Chapter 73 Main Quest 5: The True Word Officially Appears

"Just kidding." Upon hearing Zhenyan asking for money for the wine, Jiraiya quickly changed his words.

Jiraiya fixed his eyes on Shingon. Although he was smiling, his eyes were sharp: "You don't look like a wine seller, but more like an assassin."

"Really?" Zhenyan touched the hair behind his head and couldn't help asking, "Are you more handsome than before?"

"It's indeed different from before." Namikaze Minato continued.

Shingo looked at Minato Namikaze and almost blurted out "Uncle Minato"...

Shinyan bit the tip of his tongue lightly, thinking of Itachi's instructions, he thought to himself that he really couldn't relax too much...

Shingon suddenly became serious. He glanced at the sofa in front of the table and chose a seat on the side away from Jiraiya, while Namikaze Minato chose another seat on the side away from Jiraiya.

The two made this choice because there was a drinking girl sitting on each side of Jiraiya...

Jiraiya looked at the two of them and said in a nonchalant tone: "You two really don't know how to enjoy yourself!"

Shingon glanced at Jiraiya and thought that if Jiraiya continued like this, he would never be able to catch up with Tsuna.

The girl tactfully opened the wine that Zhenyan brought and poured a glass for Jiraiya.

Jiraiya picked up the wine glass. He only took a sniff and knew it was good wine. He looked at Shingen and asked, "What do you want us to exchange for such a precious wine?"

"I do have one request." Zhenyan didn't hesitate to state the purpose of his visit. "I hope you will obey the law while you are in Yuyin Village."

Jiraiya and Minato Namikaze looked at each other subconsciously, and Minato Namikaze asked: "What do you mean by abiding by the rules and laws?"

"I just hope that while you are investigating intelligence, you will not disturb the normal lives of the residents of Yuyin Village." Zhenyan said.

Namikaze Minato and Jiraiya looked at each other again, and both of them thought a lot in their minds because of Shingen's words.

First of all, what Zhenyan said sounded like he was letting them off the hook. If that was the case, it would mean that there might be disunity within the Mingxiao organization. Secondly, Zhenyan might also be setting a trap for them. Of course, both of them were more inclined to the latter.

Regardless of whether it is the former or the latter, the truth coming to them is an opportunity for them to obtain intelligence.

"Thank you very much for your company, ladies. We have distinguished guests to entertain today. I will come to take care of your business next time." Jiraiya suddenly said to the two girls. Although he was sorry, the next content was not suitable for outsiders to be present.

The two girls also noticed the tense atmosphere in the room, so they left very tactfully and considerately helped close the door.

"What is your purpose?" Jiraiya asked bluntly. He learned this from Shingon, so just ask directly if you have something to say.

"Didn't I just say that?" Zhenyan was a little distressed. He didn't understand why everyone liked to ask the same questions over and over again.

"No one can tolerate their village being investigated by outsiders." Jiraiya stared at Shingo as he spoke. He wanted to capture Shingo's emotions, but he only saw the orange vortex mask and the boy's high ponytail.

"If you are upright, you have nothing to fear. We have done nothing wrong." Zhenyan said, "As long as you two do not disrupt the order of the village and do not disturb the normal lives of the villagers, you can investigate if you want."

"Isn't it your people who control the Hidden Mist Village and the Hidden Sand Village?" Namikaze Minato pointed out the bad things done by the Akatsuki organization.

"What if they were the first to attack?" Zhenyan threw the question back.

"What about Konoha Village?" Namikaze Minato's expression was unusually cold. "The Nine-Tails incident back then was related to you, right?"

"The war has sown a lot of seeds of pain and hatred." This is all Shingen could say. It would be most appropriate for Obito to explain what happened back then himself, but Obito hasn't figured it out yet.

Namikaze Minato was stunned for a moment. He had indeed guessed that the incident back then was a revenge by enemies made during the war, but if that was the case, why didn't he have any impression of the masked ninja?

Namikaze Minato frowned in thought, and Jiraiya continued to ask: "How do you explain the attack on the Jinchuriki of each ninja village?"

"This is slander!" Shingon slammed the table and said, "Those Jinchūriki didn't even get a scratch, how can you say they were attacked?"

Jiraiya: “…………”

Namikaze Minato: “…………”

"Is your target the tailed beast?" Jiraiya asked again.

"You guys investigate this yourselves," Zhenyan said, "If I tell you everything, what are you investigating?"

Jiraiya: “…………”

Namikaze Minato: “…………”

"Do you know aliens?" Minato Namikaze asked another question that he cared about.

Zhenyan smiled and said, "Maybe I am."

The two fell silent again. After a while, Minato Namikaze spoke again: "So you know about aliens?"

"I can only say that there are indeed aliens in the ninja world. The rest is up to you to investigate on your own. You may not believe me even if I tell you."

Unknown aliens are the common enemy of the ninja world. Zhenyan really wants to say it, but Minato Namikaze cannot return to the village before the main mission is completed, so it is better to leave some content and let the two of them investigate it themselves.

Namikaze Minato and Jiraiya exchanged glances, and Jiraiya asked again: "Are you the leader of the Akatsuki organization?"

Zhenyan shook his head: "I'm just a temporary worker."

Jiraiya: “…………”

Namikaze Minato: “…………”

Jiraiya and Minato Namikaze suspected that Mangon was making a joke of them. If Mangon was a temporary worker, could what he just said represent other people in the Akatsuki organization?

"I came here after asking for the chief's permission." Zhenyan finished explaining and couldn't help but emphasize again, "As long as you two don't disturb the villagers' normal lives, we have no objection to you staying here."

"You really don't mind?" Jiraiya still found it hard to believe.

"If I minded, I would have taken action earlier." Zhenyan said.

Hearing this, Minato Namikaze and Jiraiya's faces froze, and they both remembered the last time they fought with Shingon, or in other words, the time when they were unilaterally controlled by Shingon...

From this perspective, there was really no need for the truth to lie to them, but they still found it hard to believe. After all...

"As far as I know, the members of the Akatsuki organization are all rebel ninjas?" Jiraiya said again.

"A traitor is not necessarily a bad person, right? There are dark corners in the ninja village where the sun doesn't shine." Zhenyan looked at the two people and suddenly remembered the Uchiha clan's extinction. "Perhaps you can investigate the truth behind the Uchiha clan's extinction."

"What do you know?" Namikaze Minato asked hurriedly. He had always been confused about the Uchiha clan's extermination incident.

Zhenyan didn't want to say anything more. He stood up and finally said to the two people: "I hope you enjoy your stay here."

Seeing that Shingon was about to leave, Jiraiya spoke again: "According to what you said, how long can we stay here?"

Zhenyan paused and turned to the two people: "You can stay here forever, or join the Xiao organization, I welcome you too."

Jiraiya couldn't help but raise an eyebrow: "What are your criteria for recruiting people?"

Shingo looked at Jiraiya's forehead and said, "It's very simple. Just draw a line on the forehead guard."

"By the way, it would be better to have some alternative hobbies." Zhenyan added.

"Alternative hobby?"

"For example, painting nails, doing handicrafts, or watching people being buried."

Jiraiya: “…………”

Namikaze Minato: “…………”

After coming out of the tavern, Zhenyan had no urgent tasks to do. He had some free time, so he strolled around the Hidden Rain Village.

The Hidden Rain Village is now as bustling and prosperous as the Hidden Leaf Village. Shingon was walking on the busy streets. When he passed by a steamed bun shop and smelled the fragrance, he couldn't help but stop and said, "Granny, give me two steamed buns."

When the old lady selling steamed buns saw Zhenyan's outfit, she immediately packed two steamed buns and handed them to Zhenyan, saying with a smile, "Take them and eat them. It's free."

Zhenyan was stunned for a moment, then said, "How can I take your buns for free?"

Zhenyan wanted to give him money, but the old lady refused. She looked at the black robe with red clouds on Zhenyan and said, "Thanks to Lord Payne's blessing, we can live a stable life."

What Six Paths Pain wore was actually the rebel ninja's helmet, but for the villagers, they didn't care whether he was a rebel ninja or not. They only knew that Pain was the one who brought peace to the Hidden Rain Village.

Zhenyan felt the warmth of the bun in his hand, and then looked at the kind smile on the old lady's face, and he smiled too: "Thank you very much."

Zhenyan said goodbye to the old lady, and he held the steaming hot buns in his hands, intending to go back and eat them later.

"The Eternal Art Processing Factory's new three-wheeled trucks are available at a 20% discount if you join the Evil God Cult." A flyer was suddenly stretched out in front of Zhenyan from the side.

"Huh?" Zhenyan stopped and looked at the person handing out flyers, and the person handing out flyers also looked at Zhenyan.

The two looked at each other in silence for two seconds. After recognizing each other, Zhenyan greeted him, "It's Brother Hidan."

After saying that, Shingon turned his attention to the flyer in front of him and couldn't help asking, "Does Kakuzu know about the discount?"

Hidan is in charge of publicity, and Kakuzu is in charge of money. Once before, when selling bicycles, Hidan used his power to promote the evil cult for personal gain and gave the consignees great discounts. As a result, Kakuzu found something wrong when he checked the accounts. After finding out the reason, he directly fought with Hidan.

At the end of the fight, Hidan was cut into eight pieces, in the physical sense of the word, and it is said that it took a long time to put the pieces back together.

Feiduan looked around quickly, and after confirming that there was no Kakuzu nearby, he said in a sly voice, "That guy has no faith at all except money. Do you know the power of faith? You can experience it by joining the evil cult..."

Just as Feiduan finished speaking, a cold voice came from behind him: "If you continue to promote your boring stuff under the guise of selling goods, I will chop you into eighteen pieces."

Kakuzu knew that Hidan was not honest. Since the last time, he borrowed a few White Zetsu from the Information Department's Black Zetsu to keep an eye on Hidan, and sure enough, he was caught by him again.

"I've already figured out your weakness. Let's see whether you chop me into eighteen pieces first, or I pierce your five hearts first." Feiduan was not willing to be outdone, and raised his hand to take off the big sickle on his back.

Kakuzu also rolled up his sleeves, and many tentacles emerged from his two exposed arms...

"Huh?" Shingen looked around. He had just talked with his fellow Konoha people about abiding by the rules and laws, so how come people within the organization were about to start a fight?

Now they were still on the street. If the two of them started fighting, passers-by would definitely be affected. Zhenyan spoke up to persuade them, "You two, talk it out and don't fight."

After saying the true words, Hidan put the large scythe back on his back, and Kakuzu retracted his tentacles and lowered his sleeves.

After they finished doing this, they were both stunned for a moment, and then turned to Zhenyan at the same time: "You..."

"Brother Hidan, Brother Kakuzu, we are a peace-loving organization." Shingon looked at the crowd of onlookers attracted by the two's actions and said, "Fighting will tarnish our corporate image and affect product sales."

In the crowd, Jiraiya asked Minato Namikaze: "How credible do you think what this person said before is?"

"The temporary worker's statement is probably false." said Minato Namikaze.

Jiraiya looked at Shingon's back and said, "I also think that judging from this man's behavior, he is most likely the real leader behind the scenes."

Shingon didn't hear the conversation between Jiraiya and Minato Namikaze, but he saw it in the latest update of the manga...

The main storyline turns to the Akatsuki organization, so naturally the Akatsuki organization has to be introduced, and the perspective chosen by the comic author is Jiraiya.

In previous comics, Minato Namikaze, who had never had a frontal shot, was also drawn in, but the comic author did not specify Minato Namikaze's identity.

In addition to Minato Namikaze, Mangon, who had been in the shadow before, also has a full-color picture. Mangon, Jiraiya and Minato Namikaze together, the three of them became the cover of the latest issue of the comic.

The cover shows the scene where the three meet in a tavern. Shingon is standing outside the door with a glass of wine, while Minato Namikaze and Jiraiya inside the door look as if they are facing a formidable enemy.

As for the content of the comic, it describes the conversation between the three people and the incident when Shingon met Kakuzu Hidan on the street after leaving the tavern.

[A new character has appeared!]

[Am I the only one who thinks the blond boy looks a bit like Naruto?]

[The blond hair and blue eyes are not too obvious. Could he be Naruto's long-lost brother?]

[We are not separated, right? We are together with Jiraiya.]

[So who is the yellow-haired guy? Why didn’t he appear before?]

[I have explained here that we have been investigating the Xiao organization.]

[Is this Xiao organization a villain?]

[It is an organization that is both good and evil]

[Didn’t the wine seller say that they are not afraid of their own shadows?]

[He is not a wine seller, he is clearly the leader of the organization]

[Leader +1, this is clearly a common trick of pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger]

[Leader +2 can no longer agree]

[So why does the leader of the organization sell alcohol himself?]

It didn’t bring discredit to the organization, but it inexplicably became the leader’s true words: “???”!