Yukihime thought for a moment, stroking her chin, then nodded excitedly, "Yes, I remember! Wait, I don't know where I threw it after I read it last time. Let me look for it—"
Then, Yukihime rolled up her sleeves and, completely lacking any Hime-like demeanor, rummaged through a pile of scrolls, scattering them everywhere. In a short while, she moved to another bookshelf.
Uchiha Nagi: "..."
Good heavens, the culprit behind the chaotic state of the books in this study has been found—
"Ah, I found it! It's this one, here—"
Yukihime wiped the dirt from her face and happily handed the scroll to Uchiha Nagi.
Uchiha Nagi opened it and looked. It was indeed a map from decades ago. With this, and the current map of the Land of Wind, a comparison of the two would reveal that the approximate location of the Rouran Country was in that desert area.
"Is this it? Is this it?" Yukihime asked nervously, as if she valued it even more than Uchiha Nagi. "That's right, this is what I was looking for. I need to borrow it for a while," Uchiha Nagi said, closing it after he finished looking.
"That's great! Then take it, but... but..." Yukihime suddenly became a little shy.
Selling one's ancestral land causes no pain, and a map isn't anything particularly precious, at least in her opinion.
"Is there something you want? You can tell me. Anything I have, I can exchange with you," Uchiha Nagi said.
Despite having transmigrated for twenty years, Uchiha Nagi still held onto some of a modern person's bottom lines, such as not harming defenseless women and children.
This was also why he chose to be a Medical Ninja during the Shinobi World War and not go to the front lines. If he were on the front lines, and the captain ordered him to slaughter a village, facing the elderly, women, and children in the chaos of war, would he kill or not?
Equivalent exchange was a virtue Uchiha Nagi had preserved quite well.
Yukihime happily grabbed Uchiha Nagi's hand and said, "Really? Then take me with you! I want to go beyond the Daimyo Palace city. I don't want to marry some old geezer; he's not as handsome as you."
"Old geezer?!"
Could it be an arranged marriage? Unlike the various Ninja villages that fought each other to the death, the Daimyo of each country were parasites. Besides eating and waiting to die, they also had intermarriages among themselves.
They believed commoners were unworthy of their noble blood, and Ninja... are you kidding? Ninja from the major Ninja villages, even if they remained single their entire lives, would never marry into a Daimyo's family, unless the Daimyo himself was willing to marry off a Hime.
But a noble Hime marrying a samurai class they looked down upon? In the Daimyo's eyes, Ninja were like the samurai class of old, subordinates of a retainer type, so they naturally couldn't let go of their pride. Moreover, the Kage of each village kept a close eye on the Daimyo.
You want to marry your daughter to a Jonin from our village? Are you trying to secretly cultivate power and seize control? Like the Twelve Guardian Ninja next door, trying to eliminate Konoha and seize power over the Land of Fire?
Therefore, generation after generation, the tradition was for Daimyo to marry the children of nobles, and their daughters also married nobles, including the Daimyo of surrounding countries.
"It's the Kazekage! His wife died many years ago, and then I don't know what happened, but when he came to the Daimyo Palace, Father told me to go out and meet him once. Afterward, he said I would marry him in two years—"
Yukihime looked at Uchiha Nagi with a tearful expression, "Take me away, please..."
Faced with such a situation, Uchiha Nagi didn't know what to do. "You should listen to your father..."
Yukihime shook her head like a rattle-drum, "No, no—"
Uchiha Nagi's mouth twitched. He wondered if he should just knock her out and leave. He didn't like having a burden.
"The outside world is very dangerous, and the Kazekage is also very powerful. Besides, he's probably not even forty yet, what's so bad about that..."
"He's not as handsome as you—"
"..."
Alright, that's a very powerful reason, you've convinced me... Yukihime stroked her chin, her eyes fixed on Uchiha Nagi, her little brain constantly thinking about how to get this man to take her away.
"Oh, right, is there anything you want to know? I've read all the books. I know all the stories and legends of the Land of Wind from a thousand years ago. As long as you take me with you, I can tell them all to you. Those stories are very interesting. I heard that a long time ago, the Land of Wind was ruled by a Hime who came from the moon."
Hmm?!
Uchiha Nagi suddenly had an idea. "Right, how did you get in just now without me even noticing?"
Yukihime bit her index finger, blinking her eyes twice. "Do you really want to know? Then let's do an equivalent exchange: you take me away, and I'll tell you—"
Uchiha Nagi: "..."
I shouldn't have mentioned exchanging with her just now—
Wait~
"You tell me first, then I'll consider whether or not to help you escape—" Uchiha Nagi had already activated his Sharingan and secretly began to hypnotize her.
"No, I'm afraid you won't keep your word. You're already using genjutsu on me..." Yukihime shook her head like a rattle-drum, but still didn't budge.
Uchiha Nagi was once again shocked. This girl, an ordinary person without Chakra, actually knew he was using genjutsu on her, and it seemed like she was fine? Genjutsu had no effect on her?
After thinking for a moment, Uchiha Nagi decided to take her out and see what secrets she was hiding that allowed her to be immune to the Sharingan's genjutsu, even if it was only a three-tomoe Sharingan.
"Alright, I agree. But let me say this beforehand, I can't necessarily guarantee your safety. If something unexpected happens and you die, don't blame me, because someone is hunting me."
"Okay, deal! Let's go now. If we wait any longer, it'll be dawn, and then it'll be troublesome to leave~" Yukihime said excitedly.
"Okay..." Uchiha Nagi nodded. As for whether she died or was crippled on the way, she had agreed to it herself, so if something happened, it was unrelated to him.
After they walked out the door, Uchiha Nagi scooped her up in a Hime carry, and in a few jumps, they were out of the Daimyo Palace.
Perhaps it's the Transparent World?
Along the way, Uchiha Nagi kept thinking. For the other party to be able to enter without a powerful person like him sensing any presence, only a realm similar to the Transparent World could achieve that.
Although the names might differ, the Ninja World definitely had its own "Transparent World." For example, Uchiha Madara, newly resurrected, had his Rinnegan shattered in his Edo Tensei body, and then he closed his eyes and effortlessly slaughtered a large group of enemies. Uchiha Nagi would die before believing Madara hadn't comprehended that realm.
Furthermore, Gamamaru, an old monster who had lived for over a thousand years, could even glimpse fragments of the future timeline. Such a powerful immortal must have comprehended that realm.
And the two brothers, Hagoromo and Hamura, should also be capable of it.
Could it be that this girl is a child of destiny, born with the Transparent World?
At this moment, Yukihime was just looking at the surrounding scenery with an excited expression...
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