boyutpedia Chapter 62: Everyone I Met Was a Good Person
Chapter 62: Everyone I Met Was a Good Person
In the morning sunlight, Kiichiro stretched his back, yawned, and flicked the sleep from the corner of his eye.
"Ah~, I didn't expect that Mikami would encounter Kakuzu, a famous rogue ninja, after only a few days as a rogue ninja. It seems that his future life will be very interesting."
"Those two old bastards, Matsusaka and Toshio Doko, actually issued an assassination mission against me for a mere ten times the profit. Where is the genuine affection between people? It's truly saddening, hehehe."
Oni Ichiro's face remained all smiles, devoid of any sadness. Instead, he seemed to be gloating, contemplating how to stab his opponent in the back.
Spiritual, financial, and physical—a triple rip-off.
Outside the house, under the direction of Mikuri Tomokazu, the workers had prepared dozens of horse-drawn carriages.
Seeing Kiichiro come out, they urged the horses on, and the carriages started moving one by one.
"set off!"
"Young Master, are we really not going to hire ninjas? The situation has been very turbulent lately, and grain prices have skyrocketed. I'm afraid this grain transport won't go smoothly."
As usual, Mikuri Tomokazu was worried, but Kiichiro didn't care at all. He saw the meat buns in the food box and wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth.
"Don't worry, I believe in my personal charm, and I'm sure everyone I meet will be a good person."
Tomokazu Mikuri could only say, "I hope so."
The morning air was fresh, so Kiichiro didn't get into the carriage. Instead, he sat cross-legged on the carriage floor, eating hot meat buns and waiting for the rogue ninja to attack.
"Oh dear, you've already finished breakfast and still haven't shown up. So lazy! Don't you care about meeting your KPIs? You're a disgrace to the traitorous ninja!"
Leaving behind a shadow clone as bait, Kiichiro returned to the carriage and continued practicing hand seals.
After driving for an hour, the convoy came to a river ahead, with a stone bridge over it.
"Is this the goal? He's just a little kid after all, completely oblivious to his impending death."
Beneath the water's surface, a ninja lay in wait, observing the surroundings, and spotted the shadow clone sitting in the carriage.
The carriage slowly made its way onto the stone bridge. Just as the ninja was about to attack, he suddenly felt a pain in the back of his head and lost consciousness.
The caravan slowly crossed the stone bridge, and only then did a corpse emerge from the river. Oni Ichiro's shadow clone surfaced, looking in the direction of the carriage.
"The main body just moves its mouth, while the clones run themselves ragged, and they exploit us clones."
After complaining about Kiichiro, the shadow clone released the ninjutsu and disappeared.
Having obtained the memories of the shadow clone, Kiichiro held up one finger: "First kill!"
After walking for a while, a grove of trees appeared ahead of the convoy, where a dozen or so rogue ninjas dressed in various styles stood on the branches.
"Target spotted, prepare... Ah!"
A rogue ninja was killed, and the surrounding rogue ninjas became tense and shouted in all directions.
"Damn it, who attacked us? Show yourself!"
A sound began to echo from all directions in the woods.
"Let me out, okay."
Dozens of Kiichiro's shadow clones emerged from all directions, surrounding the rogue ninja...
By the time the convoy entered the forest road, the battle was over.
On the road, Mikuri Tomokazu found a kunai and immediately became alert, showing it to Kiichiro.
"Young master, there seem to be ninjas here. Should we take a detour?"
Kiichiro took the kunai and said with a smile, "It was probably dropped by a ninja. Let's keep it for him for now."
Seeing his young master so carefree, Mikuri Tomokazu felt both headache and helplessness.
After a while, Mikuri Tomokazu found another long sword and once again found Oni Ichiro.
"Young master, there must be a ninja battle here. Look, there's blood on this sword. We can't go any further."
In two seconds, Kiichiro had made up a lie.
"This is a ninja barbecuing. He was killing a chicken with a knife, but he was so full that he forgot about the knife."
Do you even believe what you're saying?
Despite repeated attempts by Tomokazu Mikuri to persuade him, Kiichiro refused to listen. Mikuri even felt that the Kurasaka family was now at risk of dying out.
Not long after they left, Tomokazu Mikuri saw an unlit explosive tag in the grass. Terrified, he ran to see Kiichiro again.
"Young Master, this is an explosive tag! If it explodes, we'll all die. Stop it, Young Master."
Kiichiro stopped lying and put away the explosive tags, nodding in satisfaction: "Explosive tags are valuable. I didn't expect to have such an unexpected gain, hahaha!"
Tomokazu Mikuri was almost in tears: "Young Master, now is not the time to worry about these things."
Kiichiro, however, became interested and urged Mikuri Tomokazu to hurry up.
"Go and take a closer look, you might find something even more valuable, hahaha, hurry up and pick up the equipment."
Under the protection of the shadow clones, the convoy safely arrived at the location of the granary.
Inside the granary, Matsusaka and Toshio Tsuchiko were greatly surprised when their subordinates reported that Oniichiro had gone outside.
"How is that possible? We paid a high price! Why didn't the rogue ninja kill Kiichiro?!"
The Matsusaka man from Ise roared ferociously, while Toshio Tsuchiko trembled and pointed behind the Matsusaka man from Ise.
"Ninja... Oniichiro has hired an even more powerful ninja..."
Matsusaka-jin from Ise suddenly turned around and saw a masked young ninja, who was none other than a shadow clone of Kiichiro.
The shadow clone delivered a single punch, causing the Matsusaka man from Ise to bend over like a shrimp and vomit on the ground.
When the warehouse door was opened, Tomokazu Mikuri was very surprised by the scene inside.
"what happened?"
Matsusaka Tomokazu and Toshio Tsuchiko, with their hands bound, lay on the ground, groaning weakly. They had many bruises on their bodies, clearly having been badly beaten.
At this moment, Tomokazu Mikuri realized what was happening and looked at Kiichiro.
"Young Master, could it be that you secretly hired ninjas?"
Kiichiro smiled, neither confirming nor denying Mikuri Tomokazu's question.
"They hired ninjas to assassinate me for their own profit, and they must pay the price."
The reason why Oniichiro didn't kill Matsusaka and Toshio Tsuchiko was certainly not because he was kind, but because of greater interests.
Besides the grain business, the two of them also owned many other businesses, which amounted to a tremendous amount of wealth. Their existence was solely for the purpose of inheriting this wealth.
These industries are quite diverse and complicated to manage. In addition, Kiichiro is not capable of keeping them all to himself, so he will entrust most of them to Takeki Nishio.
This time, Kiichiro had a valid argument: taking this wealth did not constitute robbery.
With Takeki Nishio's endorsement, Kiichiro no longer needs to worry about retaliation or hidden dangers.
As for Matsusakato and Toshio Doko, they will die in some hidden corner after experiencing the pain of becoming penniless.
Even if Kiichiro doesn't take action, Takeki Nishio will, and eliminate any future troubles.
The matter was resolved satisfactorily, and the grain speculation was a great success. Tomokazu Mikuri was very happy, while Kiichiro handed over the follow-up work to Tomokazu Mikuri and disappeared again.
The Cloud Ninja he hired sent word that they had discovered Kuroda Hiroki's whereabouts.
"Last time, we were delayed because of the Cloud Ninja's pursuit, and we failed to kill him. This time, we cannot let him go again."