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Kakashi, who was far away in the Land of Demons, was temporarily called back to Konoha.

When he returned to Konoha, Makoto had not slept for five days and five nights.

Even with a superhuman physique, the lack of rest for such a long period of time had inevitably caused a very noticeable dark circle to appear on his face.

Kakashi wanted to say something, but when Kakashi walked into Hokage's office, he realized that there was someone else in the office.

It was Jiraiya.

"Sensei, I'm counting on you for this, I'm not comfortable with anyone else."

"I understand, but have... things really gotten this bad?"

"I'm not sure, but there have been far too many accidents lately, and I don't want any more. Even if this interferes with Minato's eternal sleep... I can only ask for his forgiveness."

"No, Minato will understand you, and so will everyone else... Konoha isn't just your Konoha, it's our Konoha as well."

"Then I'll leave everything to you, sensei."

"...En."

Jiraiya nodded towards Makoto, picked up a large scroll and headed outside.

As he passed by Kakashi, he seemed to have something to say.

But he didn't end up saying anything, he just patted Kakashi on the shoulder and gave him an encouraging look before leaving.

Kakashi was unsure, but as a shinobi, silence was a virtue.

So he knocked on the door, getting Makoto's attention.

"Hokage-sama!"

"Oh, it's Kakashi, you're really fast... Come, sit down."

Kakashi took a seat across from Makoto.

"How is it, is the execution of the mission in the Land of Demons still going well?"

"Very smooth, regarding the Witch of the Land of Demons, I have already obtained quite a lot of detailed and reliable information."

"That's good, hard work."

Konoha had been investigating information from all over the world.

For a large ninja village, even without a war, maintaining a certain intelligence advantage was inevitable.

-Spending money on it in normal times was better than if you had something temporary to do and you couldn't even find the temple with a pig's head in your hand.

However, Kakashi knew very well that there was no need to use Hokage's secretary for this kind of ordinary investigation mission.

Unless... Makoto was just trying to find a reason to transfer himself.

Kakashi had followed Makoto for so long that he vaguely sensed it in his heart.

But as an excellent ninja, he still did not take the initiative to ask.

This was also where the tacit understanding between the two lay.

"Kakashi, you just rushed back from the Land of Demons, it must have been very hard. -

"But time is short and the task is heavy, Shikaku is already busy... I can't leave Konoha casually, and there needs to be someone on the Arasaka side to coordinate. Those guys with only money in their eyes won't just give face to anyone, I have to be there... and I can only leave it to you."

"Please give the order!"

"Well... don't need to be so serious, also don't need to fight, it's just a very ordinary... You know the Land of Sea right? There is a big financial gap there, you go and help deal with it..."

Makoto hadn't even finished his sentence, Kakashi already understood.

"Is it necessary to cause panic in the market, or to control the price of a certain commodity in a short period of time?"

Makoto shivered and took several sips of strong tea before he could smooth his breath down.

"It's not the one you're thinking of... it's just an ordinary commercial war..."

"Kill whose entire family?"

"It is also not the one you think of the commercial war..."

Makoto was helpless, let out a long sigh, and handed the already prepared contract to Kakashi.

"In short, it's just a way to temporarily fill the hole that some assholes have made through very marketable means and some accounting magic. I don't care what happens to this company in the end, it can't be anything for a few years anyway. As for the future... curses the Lord of the Land of Sea shares the burden, and then suffer the shareholders a little bit."

This act of the Lord of the Land of Sea asking Konoha for help was actually very interesting.

As a country lord, as long as he used his credibility, it was definitely possible to cover up the problem for the time being.

But he didn't, and instead complained to Makoto.

How could Makoto not know what this guy was thinking.

On the one hand, he was genuinely incomparably annoyed by the backstabbing of his own cronies. But because of the deep relationship between each other, the other side of the recommendation of the head of the face is big, easy to dismiss can not.

On the other hand, he really does not want to spend money, so... big brother, give some.

Probably something like this idea.

No matter how rich Konoha was, that wasn't the way to spend it, so Makoto decided to give it all to the stockholders.

Although still very primitive, but this world does have a stock market.

And different from more or less still a little bit of regulation of the earth, Naruto world's stock market ten or even nine points of both cunning and rough... literally, really will send ninjas to assassinate the kind.

Naruto world's stockholders what broken things have not seen.

The food and drink, what things are not in the heart. Unlike some people, dropping a dollar is going to be a big deal, like the end of the world.

I'm sure they'll understand.

Kakashi quickly read through the contract, realizing that it didn't contain the names of any giant corporations that were directly controlled by Konoha, only some names of everything that was indirectly controlled by Konoha.

He went through the rounds in his mind, probably clarifying the main points of this operation.

"I see... About how many days for the contract to leak?"

"The sooner the better, I won't be there, pace yourself."

"Understood."

Makoto has always brought Kakashi by his side, basically anything he says will be said to him. In the entire Konoha, he was the only one who knew his mind best.

What Makoto really wanted to do, Kakashi knew at a glance.

This contract was written in a proper manner, but the nobles of the Land of Sea hadn't been punished this time, so how could they possibly stop there.

Unsurprisingly, they would definitely take a shot at this brand new public company.

In order for their own interests to be maximized and guaranteed, they will definitely come up with a yin and yang contract... And if this contract falls into the hands of the people of the Sea Country who have almost been bled dry...

The Land of Sea and Konoha are too far away, Konoha is not too good to directly out to kill those noble things, but the people of the sea country can.

Think of it as a preview.

After Kakashi confirmed with Makoto that there was indeed nothing planned, he was then ready to turn around and leave.

Before he left, however, Makoto called out to him.

"I've decided to use Edo Tensai on Minato."

"... Sensei?"

"Uh-huh."

Kakashi was silent for a long time.

"I see."

Kakashi said and simply left.

There was no need to say too much between the two, a little reminder was enough.

The opportunity to unite a great hidden village is too rare, Konoha must seize the opportunity no matter what. And with Obito's character, he will definitely let Yagura come to the arena.

Even if he knew it was a trap - what did he care? He didn't care about anything, he just wanted Kiri to shed more blood and lose the biggest man.

There were too many big names in the arena, and as long as Yagura could kill some of them, wouldn't that be better than just killing Kiri?

Even if Yagura recovered in the future, the relatives of this part of the people would tie this grudge to Kiri to death.

No matter how strong Kiri is, more grudges will not hold up.

Especially the Land of Water Daimyo...

The current situation is different from the previous situation.

Before, it was unknown if the daimyo and great nobles would come or not.

It really wasn't much fun for Obito to kill so many big cats and small cats if he took the huge risk of Yagura being discovered.

Even if Obito didn't care about the vest, he wanted it to generate as much revenue for him as possible.

But if people just don't want to watch fighting, no one in this world can force them.

But now once the Daimyo started forcing Yagura to come over, they would surely go themselves.

Makoto knew this, but he wasn't prepared to alert any of the great nobles... If he could, he wanted to let all of these noble things die in the arena.

From a certain point of view, Makoto and Obito were acting with the same goal in mind.

If he had to say that there was something that Obito hadn't expected, it was that he didn't realize that Makoto had been hating all the Noble Things equally.

The world wasn't supposed to be like this.

When the plan was first formulated, Makoto had set it up to get them all killed, and there wasn't much to modify.

The only pity was that Mizukage was going to be involved in this kind of thing.

Makoto actually did not want to move Minato, if the conditions allow, he would like to leave the last chance to see Minato to Naruto.

But for the sake of 100% victory, for the sake of the plan not to have any accidents, he could only let Jiraiya personally go out once to solve the problem of the ghouls and ghosts sealing the end of the world, and summon Minato to this world again by means of Edo Tensai.

Against Obito, Minato was a must.

If hard work once can solve all the problems all the time... then hard work it is.

After Kakashi left, Makoto looked at the water bottle that was already gone and called for a squire.

After the attendant poured the water, he saw Makoto's face and couldn't help but ask with concern.

"Hokage-sama, your face doesn't look too... good do you want to take a rest?"

"It's fine, I'm not one of those non-white rice-eating templars, a few days without sleep is just a small matter."

After all, after not resting for so long, Makoto's face did look very, very ugly.

But Makoto didn't care.

Ninjas were like that, even worse than brothers in Civil Engineering.

When he first went into battle, he hacked all the way from the east end of the village to the east road of Penglai for three days and three nights without even blinking.

The enemies were like monkeys, so he couldn't sleep.

Chasing and fleeing on both sides made him want to die on the spot.

For ninjas, this was a common occurrence.

There is a reason why... the average life expectancy of ninjas is low.

When the matter at hand was all settled, he would find a place and take a good rest.

Doing things halfway and then touching the fish was really just as abominable as writing code without writing comments.

"...Hmm."

Although he was worried, the squire could only answer and leave.

... ...

The next day, there was a riot in the Land of Sea , and a number of great nobles were killed.

The people of the Land of Sea had been ruled by the Lord of the Land of Sea for many years, and originally didn't want to rebel against their own Lord, but this time, the certain nobles who had been sucking their blood tried to sell them once more... Then under the leadership of certain leaders who came from exotic countries and who were strong and healthy, they revolted.

They can't fool them this time!

They've all seen copies of the contract!

People in this era were still more than happy to have children, and the overall age of the residents of the Land of Sea was very young. And because of the terrain, most of them were fishermen, very much a handful.

With the advantage of numbers stacked against them, after a real fight, the Lord's Guard found themselves unexpectedly unable to bounce back.

The Lord of the Land of the Sea was so burnt out that it was almost impossible to end the fight.

At the end of the day, it was only with the help of many eager and powerful merchants and many promises that the situation was barely stabilized.

-Begging the Daimyo for this kind of thing, even if the situation was suppressed, they would still lose face, so the lords of the country still preferred to solve it by themselves.

The Lord of the Land of the Sea promised to host a brand new publicly traded company, solving the financial problem while also seeking more benefits for everyone. And in the presence of certain unexpected people of the Land of Sea who knew the law and contracts, the two sides re-established the contract.

Only then did the matter come to an end.

Finally stabilized the sea of the country's king immediately said, according to and Konoha's previous commitment, immediately began to act.

After all, the father of the gold master.

As for what he really thinks in his heart... Makoto knows that he over expanded this time really fried.

After all, the precious things are their own people, and Konoha is an outsider.

Even if they have 99% of the fault, Konoha is not a little wrong?

People always like to be strict.

It's just a no-brainer to keep your mouth shut right now.

It was nothing like the situation in the Land of Tea.

Makoto knew this all too well, but he wasn't going to bother with such trivial matters.

All he needed to do was have them lure out Obito.

And while both Jiraiya and Kakashi were busy, Makoto was going to do something that only he could do.

"Fight Nagato."

Nagato had stuck to his guns after all, and then Makoto was willing to respect him. But since they were enemies, some things had to be done in full.

Nagato's main goal now was to capture Bijus, and since he already had a goal, he naturally didn't want Makoto to bother him.

And Makoto had his own goal, and also did not want Nagato to come to disturb.

Since this is the case... then let's fight.

It just so happened that Makoto also wanted to know just how much of a gap there was between him and Nagato after his ninja score reached 37.

Makoto rubbed his face and once again got into the spirit.

"On it."

... ...

In a dark alley somewhere in the Land of Water, space suddenly underwent an extremely bizarre distortion.

After a short period of splendor, a black-haired beauty in a blue dress appeared in the middle of the alley.

She was holding a turtle in her hand, with the markings of a regimental fan tattooed on her back. When her eyes blinked, they were not clear eyes.

This young girl's eyes were extremely strange, one of her eyes was like an onion, while in the other eye was an incomparably demonic hexagram...

Her skin was extremely pale, and there was an incomparable stagnation between her breaths, as if her strength was exhausted and she had suffered an extremely serious injury.

However, she herself did not care about this, and was only immersed in a strange joy.

"Whew, surprisingly it really worked... -

"Now it's..."

The young girl muttered so and looked outside.

Soon enough, she saw the answer on a newspaper that had fallen to the ground in the distance.

"If converted at this point in time, it would be Konoha 52 years! -

"It's a bit of a tight time frame, but the good soul of my righteous father shouldn't have left the Pure Land by now, and he shouldn't have researched the Angel of Peace... must be stopped from doing that before then! He must be made to go to sleep quickly! -

"Regardless of what stances were taken in the past, the most important issue at the moment is to block the Otsutsuki clan that will arrive in nine years... If they are allowed to succeed in descending, the world will truly be doomed! -

"Should I go to Righteous Father and tell him all this directly? ...No, Righteous Father's suspicions are just too heavy... And if it's this point in time... we have to save the Black Zetsu first! -

"The Black Zetsu is indeed an asshole, there's no denying that. But it's also true that he has a great admiration for Otsutsuki Kaguya. In order to save Otsutsuki Kaguya, he is willing to do anything... I might be able to capitalize on that. -

"If we let the Black Zetsu and Obito die in the arena like before, then this line of Otsutsuki Kaguya's will be completely broken... This battle force is really too important, even if she will only be standing... "

The young girl thought quickly in her mind and finally constructed a fairly complete plan.

Only to see her quickly form a seal, followed by a bang, her entire person changed into another appearance.

It was clearly the appearance of Godaime Hokage.

"Trying to get the Black Zetsu to believe in me... with my righteous father's character and reputation as a trash, there's only so much I can do... -

"I have to propose to Kaguya... -

"The Black Zetsu has always been mysterious, no one knows where he is. But if it's this time of year, he should be in..."