31 - Our Wish Is World Peace

That night, as usual, they mooched a meal, and as usual, Kakashi Hatake saw the two of them off.

But this time... it was Yuto Souta who spoke up first.

They couldn't delay any longer.

During tonight's dinner, Sakumo Hatake had been intentionally striking up conversations with him.

It seemed like he was trying to confirm something...

The rumors outside the village were growing more intense.

If nothing unexpected happened, the final straw that would crush this White Fang of Konoha would likely appear soon.

Yuto Souta had reason to suspect that this sudden C-rank mission they'd been given might have been carefully orchestrated by someone!

First, get Kakashi Hatake out of the village.

Then ramp up the rumor mill's propaganda to completely break Sakumo Hatake's psychological defenses!

As for the mastermind... though Yuto Souta was familiar with the general plot and had his guesses, experiencing this world firsthand made him realize it wasn't so simple.

The blame didn't necessarily always fall squarely on Danzo Shimura...

The self-destruction of such a powerful figure was something every high-ranking official in Konoha was complicit in!

As a scientist wholeheartedly dedicated to improving the world, this made him feel disgusted and deeply bored...

"If you want to help your dad, tonight, bring me two advanced Water Style ninjutsu scrolls, and some Lightning Style ones too. Make sure they're the kind with massive scale, got it?"

Yuto Souta's face was full of seriousness and mystery.

"There's no time to explain. Meet me at two a.m. at the east gate of Konoha!"

After saying this, Yuto Souta ignored Kakashi Hatake's puzzled look, grabbed Obito Uchiha, and bolted off...

The two split up at an intersection.

Yuto Souta pulled out all the mission reward money he'd received today.

"With our money combined, it should be enough to buy a few explosive tags... Hurry up and get them, then meet me at the east gate."

While Kakashi Hatake hesitated with confusion, Obito Uchiha was much more straightforward.

When it came to Yuto Souta's words, he always gave up trying to figure them out because he knew he wouldn't understand...

Without a second thought, the two went their separate ways.

Obito Uchiha leapt across rooftops straight toward the ninja tool shop, while Yuto Souta rushed back home, too impatient to open the door—he kicked it clean off its hinges!

It wasn't until he stormed into his bedroom, opened his small desk, and pulled out a notebook and pen that he finally took a series of deep breaths to calm himself.

"There's only one way to try."

After a while, when his breathing and thoughts finally settled.

Yuto Souta's gaze was filled with solemnity as he slowly picked up the pen and began to write.

What he wrote wasn't in the script of Kyushu or the island nation.

2H₂O = electrolysis = 2H₂ + O₂

The simplest, most basic chemical formula.

A formula that junior high students in Kyushu could recite by heart: electrolyzing water molecules to produce hydrogen and oxygen.

As everyone knew.

The tech tree in the ninja world was, frankly, warped...

This was partly due to chakra. The convenience of ninjutsu had accelerated technological development in some areas of the ninja world, resulting in a somewhat distorted situation.

This had temporarily dissuaded Yuto Souta from pursuing self-study and research into nuclear fission in the ninja world, but... it had also opened his eyes to a new direction.

Back to basics, returning to the starting point.

That very first chemical formula he'd encountered back then, the one that sparked his lifelong passion for chemistry, resurfaced in his mind.

Use Lightning Style to break down Water Style! During the hand-sign phase of the ninjutsu, directly generate hydrogen to create a Hydrogen Style!

World peace!

Yuto Souta scribbled furiously!

The reason he was in such a rush was simply that the village's rumor campaign was growing increasingly severe.

Sakumo Hatake's fragile heart was nearing its breaking point...

And at the root of it all was that overhyped bridge, which hadn't been properly blown up at this point in time.

He didn't understand strategy or conspiracies.

That wasn't his expertise... but he still had a basic grasp of problem-solving logic.

Sakumo Hatake hadn't destroyed the bridge, so why not just blow it up himself?

Then, all Sakumo Hatake would have done was save his comrades, right?

Even if the people behind the rumors still wanted Sakumo Hatake dead, his fragile heart wouldn't be so vulnerable anymore—at the very least, he wouldn't take his own life...

Yuto Souta's mind raced as he calculated the conditions for establishing Hydrogen Style and devised a plan to blow up the Kannabi Bridge amidst an army!

This would require a large amount of water and lightning of sufficient magnitude.

Water wasn't a concern... There was plenty of it beneath the Kannabi Bridge; a couple of ninjutsu could mobilize it.

He wasn't worried about Water Style ninjutsu either... Though his Level 1 Sharingan was the weakest form, it was still a Sharingan capable of copying the chakra flow of ninjutsu!

The problems he needed to solve now were how to use a sufficiently powerful Lightning Style to electrolyze a Water Style technique of massive scale.

And... how to reach the Kannabi Bridge in Iwa territory, where security would surely be tightened after Sakumo Hatake's previous attack!

This was a daunting task.

Compared to this, his grudge with the Hyuga clan seemed almost trivial!

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