He was in Konoha, exuding an aura of dominance.

At first glance, it's enormous.

The third eye: appreciating beauty.

Silently, she rubbed her forehead in exasperation.

After following Tsunade for a year, her impression of her as a great person was almost completely shattered.

Isogen's gaze shifted slightly upwards, and he said calmly, "Grandma Mito misses you very much."

Tsunade's expression was complicated, and her desire for money had diminished considerably.

"I."

She felt she wasn't ready to return to the village filled with her painful memories.

Shizune lowered her head slightly, her expression similar to Tsunade's.

Lady Tsunade's heart is in just as much pain as mine.

"Thirty million, in cash."

"When are we going back? I miss Grandma Mito so much."

Tsunade grasped the three extended fingers of the Fifty Strings with both hands, her face sincere.

Mute: "..."

Minato Namikaze: "???"

Click.

It looks like something broke.

After distributing the donations that a group of people had begged and pleaded with to be accepted, Igarashi excitedly pulled Yakushi Nonou away from the group and headed straight for a... amusement park that he had already set his sights on.

"Huh?" Looking at the bustling amusement park in front of her, Yakushi Nonou blinked, looking slightly bewildered.

She then covered her mouth and chuckled, saying softly, "Yu Ge, would you like to play here?"

Isogen shook his head slightly and looked at Yakushi Nonou: "The director must not have had a good rest since he came out for so long. There is no orphanage director or Konoha intelligence personnel today, only Yakushi Nonou."

Yakushi Nonou was slightly taken aback, feeling touched, but she was always used to being frugal.

"Hey!"

Wu Xian didn't care about anything else, grabbed her wrist and started weaving through the amusement park, then shoved her into the giant Ferris wheel.

Yes, the ninja world has all sorts of entertainment facilities, and Igarashi has complained about the off-track technology tree more than once, but this time is different.

Standing inside the Ferris wheel, hands on hips, looking down through the window, Isogen nodded with considerable satisfaction.

Hmm, this tech tree is skewed in a good way.

Sitting in her seat, Yakushi Nonou stood with her legs together, her delicate hands resting on her thighs, gazing tenderly at Igogen Yoko, whose chin was slightly raised.

Kindness and gentleness converged in her eyes.

a few days later.

Within the Land of Rain, in an unremarkable, dilapidated wooden house, Jiraiya suddenly appeared.

The dim light revealed his rather disheveled figure.

Jiraiya dusted off his clothes, let out a long sigh, and complained, "Wasn't that a bit too tense?"

Since the border standoff, Amegakure has deployed a large number of people to strengthen border security. Hanzo of the Salamander even personally led a team to patrol the area, focusing on eliminating a group of people who were interested in the great commotion in the Land of Rain.

Although Jiraiya boasted of his strength and believed he could travel the ninja world without any problem, he was still apprehensive when facing Hanzo of the Salamander.

There was no way around it; the oppressive aura emanating from this demigod at the end of the war was simply too strong. Apart from the three of them, the entire army was wiped out. Even the three of them were spared only because Hanzo of the Salamander considered the subsequent consequences.

Therefore, even though he is much stronger now than he was back then, he still tries to avoid Hanzo the Salamander as much as possible, because he doesn't have two teammates to help him if they fight.

"Let's hurry back. I wonder if Yahiko and the others listened to me and hid themselves." Jiraiya's mind drifted to Nagato's unique eyes.

The footsteps automatically turned toward the nearest town.

"Let's buy some necessities before we go back. Sigh, raising children is so expensive."

There are still three.

Leaf.

The gate is still the same gate, but the people who return are not the same as before.

Uchiha Aoen looked up at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle, filled with immense sorrow.

Only a few days have passed, and they've already succumbed to the allure of money.

Minato Namikaze felt uneasy.

The experience of handling 20 million items firsthand and observing them with the naked eye are two completely different things.

In particular, his neural reflexes, having been certified by Jiraiya, made him even more acutely aware of the impact of vast sums of money.

In contrast, everyone else reacted better than him.

Sakumo Hatake was a renowned Jonin with considerable wealth, though he had never received a single sum of twenty million. The Uchiha, on the other hand, held their heads high, displaying the air of wealthy tycoons.

Tsunade...

"Hehe, thirty million, now we can gamble to our hearts' content."

Silently, she rubbed her forehead in exasperation.

How embarrassing, Lady Tsunade!

"The journey back was so smooth." Looking at Konoha, which he hadn't seen for so long, Yakushi Nonou was in a daze and couldn't help but sigh.

On her way back, she was prepared for Danzo to sabotage her from the shadows, but to her surprise, the journey was incredibly smooth. The only exception was the bandits she occasionally encountered on the road, who were used by Igarashi as human models for practicing chakra scalpels.

Thinking of the 'flag' fluttering in the wind and the perfect human model that looked as if it had just been taken out of Konoha Hospital, Yakushi Nonou's eyes were filled with even more complex emotions.

What exactly did this sensible child go through during the time she was away?

"that."

Just then, Minato Namikaze raised his hand, his face filled with worry.

"Are you sure there are no problems with the nobles?"

He was still very worried.

After all, I've heard of nobles dying of fright, illness, falling from carriages, contracting parasites, or being killed by desperate wandering ninjas or samurai during wartime, but I've never heard of a ninja from a great ninja village forcing a noble to hand over his wealth through torture.

Under normal circumstances, even wandering ninjas or rogue ninjas would not kill nobles.

Ishigaki's behavior undoubtedly crossed the line, but the person involved didn't care at all and even wanted to do it again.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that the storage scrolls were already full of fifty strings, I would have liked to visit a few more stores.

But it doesn't matter, Tanabata Street is right there. As a famous entertainment venue in the Land of Fire, it has no shortage of rich people.

Tsunade scoffed and pouted, "What can those nobles who only know how to enjoy themselves do? I've got this kid under my wing. If they're so capable, let them talk to me. He's not dead, so he's doing just fine. I even helped him lose weight."

Losing 20 pounds in one go, is that some kind of easy way to lose weight?

Chapter 52 Hiruzen Sarutobi: The Familiar Feeling is Back

The three members of the Uchiha team left, while the rest headed to the Hokage Building to hand over their mission.

Upon entering, Hiruzen Sarutobi, who had already received the results of the mission, expressed high praise to the group.

The feat of capturing a Jinchuriki alive would be remarkable in any ninja village.

Minato Namikaze's cheeks flushed.

I was just going through the motions with this mission, like I was on a trip. It would be too unfair to others to get an S-rank mission experience for free.

Tsunade listened in surprise.

"You captured the Jinchūriki of Iwagakure?"

Which village's Jinchūriki is so reckless? Doesn't he run away when things get bad? Could it be that he got carried away in the fight?

A ninja's mission is top secret. She could learn about ordinary missions from the ninja who carried them out, but it would be impolite to do this for a mission that even Sakumo Hatake was involved in.

Sakumo Hatake reveals the truth and focuses on explaining all the operations of Igogaku Yoka in battle.

This includes, but is not limited to, the dignified Jinchuriki who skillfully uses the multiplicative explosive tags in conjunction with the Ultra Bomb to explode at close range, becoming restrained and vulnerable. If he is not careful, his skin will be torn open and his flesh will be burnt. In the end, he even shows his remarkable sealing technique to seal and pack it up for the Anbu to take back to Konoha.

Tsunade and Hiruzen Sarutobi were stunned by what they heard, since the mission briefing could only give a general outline, and the ninjas would have to return to the village to report back if they wanted to know the details.

"Wait a minute." Tsunade frowned, her probing gaze fixed on Yuuka Igarashi, her tone filled with surprise and doubt.

How did you do that?

By gathering chakra with explosive properties in various parts of the body, different degrees of explosion are achieved depending on the amount of chakra injected, with power far exceeding that of a single exploding tag.

This is completely inconsistent with her understanding of the human body!

The human body is neither as fragile nor as strong as we imagine.

When ninjas practice ninjutsu, the chakra they manipulate can cause damage to their bodies if they are not careful. For example, their internal organs can be cut apart by wind chakra, their throat can be burned by fire chakra, and their body parts can be hardened by earth chakra and cannot be transformed back.

Even when practicing medical ninjutsu, one must be careful. If an excessive amount of medical ninjutsu is used on a human body at once, causing excessive cell division, it is equivalent to directly installing an accelerator on a person's life, making them jump from eighteen years old to a number with a zero added.

This is why the first step in training medical ninjutsu is to experiment on fish. If a beginner were to actually practice on people, there wouldn't be enough test subjects in the entire Land of Fire!

Tsunade became interested.

"Kid, can I check your physical condition?"

Isogen glanced at her: "Old lady, even if you're the Hokage, you'd still end up in the police department if you did something indecent."

Hiruzen Sarutobi and Tsunade both turned pale.

"Ahem, Yu Ge, Xiao Gang is just worried about your health. After all, your secret technique looks a bit intimidating."

Why did you pull me like that?