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Naruto villian template chapter 222
🕑 Added 2024-11-12 11:59:01 +0000 UTCChapter 222: The endless repetitive rhythm can hardly be called a song
"Ahem!"
Noticing Uzumaki Issai's increasingly strange look, Mitsuru subconsciously coughed a few times, quickly restrained the gloating smile on his face, and said seriously: "Lord Kumokawa, do you have any other suggestions?"
"Everyone has their own expertise. I am not as good as you in this area, so I won't give you random orders."
Kumokawa shook his head and said with a smile: "Let's leave it at that for now. If the budget is insufficient, remember to go to the finance department to claim reimbursement."
"Understood." Mitsuru nodded solemnly, then smiled and said, "I won't be polite. I just hope Mr. Kakuzu won't dislike me."
"Don't worry, he doesn't have that kind of emotion right now. At most, he complains about you even in his sleep."
As soon as these words came out, they imagined that scene in their minds, and they subconsciously looked at each other and couldn't help laughing.
But at this moment, an anxious voice came from behind.
"Lord Kumokawa, I finally found you!"
Kumokawa turned around and saw the person's face clearly. He raised his eyebrows and said, "Aki, what are you wearing?"
Aki was soaking wet, with the rain mixed with the sand on his body, making him look like he had rolled in mud.
"Oh, that's not important."
Aki wiped the mud off his face and casually threw it on the ground, leaving a spot of mud. He said anxiously, "Do you know where Kakuzu ran off to? He left a clone behind when he went out before, but this time he simply disappeared when we needed to look for him!"
"Kakuzu and his two clones are out on a mission. Ayumi is in charge of the Ministry of Finance for the time being..."
Kumokawa explained first, and when he saw Aki turned around and was about to run without saying a word, he quickly grabbed his arm and said helplessly: "Are you too busy to notice anything? I'm here, why are you still looking for them?"
"..." Aki was stunned for a moment, and after reacting, he slapped his forehead, "Ouch, my brain..."
Because Kumokawa was always leisurely and had no bossy airs at all, he was always able to handle things with ease, giving people the feeling of a hands-off boss, so Aki subconsciously forgot about it.
The person in front of him is the leader of the City of Dawn. It would be more useful to find no one else than this person.
"Lord Kumokawa, something is going to happen!"
Realizing this, Aki quickly grabbed Kumokawa's sleeve and said, "I just did some statistics with the Ministry of Agriculture. With our current food reserves, we simply cannot meet the needs of the upcoming surge in population!"
"Moreover, we will soon be regarded as an enemy by the Land of Fire, and they will definitely stop exporting our food and blockade us. By then, there will be no possibility of transferring food from outside to remedy the situation!"
"In this case, even if we naturalize the population in the southern part of the Land of Rain, they will still be starving and have no food to eat. If things get worse, not only will we be dragged down, but we may even fall apart!"
After finishing speaking, Kumokawa's expression did not change and he did not speak, but Mitsuru beside him looked at Aki with a very strange look and said, "Mr. Aki, is this what you are worried about?"
Hearing the indifference in his words, Aki's expression changed and he said anxiously, "You have no idea what this means! If the population increases, we will have no food, and people will be uneasy..."
"Even so."
Before Aki could finish his words, Mitsuru interrupted him, adjusted his glasses and said calmly, "We were not the first to be destroyed."
Aki was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt annoyed: "You guy, do you know what you are talking about?"
Just when he was getting angry, Kumokawa suddenly laughed and said, "Aki, don't be angry yet. You should know that Yoshitaka and the others have returned, right?"
After hearing Kumokawa's words, Aki inexplicably calmed down and said, "Of course I know. The reason why I'm so anxious is because they have received too many people. If they continue like this..."
Before he could finish his words, Kumokawa raised his hand and interrupted, "Then do you know how much food they found?"
As he spoke, he held up four fingers, his eyes curved slightly, but there was no smile in his tone: "Four years, enough for the entire registered population of the Land of Rain to eat three meals a day for four years."
After these words came out, Aki was stunned in place for a moment. After a moment, his throat was slightly dry and he asked in surprise: "Four years? How can it be so long?!"
"Humph, a lot? This is just what we have discovered on the surface. There will only be more hidden, not less!"
As a former businessman, Mitsuru, who knew the nature of the nobles very well, sneered and said, "That great daimyo, in order to establish a relationship with the nobles of the Land of Fire, buys a large amount of food from the Land of Fire at a high price almost every year!"
"Under the advice of Musashi, in order to demonstrate his benevolence, he also extorted and threatened the merchants to release grain for disaster relief, but countless people still starved to death every year!"
"Guess where all the food went?"
Kumokawa also sighed softly and said slowly: "I asked Yoshitaka to immediately blockade the capital of the Land of Rain after conquering it and search the homes of those nobles. The result was indeed not unexpected, but it also opened my eyes."
"Can you believe it? Even a small noble's house can find mountains of food. Every noble's house has enough food to feed thousands of people for a long time."
"Not to mention the grain warehouses in the Land of Rain and the homes of the daimyo. The grain piled up there is so much that it has become damp and moldy. The amount of grain is so much that it is scary enough to kill people."
Every time they captured a granary used by the nobles for their own personal use, their food reserves would increase a lot.
Yoshitaka, who had dared to question his teacher Musashi because the disaster relief grain was replaced with brown rice, was so angry after seeing the mountains of grain and rice in the granaries that he killed several nobles with a hammer with his bare hands.
Even Kumokawa was surprised at the greed and ugliness of these nobles, as well as their ability to levy heavy taxes after receiving the letter.
They would rather let the grain rot in the warehouse than use some for disaster relief.
“That’s why I said that even if we have no food to eat, we won’t be the first to be destroyed.”
Mitsuru looked at Kumokawa, who had not panicked at all from beginning to end, adjusted his glasses and said with emotion: "Because they were already numb. We told them that there are other options besides waiting to starve to death."
"Once those who don't have enough food realize that their misfortunes are not because they don't work hard enough, nor because they are not pious enough, but because they have been deceived, their anger will burn those nobles to ashes without our help."
Mitsuru knew very well that, except for a few people like Kakuzu and Shinnō, the cohesion and aggressiveness of the rest of their team were never determined by the "leader" Kumokawa, but by how chaotic the world was, how arrogant the ninjas and nobles were, and how unfortunate the common people were.
Since joining the City of Dawn, Mitsuru has rationally observed all the changes here from the perspective of a researcher. The more he looks, the more he is amazed at Kumokawa's methods and his vision that seems to transcend the entire ninja world.
“…I’m sorry, Lord Kumokawa.”
Aki, who had lost his mind due to his lack of experience and was too anxious, soon realized this after Mitsuru's words. A look of shame appeared on his face, and he bowed and said, "I missed too much. I really made a fuss out of nothing."
"It's normal, just keep a normal mind." Kumokawa patted his shoulder, "It's not difficult to demolish a house that was once magnificent but has become riddled with holes over time. Anyone can do it."
"But it is extremely difficult to build a new house on the ruins of the old one that can shelter and protect many people. Just try and figure it out slowly."
Mitsuru didn't want the atmosphere to be so serious, so he joked, "Forget about the experience of building a house, even demolishing a house is the first time."
At this point, he suddenly paused and said seriously: "However, I believe that as long as we continue, more and more like-minded people will come to Lord Kumokawa and join us!"
Before arriving at the City of Dawn, Mitsuru always lamented that there were too few people who shared the same ideals as him.
People like him who focus on research are mostly not powerful ninjas, and they can't even use ninjutsu, but they can all use chakra, and their understanding and application of chakra are not comparable to ordinary ninjas.
They did not crudely regard chakra as the "energy" for using ninjutsu, but rather regarded "chakra" as a very convenient "energy". They were not simply bound by the form of "jutsu".
He hopes that more people who do not have the talent for ninjutsu can use this "energy" to unleash a powerful force, making it a cross-era driving force for the progress of the human world.
Unfortunately, in today's world, most ninjas are too focused on the power of "jutsu" itself, and even Tsunade's medical ninja plan is not taken seriously.
Nowadays, the use of chakra is mainly for fighting and killing purposes, so all research is focused on ninjutsu, but this has caused a serious drawback that chakra cannot be widely used.
After all, ninjas are only a very small minority of humans, not ordinary people. Chakra cannot enter the world of civilians at all. Therefore, it will never become a cross-era existence that truly promotes the evolution of the human world.
Powerful ninjutsu can only be used by powerful ninjas, and humans have become slaves to chakra, which has directly led to the stagnation of the current technological level.
Mitsuru's research direction is to enable ordinary people to use chakra and enjoy the energy of chakra. What he really wants to do is to study civilian chakra technology.
Unfortunately, the ninjas and nobles did not think much of his ideals, and looked down on his commoner status, so he received only ridicule and denial.
It was not until he joined Dawn that he met so many like-minded people.
If he hadn't met Kumokawa, he would probably still be flattering those short-sighted fools and living a day-to-day life.
Here, he doesn't need to worry about money and resources, nor does he need to travel around to avoid war. All he needs to do is do his favorite research and give full play to his talents.
In the face of Mitsuru's flattery, Kumokawa just laughed.
Everything he did was simply because this world made him feel too boring.
When he first came to this world, he was also hesitant because he was worried that his actions might change the direction of the "plot".
However, he soon realized that playing the song over and over again could not be called a song at all.
War, war, meaningless war, nothing changes at all.
So what if the future direction of this world is exactly in line with the original plot in his memory?
He came to this world, died once and came back to life again, but he didn't come to experience a real-life plot.
He doesn't have much affection for the so-called original characters, so he has no intention of sacrificing himself to make up for the regrets of the original characters.
He wanted to see a future and possibilities that were completely different from the plot in his memory.
After realizing his true thoughts, he looked down at the changes and directions of the world. He stretched out his hand and touched the stagnant sea surface, causing ripples to appear, and then, huge waves.
"This massive rebellion will begin in the Land of Rain and spread across the world."
Kumokawa cast his deep gaze towards the morning mist outside and said casually, "Soon, everyone will understand how ridiculous and absurd everything they had in the past was."
End of the Chapter.
