On the night of the Nine-Tails, I shattered the Tailed Beast Ball with a single punch.

Kawakawa Ken was somewhat disappointed with this new director who had suddenly appeared from the family; he was too reckless and his ideas were too radical.

He felt that Kawakawa Goro's sudden rise to the position of director must be due to his excellent mastery of the Kawakawa family's secret techniques and his strong abilities.

However, Ken Kawakawa did not notice the mocking expression on Goro Kawakawa's face after he turned around.

As expected, the Kawakawa family are all self-righteous people.

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After the ceremony, the Kawakawa family hosted a banquet that lasted until 7 p.m., when it got dark.

Because the Kawakawa family is located in a relatively remote area in southern Ōhira, it can be considered a suburb of the city.

Since many ninja organizations' strongholds were located near the bustling Taihei district, many ninja organizations traveled in groups.

But when they reached a grove of trees, Yongze suddenly stopped and said softly into the darkness:

"Come out, I've found you."

His Observation Haki clearly detected the presence of more than a dozen ninjas in the forest, but none of them were strong. Most of them were Chunin, a few were Genin, and there was one Special Jonin.

"Enemies?"

Upon hearing Nagasawa's sudden remark, the ninjas present all drew their kunai and began to be on guard around them.

One of the ninja groups swallowed hard and said, "Brother Whitebeard, are you sure? How could someone suddenly ambush us?"

At the banquet, Nagasawa had completely won over the group of ninjas with his drinking prowess, even calling out to Whitebeard.

After all, Nagasawa's drinking habits were really excessive.

They would just chug straight from the bottle, but Yongze thought the bottle was too small, so he had someone bring over a large wooden bucket and started chugging bucket after bucket, leaving everyone present completely dumbfounded.

They exclaimed that they had seen people who could drink, but they had never seen anyone who could drink like this.

shhhhhh! ! !

As if to confirm Nagasawa's words, dozens of kunai, gleaming with a chilling light, suddenly shot out from the darkness.

The ninjas present all used their unique skills to block the kunai.

Some used the kunai in their hands as short swords to knock away the attacking kunai, while others used ninjutsu to block the kunai.

Some people were caught off guard and were cut by the kunai.

Because everyone present had been drinking to some extent, they weren't in good condition.

However, among the many people who defended against kunai, Nagasawa was the most dazzling one.

Despite the barrage of kunai, Nagasawa remained unfazed, as if what lay before him was not kunai, but a gentle breeze about to pass by.

Then Nagasawa casually threw a punch.

There was no charging up of energy, no use of any punching techniques, and no one could even sense the presence of chakra.

But this seemingly casual punch instantly stirred up a gust of wind that could lift a person up.

Whoohoo! !

Splash!

The air seemed to explode from Yongze's punch, unleashing a terrifying gust of wind that sent people flying backward, rustling the leaves like a typhoon passing through.

"Brother Whitebeard, you're too amazing!" A ninja exclaimed, his eyes wide with disbelief.

"Your Gold Organization is not only good at making ninja tools, but also so strong in combat?" Some members of the ninja organization who specialize in taking on various assassination and combat missions said somewhat dejectedly.

Because Nagasawa was always with Yoshinari, they subconsciously assumed that Nagasawa was a member of the Kim organization.

"Please don't misunderstand, everyone. Lord Whitebeard is an important client of our Gold Organization, not one of our members," Yozaki quickly clarified.

She was also a little shocked. Although Yongze looked like someone who was extremely skilled in physical combat, she did not expect him to be this strong.

The force of that random punch was like a wind-style ninjutsu; it was outrageous.

"Too many people, retreat!" The leader of the ambush ninjas immediately ordered upon seeing Nagasawa's exaggerated punch.

Boom! !

In an instant, more than a dozen smoke grenades were thrown out, and the already dark environment was shrouded in a thick gray fog.

Although Yongze could have kept everyone here, he simply stood there silently without making a move.

He sensed an aura among the ambush ninjas that he had remembered from the Kim organization's stronghold.

'Ambushing himself? Interesting.'

Yongze wanted to see what the Kim organization was really up to, with all these shady tactics.

A ninja with Wind Release skills quickly used Wind Release to dispel the smoke.

However, the ninjas who had been lying in ambush had already disappeared, leaving only a devastated forest.

Chapter Fifty-Seven: A Backstab from a False Brother

The ninjas on the field looked at each other in bewilderment.

Finally, someone broke the peace.

"Who do you think sent this person? Aren't you afraid of offending us all?"

Someone picked up the remaining kunai from the ground, looked at it, and said, "It's a very common, standard-issue kunai. I can't tell where it came from. The other party is very cautious."

Just as everyone was analyzing which faction's ninjas were lying in ambush, Yakichi spoke up seriously:

"Could it be someone from the Daimyo's side? After all, they don't get along with the Kawakawa family."

The number of ninjas ambushing us was small, clearly indicating their aim wasn't to kill us, but rather to send a warning to ninja organizations like ours that cooperate with the Kawakawa clan.

“But didn’t the daimyo’s people show up at the ceremony? If they wanted to cause trouble, wouldn’t it have been better to do it at the ceremony? That would have been a bigger slap in the face to the Kawakawa family,” someone questioned.

Yoshinari chuckled and said, "That's because if we make a move at the ceremony, it would be tantamount to declaring war on the Kawakawa family, and they probably aren't ready for that yet."

Many members of ninja organizations thought about it and realized that things did seem to be as Yasaki had described.

"Could it be that the Kawakawa family orchestrated this whole thing to get us completely on their side?" someone suggested a bold idea.

Yongze gave the man an approving look. The young man was quite capable; he almost guessed the truth.

Yoru smiled slightly and said, "It's not impossible, but I don't think the Kawakawa family would be foolish enough to do such a thing."

We have all cooperated with them and are their natural allies. Even if we don't help them, we won't help the daimyo.

But if they dare to attack us while impersonating a high-ranking official, and are discovered, the consequences will definitely be something they don't want to see.

After Yoshikiri said that, everyone felt that the Kawakawa family wouldn't go so far as to take such a drastic step, as the risks and rewards were disproportionate.

"Even so, we were ultimately ambushed because of the Kawakawa family, so we must ask them for some compensation," Yoji chuckled.

"Yes, yes, my clothes were even torn. They were custom-made, and I only wore them because it was for the ceremony."

The eyes of many ninja organizations lit up immediately.

While they lacked the courage to fight the daimyo for the sake of the Kawakawa family, they certainly had the courage, and a great deal of courage, to use this excuse to extort money from the Kawakawa family.

They are all allies. If your allies are ambushed and injured because of you, shouldn't they pay some compensation?

What? You're saying you weren't injured at all, but suffered psychological trauma that's invisible and much more serious.

Seeing that Yoshinori had once again tricked the Kawakawa family, Nagasawa was somewhat confused.

Sensing the presence of members of the Gold Organization among the ambush group, he initially thought it was a joint operation between the Kawakawa family and the Gold Organization.

They ambushed the ninja organization that came to attend the ceremony and then shifted the blame to the daimyo of the Land of Rivers.

But when he saw Yoshinari turn around and trick the Kawakawa family, Nagasawa couldn't understand it.

'Could this be a solo operation by the Kim organization? What benefit would it bring them?' Nagasawa pondered the Kim organization's motives.

He felt that the Kim organization probably had bigger ambitions. It was unlikely that they would go to so much trouble just to take those ninja organizations to the Kawakawa family to extort money for emotional distress.

If that's the case, then Nocturnal Equinox has definitely suffered a stroke.

Although he didn't know what the Kim organization was really up to, Nagasawa now knew that the Kawakawa family and the Kim organization were probably just superficial allies.

Otherwise, the Night Pheasant wouldn't have been able to backstab him so cleanly and efficiently.

At night, the late autumn wind was even colder, and there were few people on the streets. The few people who were there huddled up and jogged along, as if they felt that this posture was warmer.

But it's different for ninjas. The autumn wind blew up Yoshinori's coat, revealing her slender waist and large expanses of her snow-white skin to the air.

"Lord Whitebeard, that punch you just threw was so powerful! I'm starting to believe what you said before, that some people call you the strongest man in the world." Yozaki suddenly started showering him with compliments.

"Gulala lala".

Nagasawa laughed twice. "You're scared already? I didn't even use one percent of my strength in that punch just now."

"Not even one percent? You must be kidding me. Why didn't you use your full strength?" Yoji looked at Nagasawa in disbelief.

She might believe Nagasawa if he said he didn't use even a tenth of his power, since that punch looked very casual, and he didn't even use chakra.

But she didn't believe Yongze when he said that even one percent of his strength was useless.

Even one percent of your strength is useless; you can still unleash a wind-style attack with a single punch.

If you used all your strength, what would the effect be? Would you smash a mountain with one punch? That's not ninja.

"If I used my full strength, that entire forest would probably be gone. It's not worth it for a few minor characters," Nagasawa said boldly, clearly not taking the ambush of the ninjas seriously.

"Hmm, Lord Whitebeard's strength is terrifying." Yoruichi gave a perfunctory reply, feeling that Whitebeard was already blowing his own horn.

'Whitebeard is great in every way—rich and generous, strong, but he just loves to brag.' Yozaki thought to himself.

He said he could destroy an entire forest with one punch, but why not say he could shatter a mountain with one punch? Is this a ninja? No, this isn't a ninja.

A normal ninja can unleash a fireball several meters high and crack the ground dozens of meters wide with a single punch.

Seeing that Yoshinari didn't believe him, Nagasawa didn't say anything. He couldn't very well punch Taihei, show him a huge area of ​​ruins, and then ask him if he believed him now.

That would be too beneath him. What does it matter to him whether Yoruichi believes it or not? It's not like he doesn't have the power to back it up just because Yoruichi doesn't believe it.

Moreover, he came undercover to gather intelligence, not to show off.

However, his undercover life was quite comfortable. He had a villa provided by the organization and went to banquets to eat and drink to his heart's content. He lived a better life than he did in Konoha.