"It's time."

At night, there are only two people in the abandoned patrol station, Butterfly Shinobu and Yi Yong.

Butterfly Shinobu came to the bedside, holding a kerosene lamp from the scroll in one hand and a thermometer from under Yiyong's arm in the other.

"36 degrees 2 ......"

Butterfly Shinobu uses the dim light to read the data on the glass tube.

"Although the body temperature is still a little low, the rate of improvement is very stable, and I should be able to spend this evening safely."

Once the swordsman's breathing method reaches the level of Changzhong, the body temperature is maintained above 37 degrees 5 to be considered normal, which is the state of low-grade fever in the eyes of ordinary people.

At this moment, although there is still a big gap between this body temperature, it is already out of the level that requires doctors to be afraid.

Butterfly Shinobu breathed a sigh of relief.

She placed the thermometer on the table, leaned over and said to Yoshiyo, "Tomioka, keep it up." After working so hard for so long, it's time to rest. ”

】

But I don't know if it was because of this call, or because of the light of the kerosene lamp, Yiyong's eyelids suddenly shook violently like ordinary people dreaming, and there was a sound of breath in his throat, as if he wanted to speak but couldn't.

"Have a nightmare?"

Butterfly frowned, quickly sat down on the edge of the bed, and reached out to touch Yiyong's face a little worriedly. She hopes that through skin-to-skin contact, it will have a certain soothing effect.

But at the moment when Butterfly Ninja's fingertips were about to touch Yiyong's cheek, her fingers were grabbed by Yiyong's suddenly raised right hand, but her strength was very weak.

“…… Butterfly? Yiyong's heavy eyelids opened a slit, let go of his hand, and drooped down.

"You're awake."

Butterfly Shinobu heard his voice quite clearly, and smiled lightly with his mouth covered.

"Why do I fail every time I try to poke your baby face (including last time in a dream)? Do you think I'm hostile to you, Tomioka? ”

She once heard Tanjiro say that Kyojurou in Purgatory instinctively subdues enemies even in his sleep, and wonders if Yoshiyoshi can do the same.

Yiyong didn't answer, his head turned in the direction of the voice: "Why, I can't see anything clearly......"

"Wait a minute." Butterfly ninja carried the kerosene lamp, bringing the brightest part close to Yiyong's eyes, then approaching to open Yiyong's eyelids, and then changing to another eye.

"Tong Kong does not respond to light, and there are still a lot of blood streaks on the sclera. It seems that the flash of light did a lot of damage to your eyes, but since you just can't see clearly, not invisible, then the damage is not permanent, and you can rest assured. ”

After judging by the butterfly, she whispered like a child: "As a patient, you should listen to the doctor, close your eyes, and don't try to see anything, so as not to increase the burden on your eyes." ”

"......" Yiyong nodded groggily and closed his eyes.

[Although the personality is the same as that of awkwardness, at least it's more obedient than the immortal Kawa Minoru.] 】

Butterfly Shinobi's satisfaction with patients has increased slightly.

The patient with limited mobility was the most cooperative.

"I'll explain it to you while you're awake. There are no fatal injuries on your body, the main problem is excessive blood loss, damage to the Achilles tendon of your left foot, and fractures of varying degrees in your left arm and left leg, which should be because you always subconsciously use the left half of your body to resist the impact of the detonation charm. ”

Butterfly Shinobu added, "I've given you painkillers, you can save some attention and control those bleeding wounds, especially the one in the abdomen is very deep, don't be sloppy." ”

"But once there is danger......

When Yiyong heard that he had been drugged, his brows furrowed and he flattened weakly.

"As a pillar, you should have some confidence in me."

Butterfly Shinobu smiled. "Also, I've heard that people who take painkillers have a bit of a dumber brain than usual, so please don't think uselessly anymore, okay? I'll take care of the outside stuff. And for now, we're safe, and we're in a place where no one usually visits. ”

[By the way, it's ...... to be stupid]

Butterfly Shinobu glanced back at the books on the table that were divided into two stacks, and raised her eyebrows slightly, as if she had some not-so-honorable idea.

[A person who was not good at lying in the first place, and now he is taking painkillers...... You can't even avoid and conceal it, right? 】

"Tomioka, let me ask you."

The butterfly leaned forward.

Obviously Yiyong couldn't see anything, but she still blinked playfully to alleviate the faint guilt in her heart caused by "robbing while the fire is hot".

"The new books in your scroll that haven't been opened were bought for yourself? Or did you buy it for someone else? ”

"For the left helper." Yi Yong had nothing to say, without any superfluous consideration, and gave an answer in less than half a second.

After all, in his mind, the newly bought books should be those villain books that he bought for Zuo Zhu in Tang Ninja Village, please ghost lamp Shui Yue.

The butterfly leaned back half a minute in surprise.

Although I had expected that Yiyong would not buy it for himself, this Zuo Zhu seems to be his twin brother, who is less than ten years old this year.

Before she thought about it, it should be that the teenager named "Itachi" was more likely, after all, it was just the age of youth and restlessness.

[I didn't expect it to be the one who hasn't grown up yet...... This is not a good interest for children. 】

"I can't see it, Tomioka, you're the type who will be used to children."

Butterfly Shinobu sighed, "It's really unseemly." ”

"The father did not allow him to look at it, thinking that it would make the child weak and ignorant."

Yiyong added in a daze: "But he often hides in the quilt in the middle of the night and secretly watches, I must like it very much, so I bought it." ”

The authors of the villain book are ordinary people, and in terms of value orientation, Yiyong is more acceptable, and not as cruel and cold-blooded as ninjas. He wished that Zuosuke would see more.

"Is it the kind that has been taught repeatedly? At such a young age, what will it be like when it comes to the rebellious period in two years? It's hard to imagine that your parents will have a hard time in the future (with a son like you). ”

Obviously they haven't met yet, but Butterfly Shinobi's impression of Sasuke's child is already a little bad.

Butterfly pondered for a while, and then asked, "Did you buy it for him personally?" ”

After all, if it was bought by Yiyong, those books also reflect his aesthetic concept to a certain extent.

"It's a ghost lantern."

"Is that your babbling little henchman?"

Butterfly Shinobu suddenly realized, and felt that everything made sense.

At the same time, her initial favorability towards this ghost lantern Shuiyue, who she has not yet met, has also dropped to a negative number.

"In order to learn your sword skills, do you start by currying favor with your twin brother who corrupted you? It doesn't seem to be a good boy, so he really needs to be educated. ”

"He should...... Just love ...... Say something that sounds scary......"

As he said this, Yiyong's voice was intermittent and became much weaker, and it seemed that he was about to return to sleep.

The flame of gossip flashed in Butterfly Shinobi's eyes, and this was undoubtedly the best moment to ask a question.

"Speaking of this book...... Tomioka, such an awkward person, have you ever liked the opposite sex? The kind that has a slight liking is also counted! ”

After asking, she covered her mouth a little nervously, as if she was worried that the sound of her breathing would affect her ability to hear the answer.

However, the result may not have been as unexpected as Butterfly Shinobu expected.

Yiyong suddenly raised his head like a "return to the light", and grabbed Butterfly Shinobi's wrist without warning, his strength was much greater than the last time, obviously he was very serious about what he was about to say.

"Butterfly ......"

"Yikes." Butterfly Shinobu was suddenly a little flustered, but she didn't expect to hear her name.

But Yiyong's words were not finished.

Just when the butterfly thought that he was cocooning himself and didn't know how to deal with it, Yi Yong said the second half of the sentence very seriously: "Be careful of sharks." ”

With that, he immediately lay back on the pillow and fell into a deep sleep in a few seconds, but his right hand was still tightly wrapped around Butterfly Shinobi's wrist.

Butterfly Shinobi: "......"

After dealing with the brief embarrassment, a deep worry appeared in her eyes.

Butterfly Shinobi knew that the shark in Yoshiyu's mouth was the shark that disappeared after swallowing the body of the flying section in Yunin Village.

The reason why she was worried was not because she was worried about the harm that the shark would cause, but because the two goals of the two goals that Yiyong came to the Land of Water, the fourth generation of Mizukage and Orochimaru, had just been solved, and she immediately put a new burden on herself, refusing to leave even a breather for herself.

Thinking of the entrustment of the lord, Mrs. Tianyin, and Mr. Iwazhu before leaving the underworld, Butterfly Shinobu only felt that the pressure was great and the road ahead was bumpy.

[I can only take my time. 】

When Yoshiyoshi was completely asleep, Butterfly Shinobu pulled out his wrist, and then stuffed Yoshiyu's right arm into the quilt, intending to get up and leave.

At that moment, there was a pause in her movements. Then she crouched down and lit the ground with a kerosene lamp—

Where a few drops of glucose had just leaked, there were actually a few small ants sipping there.

"Are you sensitive to sweetness? This ratio of glucose can also attract you. ”

The butterfly stretched out his hand to grab it, pinched a desperately writhing ant and observed for a while, for the time being, he could only see that the mouthpiece was sharp and abnormal, and the physique was large, it should be an omnivorous ant, and it was unknown whether it was poisonous or not.

"I'm sorry, but I can't let you guys of unknown origin stay with the sick."

Suppressing her curiosity to continue observing, Butterfly Shinobu bounced the ants out of the window one by one.

Then, she took out a box of gimbap from the box of food that Yi Yong had contained, walked out of the hut, and looked at the umbrella-like banyan tree not far from the cliff.

Bai was wearing a thin single coat, sitting on a bulging board with his legs crossed, staring blankly in the direction of Wuyin Village.

"Let's have something to eat."

Butterfly Shinobi's voice suddenly sounded. Bai hurriedly turned his head, and the box of gimbap had already been handed to him.

He didn't know when Butterfly Shinobu came, or when she sat next to him, and he didn't even hear a sound.

If Butterfly Shinobu was an enemy, he would have been in a different place long ago.

[Maybe as I don't say again, I'm really not fit to be a ninja.] 】

"Thank you." Bai and Shinobu took a piece of rice and put it in their mouths, and gently bit down a small piece.

"Well, it tastes surprisingly good." Butterfly Shinobi's eyes lit up.

In fact, she was not hungry at all, and she did not even feel thirsty, and the specific reason is unknown.

She just hadn't eaten in the underworld for too long, so she wanted to try it, but she didn't expect that the taste of this gimbap was no worse than that made by her sister, which was an unexpected joy.

Of course, this is also thanks to the excellent freshness preservation function of the Seal Scroll.

"It's great, it's much better than what I made." Shiro has already started to eat the second one, "If only I could eat it all the time." ”

"Surely you wouldn't have thought that he did it himself, right?" Butterfly Shinobu smiled and said, "This kind of talent is really convenient." ”

"Does he like to cook?" Bai asked, "At his age, if he didn't really love cooking, it would be difficult to do this, right?" ”

"I wish he had such a hobby. But it's not so much about cooking as a hobby, it's about doing the best of what you give yourself to complete the tasks you give yourself. ”

Butterfly, who knew some of the inside information, turned her head away, "This person has always been like this, and now it is even more serious than before, which is really distressing." ”

"Speaking of which...... Shiro picked up the third, but didn't immediately put it in his mouth, "May I ask a question?" ”

"There's nothing you can't do. You just say it. ”

"Since Konoha didn't give the task of assassinating the four generations of Mizukage, and he is not a ninja, why did you say before that he came specifically for the four generations of Mizukage?"

I held back this question for several hours, but it was too embarrassing to cry before, so I didn't ask it.

"That's what you say."

Butterfly said without thinking about it: "He heard that in order to eliminate the blood inheritance limit of the people, the fog hidden ninja often kills the entire village, causing many families to be destroyed and displaced, and the situation is so tragic that even the ruling class like the daimyo, who treats human lives as numbers, can't stand it, so he came all the way over." With his simple idea that 'all mistakes must be the fault of the initiator', he probably thought that as long as he killed the four generations of Mizukage who issued this kind of decree, this kind of sad thing would not happen again, so he rushed over non-stop. ”

"......" Bai was silent for a long time before he unsure of a central idea from Butterfly Shinobi's description.

"What does Miss Shinobu mean is that the Uchiha boy is not here to defeat the reputation of the Shadow of the Village, nor for the bounty and personal vendettas, but simply to stop the atrocities that the Mizukage has imposed on the people of the Land of Water?"

Bai paused, and seemed to be a little emotional, "For us strangers in a foreign country? Is there really such a person in the world? Almost risking your own life for a stranger you don't know at all? ”

He couldn't figure it out. Because I've never heard of it at all.

Even in the story.

"There's a reason for that."

Butterfly Shinobu nodded, her eyes looking at the crescent moon in the sky.

But I guess the other aspect is that he can't accept that he has a perfect family, but there are so many people who are or will lose their families and even their lives. As long as he thought of this, he could no longer enjoy his peaceful life with peace of mind.

"Actually, it's not hard to understand." Butterfly Shinobu turned her head and stretched out the index finger of her right hand and shook it, "If you have suffered misfortune, I hope that others will not suffer the same disaster as yourself; If you live happily, you also want others to live as happily as you do. Many people have such thoughts, but he has the power to make this idea a reality, so he acts. ”

Bai was like being struck by lightning, and his face was full of confusion and froze in place.

What kind of injustice I have suffered, when I become stronger, I will learn from it, and let others experience this injustice.

If you are doing well, you will be more proud when you see others not going well......

This is the most common thing in the Fog Hidden Village, even among the people of the Water Country, and even in the entire ninja world.

This Uchiha boy, and the girl in front of him who seems to understand each other completely, is like someone from another world.

It's like a fantasy character.

[If only I could get along with such a person all the time......]

This thought flashed through him, but it startled Bai himself.

He hurriedly shook his head and shook his head, dispelling the unrealistic delusions.

At this moment, Butterfly Ninja's Raven Yan flew over from a distance and landed on the ground in front of the two of them.

"Shinobu-sama."

Yan lowered her head. Its voice is not as loud as Kyojuro's, but it gives people a sense of politeness.

There are also psychic beasts that can talk, so Shiro didn't make such a fuss, just watched quietly with a confused mind.

"I've been flying for so long, let's eat something first, there's your favorite bonito in it."

Butterfly Shinobu tore a piece of gimbap into several portions, put it in his hand and handed it to Yan.

"Thank you very much. I got started. Yan Po said politely, and then ate slowly, and even made a humane expression of closing his eyes and enjoying it.

After it had eaten, Butterfly Shinobu asked, "Yan, have you found the companions of those two people?" Who are they looking for? ”

Only then did Bai realize that this bird was following the two fog ninjas at noon.

"Found it. There were ten men, including the two, all wearing the same forehead guards, and they were now camping forty kilometers to the southwest. ”

Yan replied, "After more than two hours of meeting with the others, they found four teenagers near a waterfall, and they were the targets they were going to capture. The youngest of the four teenagers was about ten years old, and the oldest appeared to be fourteen or fifteen years old, but they were all led by a white-haired teenager of about twelve years old. At first, the ninjas seemed to want to appease them, but the four of them refused. The two sides fought without saying a word, and finally ended with the four teenagers running out. ”

"Exhausted?" Butterfly Shinobu raised her eyebrows, and her tone was a little puzzled, "Isn't it injured?" ”

"These four teenagers have different bodies, they can break through the skin, take bones out of their bodies to fight, and the damage to the flesh will be repaired quickly. In addition, those ninjas didn't seem to want to kill, so they didn't stop until they were exhausted. ”

Suddenly, Butterfly Shinobu remembered that in Yunin Village, the young man who had a physical duel with Yiyong to exchange information, seemed to be asking Taketori to hold the car.

Because Yoshiyo used the Breath of the Moon to fight the other party at that time, Butterfly Shinobu knew the situation at that time.

"It's the Taketori clan."

Shiro on the side confirmed Butterfly Shinobi's guess, "They attacked the Fog Ninja Village last night, and they didn't surrender until the morning, when they heard that the fourth generation of Mizukage was dead. However, one of them, a young man named Taketori-kunmaro, broke free at the prison gate, killed the ninja who was guarding him and escaped, while the other three escaped together by fishing in troubled waters. ”

"Jun Maro?"

Butterfly Shinobu still remembers that before Taketori Che died, he gave a bone full of secret words to Yoshito and asked him to take it to a junior named Taketori Jun Maro.

And Yiyong also agreed to this.

According to Taketori's statement, this junior was born with white hair and was gifted, and was a secret weapon used to deal with the Fog Hidden Village.

"I asked if I would behead my lord again, and according to the patriarch of the Taketori clan, the clansman named Junmaro was held in solitary confinement since he was a child, and he had a serious resistance to being detained, so he suddenly broke out and fled."

Bai shook his head regretfully, "It's just that it seems that he still hasn't been able to escape the fate of being locked up." ”

[I'm in trouble now......]

Butterfly Shinobu looked back at the hut where he was resting, wondering what he would do with it when he was able to act on his own.

It's a pity that you don't have to wait for many things, and you will come to the door.

At the same time, in the ninja camp dozens of kilometers away, a middle-aged ninja came to the captain with two young ninjas who had been sad for the butterfly ninja earlier.

"What's the matter?" Captain Yuan Shinichi was pranayama with his eyes closed, and he didn't even open his eyes when he heard the movement, but just asked casually.

A hint of disgust flashed in the eyes of the two-handed sword ninja, but he immediately hid his emotions again.

"Yuan Shang Shinobi, that's it." The middle-aged ninja said respectfully, "Didn't these two juniors of mine go to inquire about the passers-by around at noon?" Coincidentally, they were actually there, and they met Momochi's follower who didn't cut down the ninja again, and it was the little girl who was very beautiful. ”

"That's a man." Yuan Zhen opened his eyes suddenly, "But what is he doing outside alone?" ”

Without waiting for the middle-aged ninja to answer, Gen Shinichi gave his own answer.

"Yes, Momochi is also a candidate for the next Mizukage. According to the regulations, all candidates can only stay in the Mizukage Building for three days, waiting for the village's shinobi to complete their votes after studying and completing their votes. If anyone moves his mind and plans to go to that little ghost to dig up the peach field and never cut the black material, he will lose his qualification as a candidate. It's understandable to send that little imp out. ”

Speaking of this, he paused, and a hint of ridicule welled up at the corner of his mouth: "However, with the popularity of no matter how hard you don't cut it, the chance of being elected is not great, it's really a superfluous move." If he let that little imp sacrifice his hue to get a few votes, there would be some hope. ”

"Although there is not much hope that Shinobu will become Mizukage again, there are many supporters of Terumi Shinobu in the fog."

The middle-aged ninja whispered: "It is said that Terumi Shinobu and Zai Bu Shinobu often whisper together, and there must be some secret schemes, and she also takes care of that little ghost in private, so that little ghost may also know a lot about that woman." Motojo Shinobu, I heard that your brother is also one of the candidates, but his prestige in the village is slightly lacking. If we can rely on the information of this little ghost, we can reduce the votes of Terumi Shinobi......"

Yuan Zhen's eyes lit up, and he waved his hand, signaling that the middle-aged ninja didn't need to say any more.

"Remember where you met him?" Moto's gaze crossed over to the middle-aged ninja and looked at the two young juniors.

The two looked at each other and nodded.

"Okay, if I can really get information from that little ghost, I will recommend the three of you to Elder Yuanshi."

Yuan Zhenyi happily gave a promise.

This time, even the two-handed sword ninja who hated the big family the most grinned.

He changed his previous angry appearance, and even said with a smile on his face: "Yi is a perceptual ninja, and that little ghost has the Ice Escape Blood Inheritance Limit, Chakra is very special, and it is absolutely impossible to escape." ”

"Well, then I'll borrow your auspicious words."