Promote the theory of threat to Konoha, why Kirigakure brings Hide!

Chapter 68: Masato Kusaka
  At two o'clock in the morning, it was the residence of Kusaka Masato, the favorite minister of the Water Country.

The outer courtyard was brightly lit, with bright lanterns hanging high everywhere, illuminating every corner of the mansion. Heavily armed guards frequently patrolled the entire outer courtyard. Their attentive appearance and their lack of daring to slack off showed that the ruler of Japan was well-mannered.

In contrast, the entire inner courtyard was quiet. There were no guards patrolling, no lanterns hanging high, and even few maids serving the cleaning staff.

In this silent environment, a faint mist emerged from an unknown place and slowly enveloped the entire inner courtyard. As the fog formed, a shadow quietly emerged in Kusaka Masato's bedroom.

"This environment...why is it so different from what I expected!"

Gui Deng Xinyue frowned and looked at Masato Kusaka who was sleeping peacefully on the bed alone. He looked at the environment of the bedroom and felt a little incredible.

When did this important minister in the ninja world take care of his health like this? How dare you be called a daimyo's favorite if you don't have a few beauties by your side when you sleep?
  Moreover...the environment of this bedroom is too simple, right?
  Gui Deng Xinyue looked at the bedroom. There was no luxurious decoration as expected in the bedroom. Not to mention the luminous pearl gold decoration, the only decoration in the room was the woodblock print hanging on the bedside.

The bed that Masato slept on today was made of the most common wood, and the mattress was also a thin layer. The overall layout of the room was completely different from his overall identity.

Gui Deng Xinyue was sure in his perception that the person in front of him was the famous minister he had come into contact with. Unable to figure it out, he could only blame it on everyone having their own unique quirks.

So Ghost Light Xinyue came to the bed and secretly released the illusion, intending to get some news about the daimyo from Kusaka Masato.

Under the influence of the illusion, Kusaka Masato opened his eyes with no eyes and told Ghost Lantern Xinyue all the information he knew.

As expected, the daimyo was unhappy when he learned that Kirigakure had a messenger visiting him. Especially when he learned that the leader was a member of the Kiden clan, he even recalled the time when Kiden Shinyuki didn't say hello. The unauthorized offside move made him increasingly dissatisfied with Gui Deng Xinyue, the messenger he had never met before.

So under the prodding of Masato Nishika, he decided to take advantage of the free time before lunch to talk about the reduction of Kirigakure Village's military expenditure next year, and then planned to let Ghost Light Crescent Moon pack up their things and leave - even the gifts they brought. They don’t even want to see it, which shows how much the Daimyo hates Kirigakure Village.

After listening to these remarks, Ghost Light Xinyue felt troubled by the daimyo matter, but also looked at the emperor with admiration. Don't talk about this man's character, at least he took the money and really did the work!
  Not only did he go out of his way to help with suggestions, but he also resolutely resisted his competitors’ money offensive—this is simply a role model for an official, right?
  If it weren't for the fear of being detected by the castle tower, Kiden Xinyue would really want to use illusions to control him now, so that he could ignore the daimyo.

However, Gui Deng Xinyue could only sigh with regret, untied the illusion, wiped away all traces, and left here.

Time passed so quietly, and when the sky just turned white, Kusaka Masato slowly opened his eyes.

The first thing he did after getting up was not to wash up, but to pick up the woodblock print hanging beside the bed, habitually rub the scratches on its back, and then close his eyes to remember.

After a while, he opened his eyes and murmured to himself: "Two traces are missing. Did anyone come last night... Was it a ninja? Was it a daimyo? Or was it the Ghost Lantern Crescent Moon?"
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  Here, after Kiden Crescent returned to the embassy area, he shared the information he had gleaned with Yukinagi and Goju Yagura, focusing on the daimyo's dissatisfaction with Kirigakure Village and their current predicament.

"Based on the current information, this daimyo's emphasis on face is truly pathological!" After hearing this, Goji Yagura felt a little incredible.

After all, no matter how much the daimyo doesn't take ninjas seriously and thinks that his majesty is offended in the eyes of Kirigakure, it won't reach this point after all, right?
  This has almost made it clear to other countries that I am very dissatisfied with Kirigakure Village, which has no support from the daimyo at all.

Even if the daimyo has no political acumen, it cannot be justified to make such a gesture towards the armed group responsible for defending the country, right? Ghost Lantern Crescent also had the same doubts about this, but had no choice but to act according to this set of rules before he had the strength to overturn the table.

In the end, after much thought, they could only come up with one way to break the situation, which was to launch a financial offensive and find a few more ministers to speak kind words in front of the daimyo, hoping to persuade the daimyo to change his mind.

I don’t ask for anything else, just a normal opportunity to meet.

In this case, Ghost Lantern Crescent's series of methods can be used.

However, just when Ghost Light Crescent had just finalized the list of ministers and was about to go to public relations, they suddenly received a request from Kusaka Masato to visit.

"Didn't he discover your whereabouts last night?" Yuki Nagi joked to the ghost lamp Xinyue.

Of course she knew this was impossible. With the strength of Ghost Light Crescent and the concealment ability of Shanghai Mirage, she would have to be at least an elite jonin level to be able to detect something was wrong.

And to say that a minister has a ninja of this level in his family would be to take the elite jounin too seriously.

Ghost Light Xinyue was also confused as to Kusaka Masato's purpose, but from all aspects, it was impossible for an important minister to stay outside the door for a long time, so they quickly opened the door and welcomed him in.

However, what a few people didn't expect was that this day Masato didn't hide anything. Seeing no one around, he asked straight to the point: "Were you the ones who came to my room last night?"

Ghost Light Crescent wanted to deny it, after all, this kind of thing could not be brought to the table anyway, but just when he denied it, he heard Masato Kusaka repeating what he just said in an affirmative tone.

"...Sure enough, it was you last night."

The confused Ghost Light Xinyue turned her head and glanced at Xuenagi, and then suddenly realized that she had not experienced much, she couldn't hide it at all, and the strange look on her face almost made it clear.

"Then, Lord Kusaka came here not to raise an army to punish someone, right?" Gui Deng Xinyue glanced at Masato Kusaka, who looked normal, and tried to figure out his purpose.

"Of course it's not to raise an army to investigate the crime, but rather to cooperate with Minister Oniden." Kusaka Masato smiled slightly and did not deny that he had ulterior motives.

"Oh? Then I wonder what kind of cooperation can allow me to win the attention of Mr. Kusaka?" Gui Deng Xinyue was a little surprised when he heard this and asked tentatively.

"Cooperation means...killing the daimyo, how about that?"

In the room, Masato Kusaka said this with a smile.

(End of this chapter)