Minato quickly took out a sealing scroll and stored the corpse inside.
"That's a valuable trophy. Once we get this back to the village, the interrogation department might be able to extract some useful intel," he remarked. Konoha's knowledge of the Mist Village was far too limited. Any useful information could be a big win.
"Behave!" Xin scolded.
Samehada was now in his hands, but the moment he touched the handle, rows of sharp spikes jutted out, aiming to dig into his palm.
Xin immediately covered his hand in chakra, blocking the spikes. A surge of intense chakra erupted from his body, making the entire ship sway. The next moment, the defiant Samehada shrank back as if it had just met a predator, retracting its spikes and behaving itself.
Some things just needed a little reminder of who's in charge, and Samehada was definitely one of those.
After getting the sentient sword to calm down, Xin fed it some of his chakra before sealing it in a scroll.
This thing would need to be dealt with slowly.
"You're not going to use it?" Minato asked, surprised. Xin had been eyeing this weapon for ages, but now that it was finally his, he had sealed it away instead of wielding it.
Xin stored the scroll and leaped back onto the ship. "If I don't seal it properly, the Mist Village could summon it back. I need to add several layers of sealing before I can use it."
Without proper sealing, Samehada could easily be summoned back to the Mist Village. Xin wasn't about to let the sword slip out of his hands right after obtaining it.
"Did you find anything else?" he asked Minato.
Yeah, it's definitely their doing," Minato said, his face darkening as he brought out items from the cargo hold. "These are all stolen from Fire Country's merchant ships."
While raiding merchant ships wasn't exactly uncommon, bringing warships to do the job was definitely crossing a line.
If this kept up, who in their right mind would want to trade with the Land of Water? No wonder the place was broke-they couldn't even grasp basic economics.
"At this rate, nobody will want to do business with them," Minato agreed with Xin's sentiment. "If even Sand Village knows better than to raid merchants, these guys are just shooting themselves in the foot."
"Burn it. Send the scroll and the intel back to the village, and let them handle it from here. Our job's done," Xin ordered.
Once the goods and the enemy's remains were sent back, Konoha would take care of the negotiations. The Fire Daimyo would likely demand compensation from the Water Daimyo for the raids. How that played out was none of their concern.
"Leave it to me," Minato replied.
He summoned a frog to deliver the scrolls and then set fire to the Mist Village's warship. Once the flames consumed the ship, both he and Xin returned.