And Uchiha Shisui, who has been used as a tool to muddy the water of Konoha Obito, is ignorant of this at this time.

Under the extremely skeptical eyes of the Loulan relics, he was trying to explain to them the deal that Wu Yin wanted to reach with Loulan, and he worked extremely hard to win the support of at least fifty percent of the Loulan relics.

"You don't seem to be worried at all that he won't be able to convince my people."

Sara looked at Nagato, who was looking at Nagato, who was looking at the Uchiha Shisui who was repeatedly tormented by the tricky and strange questions of the Loulan remnants with a gloating expression, and asked with some confusion:

"I thought you were at least companions with the same goals and positions, didn't you?"

"Companion, it should be counted," Nagato shook his head and spread his hands helplessly at Sarah, "But I'm not a ninja of the Fog Hide, and I don't know the weird brain circuits of the four generations of Mizukage Kaguya like he does, and even if I have the heart to go up and help win people's hearts, I don't know what to say."

「…… Are all the current ninjas like you?" Sara looked up and down Nagato, whose aura had gradually metamorphosed, with very suspicious eyes, and muttered in a low voice, "In the past, when the ninjas of Konoha came on a mission to destroy An Lushan, they didn't do this to you......

"Oh? It seems that the queen is interested in telling me about Loulan's past?" Nagato raised an eyebrow and looked at Sara, who was already looking much better, with interest, "I don't mind being a good listener."

"No need to do things, no matter how many times you repeat it, Loulan is not the Loulan she used to be," Sara shook her head, and said with a slightly emotional expression, "I am no longer the puppet queen who was at the mercy of An Lushan but didn't know anything about it, and the people of Loulan are no longer slaves who were enslaved and oppressed by An Lushan's atrocities, and we are now on the path of freedom that we have chosen."

"I'm about to lose my freedom," Nagato said kindly, reflecting on what had happened to him since he and Kaguya Ren met, "From the moment you were targeted by Kaguya and made him interested, you can't be the free version you used to be."

"What, what do you mean!?" Sara was taken aback by Nagato's violent words, "Yes, do you mean that the fourth-generation Mizukage has the power to manipulate people's hearts!? So, that's a little too scary?"

"Well, if you want to understand it that way, it's not impossible, it's just that," Nagato shook his head and said with a little self-deprecation, "He usually uses conditions and ideas that people can't refuse, to change other people's minds, and make them his supporters and embraces......

It's not so much that he's manipulating people's minds, but rather that he's seeing through each of us' minds, and then making a plan to put us in a situation where we can't refuse little by little, and by the time we react, we're already firmly tied to his chariot, and there's no way to turn back." ….

"Isn't that even more terrifying!?" Sarah's reaction was very fierce, "Strange, no wonder the conditions he mentioned to me before have a temptation that I can't refuse, Yuan, it turns out that just by relying on a little chakra attached to the psychic beast, can he see through my heart?"

"Well...... Nagato touched the red hair hanging down from his sideburns, shook his head a little funny, and said, "To tell you the truth, I can actually see a little bit of it...... Although I can't draw so many big pies for you Loulan that seem to be close but actually far away in the sky, like Kaguya, it is not difficult to grasp the point where you want to revive Loulan and convince you."

「…… Are we, so easy to understand, in the eyes of you ninjas?"

"If you don't want to rebuild your home, why do you insist on staying in this barren desert and living in the ruins of Loulan?" Nagato spread his hands and said in a calm tone, "No one wants to be a homeless person who has lost their hometown, and no one wants to see their hometown turn into a ruin that can no longer be repaired, and promote these ideas that each of us will have to others

, and naturally you will be able to get a similar understanding."

"It's as easy as it gets." Sara whispered her displeasure.

"It's really not that easy at first, but as you become more proficient, it won't be that hard," Nagato smiled gently, "It's always difficult to take the first step in a new direction, but Kaguya has a way of giving us a goal worth taking...... I'm still grateful to him for that."

"Then you still say...... After meeting him, you won't be free or something......" Sara couldn't quite understand what Nagato's specific position was, "Aren't you enjoying it?"

"After all, this is to dye one's mind with the color prepared by others, to plant the seeds provided by others in one's heart, and to a certain extent, it is indeed not very free," Nagato blinked, smiled and added, "But in life, who has not been taught by others and infected by other people's ideas and thoughts? Blooming your own new flowers from the thoughts and ideas given to you by others is also a kind of experience and self-sublimation."

"After all that, it turns out that you are still on the side of the fourth generation Mizukage!?"

"Otherwise, why would *** be his messenger and come to visit you with Uchiha Shisui?" Nagato shrugged his shoulders, completely indifferent to Sarah's sudden realization-like expression, "Without his sudden commission, I would have stopped in Konoha Village by now, ready to deal with what might happen there next."

"Konoha? Are you going to Konoha?"

Nagato mentioned Konoha, which made Sara feel refreshed, her eyes widened, she grabbed Nagato's hands very seriously, and said to him in a somewhat eager tone:

"Well, if you're really going to Konoha, can you help me ask about a kid named Naruto Uzumaki? Although several other Konoha ninjas who participated in the crusade against An Lushan at that time said that Naruto Uzumaki was a ninja from the future, and he was a person who would inevitably return to his original world with the seal of the dragon vein, but, even if he was from the future, so much time had passed, and with his age, he should have been born in Konoha by now, right?"

「…… What are you going to do to him?" Nagato looked at Sara with some vigilance, who suddenly became agitated, as if something had been activated all of a sudden, "I said beforehand, if you want me to bring that Naruto Uzumaki from his parents to Loulan, I will never agree."

"No, no, I just, simply, I want to make sure if he was born well, if he lived well in Konoha or not, that's all."

Sara bit her lip and said in an almost pleading tone:

"Please, just help me find him, and then help me make sure he's growing up...... I knew I couldn't have anything to do with a child who wasn't born in this era, but I thought it would be okay to expect him to grow up healthy and strong into the person I knew, right?

Yes, if you can help me find out Naruto's whereabouts, I'll help you convince everyone in Loulan not to object too much to a tentative cooperation with Kirigakure, okay?"

Nagato looked at Sara, who looked serious and not fake, and took a deep breath.

"The latter one is not needed...... Just give you a look at that kid, and I can still help."

"Thank you very much." Sara bowed deeply to Nagato with the etiquette of Queen Loulan.

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Elder Scrolls