In Takiguni Village, Mizuki did not deliberately inquire about any information. Apart from the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki, this village has not found anything that Mizuki is particularly concerned about.

Mizuki didn't find anything unusual about the village. But the village's greatest treasure, the Earth Grudge, was taken away by the traitor Kakuzu decades ago.

It is a pity that the successor is incompetent and cannot develop something similar. The last time Mizuki met Kakuzu, the opponent was so aggressive that he had no time to think about it. If he could get the Earth Grudge at that time, he would have seen what this thing was.

"Looking at the same snow scene every day is indeed spectacular, but I get tired of it after seeing it too much."

Shuimu stood in front of a huge waterfall and sighed deeply. Even in such cold weather, it could not freeze completely. The silver water rushed down with lingering mist and fell into the cold pool below. The splashing water froze into small ice crystals in the cold air before falling into the water and disappearing.

"Fire Style - Great Fire Extinguishment!"

Shuimu, who has been feeling unlucky recently and is feeling depressed, wants to try out the power of Fire Escape in this extreme environment. At the same time, in order to vent his unhappiness, he uses a high-level Fire Escape to rush up the waterfall with Shuimu's depression.

My goodness, the extremely high temperature met the cold water, and the two collided with each other, causing a violent explosion sound wave that spread far away. The cold water continued to fall, but was pushed back by the rapidly evaporating and rising water vapor, and even produced a terrifying effect of cutting off the waterfall. However, once the ninjutsu ended, the pouring water quickly submerged all the fluctuations, and the hot air that hit the face was replaced by the cold current in an instant.

"Human power is still no match for the might of nature. How disappointing!"

Although I had guessed the result long ago, it was still disappointing. Uzumaki Naruto could even cut off a waterfall by practicing wind jutsu, but the obviously superior ninjutsu had little effect. It seemed that water jutsu was really the nemesis of fire jutsu.

After the temporarily blocked waterfall extinguished all the heat waves, it rolled down with greater impact, a huge roar sounded, and then the waves began to spread outward. Mizuki, who hid aside in time, watched the falling small drops of water mixed with ice crystals slowly flow down the chakra shield.

"Hey, what are you doing here? Making such a big noise?"

The sound of flapping wings came from far away, and then a clear female voice came into Shuimu's ears.

"Can't you see? I'm catching fish. By heating up the water, the fish hiding at the bottom of the pond might float up, and then I can catch them and grill them!"

"Hey, is this really okay? I've never seen any fish in this pond before..."

"There are no fish, right?" Shuimu originally just wanted to make a joke, but he didn't expect to make an unexpected discovery.

"Don't you know? No wonder you are so reckless to catch fish here. There seems to be some harmful things in this pond water. No matter whether it is humans or animals, if they drink it for a long time, they will eventually get an incurable strange disease and die painfully. So, there can't be any fish here." The naive girl Fu proudly showed off her knowledge.

"Why didn't you tell me earlier? You're wasting my time..."

As he spoke, Mizuki pulled out a scroll from the ninja tool bag on his back, unfolded it, and performed sealing techniques. With the power of the spreading sealing runes, a large pool of water was drawn in front of him and then sealed inside the unfolded scroll.

"What are you doing?" Fu asked curiously.

"Save some of the river water as a souvenir. It may be difficult to come to Takinin Village again in the future, so take it back as a specialty this time." After all, she was just a little girl with little knowledge, so Mizuki spoke perfunctorily.

"I see! It's useless to bring back just this water, why not bring something else?"

"Then do you have anything good to recommend?" Shuimu asked with a smile.

Fu, who was eager to try, had been waiting for Mizuki to say this, and couldn't wait to introduce some new and interesting things in Takigakure to Mizuki.

Looking at this somewhat naive female ninja happily leading the way in front, Mizuki looked at the green-haired girl's wings that were transparent to the point of being almost imperceptible and constantly vibrating, thinking deeply.

"It's really convenient. Maybe I should prepare some ninjutsu that can fly. At least the ability to stay in the air is essential."

Taking into account that the advantages of ninjas who can fly will become greater and greater in the future, this point must be put on the agenda. The stunt second only to space-time ninjutsu will bring out the advantages of medium and long-range attack ninjas to the fullest.

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In the Land of Water, in the dark interrogation room of the Hidden Mist Village, Yan Liu, with a solemn face, sat in a specially made cell, with several ANBU guarding nearby. Outside the cell, Terumi Mei, with a look of regret on her face, said: "Originally, I wanted you to be released as soon as possible and continue to work hard for the village. During this period of interrogation, I also believe that you have nothing to hide, and I am very satisfied with the information you provided. However, if you make a mistake, you must be punished, and you didn't even do anything to atone for your crime. You just confessed after being arrested, so the resolution to release you has not been passed."

Yan Liu seemed to have anticipated this result: "I am satisfied that I have not been identified as a traitor even though I did something that was no different from desertion. It would be too unfair to others if I was let off. I deserve to be punished."

"Okay." Mei Terumi knew the temperament of this powerful old stubborn man very well. "The village is in ruins and every ninja is very valuable. Once the accusations against you are resolved, I will set you free as soon as possible."

"Thank you for your generosity and trust, Mizukage-sama. I am deeply grateful."

Still using that hard tone, Mei Terumi also sighed: "Do you have anything else to say?"

At this point, Yan Liu seemed to remember something and couldn't help but say loudly: "Be careful of Konoha's Jonin Mizuki, he is very dangerous, don't be fooled by his appearance and reputation!"

"I understand." Mei Terumi answered knowingly.

A few months ago, the Konoha exchange ninjas came to the Hidden Mist Village. Jiraiya was the one who suppressed the situation, and Hatake Kakashi was the one who handled the affairs. Mizuki didn't have a strong presence in the crowd. Even after a big battle on the waters of the Land of Water, the Mist Ninjas didn't think that Mizuki, who fought side by side with Hatake Kakashi to defeat the enemy, was that powerful. Mizuki, whose brilliance was overshadowed by the "copy ninjas", was ignored like a star twinkling in the moonlight.