Chapter 185: The Tale of Jiraiya the Gallant Persistence
If you were to visit a certain flower shop to participate in the 88 Shopping Festival, which runs from August 8th to August 10th, customers who spend over 500,000 can participate in the pre-order event for Jiraiya's new book, [Icha Icha Violence]. The first hundred customers will receive Jiraiya's autograph, and the top ten customers will receive Tsunade's autograph.
Some female ninjas with violent tendencies immediately became excited. For example, Tenten participated in the pre-order event, and there's nothing more to say, she just had the money!
Ino wasn't interested in books like [Icha Icha Paradise] and [Icha Icha Violence], which represent a transition from a reserved pervert to an open one. While selling flowers, she focused on flipping through [The Tale of Jiraiya the Gallant Persistence].
A protagonist with mediocre talent and ordinary background has a remarkably gifted companion and a female companion from a noble lineage.
Afterward, the protagonist relies on their own efforts, trains diligently, overcomes laziness, and strives to become a powerful ninja.
Based on Ino's years of reading web novels, this book is well-written. The protagonist encounters fortuitous events, has moments of showing off and getting revenge on those who looked down on them, surprises onlookers, and even receives praise from important figures in the ninja world along the way. It has all the necessary elements.
The core idea of this book is to eliminate war and break the cycle of hatred through understanding and trust. It can be considered a significant step forward from the First Hokage's ideology of pacifying the chaotic world.
If Ino thought it was good, then the reading experience for other ninjas would be even better.
The majority of ninjas in Konohagakure are commoners, and they felt like they saw their own reflections in the book. Ninjas like Iruka were extremely impressed by the new Hokage's magnanimous spirit.
Even clan ninjas believed they needed to learn the new Hokage's resolute and diligent spirit and absolutely could not slack off.
Can you compare to the Yamanaka clan's genius ninja? From the outside, it looks like she's selling flowers and counting money, but these are just appearances to deceive you foolish children. In reality, all her shadow clones are training hard in the training grounds.
She's working so hard, so why aren't those of you with less talent training? What are you waiting for? Lord Hokage's book says that with perseverance, even those with poor talent can catch up to geniuses!
Ninjas like Rock Lee and Neji were training like madmen.
Seeing Jiraiya become Hokage, Tsunade seemed to recall some past events. She had been saying she wanted to leave for the past few days, but she kept delaying her departure, constantly doting on Jiraiya. Ino, on the other hand, could only find things to do on her own.
She once again extracted some puppet technique knowledge from the Fourth Kazekage's brain.
The Fourth Kazekage usually didn't use puppet techniques, and his proficiency in this area was very low. However, as the leader of a village, could you really say he knew nothing at all? That would be doing him an injustice.
He knew a little, more or less.
What he mastered were the essential parts of puppet techniques, such as Sasori's unique Human Puppet technique, which the Sunagakure ninjas had been researching for many years.
In the Fourth Kazekage's memories, the Sunagakure puppet masters had completed thirty percent of the reverse engineering of Human Puppets, and this thirty percent of the technology was all stored in the Fourth Kazekage's brain.
Ino had secretly collected Jirobo's corpse on the battlefield that day. This big, fat man, who was 1.9 meters tall, weighed over 90 kilograms, and was skilled in using Earth Release, was crushed into pieces by her Twenty-Wheel Flower Bloom. He was dead, but his corpse still had value.
This body was very strong and would make an excellent meat shield.
Now that all his bones were broken, it was actually easier for her to modify him into a Human Puppet.
Ino had already planned it out. When the time came, she would either have her shadow clone control the puppet or have the puppet cause trouble. Wouldn't that be a good way to shift the blame to Sunagakure?
Thirty percent of the Human Puppet technology was definitely not enough to complete the modification. Ino possessed knowledge of the Impure World Reincarnation dispelling seal, the complete usage methods of the Reaper Death Seal, the life-force-rich Flower Release, the Yamanaka clan's secret techniques, and slightly unusual medical ninjutsu.
She used everything she had learned on Jirobo's corpse.
Using Flower Release to gather the residual chakra within the corpse and Human Puppet techniques to modify the limbs, she had just completed two steps. Before she could use the subsequent secret techniques, the corpse collapsed. The Human Puppet technique was flawed, and the rejection reaction was very obvious.
Chakra is omnipotent, and ninjutsu is created by ninjas. Ino already had a considerable amount of miscellaneous knowledge. She believed she could continue her research. Anyway, Jirobo had already passed away, and she figured he wouldn't object to her trying.
Ino didn't place too much importance on this matter. If it worked, great; if not, it wasn't essential.
Konohagakure and Sunagakure had fought countless times during the Great Ninja War, and the Yamanaka clan had records of the basic puppet techniques from the captured brains. With a thought of "might as well since I have nothing else to do," Ino flipped through the clan records, studying this knowledge.
Two days passed. Ino, Shikamaru, and the others had a meal with Asuma. After saying goodbye to her companions, she strolled home alone.
At this time, many villagers were living in temporary tents. The Yamanaka family's flower shop was one of the few buildings in the village that had been preserved. On the way, she encountered several tenants who were renting houses. Without saying anything, since the houses were gone, she quickly returned their rent. Ino obediently took out the money.
A kunai suddenly flew in front of her eyes. She caught it effortlessly and looked up, noticing a black-clad figure running into a nearby alley in a panic.
What was going on? The figure wasn't entirely unfamiliar. She thought for a moment and then cautiously followed.
The black-clad figure didn't run far and stopped in the alley.
They removed their hood, revealing a bloodless face.
"Senior Kabuto? Weren't you dead?" Not knowing what kind of act this person was putting on, Ino decided to follow the standard procedure for now.
Kabuto was expressionless, like a dead person, and his words also sounded like those of the dead.
"Miss Yamanaka, long time no see. Just as you see, I am already dead. Orochimaru's Impure World Reincarnation brought me back... brought me back."
Ino stared intently at his face. She had to admit, Kabuto's makeup skills, movements, speech, and expressions were indeed very similar to those of someone reincarnated by Impure World Reincarnation. If she hadn't known better, another person would have truly been deceived by him.
"So, we're enemies then?" She took out a kunai and adopted a defensive stance.
Kabuto bitterly raised a hand. "No, at least not now. Orochimaru made some oversights in his control over me. Now that he's dead, my will has gained freedom, but this jutsu hasn't been dispelled..."
He rambled on for a while, clearly wanting to use Impure World Reincarnation as a cover to maintain his relationship with Ino, or at least he believed he could fool Ino, just like he had fooled Sasori.
After listening to his explanation, Ino feigned realization. "Senior Kabuto, I know the dispelling seal for the Impure World Reincarnation. The Second Hokage taught me a few tricks back then. I'll let you rest in peace now."
Rest in peace, my foot!
Yakushi Kabuto was first stunned, then overjoyed. You know the Impure World Reincarnation?
His expression changed rapidly, and he suddenly became emotional. "But... I want to live!"
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