Living your daily life in a shonen anime seems to be wrong.

This person, Nana...

Her personality is really awful.

Fortunately, Orochimaru was already used to it, and he wouldn't suffer any losses anyway.

Although he won't be given any equipment, if he really needs to ask Qiye for advice on any scientific research matters, Qiye will still be willing to offer his guidance.

Leaving the basement, we went up to the living room.

Sit down, have some tea and snacks.

Orochimaru hadn't left either; he sat down to drink tea.

"By the way, I've taken Mitarashi Anko as my disciple. I heard you two get along quite well?"

"so so."

Qi Ye lay sprawled on the table, still seemingly unconcerned about anything.

Whether he is taken as a disciple or brought into the Crystal Palace, it has nothing to do with Qi Ye.

Ultimately, his relationship with Mitarashi Anko wasn't that great; they were just relatively familiar with each other.

Perhaps her relationship with Kakashi is much better than her relationship with Mitarashi Anko, since they share a common faith, namely shrines and doujinshi.

However, Mitarashi Anko does not believe in these things.

But what did Orochimaru mean by saying that?

Nanaya glanced at Orochimaru.

He then looked away and continued to be a useless person.

Being a useless person is great; you don't need to be busy or work hard.

How good.

Chapter Twenty-Nine: Schemes

Humans are strange creatures; they're either courting death or on the path to it.

Take Orochimaru for example; he's currently courting death.

Take Qiye for example. Given his personality, it's already a miracle that he wasn't directly killed.

But someone came and attacked him.

Nanaya gave Iwagakure a generous gift, and Iwagakure was thinking of returning the favor.

Seven Nights blew up their headquarters and left them with a huge problem, causing the Third Tsuchikage a lot of headaches.

So, if Qi Ye wouldn't let him have an easy time, he wouldn't let Qi Ye have an easy time either.

They didn't even intend to let Shichiya continue living in this world, and directly sent several ninjas skilled in sneak attacks and assassinations to attack Konoha.

With fewer people, the target is smaller.

Therefore, the operation by the Iwagakure members went relatively smoothly, allowing them to reach the vicinity of Konoha and make contact with the spies who had been lurking in Konoha for some time.

Or perhaps some people deliberately sold the information to them, so they easily obtained information related to Shichiya.

I took a look and I think it's good.

Nanaya lives alone in a shrine on the edge of the city, and spends all her time there, with very few people visiting her.

Honestly, there's no need to overthink this target; just charge straight in. After all, Qiye is just an ordinary person.

Yes, just an ordinary person.

The fact that it takes several top assassins to assassinate an ordinary person makes the Tsuchikage think it's making a mountain out of a molehill.

But there was nothing I could do; it was an order.

So they still came.

There's no rush to take action; assassinations and the like are better done at night.

Night, with its boundless darkness, is the best cover for evil.

……

Qi Ye was unaware that someone had come to assassinate him.

Even if they knew, they probably wouldn't care.

Before transmigrating, he was practically an enemy of the world, hunted down for years. He was used to assassinations, sneak attacks, poisoning, and seduction.

So they stayed put, tending to their own little plot of land, and didn't care about anything else.

They were optimistic about the culture of the first-generation cells, although Shichiya didn't know what to do with them for the time being.

Or how about creating a few clones?

Seven Nights also possesses the skills in this area.

Back when they were still in the research institute, those mad scientists even planned to create clones of Qiye, because that way they might be able to mass-produce ability users like Qiye.

However, for some unknown reason, none of the cloned experimental subjects survived, and they were all devoid of thought, existing only on biological instincts, with normal black eyes.

So even if you survive, it might not be of any use, and in the end you'll just give up.

However, Seven Nights did manage to learn the technique.

Now, perhaps it's worth a try; he himself has never created a clone before.

"But this seems rather troublesome!"

Sitting in the living room, Qiye started biting her nails again.

Outside, it was already dark.

There is no moon or stars tonight; the sky is pitch black.

It's windless and feels a bit stuffy; it might rain.

Qi Ye didn't really like this atmosphere; he would rather have a good, heavy downpour.

That would be more enjoyable.

"A storm is brewing!"

……

The Hokage's office building, office.

Although it was very late, the Third Hokage had not yet left work.

Perhaps they are waiting.

There are some things that you can't do as a friend.

Unfortunately, Nanaya has no friends in Konoha.

To Shichiya, he was just the Third Hokage, not a friend.

As Hokage, he had to do things that were beneficial to Konoha.

For example, making Nanaya confront death directly.

Those who have never experienced death cannot understand its terror.

Only those who have experienced it firsthand will fear death.

No one wants to die, and no one is willing to die.

Especially people like Qiye.

Do you really think that the few ninjas from Iwagakure didn't notice them in Konoha?

No, Konoha had already discovered it.

However, Konoha has not taken any action yet.

This was the Third Hokage's idea.

He felt it would be better to let Qiye experience some danger, so that Qiye would understand that although he was very smart and knew how to create many useful things, he was ultimately just an ordinary person.

An ordinary person has no chance of fighting back against a ninja.

When the Konoha ninjas rescue Shichiya from danger, even if Shichiya isn't grateful, he'll at least be willing to help Konoha a little more.

Although the situation at the front was very favorable, and even began to use airships and explosive charges to bomb enemy positions, warehouses, transportation routes, etc., just like Qiye, the effect was not significant.

Ultimately, aside from the need to transport war supplies via major transportation routes, terrain poses virtually no restrictions on ninjas; in many cases, the presence or absence of roads is completely irrelevant.

That's why the Third Hokage felt that Konoha needed Shichiya's help.

This is a necessary measure.

"I hope everything goes well."

The Third Hokage stopped smoking and just sighed.

Such methods are ultimately dishonorable.

I also hope that nothing really happens to Qiye.

However, is Nanaya really powerless to fight back?

……

The Third Tsuchikage was determined to kill Shichiya. He led a team consisting of a Jonin, a Special Jonin, and two elite Chunin who had experienced countless battles.

For such a small team to assassinate an ordinary person like Shichiya is unprecedented in the history of the ninja world.

However, Shichiya is no ordinary person, but unfortunately no one in the ninja world has realized this yet.

Orochimaru may have realized it, but there is no evidence.

Qi Ye had no intention of exposing herself, nor did she need to.

At this moment, Qiye was reviewing some intelligence.

Some information was bought from others; it was information about the ninja world.

Because in the past few days, Shichiya suddenly discovered that there seemed to be some technologically advanced things in the ninja world. He knew Konoha's technological level and didn't seem capable of creating those things.