Spreading Konoha Conspiracy Theories, I - Rasa - Did Nothing Wrong! Chapter 216 216: No Need to Think About It—It Was Definitely

Kirigakure was more than happy to watch the commotion.

Given Kirigakure's current situation, it had basically already been expelled from the ranks of the great shinobi villages.

At most, it could now be called the strongest village beneath the Four Great Shinobi Villages.

But the problem was that, in the past, more than a few shinobi villages had carried the title of strongest village beneath the great villages.

For example, Uzushiogakure during the earliest days of the shinobi village system.

The fact that they had been able to form a marriage alliance with Konoha's Senju clan, with the princess of the Uzumaki clan marrying Senju Hashirama—the God of Shinobi himself—was enough to show Uzushiogakure's strength and status.

Then there was Takigakure.

Back then, as the only shinobi village outside the Five Great Shinobi Villages to possess a jinchuriki, its leader had even dared to order his subordinates to assassinate Senju Hashirama.

And then there was Agakure, which produced Hanzo of the Salamander.

Dissatisfied with the distribution of interests in the shinobi world, Agakure had directly ignited a great war.

Now Kirigakure had fallen to the point where it had to be compared with villages like those.

And Uzushiogakure was a shinobi village that had already been destroyed.

What made Kirigakure even more unhappy was that compared to Minato Namikaze, Sunagakure's design for the Yagura Karatachi card clearly carried discrimination.

[Yagura Karatachi—Fourth Mizukage.]

[Ninjutsu One, Fra: Designate one target and apply a negative status effect.]

[Ninjutsu Two, Suicide: After committing suicide, deal damage once to all mbers.]

What were the techniques on Minato Namikaze's card?

Flying Thunder God. Will of Fire.

One was Minato Namikaze's signature ninjutsu.

The other was Konoha's spirit, an obviously positive term.

But Yagura Karatachi's two ninjutsu made no ntion whatsoever of his Water Mirror Technique, nor did they ntion his identity as the Six-Tails' jinchuriki.

Both were derogatory.

Everyone could see very clearly that Fra undoubtedly referred to Yagura framing the Seven Ninja Swordsn of the Mist, disregarding Kirigakure's interests for the sake of seizing power.

As for Suicide, it referred to Yagura's trip to Sunagakure.

Not only had he failed to harm Sunagakure, he had even gotten himself killed.

"Sunagakure wants to nail Yagura-sama to the pillar of sha forever."

"No one will rember what Yagura-sama truly did. They'll only see the two ninjutsu abilities on his Ninja Kill card. Whenever Yagura-sama is ntioned, those two words will be the first things they think of."

"Sunagakure didn't just kill Yagura-sama's life. They killed his reputation too."

"How vicious!"

But anger was anger, and dissatisfaction was dissatisfaction. There were very few people truly willing to oppose Sunagakure for Yagura's sake.

The people of Kirigakure had no choice but to admit that the gap in strength between Kirigakure and Sunagakure had already grown very large.

Within Sunagakure, there was not much discussion about Minato Namikaze, Roshi, Toroi, or Yagura.

Most attention was focused on Sasori of the Red Sand.

A genius of Sunagakure.

But at the sa ti, a regret of Sunagakure.

"If Sasori of the Red Sand were still alive, that would be wonderful."

"Our Sunagakure would definitely be even stronger than it is now."

"One village with four Kage-level shinobi. Even Konoha couldn't compare."

"What a pity."

"Why did he suddenly disappear for no reason?"

"And the Third Kazekage too."

Whenever they thought of this, the people of Sunagakure felt even more fortunate that Sunagakure had Rasa.

Otherwise, Sunagakure's situation right now would definitely be extrely, terribly bad.

At that mont—

A rumor began spreading through the Land of Wind.

"Do you know the truth behind Sasori of the Red Sand's disappearance?"

"Sasori of the Red Sand was killed by Rasa."

"Because Rasa was afraid Sasori of the Red Sand would compete with him for the Kazekage position!"

This rumor swept through the Land of Wind like a storm blotting out the sky. Danzo had mobilized many Root shinobi and spent a considerable amount of Root's funds.

Danzo was not especially willing to co to the Land of Wind.

He wanted to stay in Konoha during this critical period.

Waiting for Hiruzen Sarutobi to step down, for Orochimaru to rise, and for himself to obtain real authority.

But toward Sunagakure, Danzo's hatred was genuine.

Danzo could not forget how his plan against Sunagakure had failed. So many Root shinobi had died in Sunagakure. Even he had lost an arm to Rasa. If not for Minato Namikaze, he might already have died there.

"Co, then. Let us create an even more violent storm of rumors."

"Rasa, doesn't your Sunagakure like spreading rumors? Now I'll let you taste what rumors feel like as well."

"What will you do now?"

"With so many people criticizing you, will you be able to endure it?"

Ebizo entered the Kazekage Building, his expression ugly.

"Kazekage-sama."

Compared to Ebizo, Rasa's expression was far calr.

"Ebizo, have you found anything?"

"Not yet. The other side is very cautious."

"No matter. Take your ti. Investigate in Konoha's direction. These rumors were most likely spread by Konoha's people. The rumors we created about Hiruzen Sarutobi and Minato Namikaze have made them anxious."

Ebizo looked at Rasa and hesitated for a mont.

"Kazekage-sama, I believe absolutely that you are not that kind of person."

"Scorpion's talent was indeed high, and he could have grown into an extrely powerful puppeteer. But compared to you, Kazekage-sama, he had no advantage. He was not as suited as you to inherit the Kazekage position."

"You had no reason to kill Sasori of the Red Sand."

"But my sister has suffered too many blows over the years. She cares too deeply about that child Scorpion. There may be tis when she cannot think clearly. I hope Kazekage-sama can be sowhat tolerant of her."

Rasa waved his hand.

"I will personally et with Senior Chiyo. There is no need to worry."

Only then did Ebizo nod and leave.

"Kazekage-sama, I will do everything in my power to uncover the people spreading these rumors."

Rasa watched Ebizo depart, then summoned Saki.

Not long after, Saki arrived.

"Kazekage-sama."

"Saki, in next week's Ninja World Weekly, add a new bounty section. The question will be: What is the true Will of Fire? We welco submissions from people all across the world."

Rasa said, "Afterward, sort through the answers we receive. Choose the three best responses and publish them in the following week's Ninja World Weekly."

"For the three selected responses, each one will receive a reward of one hundred thousand ryo."

That was an extrely high reward.

The paynt for a B-rank mission was usually only around eighty thousand to two hundred thousand ryo.

And B-rank missions already involved the difficulty of fighting shinobi. They were not simply missions involving only genin.

In other words, this was imnsely attractive.

The reason Rasa arranged such a high reward was precisely to draw people into participating.

The more people participated, the more people would discuss the Will of Fire.

And the current representative of the Will of Fire was none other than Minato Namikaze.

Moreover, this was the first event of its kind. It had to offer a sufficiently high reward in order to attract public participation.

As the saying went, spend a thousand pieces of gold to buy horse bones.

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