The Second Sacrifice For the World

Makoto received the... design of this divine weapon with a very long name.

Honestly, he didn't care very much about this divine weapon with a very long name - after all, it was something from an unknown number of years ago, or a legacy of the samurai era, and the samurai had been completely replaced by stronger ninjas, so how could their so-called divine weapon be any better.

It wouldn't be any stronger than the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion anyway.

It would probably just be stronger than his Bodo.

But at his level, the effects of weapons were really getting weaker and weaker.

Even if it was as strong as the Sage of Six Paths, it would only end up as a town treasure in Tenten's store.

Instead of counting on the power of this weapon, it would have been better to change its name to Pink Hair Bunny Rabbit.

...But these were supposed to be incidental things, and all he wanted was really just a reason to intervene.

Konoha had a reputation for interfering with other villages and small nations all the time.

The Land of Tea, with that oddball lord, was destined to be just a special case.

But if it was a small ninja village that was being oppressed by other big ninja villages and then took the initiative to ask for help, and Konoha then stepped in to set up the beams, it would be fine.

Kiri wasn't at a disadvantage either.

The Takumi Ninja were certainly not willing to sell their technology, but since the other party had come to Konoha, it meant that the Takumi Ninja still knew fear within themselves, and weren't really stupid and bold.

Originally can not be a thing, Kiri in the outside pressure, Konoha in the internal compromise, but also to do.

A red face a white face well.

See Makoto received something, and expressed willingness to help, the Takumi village messenger also relaxed breath.

Facing a man who could change the terrain at will was not an easy thing.

After saying his business, the emissary of the Takumi Village wanted to leave.

The higher-ups of the Takumi Shinobi were still waiting to hear back from him.

But Makoto stopped him.

"Please wait a moment... The technical level of the Takumi Village, I have also heard of it. Nowadays, the current situation is so turbulent that it's really hard for people to feel at ease, I wonder if I can place some customized goods in your village?"

"Customized? I wonder what you are planning to customize?"

Hearing that business had come, the messenger had to stay as well.

It was well known that Makoto was known to be good at doing business and was generous in his outbursts. If he wanted to make a decision now, he would definitely not be the same as those poor little forces...

"How to say it... camera you know?"

"That is of course."

"I want to order some cameras that fly."

"Cameras that fly?" The messenger hesitated for a moment, "There's nothing like that on the market... Can't your party make their own?"

The Konoha Institute's scientific research capabilities were well known today.

The largest number of secret art inheritances, the strongest experts, the most abundant funds, and the most powerful connections... Under Makoto's deliberate resource tilt, Konoha was relying on the Institute to frantically widen the gap between it and the other major ninja villages.

The messenger didn't know the inner workings of the Institute, but in his mind, with the Konoha Institute's capabilities, making some flying cameras shouldn't be a problem.

"It's not that we can't do it ourselves, it's really... busy."

Makoto sighed.

"There are too many things to do...."

This was the truth, the Konoha Institute was strong, but it couldn't carry Makoto trying to do too many things.

The matter of the transmutation eyes aside, the Chakra Armor alone was troublesome enough - in the previous battle in the Land of Water, the Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion attracted everyone's attention. In this case, few people realized that several pieces of Akatsuki's Chakra Armor were thrown into the Land of Water by Kazehana Doto.

The back of these Chakra Armors naturally fell into Konoha's hands.

Such a good thing naturally couldn't be spared, so the Konoha Research Institute worked overtime to begin the work of reverse cracking this thing.

This thing on the individual combat power of the improvement of the naked eye visible, but also really is complex, ghost know how Kazehana Doto that guy's brain is constructed... you grab what throne, if you are willing to be a great craftsman, not easier than being what broken country lord of Land of Snow?

Because of the excessive complexity, the Konoha Institute had no spare strength to do anything else in a short time - not that it really had any strength left at all, but Makoto was determined to use this opportunity to pull the Takumi ninja into his own supply and marketing chain.

Makoto had always been committed to cutting down the power of the other major ninja villages, but Kumo's unique situation prevented him from striking directly.

The old and new factions within Kumo knew, no matter how stupid they were, that Makoto was their mortal enemy.

That is why Makoto chose not to adjust the strategy first, but to make money together.

The so-called word of righteousness is that I am the lamb, not to mention that the small ninja village actually has no position.

When the ninja's, three shifts of poor and five shifts of rich, we all get together for a dozen times, not Konoha's people are also Konoha's people.

Hearing that Konoha is just busy, not unable to do, the messenger's expression became a little strange.

He was about to say something else when Makoto had already taken out a cashier's check.

"Here is two billion ryos, the deposit placed by our Konoha - for the exact amount to be added in the future, I will trouble you all to discuss it in detail with the director of our Konoha Research Institute. -

"I'm not good at technology, so I won't make you laugh."

Two billion ryo... deposit?

At a time when there wasn't a single model or sketch?

The messenger had known that Konoha was rich, he really didn't know that Konoha was this rich.

With such a large deposit, the village has long wanted to do, but has never had the time or energy to do those few projects, should also be able to get started.

Thinking of this, even though he himself was no longer young, a bit of excitement still flashed in the emissary's eyes.

Aside from Konoha, the names of the other hidden villages were more or less related to their ninjutsu bias, and the Takumi Ninja, since they were named after artisans, naturally enjoyed technology the most.

But unfortunately, they weren't able to put too much time and energy into improving their techniques.

Because of the war.

Small ninja village is very prosperous both inside and outside, constant war is indeed annoying, but this is the way to survive, and there are too many last resorts in it.

I thought that after the war ended, everyone's situation would become better, but I didn't expect Konoha and Land of Fire to start siphoning off the globe again.

Even the big countries dared to be angry, let alone the smaller ones.

Even though Konoha didn't specifically target the Land of Takumi, the finances of the Land of Takumi were still...

But now, everything was solved.

Looking at this two billion ryo bank draft in front of him, the messenger of the Takumi village gasped slightly. Shivering, he firmly grasped the cashier's check.

"Please rest assured, Hokage-sama... We, Takumi ninja, will never let our customers down!"

"I hope so."

The Takumi ninja bowed deeply to Makoto and retreated.

Only at this time, Pakura then spoke again.

"In your case... it may not be as expected. Although not very fond of these small ninja villages, but perfunctory martial arts, they are still very good."

"It's not like you want to use force."

"They drag you for three or five years, a lot of plans are meaningless."

Makoto nodded.

"Yes."

"But the evil Akatsuki organization won't let them have their way."

"They're a terrorist organization, they're not at all reasonable."

... ...

The emissary of the Takumi village was flushed and winded as he returned to the Takumi Village.

It was a medium-sized village hidden in the mountains.

Unlike Konoha, which was getting bigger and bigger and more and more modernized, as one of the few villages among the ninja that had established itself as a village based on technology, the Takumi Village's situation was deteriorating.

Scientific research is too expensive.

No, burning money is not as fast as scientific research.

It seems to be a huge amount of money, if it is used to eat, drink and have fun, it can support several generations. But once you start doing scientific research, it really disappears in the blink of an eye.

Because of the huge financial pressure brought about by scientific research, the village's senior management had many debates about whether to continue this way.

But in the end, everyone still chose to bite the bullet.

After all, the law of the ancestors could not be changed.

If we really want to change this tradition, there are too many people who will oppose it - the most fierce resistance, of course, is those researchers.

Whether it was from the perspective of status or personal interest, they would not allow the village to stop research and development.

In the war years of the past, this obsession with technology could barely be maintained - after all, in times of war, people would always instinctively pursue newer and better technology. And when it came to weapons overhead, neither shinobi village would save.

It was precisely because of this that the Takumi village had survived since the dangerous era of war until now.

Unless there was no choice, it was best to stay away from doctors and blacksmiths, this was something the ninja knew.

But now the war was over.

The decade-long truce had deprived the village of its most stable source of wealth - after all, there was no more war, and the funding for weapons would surely be smaller. This would not have been unacceptable, but someone started to develop their own...

Yes, that's Konoha.

Originally thought that after the end of the war, the situation can be better, but the result is Konoha united Land of Fire's military industrial system directly to fuck.

...It's not for nothing that the voodoo dolls of a certain Hokage sell particularly well.

Where should the village go in the future, just so again in front of the crowd.

As before, the opinions of the elders were once again divided into two factions.

Among them, the traditionalists believed that they should abide by tradition and not participate in the chaos of the world, focusing only on continuing to improve the quality of their weapons and follow the route of fine craftsmanship.

The other, more enlightened, elders believe that the Takumi ninja cannot possibly survive the decade-long window period, and must change course and make changes.

And now that times have changed, the major hidden villages have begun to invest heavily in their own technical departments - after all, it's always unsafe to buy someone else's year-round.

One or two years is fine, wait until the ten-year period has passed, when the war starts again, the big hidden village scientific research department that has received strong support may have power far beyond the Takumi ninjas.

The way to survive is to be a small country, defection is not an unacceptable thing, the big ninja village also know the small ninja village is difficult - but if you have little value, who will want you?

The ninja of the Takumi Village are notoriously bad at fighting, and all they can sell at this point is their position and the technological reserves at hand... Can they outwit the Konoha's Institute? No one has that certainty.

In that case, it would be better to sell themselves at a good price while they can.

Both sides denounced each other as heretics, and because of too much noise, they didn't even have a good New Year.

But this problem had to be solved.

With neither side willing to break down the door, even with all the reluctance in the world, the two sides sat down again and began the incredibly difficult negotiations once more.

The leader of the Takumi Village sat in the main seat as the two factions of ninjas made a mess.

Obviously, the conservative faction was a bit stronger. However, the Takumi Village was in a special state, its most sensitive to technology, realizing that the world was about to change, and they were just only slightly less powerful than the conservative faction when it came to bickering.

The chieftain was agonizingly difficult to make a decision.

The threat of Kiri was even secondary in comparison.

After all, even if the worst happens, and the ballpoint pen technology is given to them at worst, Kirigakure will naturally be too lazy to continue to attack them. And the route problem...

-When the representatives of the Takumi Village returned, what they saw was such a chaotic scene.

The chief was obviously unwilling to continue this endless bickering, and when he saw the representative return, he hurriedly opened his mouth to inquire.

The bickering elders also stopped.

No matter what judgment they made, Konoha's attitude could be said to be crucial.

"It's good that you're back... Godaime Hokage, can there be any excuses?"

"As you all said, he refused somewhat at first. But after receiving the gift, he still promised to help us."

The mission was successful and the messenger was happy, only he still couldn't help but sigh.

"It's a pity... He could certainly replicate that divine weapon, and on the other hand, the design of Five Wheels is in the Land of Fire, and he himself is good with a sword... What the samurai have longed for is now feared to be resurrected in the hands of the ninja..."

Makoto's promise was still effective.

The atmosphere in the judging room instantly soothed a lot.

But soon, the elders on both sides argued again.

"The Godaime Hokage has promised to help us persuade the Mizukage? That's really great... It's really hard to eat or sleep these two days."

"So what if we persuaded this time? Forget it this time, what about next time? What about the next time? Konoha is too strong, and every time we make a move, we need a very high price tag. There's only so much that has been handed down from your ancestors, so if you give a little today and a little tomorrow, it won't take half a year, I'm afraid that even the statue of your ancestor's god will be given away by you!"

"What are you talking about!"

"I'm saying that you are cutting off the future of the Takumi Village! Keeping to that shitty rule will get everyone killed together sooner or later!"

The two sides argued, neither side refusing to give up.

What had been a good message was now made to look like both sides were about to go up in flames.

The leader of the Takumi Village was burning with rage and couldn't help but shout.

"Shut up! Outsiders haven't even fought their way in yet, yet you guys are going to kill yourselves and get up! -

"Do you all want to become the joke of the Ninja world? -

"I don't want to be the last Takumi Village leader!"

These words were really a bit heavy, and the crowd was silent.

But everyone knew that the problem hadn't just been solved.

Even because of Konoha's help, the problem became more and more acute - if Konoha had refused to help, the Takumi Village, in desperation, would have had no choice but to go up and down and fight Kiri to the end, after all, no one wanted to be a lost dog.

But now Konoha easily agreed to help... this hearts and minds scattered, the team will not be good to lead.

After a long silence, the leader of the Takumi village said to one of the elders under him.

"How is the repair work on the four major ninja tools going?"

The Takumi Village was renowned for its artisanal skills, thanks in large part to the fact that they possessed a Master Takumi ancestor known as Seimei.

And before this Master Takumi craftsman died, he left behind four treasures, which were known as the Infinite Armour, the Garian Sword, Weaknessless Soaring Shortswords, and the Fire Sword.

Naturally, there was no need to mention the handiwork of the Master Takumi craftsman, and even now, this was an unrivaled treasure.

Moreover, unlike the level of Six Paths, a treasure that was basically impossible to replicate, because it was left by the old ancestors of this family, with a full set of design drawings, it could theoretically be replicated and repaired.

Hearing the chief ask that, the elder bitterly shook his head.

-He knew that what the chief wanted to ask was actually not repair, but copy.

The things left behind by the old ancestors were very good, but the descendants were ungrateful, and the descendants did not learn the art well. So many years had passed, and it hadn't been completed for launch.

No matter how much money is burned, the progress is also extremely slow.

Otherwise with those powerful ninjutsu, the craftsman ninja can no longer fight, but also not to mix to this point now ah.

Perhaps, one can only expect another Seimei Ancestor level super genius to appear in the village.

Or... wait for another breakthrough in ninja technology.

The former is too vague.

The latter can be slightly expected, after all, the Ninja world technology is indeed always progressing. As it is now, if a technological breakthrough does occur, the most likely place will definitely be the Konoha...

"Is that so? ...Then it looks like we do have to move a little closer towards the Konoha side."

"Without signing any contract, one shot is two billion ryo... really luxurious."

Even though they were enemies, the leader of the smith ninja still had to sigh a bit in admiration for the tycoon.

When would they, the Takumi Village, also be able to live this kind of luxurious days of casually smashing people with money.

As soon as the leader of the Takumi Village had given the order, a conservative elder immediately stood out to oppose it.

"Seeking skin with a tiger is the way to death, my lord!"

"You're right."

Unlike what the elders thought, the leader of the smith ninja surprisingly agreed with him.

"Neither Kiri, nor Konoha is something we can afford to mess with. A random yawn from them is like a mountainous roar in our ears. -

"But do we have a choice? -

"We are a small ninja village. -

"It's just a matter of attaching ourselves to this one and that one..."

All the elders present reacted - the head of the Takumi Village was making a mess.

He was neither supporting the conservative faction that was conservative because of the old ways, nor the radical reformist faction.

However, he didn't foolishly wait until the elders of the two factions started to counterattack, but instead voiced his thoughts.

"Choosing hastily isn't a smart choice, since Konoha is willing to throw out an olive branch, let's make a perfunctory deal with them... In a word, get enough benefits first, then consider the next thing. -

"Since Konoha chose to be gentle, they won't move against us easily. Relatively, on the contrary, it is the Kiri that has already begun to be unreasonable even more... Hey, I didn't think Terumi Mei was such a fierce person before either..."

The elders hesitated again and again, actually did not know how to refute, and finally could only silently nod in agreement.

After pacifying the crowd of elders, the chief looked to the retainer beside him.

"It would be good if Ancestor Seimei could be resurrected... Hey... go and call the four Hoki the Turtle and the rest of them over to me. -

"They are the best of the young generation, we should increase their training..."

... ...

The man with a swirling mask on his face had a ballpoint pen stuck in his head and came to a hidden place.

-This was just after he had been plugged up by Pain as his left foot went into the rating room.

As he walked to this hidden location, he heard a subtle sound coming from inside.

Being a ninja, the man with the swirling mask was immediately alert.

Luckily, there were no enemies inside.

He quietly felt his way inside, only to see that there was a black and white-faced, hogwash-looking guy inside, lying on the couch, eating popcorn, drinking coke, and even watching TV.

...Lately, the cola in Land of Water is really getting cheaper and cheaper, it's cheaper than water.

The drama that was playing on the TV seemed to be a female-oriented drama... Ah, come to think of it, it was called Oshin.

T/N: Oshin is a Japanese serialized morning television drama (asadora), which originally aired on NHK from 4 April 1983 to 31 March 1984 (thanks wikipedia)

The main content of this drama is rather simple, it is about a girl named Shin who comes from an ordinary ninja family, from the age of two to the age of eighty two.

Although she is from a ninja family, Shin herself does not have any ninja talent, and can only do the most menial of jobs - even though she's from a ninja family, it's only his father who is a Genin, and because she was seriously injured at an early age and lost her ability to work, the whole family can be described as exceptionally poor.

Shin has encountered all kinds of human suffering.

He was a childless man, poor, and had to work, but when he finally met a young rouge ninja who taught him how to read and write, he was quickly executed by the shady ninja who came after him.

T/N: above, I don't know who 'he' is and no, I didn't translate the pronouns wrong

Subsequent love affairs and marriage were even more difficult. She couldn't afford to buy a decent dress, so she could only hold hands with her husband in front of a shrine, which was considered a marriage.

Then her husband's business was unfavorable, she and her husband returned to their hometown, but they were treated harshly by their in-laws, and the large-month pregnant woman had to work on the ground, and even ended up miscarrying because of malnutrition and overwork...

The eighty years of her life were characterized by endless sufferings and tortures, but Shin fought through them all.

She was confident, optimistic, strong, and did everything in her power to make her children happy.

By the time she died, she had many children and grandchildren and had built up a large family business...

This is Land of Fire's great director Aoho's first TV series, and also the hottest TV series in Land of Fire at the moment.

For people living in the age of peace, war was just too far away. However the people of this era had just gotten rid of the torture of war.

They didn't feel like watching Oshin as a drama, they only felt like they were watching their own lives.

The script was simple, but went straight to the heart.

Housewives love to watch it, men love to watch it, children love to watch it, and even old people love to watch it... Although it has the advantage of a drama that has just begun to take off, the ratings of up to 89.1% are destined to make it unprecedented.

Literally unprecedented, as well as unparalleled.

Aoho's first attempt was destined to make him a legend in the drama world.

The only puzzling thing was that the origin of the drama's script was unknown... Some people said that it was a certain Godaime Hokage... But everyone felt that that heartless guy couldn't write such a delicate script... Although the director Aoho never dare to say who wrote this, but also very confused is it...

"Hey, how many times have you done this? Still watching?"

This wasn't the first time the black and white guy had watched Oshin.

In fact, the guy had watched it a full seventeen times.

And he didn't like it when people didn't let him watch it, he got angry when he said so.

"How could you understand!"

...Sure enough, he was angry again.

"Mothers are the greatest people in the world! -

"How could you understand!"

...Is this guy a mother con.

The masked man thought so and didn't bother to argue with the black and white man.

"Well, Zetsu, enough about that. The boss asked me to go to the Takumi village to kill people."

"...Kill people?"

Zetsu was immediately interested, taking his eyes off the television.

"Is that what it's intended to do? He's already straying too far from our goal."

"It seems there's a guy in the Land of Fire who wants the technology for the ballpoint pen roller, but the Takumi Village won't sell it. The Kiri side took over the mission and have been pushing, but they've always restrained themselves and haven't killed anyone, just verbally... The boss is saying to go help them out."

Said to help, do nothing more than disguise as Kiri to kill people, in order to intensify the contradiction between each other.

...Really outrageous, for ballpoint pen to kill and destroy the village...

"Well... I have no opinion, if you want to go, go."

Currently the Akatsuki organization had already faced off against the United Ninja Army, but for some reasons known to everyone, the intensity of the battle between the two sides could be said to be about equal to nothing.

It wouldn't matter if the masked man moved fast.

"Good." The masked man replied and prepared to turn around and leave, but when he reached the doorway, he added with intention, "If you hadn't persuaded me to leave at that time, we might have already reached our goal, not with the way we are now..."

Zetsu sneered.

"Start a war? You wanted to start a war in that situation back then? Why do you think Jiraiya went to the Land of Whirlpools at that time? He was just going to release the soul of the Yondaime to specifically target you - you don't think that guy wouldn't have obscured his own brother, do you? When it really comes to that, you'll be challenging all five Hokages of Konoha at the same time all by yourself! -

"Have you forgotten what the Yondaime Hokage told you about him? -

"-Don't let him lose his mind! When you see his eyes turn gold, run! -

"You, you're stepping right on his dead line!"

The masked man was dumbfounded and turned away.

"I know... but..."

He didn't say but what, and the man was gone.

Zetsu stared deathly in the direction he had left, and couldn't help but think of his mother in his heart.

His mother's haggard and desperate face when she was sealed by her two rebellious sons was something he would never forget in his life.

Releasing his own sealed young mother.

This was the goal he had fought for countless years.

"Mother, just hold on a little longer... just hold on a little longer... and I'll be able to release you... it won't be long..."