"I was the one who dragged the two of them out for drinks."
"So if you want to punish someone, punish me!"
Kuishan was bold reckless, even as he spoke.
"No rules, no order."
"Since you broke my rules, punishment is unavoidable."
Qianye tapped his fingers on the table lightly.
"In that case… I'll fine you one month's salary."
He said it calmly.
Hearing this,
Kuishan despite mentally preparing himself still felt his heart twist in pain.
After all,
his annual salary as a teacher here was a full hundred million ryō.
Which meant his monthly salary was over eight million ryō.
And Qianye had just casually fined him over eight million ryō.
How much good alcohol could he buy with that kind of money!?
Qianye continued:
"The reason I forbid you from leaving the clan grounds casually"
"First, I worry you might revert to your old bad habits and cause trouble in the village."
"Second, I worry people with bad intentions will target you."
"Just like tonight…"
Kuishan lowered his head in shame.
"I didn't understand your good intentions before. I apologize."
"But my sister is now very likely in the hands of your Konoha people," he said urgently.
"You HAVE to help me!"
"That person pretending to be your sister wasn't acting completely blindly."
"Your sister was most likely captured by Konoha's intelligence division as a suspected spy."
"Since she's a captured spy, her life won't be in danger for the time being."
Qianye's tone was steady and analytical.
"According to Konoha's established procedures, captured spies are first interrogated for intelligence."
"After that, they're rarely killed immediately."
"More often they're used as bargaining chips exchanged with the foreign village for money, captured Konoha operatives, or political leverage."
"Also based on the fighting style you described, their coordinated elemental ninjutsu, and the fact that all three chose suicide by biting their tongues"
"They were definitely Root."
Qianye's gaze sharpened.
"That means your sister… is most likely in Danzo's hands."
Hearing that name,
Kuishan's face froze.
Danzo a man synonymous with the deepest darkness of the shinobi world.
Even as a former Iwagakure jōnin and a hardened rebel,
Kuishan knew:
Saving someone from Danzo Shimura's hands…
was anything but simple.
Therefore, he had to look at Qianye again and said seriously: "I only have such a sister. As long as you can rescue her, I can promise you anything! I can even work for you like a cow or a horse!"
Qianye replied calmly, "Being a cow or a horse is too serious. Let's put it in more professional terms: I'll accept the mission from you. And the mission remuneration… will be your remaining eleven months of salary."
Kuishan: "…"
Before this, he was fined one month's salary.
Now he had to take out the remaining eleven months to pay Qianye as a task reward.
Hmm…
Why did it feel like this brat was doing it on purpose?
Why else would it add up to exactly one full year?
This was clearly the rhythm of locking him into labor for an entire year!
Damn it!
Is this little ghost really trying to make money off Konoha just to bring it home and hoard it???
Seeing this, Gabriel who had witnessed the entire process from beginning to end snorted coldly, then silently clutched his own wallet.
At the same time, he silently swore in his heart that he would never provoke this little ghost ever again…
After all, as a puppeteer, he constantly had to pour money into maintaining and upgrading his puppets.
Puppet materials weren't cheap, and every improvement cost a fortune.
So if HE ever got fined, the blow to his finances would be even worse than Kuishan's!
...
Root Organization Base.
When dawn finally arrived,
Danzo still had not seen the three subordinates he sent out return.
At that moment, he understood the operation had failed.
And most likely, those three subordinates met a violent end.
Beyond anger, what filled him even more was heartache.
Because those were three genuine jōnin-level operatives!
And now without so much as a corpse left they were gone.
This was an enormous loss for Root.
Especially infuriating was the report that all three of those Uchiha school teachers had shown up at class today as usual…
"No injuries. No absences. Nothing."
"Unforgivable!!"
Danzo finally lost control and roared in fury.
Originally, he thought:
Even if the three jōnin couldn't kill them, they should at least injure them enough so they wouldn't be able to teach for a while.
As long as they caused disruption to Uchiha's education project, it would count as partial success.
But the reality…
Was that his three jōnin were simply delivered like offerings completely for nothing!!
Damn it!!!!
The next moment,
Danzo slammed his hands across the table, knocking everything to the floor in a violent crash!
...
After a long time, his emotions finally calmed down a little.
"If this mission has failed, the Uchiha will definitely increase their vigilance. It will be difficult to find another suitable opening in the future…"
"And the strength of those three teachers needs to be re-evaluated…"
"It seems… this matter can only be set aside for now."
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