Naruto, Peak Human, Ch 40.2

Due to the previous king's death, the kingdom required an heir, but the last ruler had passed the throne to his daughter.

He was very displeased, especially that the kingdom would be led by his niece, a female, which prompted him to contemplate seizing power.

However, his niece had not yet truly ascended to the throne, as the kingdom's heirloom was not within the country but in a distant land.

Therefore, she needed to find and bring it back to the kingdom to truly inherit the throne.

During this process, he learned that his niece had entrusted a Konoha ninja to escort the heirloom, and quietly developed this devious scheme.

He hired a group of ninjas intending to seize the heirloom for himself. After learning the escort route of the Konoha ninjas, he sent out two waves of ninjas.

However, both groups failed miserably, forcing him to reconsider the likelihood of forcibly taking the heirloom.

Consequently, he abducted his own niece and extracted the meeting codes, hoping to obtain the heirloom directly from the Konoha ninjas.

As for the ninjas in the valley, they were merely a precautionary measure, but he hadn't expected that someone among the Konoha ninjas would see through his ploy.

Moreover, a member of the Inuzuka clan had caught the scent of the ninjas even before they entered the valley…

Accepting his fate, the man confessed everything.

"Why didn't you just kill your niece? Wouldn't that make it easier to take the throne? No one in the entire kingdom would qualify to contest against you," Li Zhenwu asked.

Surprisingly, after Li Zhenwu's inquiry, the man looked at him as if it were absurd: "There are very few of us left in the Land of Bean Jam, and among the royal family, it's just my niece and me. How could I kill her?"

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Raiga Kurosuki lay motionless on the ground, and Shiranui Gensui cautiously approached, discovering that Li Zhenwu had indeed beaten him to death, unable to help but click his tongue in admiration.

Because the real mission client was still in the city, they had no choice but to return the same way. Before heading back, Li Zhenwu did not forget to take the Kiba Swords with him.

Strictly speaking, this was his best spoils of war—notorious among the seven blades, it came with powerful special abilities.

In the end, the man was not disposed of but was kept under watch, returning to the city with them to find the true mission client.

Upon returning to the city, under the man's dutiful guidance, they finally met the real mission client.

At that moment, Li Zhenwu's mind was filled with the system's voice.

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for completing the mission. The mission rewards have been dispersed!"

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