waist and asked softly.

"Yes."

With that said, Shisui took out his newly purchased mission log.

Kanpū tore a piece of paper from it, then took Shisui's pen and wrote a sentence on the paper: Centipede dies without being stiff!

The key point is of course the word 'centipede' to remind himself that Mukade must be killed in the future so that he will not be crossing through Ryūmyaku. (T/N: Mukade means centipede in English.)

...

At the same time.

Mount Myōboku, one of the Three Holy Lands in the Shinobi World.

There is a huge and empty great hall on the top of the mountain. The wall in the hall is a huge bookshelf, displaying countless scrolls with the thickness of thighs. The scrolls are turned outwards, revealing a lot of ancient words, densely packed, and it is unknown what was recorded.

Directly below the bookshelf, there is a huge stone pedestal. On the stone seat, an old, huge toad slowly opened its eyes.

This toad has an orange body and a huge body, with a string of beads around its neck and a lavender opal in the middle with the word "oil" written on it.

He also wears a professor's hat on his head, looking like a scholar.

This person, cough, this beast… This toad is the ancestor of the Mount Myōboku, Great Toad Sage.

"It's strange…"

Great Toad Sage suddenly opened his eyes, revealing yellow pupils, his huge mouth opened and closed gently, and an old voice came out, "I had two dreams at the same time…"

Great Toad Sage can see the future in his dreams, and because dreams are intermittent, the future he can see is very limited!

But for the first time in thousands of years, he had two dreams at the same time, or maybe it was a dream that was dreamed twice in a row…

Great Toad Sage narrowed his eyes and carefully recalled the scene in his dream, but no matter how much he thought about it, he couldn't remember it.

He sighed, patted his fat white belly, moved his butt slightly, closed his eyes and fell asleep again.

...

Konoha.

Hokage Tower's mission center.

Kanpū and the others waited in line for more than ten minutes before it was finally their turn.

According to the old rules, Shikuro stretched out his finger to choose randomly and said: "We'll take this."

The Mediterranean-sea who issued the mission took out the mission scroll and said: "The client of this escort mission is at the gate of the village, please meet them as soon as possible."

"Understood."

Shikuro nodded, then handed over the mission scroll to Yui.

Opening the scroll, Kanpū's group of three looked at the content of the mission

The client is Land of Hot Water's minister, called Shirada Shinji, who came to Land of Fire to discuss political affairs with the Daimyō, and then came to Konoha and issued the mission commission.

'This is going abroad.'

Kanpū then calculated that it would take more than half a month to complete the mission, so he created a shadow clone and asked him to go home and notify his family.

After that, the group of four set off.

At the entrance of the village, Kanpū and the others met the mission client, the Land of Hot Water's minister, Shirada Shinji.

"So slow! As the largest village in the Shinobi World, your efficiency is too slow! You made me wait so long!"

Shirada Shinji is about forty or fifty years old, with narrow eyes, high nose, arrogant expression, and irritable temper. As soon as Kanpū and the others arrived, he kept complaining, and when he spoke, not only did his saliva splash around, but the two mustaches on his lips also swayed at every turn, making him looked like a clown.

"Doesn't this guy know that this is Konoha?"

Kanpū couldn't help but whisper to Shisui behind, "Why is he so arrogant?"

"His identity is Land of Hot Water's minister. This time, he came to the Land of Fire to discuss political affairs with Daimyō, so he has no fear." Shisui recalled the content of the mission scroll and said, "Let's bear it for now."

"Hey hey hey, what did you two little brats whispering about?"

When Shinji saw Kanpū and Shisui were whispering, he was furious, "Are you talking about me behind my back? Hateful, the quality of Konoha's Genin is getting worse and worse!!"

Shinji didn't give Kanpū face at all, and sprayed them in front of them.

'You want to see my little violent temperament!'

Kanpū rolled up his sleeves and wanted to give him a set of his combo, however, Shikuro reached out and pressed his shoulder.

Although Shikuro didn't speak, and his expression couldn't be seen, and he also couldn't see his eyes, Kanpū still felt what he meant.

'Bear it.'

'You are the client of the mission, you are the best… Just wait for the mission to be completed, and see how I clean up you!'

Kanpū then turned his attention to the two people behind Shinji. Looking at their clothes, he knew that one was a follower and the other was a guard. Although the guard have a samurai sword, he should be just an ordinary person.

Next to the entourage, a carriage was parked.

After Shinji finished complaining, he arrogantly got into the carriage.

His guard and entourage sit in front of the carriage and are responsible for driving the carriage.

"Let's go!" Inside the carriage, Shinji's arrogant voice rang.

Leaving the village, the carriage galloped on the official road.

Kanpū's group of three followed behind, all expressionless.

They are all young people, and it is impossible to hold back after being pointed at the nose so provokingly, but due to Shikuro's presence, the three people did not dare to be presumptuous.

Shikuro followed, as if aware of Kanpū's state of mind, he said softly: "Do you know where the Land of Hot Water is located?"

"Northeast." Kanpū said directly.

"Yes, that direction is the direction of the Land of Lightning, one of the Five Great Countries! If Land of Lightning's Kumogakure's Shinobi want to enter our country by land, they must pass through Land of Hot Water!"

Shikuro said solemnly, "After the outbreak of our war with Sunagakure, Iwagakure, Kumogakure, and Kirigakure have all revealed their ambitions to invade our country, so we must strive to get the support of the small countries living in the cracks of the Great Countries! After all, no matter how bad they are, we can't let them fall into the arms of other Great Countries, otherwise we will be very passive in this war!"

"So, this is why that guy is so confident?"

Kanpū snorted.

"It seems that the next road is not easy." Shisui said with bitter expression.

Kanpū ran and ran, and suddenly felt something was wrong.

'That's right!'

'The mission scroll only mentions that Shirada Shinji came to Land of Fire to discuss political affairs with the Daimyō, but not at all specify what it is. But why Shikuro-sensei, who had never read the mission scroll from beginning to the end, knew so much?'

Kanpū pondered for a while, 'The only explanation is…'

'Shikuro-sensei didn't choose a mission blindly at all, but it is a premeditated choice!'

'What an old fox!'

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