"He's not, but Terumi Mei is."
"Do you like Terumi Mei?"
Obito tilted his head suspiciously.
In his opinion, Satoru shouldn't have this kind of affection, because of his usual vulgarity.
"No, she is my unfinished task, which I set for myself. If Kirigakure becomes troubled now, she will be very sad, which will affect my task progress."
Though Obito still seemed a little dissatisfied with this answer, but it was much better than "like".
He calmed down, took off one of the detonating talismans on his body, and jumped in a certain direction.
"Then I will give you a chance, if you can undo Terumi Mei's curse, this piece of paper will not work, otherwise... hehe, didn't you say that an ant and a person are not so different in your eyes. Let me see, who would you choose?"
After speaking, Obito disappeared.
There was only the sound of whistling wind in the air, and his words that became distant.
"You only have three days," he said.
Satoru rubbed his hair a little annoyed.
He hates this timing propositions.
(T.L Note: Why not kill him? You can easily do that. I always feel that the chapters have deteriorated in quality)
The inspectors from the mountain came up, saw Satoru standing there alone, and remembered that he was Mizukage's guest, so his tone was much more respectful than before.
"Sir, why are you here at night? It's dangerous here."
"Why is it dangerous?"
"The terrain here is high, and the visibility is not good at night, so it is possible to lose your footing."
Satoru could hear that this statement seemed to be just a reason, and the real danger might not be nature, but recognition.
He didn't have the good intentions to expose the person, and he didn't look for whether he had a detonating talisman on him or not, because there was no big difference between having and not having it.
Only Obito thought that he could kill this person anytime and anywhere, but that detonating talisman was just a "war letter".
"Thank you for your reminder, I'll go down now."
Before leaving, the team member said again, "Speaking of which, Mizukage-sama once had an accident here."
This sentence caught Satoru's attention.
"What happened?"
"This..." The team members scratched their heads a little ashamedly, and finally said, "I may be saying too much, but twelve years ago, when a person named Yamada died, Mizukage-sama came here every day, and I came to look at this place with her. Ah, though I said I was looking at this place, but in fact, it was more like pulling her home when she was exhausted. One day when I found her, I found her passed out here like every other day, but that day... there was a red circle pattern on her forehead, glowing and looked very complicated, I couldn't understand it, it was like some kind of forbidden jutsu, but since then, Mizukage-sama has never been here again."
"Then why do you think it's important enough to menton?"
"How should I say…?"
The team members scratched their heads, as if they were trying their best to find a suitable way to explain their thoughts.
"Since then, Mizukage-sama has been working very hard, as if she turned herself into a cold machine. She never came here again, and never mentioned Yamada again. I think she seems to be possessed by a demon."
Hearing so far, Satoru had understood.
She was not bewitched, but wrapped herself up in guilt and blamed herself for Yamada's death.
The thing on her forehead at that time was probably a curse.
'Was it made by Obito?'
Satoru was a little skeptical, 'Maybe I need to ask Terumi Mei.'
…
Back at Mizukage's office, Terumi Mei was still in a coma, and the protective formations around her were still the same, but Satoru felt something different.
He called Mina and Rina.
"Has anyone been here?"
The two sisters looked at each other and shook their heads.
"No, we've been guarding outside all the time."
"I saw it!"
Naruto came out of nowhere, and while lifting his hands, he said, "Last night, I saw a person who came here. When I wanted to chase him, he disappeared again. I thought I saw wrong so didn't think about it."
"What are the characteristics of that person?"
"He seemed to be wearing a cloak? I couldn't see anything else clearly."
Naruto scratched his head guiltily and said, "Sorry, I had diarrhea at that time...."
Satoru touched Naruto's head, and he was basically sure that Obito was here.
Now that the war has been declared, Terumi Mei had become a "tool". 'Was it really necessary for him to come here?'
At this time, Satoru suddenly seemed to remember something, and went over to touch Terumi Mei's head.
'This is not right!'
'Why did her curse suddenly become so strong?!'
In the past, it had only fixed her nerves, making her feel like she had fallen asleep. But now, it was as if her life-signals had been frozen, and even her heartbeat was very slow.
At the same time, Satoru also felt the strange power zone.
'It's clearly a spell!'
This discovery made Satoru's whole body look like being thrown into an ice cellar.
'Why?'
In this world, shouldn't he be the only one who can use jujutsu sorcery?
In an instant, he felt that everything around him became transparent!
Everything here began to shrink and turned into a transparent model, and he stood in the middle like a real god, looking around.
'In this already ridiculous world, is there an "outsider" like me?'
Seeing Satoru suddenly show such an expression, Naruto also panicked a little.
"What's wrong, sensei? What's wrong with this onee-san?"
"It's okay, you all go back. Mina, Rina take Terumi Mei home."
"But..." Mina said bitterly, "If Mizukage-sama doesn't wake up, there will be no one to deal with Kirigakure's government affairs. Originally, all projects have been stalled for a while, and we were just waiting for her to come back. Now everything is ready to proceed but she is inactive, how can this be done?"
Troublesome things came one after another, and now only Satoru could deal with these things.
"I'll help her deal with it, leave it to me."
"What?!"
Both the sisters' expression suddenly became serious.
Although Mizukage believed Satoru, he was an outsider after all. If all this was premeditated by him, then the whole Kirigakure and even Mizukage will be in danger.
At this time, Naruto, a small hostage, could no longer gurantee anything.
"With all due respect, Satoru-sama, what have you been doing for so long?"
"At least, I know the murderer who killed Yamada. Now only when Terumi Mei wakes up, everything can be solved, but I need a little time to break her curse. Before that, if you Kirigakure can afford to wait, then I can stay out of it."
Honestly, Kirigakure can't wait!
Not only they couldn't wait, right now in the whole village, almost no one could replace Terumi Mei and take the burden, because this couldn't convince everyone.
Only Satoru, the "guest", could help Kirigakure from a completely impartial perspective.
'Is there really no other choice?'
Are they really going to put their existence in the hands of someone they can't fully trust?
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