Gold Release: Thousands of Stocks Fell

"A thousand stocks have fallen!"

While Yugito was still seriously studying the strange Land of Lightning's collapse theory, a terrible piece of news was delivered to her desk.

As soon as she saw the news, the cat instantly went numb.

She couldn't care less about her ladylike image, and with one hand she grabbed her subordinate's collar and directly lifted him up.

"What's going on? How did it suddenly drop?"

"Nothing has clearly happened in the Land of Lightning lately!"

Because of the war, Yugito hadn't received a systematic education other than and killing. But she had at least gone toe-to-toe with Makoto so many times that she naturally knew the significance of stocks to a country.

In this era where capital was not overly controlled, the stock market was a country's barometer.

If the stock market is prosperous, the country is not necessarily good.

But if the stock market is sluggish... thousands of stocks fall to a halt?

Do not say by the wood people, even the most senior economists have not seen - this era of the stock market is not a cat or dog can enter the place, although the pitfalls of the same number of means, but the companies that can enter it are more powerful, there really are not a few weak chickens.

It looked like a thousand stocks were halted, but in reality, it could be said that the entire country had taken a few hundred kilograms of a heavy punch.

This kind of situation could simply be said to be unheard of for the Yukis.

-Even during the ninja war, the stock market had never been this bad.

"It's 1,732 stocks falling at the same time!"

"Yugito-sama... his highness has used his power and prestige to temporarily control the situation. But everyone is still very panicked... Now, not to mention the Land of Lightning, even Kumo is on edge..."

"Please, you must come up with an idea now!"

Perhaps because he was too young, or perhaps because he was really frightened, the voice of the minister trembled - when on the battlefield, this was also a tough general who bled without tears, but right now this matter...

Yugito gradually understood everything.

She put down her panicked subordinate.

But unlike what the ministry thought, Yugito didn't react directly. She was only seen walking around the office several times with her hands behind her back, seemingly calming herself before asking.

"This news, is it reliable?"

This was simply nonsense.

But at this moment, both of them hoped that this news was false.

Unfortunately...

"A thousand times true!"

"How could this be? Wasn't it fine two days ago and nothing happened?"

"I don't know." The ministry wailed - it was literally on the verge of crying out, "The people from the Intelligence Department said that in the beginning, it was just the Land of Fire declaring that it was going to raise interest rates, and then the merchants outside the Land of Fire started withdrawing their investments one after another. Almost simultaneously, the other four major nations and..."

What the minister said was a bit cryptic, but Yugito still understood it completely.

"And were there any domestic controls?"

"A big man in the cabinet did mention it, but by the time everyone started to do so, it was too late... With the speed of those news media these days, it should have already spread all over the world!"

Yugito sniffed and took a deep breath.

There was always a process for a new thing to go through from birth to development. Television had been making way for the war before always failing to spread. Now that it was so easy to free up capacity, the bigwigs of the Land of Lightning didn't realize the importance of restricting the thing.

In the past, it might have taken many days for a message to spread around the world, but now words... well, even if the Land of Lightning wanted to control it, it could never be controlled.

After all, it wasn't like the journalists from the other big countries listened to Land of Lightning.

Moreover, this time, the Land of Lightning's matter was obviously someone who was deliberately setting up a trap.

Otherwise, with the Land of Lightning's national strength, the entire stock market, even if it endured some shocks, how could it collapse at the touch of a button.

This was a roundup specifically targeting the Land of Lightning.

When the Land of Lightning rubbed its hands together and prepared to take a bite of meat from the weak Land of Water over, it itself became the target of the crowd.

The expectations of the daimyo were already doomed to bankruptcy before they were even accomplished... No, the Kiri side didn't think so... Why couldn't she have probed such important information earlier!

Damn the conservatives!

If it wasn't for the fact that they had consumed a lot of power in the fight with the conservatives and lost sight of the other side, how could Kumo, whose strength is one of the best among the five villages, have been so slow?

The old men of the conservative faction, all of them deserve to die!

Round after round of bad news hit Yugito's mind, but she clenched her teeth to keep from being dominated by her rage.

She tried to calm down, and began to think of a countermeasure.

Obviously, this is a roundup. And the ignorant Land of Lightning is the prey of the one who thinks he is the hunter.

As for who made such a black hand and started such a head... who else could it be.

The well-known does not have.

Only well-known not having this ability and face, let the luxury businessmen all cooperate with his action - well-known not having even draw a circle on the white paper, there are people willing to give him money. Before and he has cooperated with everyone, all make a lot of money. The venomous vision, really the number one person in the world.

It wasn't that Yugito looked down on those bugbears in the dynasty, they really didn't have this ability.

"Things since it has happened, then say something else does not have any meaning, now the most important thing, is not to let it continue to deteriorate..."

Yugito whispered, quickly wrote a letter and handed it to her subordinate.

"Now you immediately reverse summon this letter back to Kumo and give it to Killer B, telling him that there must be no chaos. At this time, we must stay in step with Daimyo-sama!"

"Yes, Yugito-sama!"

Seeing that the top man was keeping his cool, the ministry's emotions eased a bit.

"However, we..."

Yugito knew the worries of his ministry.

After all, with such a big event happening, the entire Kumo and the entire Land of Lightning had been affected. Now that Killer B's side had taken action, it was only natural that they, as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, couldn't just watch from the sidelines.

"We... heh!"

Yugito sneered and prepared to march towards Naruto's office.

"I'm going to cut off Suo clan's children and grandchildren!"

In the eyes of outsiders, Yugito was always a very high-strung imperial lady, the kind that said what she said. Hearing Yugito say that, the ministry believed it then.

He hardened himself against Yugito's murderous gaze and blocked her.

"Yugito-sama! Mustn't... even if we don't talk about whether we can defeat it or not... now if we fight Konoha, I'm afraid that it will increase the burden of the village! -

"Perhaps that lord had planned it that way from the beginning!"

Yukito also felt that his subordinate's statement was rational, the well-known notables had done too many rotten things for him not to take this into consideration.

But...

"You're right."

"But if we can't show our strength and determination at all costs at this time, do you think this matter can end easily? -

"The only way to get that guy to sit down and talk to us is if we look completely unprepared to talk!"

The ministry was instantly dumbfounded.

... ...

Land of Fire, Konoha, in the Hinata mansion with its deep courtyard, one Hyuuga clan member after another was lining up to be examined by the family's in-house medical ninja.

The number of people in this checkup was quite large, and it could almost be said that all the people from all the main family and branch family had been called over.

Fortunately, the Hyuuga clan, as a ninja clan with a long tradition, had quite a lot of rules within the family. Even though the number of people was quite large, everyone was silent and quietly accepted the examination by the clan's medical ninja.

-As the second largest family in Konoha, the Hyuga clan could naturally afford to raise their own medical ninja.

This was the depth of a great clan.

As well as... caution.

The Hyuga clan's protection of their own bloodline had reached a level that could be described as paranoia.

When the news of Mizukage Yakura being controlled by someone came out, it even greatly stimulated the sensitive nerves of the Hyuuga clan.

After a discussion among the elders of the family, the Hyuuga clan formed the current rule of conducting a careful physical examination every seven days.

The number of people in the Hyuuga clan is quite large, and many ninjas have to go out on missions from time to time, so it is actually a very troublesome thing to gather them together frequently.

Hyuuga Hiashi also has some complaints in his heart, but after all, it involves an absolutely forbidden area... like the blood succession inheritance, so let's consider it a precautionary measure.

Anyway, the Hyuuga clan can be said to be unique in this regard, and it will not consume any family resources.

The number of genjutsu ninjas is small, and those who are proficient are even fewer. Even if the Hyuuga cllan had trained a few genjutsu ninjas, it would be hard to say that they would be able to undo all the genjutsu in the world.

However, what they had to do now was not to search for genjutsu as well as dismantle them, but rather to check if there was any foreign chakra in the bodies of the Hyuuga clan's ninjas.

In this regard, Byakugan can be said to be blessed.

-There are countless genjutsu under the sky, some of them are strong and some are weak, and there are countless variations. But no matter how strong or weak they are, the logic of genjutsu taking effect is the same, i.e., using one's own chakra to interfere with and influence the chakra of others. As long as there is another person's chakra in the body, if you look deeper, you will always be able to find some clues.

Hyuuga Hiashi tried to comfort himself in his mind, but the more he did so, the more irritable and restless his mind became, as if something big had happened and he had no knowledge of it.

This state, too, was not for a day or two. Since last year, the clansmen of the Hyuuga clan have been able to frequently hear some weird ravings in their dreams...

It would be fine if it was just an isolated case, but now the appearance of a sea of isolated cases was really disturbing.

On the contrary, even if they invited Tsunade and Jiraiya, the two sennins, to come over, they still failed to find out what the problem was.

As the head of the Hyuuga clan, Hyuuga Hiashi can be said to be very young. But nowadays, the burden of the Hyuuga clan is all on him....

Because his emotions were too complicated, so much so that Hyuuga Hiashi didn't even notice the news that kept coming from the TV behind him.

The medical ninjas of the Hyuuga clan were still very powerful, and without realizing it, the vast majority of the clan members had finished being examined.

They all have no problem, but that strange group nightmare still exists, the medical ninjas scratched their heads and couldn't figure out what the hell is going on, they can only vaguely determine that it seems to be some kind of... resonance rooted in the bloodline?

Seeing that the examination was coming to an end, Hyuuga Hiashi looked to his brother sitting beside him.

"Hizashi, you go and take a look as well. -

"You were not lightly injured during the defense of the Land of Water's capital last time, it's only good that you don't fall into any dark injuries."

"Yes, elder brother-sama."

The two Hyuuga brothers were extremely close in private, but when in front of people, the younger brother Hizashi maintained his deference to his older brother.

He stepped into the crowd and began to receive a high-precision physical examination.

Hyuuga Hizashiwas far more important than the ordinary Hyuuga clan members, and the examination was naturally slower and more cautious.

Obviously a very simple thing, those medical ninjas repeated it five times, striving to do it without any oversight.

...I am afraid that only the Hyuuga lineage, which attaches great importance to their kekkei genkai to the point of paranoia, would do such a thing.

Hyuuga Hiashi sat on the main seat and waited quietly.

He originally did not have any expectations, but who would have thought that the medical ninja of the Hyuuga really found a strand of chakra that was extremely subtle and almost imperceptible in the body of Hyuuga Hizashi.

This strand of chakra was extremely subtle, but upon sensing this strand of chakra, everyone's face, including Hyuuga Hizashi's, changed - it was clear that this strand of chakra did not come from the medical ninja who had treated Hyuuga Hizashi before, nor did it belong to Hyuuga Hizashi himself.

And during this recent period, Hyuuga Hizashi had been recuperating from his injuries at home and hadn't fought anyone at all...

Hyuuga Hiashi's heart was shaken, but he still immediately organized the crowd and identified the chakra.

Hyuuga Hiashi also knew that the chakra was thinned to this extent, and the difficulty of trying to recognize it directly was extremely terrifying. But who would have thought...

Surprisingly, he was really recognized.

It was a young Hyuuga member who served in the Naruto Guard.

Because he knew that an inspection was going to take place today, he had purposely asked Makoto for leave to come out.

This young Hyuuga member did not know what came to his mind and had a difficult look on his face.

Hyuuga Hiashi immediately noticed that something was wrong with him.

"What's wrong?"

"This Chakra... is a bit familiar."

Saying this, this young Hyuuga clan member showed hesitation on his face.

Hyuuga Hiashi immediately frowned.

"If it's really something important, say it immediately."

"Could it be that in your heart, I don't even have this much tolerance for others?"

Since there was a hesitation, it was naturally something that was not good to open up. Hyuuga Hiashi subconsciously felt that the other party was worried about his attitude.

But the young man's words were completely different from what Hyuuga Hiashi thought.

"Have you ever felt..."

After hesitating again and again, this young Hyuuga ninja still voiced his concern.

"The feeling this chakra gives... is a bit like that of the Godaime Hokage's... It seems that the Godaime Hokage had used genjutsu on Hizashi-sama... "

Godaime Hokage?

Aren't they on the same side?

Hinata Hiashi asked himself, during the two years that the Godaime had been talking about the matter, both sides had always been polite, never blushed, and there was only one formal conflict from beginning to end - that is, when Makoto introduced the Konoha medical system.

But we are all adults, even if there is some unpleasantness, but also controlled within a certain degree.

And Makoto knew very well that it wasn't Hyuuga Hizashi who was really holding him back, but rather those old, undead elders of Hyuuga.

Hyuuga Hiashi had been very deliberately maintaining his relationship with Makoto.

Makoto had no reason to make a move against Hyuuga Hizashi, and according to Makoto, it was the Akatsuki organization people who had shaded Hyuuga Hizashi.

Why would he do that?

Is he... trying to hide something... But then again, what in the world is it that could make the Godaime make such a choice...

With the prestige and status of the Hyuuga clan in Konoha, the Godaime should have allowed them to know some secrets - if not, why would he have included the Hyuuga members as his personal guards?

Only those who were extremely well-connected and extremely valued by Hokage were qualified to enter the Hokage Guard.

This is true regardless of the village.

Often times, the next Kage was born directly from the previous Kage's personal guard.

Inexplicably, Hyuuga Hiashi recalled Makoto's sword that tore through the atmosphere last year.

"That sword, could it have something to do with our Hyuuga clan? If I'm serious, it seems like I've never heard of the Godaime's ability to perform a similar skill, as if it was suddenly acquired..."

Reflecting on the bits and pieces of information at hand, Hyuuga Hiashi fell into a long thought.

It was perhaps unfounded.

Yet it was also the reason why Hyuuga was able to exist for a long time.

Clans that were not cautious enough to think would have been buried in the endless sand long ago!

It was useless to just be able to fight.

"No, I must..."

... ...

Land of Land, in Aunt Snake's secret base, Kabuto held a large stack of documents and reported seriously to Aunt Snake, who was wearing a white lab coat.

"Orochimaru-sama, just a moment ago, those two Tenseigan eyes almost broke through our seal again! -

"Previously, our seal had already reached the twenty-second layer, and now there's no way to continue enhancing it. But those two Tenseigan eyes don't seem to be ready to give up... What should we do?"

Although it had only been a short two years, Kabutoo had still been highly recognized by Orochimaru through his ability and diligence.

Nowadays, although he still called himself a subordinate, he had actually become the second-in-command of the Orogakure. After going through some tests, Orochimaru even allowed him to mobilize the resources in the base and conduct some private experiments.

The most important project in the base recently was, of course, the two Tenseigan eyes that Makoto had given to Aunt Snake.

This powerful kekkei genkai that already stood at the top of the ninja world would be incredibly exhilarating no matter which researcher saw it.

These were the Eyes of Creation and Destruction!

Because these two eyes were too powerful, the progress of research on them had been very slow. The good thing was that just getting the eyes right now made people incomparably exuberant.

But the problem is... that these two things are restless.

They have been trying to escape.

And their escape target... was clearly Konoha.

That's not to say that Orochimaru and Doodle didn't have more powerful sealing techniques, but the Tenseigan was just too valuable, so much so that they simply didn't dare to lay a heavy hand on it.

Running into an experimental subject like this would give anyone a headache no matter who it was.

But today, this report...

Aunt Snake's eyes shone with an incomparably complex light, as if she had something on her mind.

It was the first time Kabuto had seen her so hung up on something other than the experiment.

"Birth, old age, sickness, death, love and parting, grudges and hatred, and not being able to seek. -

"The things in the world of man are always so... -

"It's just a matter of letting them go, this is not where they belong, they have their own mission. -

"When he runs out, he will naturally give it to me again."

Hearing that Aunt Snake was willing to return the Tenseigan, Kabuto was still happier in his heart.

Kabuto always preferred Konoha to Orogakure.

After all, the woman who considered him a child was in Konoha.

Something as powerful as the Tenseigan was still more reassuring when placed on Makoto's side.

But Aunt Snake was so forthcoming this time, but it made him more or less...

"Does this... you mean..."

Aunt Snake, who has always liked to debate, did not say anything more this time, still thinking about her heart.

"What kind of scenery is seen in those eyes?"

"Is it only hatred?"

... ...

Makoto sat in the dojo, holding the Book of Five Rings in his hands as he read carefully.

Beside him sat Pakura, who was equally serious - as the work of the previous generation's top great swordsman, the Book of Five Rings was not a single book, but multiple books, and the fact that the chapters in it were divided into distinct sections did not affect the reader's ability to view them in separate volumes.

Makoto reads the chapter on techniques, while Pakura reads the chapter on ghostly schemes.

-Although he is a world-famous top swordsman, the swordsman's moral integrity seems to be not very good. He is a bit like the Infinite Style Grandmaster Chen Hegao. If he can use a dump truck, he will never use a knife...

T/N: Chen Hegao is a Chinese martial arts master who created his own sect

In the beginning, Makoto indeed did not put the Book of Five Rings on his mind, after all, it was a thing from an unknown number of years ago, so it must be somewhat outdated.

The reason he thought of taking it was purely because he wanted to cast the Pink Fluffy Bunny Rabbit.

Because of the time constraints, even the Nidaime was too late to make major revisions, and since that was the case, it would be better to largely follow the original.

However, after really seeping into reading the Book of Five Rings, Makoto had to admit that the swordsman really had some talent.

Not only did it contain important parts that were missing from the previous design drawings, but it also contained a rather peculiar set of sword techniques.

Makoto didn't care about most of the sword paths, but only the last style... with the Pink Fluffy Bunny Rabbit, its power might be...

After a long time, Makoto put down the Book of Five Rings.

Pakura looked up slightly.

"Why don't you read it?"

"There's no time... and no need, it's not worth the price I paid after all."

The Book of Five Rings was a secret royal collection, originally, it would have been impossible for ordinary people to see it at all. Even if it was taken out as a prize by the Land of Fire Daimyo this time, the same was true.

So Makoto took the relationship of the Land of Fire's little princess.

Carrying a political mission, the little princess of course will not refuse him.

Only everything has a price - this little princess may be a bit lonely, so she hopes that Makoto can accompany her to play games...

Play a whole day of Kai-awase.

This is a traditional game so old that it is older than the profession of ninja.

Since only pairs of clam shells could be closed, the nobles would paint the inside of the shells with the same old-fashioned gold and silver paintings in order to play the game - in simple terms, it was a shell version of Connect the Dots.

This game was the predecessor of the current games of Karuta and Hanafuda.

The evil thing is, no matter how unpopular, the little princess was also received by the orthodox princess education, so with her to play shells, it is necessary to Karuta...

Makoto couldn't appreciate this kind of so-called cultured people's play anyway.

Even if he could recite The Tale of Genji literally backwards through his inner demons, he wouldn't know how to Karuta... Even if you play couplets and the other party comes up with 'Yansuo Pondliu', he can still fight against Shenzhen Teppanyaki... Karuta is really a letdown.

T/N: The Tale of Genji, also known as Genji Monogatari is a classic work of Japanese literature written in the early 11th century by the noblewoman, poet, and lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu

T/N: from the book Zhongzhou Caotang Yi Ji by Chen Zisheng, (and google translate because I'm lazy) "Yansuo Pondliu" - word by word translate to 'smoke lock pond willow' - can be called an absolute in history, because its five characters in its structure use the five elements as radicals

T/N: 'Shenzhen Teppanyaki'... is a Teppanyaki store located in Shenzhen, China

This time, I owe her a favor, there is no way to refuse... Damn, next time, find a reason to give the Institute to increase the funding of a little better, he does not want to play and song, he wants to play Zelda with the little princess...

If you really can't, picking mushrooms is fine.

T/N: above, refers to Mario

...But these are all things for later.

Makoto stood up.

"Cat is coming soon. -

"Pakura, do yourself a favor and go through a few moves with her. -

"I struck too hard, I'm afraid I'll beat this stupid cat to death."

With Makoto's uncouth words, the door of the dojo was kicked out, and Yugito, whose body was wrapped in strong chakra, appeared in front of the two with a huff.

"Makoto, I'll kill you!"

Pakura looked at him with dead fish eyes.