The next morning, Yamanaka Kei, who had spent his first night in Cloud Village with ease, sauntered into the mission center in broad daylight with the face of an old man.
After handing in the C-rank mission that the original owner of this face had completed.
He bought a few calla lilies, a flower to commemorate the dead, at a flower shop and walked all the way to the Cloud Village cemetery.
Ninjas who constantly walk the line between life and death mostly have an instinctive aversion to death, so apart from the memorial days of some important people, not many people are willing to come to the cemetery at other times.
He placed a calla lily in front of the tombstone where he had agreed to meet Yakushi Nonou.
Yamanaka Kei then searched the memories of the face's owner and found a deceased friend with whom he had once had a very good relationship, and strolled to the other person's tombstone.
Originally, according to the agreement on the scroll, after placing the calla lily and conveying the information that the mission was completed, he should leave.
Waiting for the other party to send the agreed time and place to meet again, and then go to obtain the next assassination target information.
But that's too much trouble!
With that time, spending time with little loli...
Ahem, isn't it better to experience the beauty of childhood with like-minded children?
After mourning his 'friend' in front of the tombstone for half an hour.
Yakushi Nonou, wearing black-rimmed glasses, arrived late with a bunch of chrysanthemums in her arms.
Seeing a calla lily placed in front of the agreed tombstone from a distance, she felt a slight relief.
Last night, when she learned that Redoi was assassinated by a ninja using the Water Transformation Technique, she once suspected whether it was really the Mist Village acting.
If that were the case, the plan she had drafted in advance would probably add a lot of twists and turns.
Seeing this bunch of flowers, she could be considered reliev...
???
Seeing the figure standing silently in mourning in front of the tombstone not far away, Yakushi Nonou subconsciously doubted her eyes.
This...
Greasy, wretched, sloppy, weak...
Okay, she shouldn't have mistaken him!
"Good morning~"
The voice that suddenly sounded in her mind made the unprepared Yakushi Nonou shudder.
Pretending to be cute, she looked around before she was sure that this voice was definitely inseparable from that Yamanaka Clan guy!
Mind Transmission Body Technique?
This guy's voice is surprisingly young?
"I'm not even twenty years old for another two months, of course I'm young."
Yamanaka Kei's voice sounded in Yakushi Nonou's mind again.
This time, Yakushi Nonou, already prepared, showed no change in expression as she walked to the tombstone of her 'friend' and placed the chrysanthemums in front of it.
After pausing for more than ten seconds, she proactively opened her mouth in her mind.
"What is it?"
"To be able to control your emotions so quickly and prevent yourself from speaking your mind, you truly are a Walking Shrine Maiden."
"Business."
"Just give me the mission directly, it's too troublesome to hand it over back and forth."
"...I'll consider it."
Yakushi Nonou was silent for a moment, constantly thinking about the pros and cons of doing so.
First of all, handing over all the assassination missions at once was a privilege only held by the most core squad leaders of Root, which was not in accordance with procedure.
Secondly, killing them one by one could continuously create psychological pressure, prompting the Cloud Village higher-ups to shift their focus away from their conflict with Konoha as quickly as possible under the threat of death.
Finally, the phased transmission of information could ensure information security to the greatest extent.
But with advantages, there would naturally be disadvantages.
Hidden Mist Ninja from the Bloody Mist Village generally did not act unless they were sure, and when they did, they were extremely ruthless.
If an assassination order was issued, it would be impossible to assassinate every few days from such a distant location.
If assassinations occurred every few days for several consecutive times.
Cloud Village might launch a large-scale spy screening, greatly increasing their risk of exposure.
Yamanaka Kei's assassination last night was extremely successful, and Hidden Mist was definitely taking the blame for it, and no matter how much they denied it, it probably wouldn't help much.
But the current Cloud Village higher-ups had also become more vigilant.
They were also well aware of the Hidden Mist Ninja's style of doing things, and if they acted too early, the danger of the assassination mission would increase by several levels.
If Yamanaka Kei was captured alive, and he couldn't withstand the torture and exposed her...
"You're worried that the assassination mission will become dangerous, Big Brother is very happy, but Big Brother doesn't like your later worries."
"...Why can you still hear my thoughts?"
Yakushi Nonou frowned.
As a spy, restraining distracting thoughts, hiding emotions, and even resisting Genjutsu induction were all essential skills.
She was very sure that she had just restrained her randomly diverging thoughts, and Yamanaka Clan's Mind Transmission Body Technique shouldn't have the effect of memory reading, so why could this guy still hear her thoughts?
"I said we have a telepathic connection... Fine, fine, you actually guessed right just now, in order to facilitate communication with Summoning Beasts, I added a little bit of memory reading application to my Mind Transmission Body Technique."
Seeing that Yakushi Nonou had the idea of turning around and leaving, Yamanaka Kei quickly stopped his frivolous behavior.
"Lanz, thirty-four years old, Jonin, specializes in Lightning Release and ninjutsu-taijutsu, trains every afternoon at the training ground below the Twenty-Two Rock Pillars..."
Yakushi Nonou quickly spoke out the information of nine Cloud Village higher-ups and mid-level personnel.
Some required a clean and neat job like Redoi, some required pretending to fail the assassination, and some even required not using Water Release, but Fire Release or Wind Release.
After transmitting all the information, she began to desperately recall various useless memories in her mind, then turned and left the cemetery.
Her hurried footsteps seemed to be fleeing from something dirty.
"Wow~ Cloud Village even has people chasing you? Tsk~ A dark-skinned physical, bah, bah, bah, a Dark-Skinned Taijutsu Ninja, a pale-skinned Genjutsu Ninja? Genjutsu Ninjas are all weaklings? What kind of absurd theory is that!"
Yamanaka Kei exclaimed in amazement as Yakushi Nonou fled all the way.
Watching her disappear into the cemetery.
Afraid that the girl would be stimulated into some kind of problem, he said goodbye and directly released the Mind Transmission Body Technique.
Initially, he hadn't intentionally spied on Nonou's inner thoughts.
It was entirely because he had traveled all the way to the Land of Lightning and gotten used to talking to the Hawk Falcon Pidgeot, so he casually used a bit of memory reading technique.
After all, anyone facing a Summoning Beast that only knew how to 'screech, screech, screech' would have to think of more tricks.
He just didn't expect.
This trick worked quite well on people?
Even a professional spy like Yakushi Nonou couldn't cope well when facing this technique for the first time.
She could only forcibly recall those dispensable memories to interfere.
This was the result of Yamanaka Kei actively telling Yakushi Nonou the effect of the technique.
If he hadn't said anything.
If he had asked a few more questions today, he would have likely been able to find out even the color of the girl's underwear for the week.
"Not bad~! "
Yamanaka Kei stayed in the cemetery for another half an hour, calculating the assassination methods, techniques, timing, and order in his mind.
Seeing that it was almost ten o'clock in the morning, he slowly headed home.
As a marginal member of the Magnet Release Troy Squad, the original owner of this body didn't have much presence in the village.
Unless Troy had a mission to summon him, given the current severe shortage of mission resources in the ninja villages, being able to take on two missions in three months would already be a blessing.
Having just completed a C-rank mission.
For a long time to come, he could justifiably stay in Cloud Village.
The higher-ups of Cloud Village, their days ahead...
Hee hee hee~~~
Yamanaka Kei leisurely returned to his doorstep.
Seeing Yugito Nii, looking small and petite, squatting with her knees hugged to her chest in the corner of the Twenty-Two Rock Pillars.
He stepped forward.
"Juice, milk? Have you had breakfast?"
"Jui-, juice, not yet..."
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