Chapter 470: Sharpening the Knife to Attack Danzo

What happened in the next few days was earth-shattering.

Ino formally proposed her own Nine-Rank System at the village's high-level meeting. Jiraiya, Utane Koharu, and Mito Kado En all expressed limited support, while Danzo strongly opposed it. The meeting only started and then ended.

In this kind of meeting, Ino's say is far less than that of Danzo.

She had no choice but to find another way. That afternoon, she took Shikaku with her, and the two of them went to the royal capital, where they found the daimyo's younger brother, Enichikyu. Then, she somehow convinced the daimyo and got his support for the Nine-Rank System.

The official letter sent by the daimyo to Konoha was vague, but the core meaning was only one: he hoped that after Konoha unified the ninja world, it would support him in unifying the five major countries.

If the five major countries were to truly unify, it would indeed reduce wars by more than 90%. The balance in Jiraiya's heart had already tipped towards supporting one side.

But no one expected that within two days, an explosive piece of news would spread from the capital of the Fire Nation to Konoha Village.

The Fire Country Daimyo was assassinated.

More than a dozen young and handsome attendants died with him.

The scene was a river of blood, and the murderer's methods were extremely cruel.

The radical Kazuma, one of the Twelve Guardian Ninjas, had been killed by Ino long ago, but the daimyo was still protected by a large number of ninjas. He had shadow dancers, escape passages, and communication symbols for emergency contact with Konoha. Unfortunately, many of the protective measures were not used, and the daimyo died in his own room.

The daimyo's younger brother, Enichikyuu, immediately contacted Konoha Village to capture the murderer.

Several high-ranking officials of Konoha all observed Danzo with their peripheral vision. Ino looked at him with an unbelievable look, meaning how could you be so unscrupulous? Didn't the Daimyo support my proposal? You killed the Daimyo for such a small matter? ! The Daimyo is such a kind and amiable person? How could you do such a heinous thing! Danzo snorted coldly, and muttered in his heart, who killed the Daimyo? He originally wanted to use the Sharingan to find the Daimyo to "argue" in two days, how could this person suddenly die? Jiraiya responded quickly and sent Tsunade and Ino to the capital to investigate overnight.

The murderer did not leave any traces, obviously an old hand. Tsunade came here to look for clues from the perspective of a medical ninja.

Ino came to let her "communicate with spirits".

Including En Ichikyu, the five family elders and five great magistrates of the Land of Fire watched her channeling on the spot. Then they saw the murderer in the memory of the deceased. It was an old man with white cloth wrapped around his right eye and right arm, a stern face, and wearing a traditional black robe.

"It's really Danzo!?" Tsunade was shocked by the result. She always knew that Danzo was very brave, but she didn't expect him to be so brave.

But if you think about it carefully, this is indeed Danzo's simple and rough style of doing things. He could send Kakashi to assassinate the Third Hokage back then. Now, for the sake of his own position as Hokage, it doesn't seem strange that he brings a few people to kill the daimyo.

Ninjas possess extraordinary powers, but they actually look down on daimyo from the bottom of their hearts. Isn't it just a little money? What's so great about it?

"My poor elder brother! You died so tragically!" Yuan Ichikyu, who had a good relationship with the three families of Ino, Shika and Chou, burst into tears and started howling while holding the daimyo's stiff corpse. The family elders and magistrates had gloomy faces and exchanged glances with each other, but no one spoke.

Tsunade and Ino repeatedly stated that Konoha would give an explanation to the Fire Nation, and that Danzo's actions could not represent the Konoha Ninja Village. After comforting Madoka Ichikyu, who appeared sad but was secretly happy in his heart, the two hurried back to the village.

Jiraiya was also not expecting Danzo's madness.

But getting rid of Danzo now is a good opportunity. It will allow Tsunade to take the position smoothly. At the same time, it can also give Itachi and Sasuke an explanation that is not really an explanation. It is still the same blame-shifting method. You see, all the bad things were done by Danzo. Now that we have killed him, has the resentment in your brothers been calmed down a little? "Let's take people to arrest Danzo now! Ask him why he did this!" Tsunade has long disliked Danzo, and now she said it firmly.

Jiraiya indicated that he was not in a hurry: "I'm going to meet someone else. We can solve our business and personal grievances together."

The two of them didn't even mention the daimyo's death.

As long as the Daimyo is not hostile to Konoha Village, the Ninja Village doesn't care who is the Daimyo.

Jiraiya goes to see Konan.

"Konan, how did Yahiko die? Was it Danzo?" Jiraiya asked about this private matter that he cared about very much.

In fact, he had already found out the answer, but he still hoped that Xiaonan could tell him in person.

There was a hint of pain on Konan's expression. Her tone was cold as she recounted how Hanzo of the Salamander had colluded with Danzo Shimura, and how the ninjas of the Hidden Rain Village and the Root Ninjas of Konoha had teamed up to set an ambush. In the end, she was captured by Hanzo, and how Yahiko committed suicide by running into the kunai in Nagato's hand in order to save himself.

"Danzo, that old dog!" Jiraiya was really angry. He slammed his fist on the table, his face full of pain.

Yahiko, Nagato and Konan are all his disciples.

His initial purpose might have been sympathy. He thought that he only needed to teach the three some basic ninjutsu so that they could have the ability to protect themselves. Later, when he saw Nagato's Rinnegan, he thought that this was related to the Son of Prophecy of the Great Toad Sage. He immediately became active and spent a lot of effort on the three, especially Nagato.

Jiraiya's original purpose was not simple, but after three years of living together day and night, Jiraiya treated the three of them as his own children. Now that he heard that Yahiko died because of Danzo, he immediately decided to cut the Gordian knot.

Don’t interrogate him anymore. Take this opportunity to kill him right away!

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He came to Ino again: "Little Ino, this is the Yamanaka family?"

Ino answered simply, "There is no problem with the Yamanaka family. Ino-Shika-cho will always support the Hokage. Besides, I can go talk to my cousin."

Jiraiya was particularly active this time when it came to Yahiko and Konan. If you didn't know, you would have thought that he was the one who sent people to kill the daimyo and then framed Danzo. Procedures must be followed when doing things, and if the Hokage wants to take down a consultant, he must do it flawlessly.

The Hokage cannot be a referee and play football at the same time, he must have a legitimate reason.

Who will be the plaintiff? Saying that the daimyo was killed, and taking down the advisor who made great contributions to the village based on just a little suspicion, will make the ninja village look particularly humble.

It is even more absurd to say that Danzo killed Yahiko. Who is Yahiko? Is he a ninja from Konoha Village?

Now we can only look back on the past.

The Aburame family, who deeply hated Danzo because of the Worm Valley incident, had already secretly joined Jiraiya.

Now the Yu Nu family has to be the victims, are you willing to do it?

Aburame Zhiwei nodded in agreement, let’s do it!

Soon, a report that Danzo Shimura colluded with the Iwagakure ninja to destroy the Aburame family's important base reached Jiraiya.

Jiraiya put on the Hokage hat and the divine robe, led the Anbu ninjas directly under his command to the headquarters of the Root ninjas, and asked Danzo to cooperate with his investigation.

(End of this chapter)