Chapter 214: Getting Stronger is the Right Way to Go

When Iguchi Takeshi, Umino Daio and Uchiha Feng heard these peaked words from Kirito, a look of surprise once again appeared on each of their faces.

As expected, this boss they followed was at heart a person who was not willing to suffer.

He was properly a hawk ninja.

This is really great.

Chizuru also had a slight smile on her face at this time, she had long been clear about Kirito's choice, which was why she had just suddenly opened her mouth to support Iguchi Takeshi and the others, allowing the balance in the small group to continue to be maintained.

"Kirito, I guess the Sunagakure side is not a good idea, they won't obediently cooperate with us, and there's also a not-so-small obstacle on the home side."

Nara Suzaku took a deep breath and reminded.

Kirito's plan is very good, let Sunagakure take the initiative to sabotage the peace talks, is indeed a good way, but the implementation of the difficulty is not small, not to mention that Sunagakure will not take the initiative to cooperate with, anyway, among the people within their Konoha there must be someone who will be interfering with it, as long as one of the links of the plan goes wrong, then the whole thing will be a total loss.

Once the failure of the plan is exposed, Kirito can be charged with breach of peace, that is a serious crime.

"Don't worry about it, we are not the only ones who don't want to have peace talks, obviously we have seen that there is hope for victory, but we can't continue to fight, that kind of depressing feeling is definitely not only for us, those old-timers are even more depressing than we are, after all, their enmity with Sunagakure is much deeper than ours.

And if this Hokage-sama of ours were to come back with some kind of peace that doesn't require compensation, I think those old-timers would go crazy."

Kirito said quietly, a hint of an intriguing expression creeping onto his face.

When these words came out, the very good-minded Nara Suzaku instantly understood Kirito's meaning, and couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, looking at Kirito with some scalp numbness.

He had felt that Kirito had a lot of guts before, but he had never expected it to be this big.

What was even more frightening was that he was obviously only 11 years old, yet he was so sophisticated in his actions, and he had a knack for playing with people's hearts.

"This is not an easy lord to serve, Pops."

Nara Suzaku muttered in his heart.

Diversification, this was a measure currently practiced within the Nara clan to face the possibility of a major power reshuffle in Konoha.

As a ninja clan whose internal members generally had high intelligence, the people of the Nara clan had realized a long time ago that the Senju clan, which had already declined, had the possibility of rising again, and this possibility had begun when Uzumaki Mito had taken Kirito Tosaka as his disciple.

It was just that they didn't expect this possibility to become a reality so soon.

An eleven year old powerful Kage-Level powerhouse, of course the people of the Nara clan knew exactly what that meant, especially when this Kage-Level powerhouse was not only powerful, but also not pedantic, how terrifying it could be.

The rise of the Senju clan had become unstoppable.

This was the judgment made within the Nara clan.

For this reason, they very much wished to reconnect with the Senju clan.

Unfortunately, a long time ago, the Nara Clan had already been bound to the Sarutobi Clan, and it was not so easy to come down from above, in short, the Nara Clan's direct lineage was already impossible to come down from the Sarutobi Clan's boat.

Therefore, in order to ensure that the Nara clan would not be completely purged after failing to stand up for themselves, they had to let some unappreciated members go to assist Kirito.

Nara Suzaku was well aware that the reason why he had been luckily chosen by the clan to be sent to Kirito's side, that was entirely due to taking advantage of his father, Nara Zhu Yun, who had once helped Kirito during his student days.

Of course, Nara Suzaku himself was also very good, at the age of 14 years old, he had already steadily reached the level of Elite Chunin, and he was considered outstanding among his peers in the clan.

Now, he then acquired the enhanced curse mark from Kirito that many ninja in the army could only dream of, and after opening the curse mark, he would properly have jōnin combat power.

"This is the great power, isn't it? It's already impossible to stop him from advancing, we can only step up our pace to follow him."

Nara Suzaku stole a glance at the curse mark pattern on the back of his left hand, and then looked around at the two little friends who both had excited expressions on their faces, and sighed in his heart.

He was not the only one, the two who had come with him to join Kirito, Akimichi Jidou and Yamanaka Tenno, had both successfully attained jōnin combat power after obtaining the enhanced curse mark.

Because of this, he had clearly noticed that his two younger friends had begun to worship Kirito, a junior three years younger than them, and were attracted to his unwillingness to compromise with his enemies.

With a knack for giving power to others, and being outwardly tough, and himself a powerhouse so strong that he made his enemies tremble.

Nara Suzaku was aware that when these conditions were added together, even if Kirito was young, he could still gain the support of many of the strongest members of the Hawk Faction in the military with great speed.

This he could see from the fact that a number of hawk faction ninjas were making contact with him, Kirito's army advisor, in private.

The reason why many people in the military had not yet publicly come forward to support Kirito was partly because they could not wipe their hands of it, and partly because they were worried about Sarutobi clan retaliation, but if Sandaime Hokage had once again entered into a peace negotiation with Sunagakure this time around at the cost of not having to pay compensation, the number of people who would support Kirito would definitely skyrocket.

The hidden dangers from Sandaime Naruto's original surrender condition of agreeing to Amegakure without compensation were festering.

"No, if I were Kirito, I would definitely spread rumors among the military that Sandaime-sama was once again ready to seek peace at the price of not having to pay compensation, right?"

Nara Suzaku recalled the rumors about Kirito that had recently appeared in the village, and speculated maliciously in his heart, then looked at Kirito, only to find the other party looking at him with a smirk on his face, his heart tightened and his scalp tingled with a sense of foreboding.

"This list, take a look at it, the people on it are all very hawk ninjas from Sunagakure, and they are likewise very unhappy with the peace talks between Sunagakure and Konoha this time."

Kirito looked at Nara Suzaku with eyes tinged with amusement, then took out a list from his body and explained.

After saying that, he handed the list to Nara Suzaku who had a sad expression on his face at that moment.

He was very optimistic about this Nara Jugaku's cousin, in addition to having good strength, his mind was also very good, able to help him deal with a lot of daily affairs, and the main thing was that this person was very aware of the times, and was very clear about what could be done, and what couldn't be done.

For example, right now, this young Nara Clan Jounin knew what he should do next after getting the list from him.

"Kirito-sama, I'm afraid it won't be easy for us to find and contact these people in a short period of time, do you have any brilliant ideas?"

Nara Suzaku said to Kirito with a bitter look on his face as he looked at the many names on the list and some of their information.

Of course he understood the meaning of Kirito handing him the list, it was just for him to start with these people on the list and make these people become the pawns of this plan.

But it was his first time to do this kind of curating thing, he didn't have much experience ah.

"Don't ask me, the information has been given to you, how to do it is your business, how can I have so much time to do these things, if everything relies on me, I will be exhausted, and how will you guys be on your own in the future, just boldly let loose, the resources I have under my hand right now, you can use it, think about it, and write a detailed report to me. "

Kirito heard Nara Suzaku say that, and very simply chose to leave it at that, causing the expression on Nara Suzaku's face to become even more bitter.

In response, he didn't feel any mental pressure at all.

He is now a leader, to do what a leader should do, just move his mouth, and resist the pressure and clean up the mess for his subordinates at critical moments.

He did not intend to follow Sandaime's example and do everything himself, if he did that, he would sooner or later become another Sandaime.

Nara Suzaku saw that Kirito was really going to drop the ball and subconsciously looked to the others, only to find that the others had already moved away from him, clearly not intending to take on this daunting task that Kirito had given him for him.

"Nara Clan, I know you have a good head on your shoulders, I'm counting on you for this plan design, don't worry, if you need my help, I'll definitely give it my all."

Uchiha Feng even joked at this time.

"That's right that's right, I Iguchi Takeshi has no other skills, is able to fight and resist, if you need help, I will also go all out."

Iguchi Takeshi patted his chest and said.

"Hahaha, Nara Clan, I'm optimistic about you, if you need anything, just mention it, Kuromaru and I will stay in the barracks these days and be at your beck and call, Lord Kirito, I still have business to attend to, so I'll be leaving first."

Inuzuka Tsume laughed out loud and then quickly left with his own ninja dog, Kuromaru.

Iguchi Takeshi, Uchiha Feng, and Umino Daio also excused themselves from Kirito.

Before long, the trio of Kirito, Chizuru, and InoShikaCho were left in the room.

"Kirito-sama, is it really okay? Including this?"

Seeing this, Nara Suzaku had no choice but to accept the daunting task given by Kirito with a stiff face, then raised the back of his left hand, revealing the curse mark on it, and asked tentatively.

"Of course, take this, everything on it is something I can grant, it's up to you guys to get it."

Kirito looked at the curse mark on the back of Nara Suzaku's left hand and nodded before handing Nara Suzaku a scroll.

Strengthening the curse mark, this thing was supposed to be an important means for him to develop his power in the military.

One of the reasons why he had established a fighting arena before was to make the ninjas in the army deeply understand the power of the Strengthening Curse Mark, and the three of them, Iguchi Takeshi, Umino Daio, and Uchiha Feng, had done a very good job in publicizing the Enhanced Curse Mark.

The three had recently used this to defeat many of the old-timers who had regarded them as children, causing many of the old-timers in the army to deeply see the power of the Enhanced Curse Mark, and to yearn for it.

If someone could assist him in bringing his plan to fruition, giving these people an Enhanced Curse Mark would not be a problem.

Of course, the enhanced curse marks he was giving now were all low-end versions that didn't raise their strength by a large margin, at most, they could temporarily raise a Genin to a Jōnin, and they were completely lacking in the kind of high-end version that would allow a ninja to subsequently gain the ability to absorb natural energies and create Sage Chakra.

But even so, the lower version of the strengthening curse mark in the eyes of many ninjas belongs to the treasure, worth their lives to exchange.

After all, in the ninja world, jōnin already belonged to the upper echelon of ninja, an existence second only to Kage-Level powerhouses, and there weren't many of them in the major ninja villages, so once a ninja became a jōnin, he or she not only had a future, but also a money path.

When Nara Suzaku heard that Kirito was willing to give out the enhanced seal as a reward, he was immediately reassured. He took the scroll given by Kirito, opened it and was immediately shocked.

Because each and every thing recorded on the scroll would have triggered countless ninjas to frantically scramble for it if it was put outside.

It contained advanced puppets, weapons crafted from chakra metal, various improved ninjutsu and secret arts, body modification and strengthening surgeries as well as amputation recovery surgeries and so on.

"He actually gave up that kind of powerful puppet as a reward, as well as some improved secret arts and jutsu, if not seeing it with my own eyes, I really can't imagine that this is the wealth of an 11-year-old ninja."

Nara Suzaku looked at the things on top of the scroll, and his own little heart in its place began to beat wildly and indisputably.

Not to mention others, his own heart was also stirred after reading it.

When Kirito fought with Ebizo, he also noticed it as a decent soldier on the battlefield at that time, naturally, he knew clearly how powerful those puppets Kirito took out were, and if he could get one, it wouldn't be wrong for him to specialize as a puppeteer.

He had tried to learn the puppet art, and found that this kind of manipulation of puppet fighting jutsu is also full of suitable for him, if used with the Nara secret art, he can build many kinds of tactics by himself, and play a strong combat power in the battle.

"Do a good job, as long as it's done, I'll count you as a great merit, and at that time, I'll give your curse mark a level up."

Suddenly, Nara Suzaku's words appeared in his mind, which in turn caused his heart to tremble and his vigor to grow stronger.

"Kirito-sama, I will do my best to get it done."

Nara Suzaku took a deep breath and made up his mind that he would work with Kirito from now on.

"Very well, be bold and rest assured, I'll take the blame for you if anything happens."

Kirito nodded his head in satisfaction.

Kirito then proceeded to say a few words to the InoShikaCho and let them go about their business.

"Are you so relieved to leave this matter to them? If you mess up, that old man will have an excuse to turn on you, right?"

Once the InoShikaCho left, Chizuru said with a slight frown.

She didn't trust Nara Suzaku, even though the other party had had a curse mark planted on his body by Kirito, making it almost impossible for him to divulge any information about Kirito, she still didn't trust these guys who had gotten mixed up on the ship halfway through because they saw the benefits.

"If I mess up, I'll mess up, didn't you just say, in this world, the weak have to listen to the strong, I just need to continue to get stronger to ignore the rules established by the weak, plotting and scheming and whatnot, I don't really like it too much, so let the others do it for me in these matters, I'll just mention a draft plan."

Kirito sniffed and said without a care in the world.

Struggling for power was not something he cared about the most, what he cared about was still getting stronger.

Any power struggle that he did in Konoha was only to help him become stronger.