Born in Sunagakure, dedicated to antagonizing Konoha for decades

But I can't summon it now? No way! Did Miss Slug skip work...? (⊙_⊙)?

"...Could it be Golden Lion's doing? His summoning beast seems to be Lord Katsuyu too..."

Nara Shika, protected by his two companions, stroked his chin and said, "Currently, the only ones in the ninja world who can summon Miss Slug are Tsunade and Shiki. Miss Slug is gentle and never late or skips work. Now that Tsunade can't summon her, there's only one explanation for how long it's taken."

It was the Golden Lion who did it!

"That bastard! Why did Dad give that summoning scroll to him in the first place?!"

Tsunade agreed with Nara Shika's analysis; failing to summon the slug was definitely that bastard's doing...

......

"boom!"

"Hiccup... Shinto-kun, you were looking for me...."

Meanwhile, on the other side, a giant slug suddenly appeared under Shindou's feet as he was exchanging blows with White Fang. It wasn't afraid of Shindou's sword energy and let out a soft burp with a hint of alcohol in its voice.

"Huh? Hold on a minute, hiss...! Holy crap, you white-toothed bastard, you have no sportsmanship and you actually resorted to sneak attacks, just you wait... Miss Slug, what are you doing here? You... you've been drinking? (⊙_⊙)?"

Upon hearing the slug's voice, Masato paused for a moment before realizing that a giant slug had appeared at his feet, looking quite satiated. He quickly raised his hand to call for a halt, but his kidney was stabbed by Shiroya, who hadn't had time to sheathe his knife. Although the skin wasn't broken, it hurt terribly.

Sakumo Hatake sheathed his sword and looked up at the sky: .....You think this is a football match...?

"Hiccup...! You're going to war! Kakuzu-kun, take me to the Land of Food, there's so much delicious food there... Oh right, didn't you summon me?"

Miss Slug hiccuped again, a little dazed, and asked.

"...I'm currently fighting White Fang, I don't have time to summon you. Let me ask if it was Tsunade who summoned you..."

"Hey! Tsunade! Did you summon Miss Slug? Miss Slug got drunk and ran over here!!!"

It's pretty much confirmed that Miss Slug is completely drunk. Speechless, Masato turns around and yells at Tsunade, who's still spitting at him in the distance.

Kakuzu is truly something else. He's taken such good care of Miss Slug. Last month she was in the Land of Birds, and today she's on the other side of the map in the Land of Food. But how did Miss Slug end up so drunk? Is it because she's drunk like a hermit...?

......

quiet....!

Shinto's loud shout, imbued with the power of Observation Haki, seemed to freeze time and space. The two combatants stopped fighting, looking bewildered at the golden lion standing on a slug in the distance, and then at Princess Senju, who was holding back her anger and ready to explode at any moment.

Something's definitely up!

The story of Shiki confessing his love to Princess Senju is from many years ago; it's practically ancient history in the ninja world. Many young ninjas who are just starting out haven't even heard of it, and they look at each other in confusion. How did Princess Senju's summoned beast end up with Shiki...?

226. Back then, Master Shinto was absolutely stunning.

"Father, what's going on? (⊙_⊙)?"

On the battlefield, a young Sand Ninja who had just graduated and followed his father to the front lines to die for his country wiped the blood from his face and asked his father curiously, "If the school textbooks are correct, when summoning a beast, the beast should appear in the summoning circle, right? Even if the Senju princess was drunk, she shouldn't have summoned a beast that ended up near our Lord Shinto, right? And what's with the expressions on the faces of these seniors around us?"

The young people around also pricked up their ears and looked over.

"Sigh...! It's such a tragic fate! Back then, Lord Shinto was incredibly handsome. In the entire ninja world, only Konoha's White Fang could barely compare to him. You'd think someone like Lord Shinto could have had no shortage of girls, but he just happened to like this violent girl from Konoha. You've seen it yourself, Lord Jie even has a child, while Lord Shinto is still single... So, in the future, you definitely can't look for girls from the next village..."

The boy's father was also a man of both literary and martial talents. Perhaps it was the first time in his decades-long career that he had told a story to so many people in public, and his storytelling was captivating and enthralling. He didn't forget to lecture his son at the end, reminding him that while the Shindou clan at least had Sasori as an heir, his son was their only son. He warned that if his son were to fall in love with the wrong girl like Shindou, their family line would truly be wiped out.

"Holy crap! I never imagined that Lord Shinto was such a devoted lover..."

After hearing the story, the young people around looked at the figure standing on the slug in the distance with emotion. At that moment, they realized how majestic Masato was. They never expected that Masato, whose reputation in the village was mixed, was actually a man of deep feelings!

It's so touching that she was willing to make this by hand for a girl from the enemy village!

...

"boom!"

"Slug, you come here right now!! (╬◣д◢)"

Tsunade, who had been enduring the strange looks from everyone, suddenly unleashed a punch that created a huge crater next to her. If that bastard Sand Ninja who brought up the old story had been standing next to her, he would have been smashed into a pulp by her. After a few years of hard work, everyone had forgotten about it, but now it was being brought up again. Looking at the slug in the distance, she was even more furious, as if she hadn't been left to her by her grandfather and would have been eating skewers with her long ago.

At this point, I was completely drunk!

Wait... is the summoning beast drunk and confused?

The Konoha members looked at each other, then simultaneously turned to Nara's big head, as if to say, "You're smart, why don't you explain this..."

“…”

Nara looked up at the sky and said, "Just because I'm smart doesn't mean I can play all five positions!"

The summoned beast was drunk and confused?

Never even heard of it...

But... Tsunade's summoned slug, whose summoning array is also here, why is the slug-sama running to the enemy commander's feet?

Did I record the coordinates wrong?

"Ahem... Tsunade, you're a grown woman now, don't lose your temper so easily, it's bad for your liver..."

Masato, dragging the slug-like girl who was completely disoriented, walked over, glanced at the gradually magnifying mountain, and whispered.

"Shut the hell up! It's all your fault, you bastard! Go to hell! (╬◣д◢)"

"duang!"

Seeing that Miss Slug was indeed drunk and reeking of alcohol, Tsunade assumed that he had gotten Miss Slug drunk. Coupled with the strange looks from the group of people around her, she swore and punched Masato in the dark chest. The resulting shockwave blew people within a hundred miles away off balance.

"Hiss!!! My sister is terrifying! Only my future brother-in-law could withstand that kind of force..."

In the crowd, a young boy with light blond hair and a Konoha headband looked terrified and sighed to the ninja next to him, whose headband was now covered in blood and who had just been chasing him.

"Yes, yes... um? Sister? You're that violent woman... ugh! Tsunade's brother?"

The ninja beside him nodded blankly at first, but quickly realized that this light golden-haired boy called the violent girl who was their master, Shindou, "older sister." So, this must be the crown prince of the Senju clan!

The Sand Ninja jumped up immediately; this was a huge fish!

"What?! This kid is the crown prince of the Senju clan?!"

Because this Sand Ninja made quite a commotion, the Sand Ninja next to him also heard it and looked over in shock. The crown prince of the Senju clan! Isn't that equivalent to the crown prince of Konoha?

...It seems about the same!

"Yes, my name is Rope Tree. Everyone, what the hell are you doing?! What are you doing?! Sister, help me... Waaaaah...!"

The blond-haired boy, raised in the "warm" care of his older sister, was completely unaware of the harsh realities of society. He thought the other party wanted to have a friendly conversation with him. He had barely finished introducing himself when, before he could even finish his next sentence, several burly Sand Ninja men grabbed him by the arms, legs, and mouth. Suddenly, everything went black, and he collapsed unconscious...

Things happened so fast that many people were still shocked by the power of the violent woman's punches, which had even created an air burst, and by how incredibly tough the Golden Lion was, able to withstand such a punch. They were completely unaware of the brief incident that had occurred.

"We're rich! We're rich! We've captured the Crown Prince of Konoha..."

"Shh! Keep your voice down. Do you want the people of Konoha to hear you? And you guys, be careful. This kid might be Shinto-sama's brother-in-law someday. Don't hurt him..."

So exciting!

The Sand Ninja who had bound the blond-haired boy and disguised him as a puppet seemed to have already seen themselves reaching the pinnacle of their lives!

Whether this kid is the crown prince of the Senju clan or perhaps the future brother-in-law of their master Shinto, as long as they hand this kid over to master Shinto after the war, their careers will take off.

Don't underestimate Lord Shinto just because he doesn't have much power in the village. He's the best fighter! Back then, Lord Shinto's underlings in the Anbu are now all working as his secretaries in rotation, handling the affairs of the Jonin class. They only work one day a month, sitting in the office drinking tea, and their monthly salary is still quite good. This income is higher than what they earn from fighting all day long.

why?

Isn't it just because he was Masato's teammate for a few years and went through thick and thin with him?

If they offer this brat up, maybe they can help Lord Shinto win the heart of his beloved, and then they'll really be rich!!

Solving Shinto-sama's single status might even earn him Chiyo-sama's favor, allowing him to compete for the next Kazekage...

227. Onoki's sly style

"Where is the Leaf Village thief?!"

A clear and loud sound echoed in all directions, startling everyone.

Looking towards the sound, a small figure appeared in the sky at some unknown time. It was hard to imagine that such a small body could produce such a loud sound.

Immediately following, a large group of Iwa ninjas rushed out from the side, eyeing the Konoha ninjas menacingly.

"Whoa! Onoki, you have incredible lungs! My eardrums are killing me. Are you here to sweep the floor?"

Rubbing his chest, which felt a little stuffy from Tsunade's punches, Masato flew up and stood two heads taller than Onoki, looking down at him and saying...

I don't know if Onoki does this on purpose, but every time he appears, he flies in the air and makes people look up at him. He's short but has a strong sense of pride.

"Bastards...kill them!"

Onoki was quite annoyed by Shiki's behavior. This bastard must have deliberately flown two heads higher than him. However, now was not the time to start yelling. There were still Konoha ninjas in front of him, and everyone was still in a team. He couldn't disrupt the team's harmony. Besides, he didn't have the habit of looking up at others. So Onoki pretended not to hear the bastard's taunts. He didn't even bother to look at the Konoha ninjas below and waved his hand at his underlings.

"Kill them!"

"Escape..."

"Holy crap! How despicable! Kill those Iwa ninja...!"

"Damn it, those Iwa ninja bastards, they even attacked me! Kill them all...!"

At this point, the difference between Kuraichi, who had already fallen from grace, and Onoki became quite apparent.

When Kuraichi led the team, the Iwa ninja's morale was definitely not this high. Some of the Iwa ninja even tried to cheat and slip. Moreover, when Onoki led the team, the Iwa ninja seemed to have just received a buff. They looked at the Konoha ninja as if they were their father's killers and rushed up to show off all kinds of earth-style techniques.

The Konoha ninjas hadn't even had a chance to react to Onoki's approach of just giving a few words of introduction and then going straight to the fight before the Iwa ninjas launched a powerful attack. However, with their positions in disarray, most of the ninjas' headbands were covered in blood. In addition, the Iwa ninjas, who had just entered the battlefield full of energy, had nowhere to release their pent-up energy and were frantically unleashing their skills. Not only the Konoha ninjas, but also the Cloud, Sand, and Rain ninjas were caught in the crossfire. This ignited the enthusiasm of all the underlings on the battlefield, and they all grabbed their weapons and started attacking anyone they didn't recognize!

Even if they weren't from Konoha, it didn't matter; as long as there were kills, there was data. The battlefield, which had just calmed down and listened to the story, had once again descended into chaos. Moreover, this time the scale of the chaos was even larger than before. Apart from those who had already fallen, were poisoned, or were seriously injured and unable to fight, there were still more than 30,000 Konoha ninjas standing on the field who could fight. Previously, the combined forces of the Cloud, Sand, and Rain ninjas were indeed weaker than the well-equipped Konoha, with a ratio of almost 1.5 to 1 in the previous team battle. So now, with the addition of the Iwa ninjas, the number of people on both sides was roughly equal. Moreover, due to the previous chaos and the fierce fighting with the Rain ninjas, the Iwa ninjas were not all healthy. It took the combined forces of the four ninjas to be equal to Konoha.

However, the chaotic battle involving more than 60,000 to nearly 70,000 people has already broken many historical records; even World War I did not have such a spectacular scene.

"Protect my little brother!!! Holy crap... holy crap... holy crap!"

At the center of the battlefield, Zhen Dou shouted at the hundreds of bodyguards surrounding Handsome Scorpion's father and mother. Several of his underlings, who had already gone mad, rushed towards him. He immediately swung his sword and killed three people with a single sword strike. He then rushed into the crowd and began hacking wildly. Wherever his sword strike passed, hands or feet were severed. Those who were less fortunate and whose vision was blocked from seeing the sword strike were cut in half at the waist.

"Holy crap! Lord Shindou, stop using your sword aura! You're hitting your own people!!!"

One of the Rain Ninja underlings, who was close to the real fighting range, narrowly dodged a sword aura. His soul was about to leave his body. He looked at his two companions, whose vision was blocked and who had no time to dodge, and whose arms and legs were severed. He cried out into the room.

This good brother of their boss is a really good person. He's not aloof, he's kind and loyal, but he gets easily carried away when he gets into a fight. Once he gets carried away, he'll even betray his own people. Going out to fight with him is terrifying.

"Bro, stop yelling. When our True Fighter gets carried away, nobody can stop him... Holy crap!"

"Pfft!"