Extra Harvest
A short while later, a young man in his twenties, with a sword at his waist, walked out in the lead, followed by about a dozen people.
These people were all ugly and grotesque, but the young man was slightly more presentable. However, he looked like a hoodlum, giving off the feeling of a petty gangster, his eyes leering and darting around.
In any case, he didn't seem like an upright person.
"We meet again, Diji," he said, his tone slightly subdued.
The ugly bunch behind him didn't seem to have any intention of attacking. Each of them was terrified, and their expressions suggested they might run away at any moment.
"Mr. Kusabi, you're too kind," Diji said with a smile. "May I ask when I can start working?"
"Working?" Kusabi was taken aback, then asked, "Oh, right, about that, the Konoha ninja beside you?"
"You forgot? I mentioned to you that I would hire Konoha ninja to protect my safety to and from, and you agreed to reimburse me..." Diji rubbed his hands together. "We agreed on it at that shop in Tanzaku Street."
He now suspected that the other party was trying to find such a reason to avoid paying.
The employer had a dozen or so people who looked like gangsters behind him, and they looked quite fierce, but they were all so scared. Even if they were Yakuza members, they were all small fry.
"Is that so?" Kusabi revealed a look of realization, thinking to himself, Damn it, I guess I drank too much again.
However, the speculation that Konoha ninja had come to his door to eliminate him was shattered, and he felt much more at ease. He said, "No problem, I'll cover this part of the money."
As he spoke, he waved his hand, signaling his followers to disperse.
In the end, only the tattooed man from the beginning remained by his side as a guard.
"Thank you, Mr. Kusabi," Diji couldn't help but smile, revealing his yellow teeth, and repeated, "May I ask when I can start working?"
"Oh, right." Kusabi slapped his forehead and said, "The garden I want to landscape isn't here." He turned his face and said, "Waraji, you take them over there."
"..." The tattooed man, Waraji, was stunned for a moment, his expression seeming to say, Let me go? Really?
But Kusabi waved his hand and went upstairs after speaking.
Waraji clearly seemed to have gone through a fierce mental struggle, and then, under Diji's expectant expression, he revealed an ugly smile and said, "Let's go, I'll take you over there."
The group followed him out of the huge building, and in the evening, they arrived at a residence located in a nearby town.
The residents of the nearby town showed obvious fear and disgust when they saw them, and directly detoured, unwilling to walk near them.
Waraji didn't ask Diji to start work immediately, but simply dropped a sentence that they could live here and someone would come tomorrow, before leaving in a hurry. As expected, they are remnants of the Kado Corps...
...
After dinner, Lin Ke, after inquiring about information, roughly knew what the situation was.
That young man, Kusabi, was a small-time thug once hired by Kado to bully the residents of the village. After Kado's death, he was ostracized and left the town. He somehow got money and hired the survivors of the Kado Corps to work under him, leaping to become a new Yakuza organization.
Their current base is in the old Kado Company lair in the Redwood Forest—
Which is the strange building he saw during the day.
Even the large mansion that Diji needed to repair the garden was the yard where Kado used to live, which was repurchased by Kusabi.
As for the tattooed man, Waraji, he is a Ronin, said to be particularly violent, and used to chop people at the slightest disagreement. He is considered a vicious guy even within the Yakuza.
As for his current appearance...
A small-time thug suddenly has money, and also a small-time thug who goes to Tanzaku Street to spend it.
Lin Ke began to suspect whether this guy had opened the blind box he should have opened.
Leaving a part of his shadow to cooperate with his three subordinates to guard the mansion, he quietly returned to the vicinity of the original Kado lair under the cover of night.
It was still brightly lit even though it was past midnight.
He didn't go in directly, but instead used Earth Style: Subterranean Voyage Technique to drill into the ground. For an Earth Release ninja, finding a basement doesn't require a frontal assault, just drill into the ground.
Staring at the ground all the way, he came to the bottom of the building, and Lin Ke quickly found the basement located diagonally behind the building.
It was empty inside, with nothing at all. There were also many new footprints on the ground, and judging by the size, they should have been made by one person.
Considering that this might not be the villa that Kado mentioned, he circled around the Redwood Forest again, but even with his mobility, he couldn't find any more secret buildings.
As expected, I'm late, he couldn't say he was disappointed. He had prepared himself early on that the information provided by the dead would be outdated.
He just didn't expect that the money hidden by Kado would be found so quickly.
It seems that I can't have much hope for other information either.
Lin Ke hadn't considered robbing Kusabi, but this kid was spending money in Tanzaku Street, buying Kado's mansion, and recruiting Kado's subordinates. It was questionable how much money he had left.
He perfectly fit the profile of a hoodlum who suddenly got rich: calling friends, spending lavishly, just waiting for the moment he'd return to poverty.
Plans just couldn't keep up with changes.
It wasn't like he gained nothing. Based on the information he got from Sasuke, he successfully located the burial place of the Executioner's Blade, Momochi Zabuza, and Haku.
Refining Chakra, forming hand seals, releasing—
Summoning Jutsu.
Lin Ke stood on the Executioner's Blade and cast a Summoning Jutsu, pulling a translucent figure into the world.
The beautiful, fair-skinned boy with a pink kimono and long black hair looked at the unfamiliar Konoha ninja with a surprised expression and said, "This... doesn't seem to be that world?"
"I pulled you out of the Pure Land." Lin Ke was a little puzzled, the basic logic of the Summoning Jutsu finding souls had a new discovery.
Was it the grave and the corpse that allowed him to summon Haku, or was it the Executioner's Blade? "It's you—" Haku covered his mouth, even more surprised, "The person who kept talking in that world."
He looked at the boy standing on the blade, a smile appearing on his face, and said gently, "I didn't expect you to be so small."
Are you being polite?
Lin Ke said expressionlessly, "Do you want to see Momochi Zabuza again?"
Haku paused, and said in a low voice, "So, I can still see Zabuza-sensei?"
"No." He denied it, "I'm probably a failed, useless tool now."
In that battle, he had already lost to Naruto, and was deprived of the reason for existing as a tool. Even if he died for Zabuza-sensei, even if he could return to the world, he had no reason to continue existing.
It was because he felt that there was no need for him to continue existing that he never thought of responding to the mysterious person in the Pure Land.
He had no desires in this world.
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