Chapter 392

392. Chapter 384: Who exactly screwed whom?

"So, you're very rich now?"

Uchiha Gin tilted his head, his eyes carrying a different kind of brilliance as he looked at Kakuzu. He loved making friends with rich people.

Although it was impossible for them to be richer than him~

"Uh..."

Kakuzu was carefully counting the storage scrolls he carried with him when he suddenly felt a chill behind his back, a sense of being coveted arising spontaneously.

Subconsciously gripping the scroll in his hand, Kakuzu looked at Uchiha Gin with a very vigilant expression.

"All my money is in the bank, and it's a fixed-term deposit."

Don't even think about getting a single copper coin out of me!

"Don't misunderstand. A gentleman loves money, but he acquires it through proper means."

Seeing Kakuzu's intense reaction, Uchiha Gin immediately waved his hand. Although he liked to swindle money, when was it not justified and in accordance with the heavens? How could he be the type to rob others by force?

Just as Uchiha Gin was thinking about how to get the gold coins out of Prison Kakuzu through regular channels, Seeing Shenhuo, with an uncertain expression, walked over with his wife.

However, compared to Seeing Shenhuo's worried look, Mako was more interested in the Mixue Bingcheng in her hand, chewing on the mellow and delicious milk tea with her small face puffed up, her half-squinted eyes full of happiness.

"Sword Senior! This is delicious. I brought you a cup too~"

Mako smiled and handed a hot cup of milk tea to Kakuzu, earning a slightly reproachful look from him.

"Why waste money on this? This cup must cost 1,000 ryo, enough for my living expenses for a week."

"I won this cup in a lucky draw. It would be a waste if you didn't drink it."

"Waste is shameful."

After Mako's explanation, Kakuzu, adhering to the concept of diligence and thrift, finally took the milk tea, though there was a hint of relief in the corners of his eyes.

The warm scene, filled with familial affection, was so bright that Uchiha Gin couldn't open his eyes. When did Prison Kakuzu adopt a daughter?

"Are you two performing a 'strict father and filial daughter' act for me here?"

"I'm not close to her, it's just..."

Kakuzu, who was happily drinking milk tea, subconsciously retorted upon hearing Uchiha Gin's slightly teasing voice.

However, seeing Mako's somewhat disappointed expression, his open mouth paused, and he didn't say the rest.

Seeing Shenhuo, standing on the side, took a step forward and stood in front of the gossiping Uchiha Gin. Under the other party's puzzled gaze, he performed a 'dogeza' with his butt high in the air.

"Please, I beg you to help Mako!"

"Oh?"

Uchiha Gin raised an eyebrow, propping his chin with both hands, revealing an expression of 'continue, I'm listening.'

"Mako, she... is pregnant."

"I know."

"Huh?"

"I'm not blind. Her belly is so big, it can't be from eating too much... right?"

"Crunch~ Crunch~ Crunch~"

Seeing Seeing Shenhuo's shocked expression, Uchiha Gin couldn't help but roll his eyes. But just as he finished half his sentence, an untimely chewing sound rang out on the side.

"Sword Senior, the corn I brought from home tastes good, right? I grew it myself~"

Mako, who had pulled out a large package from somewhere, was chewing on the corn she had taken out with great relish. Not only did she stuff her own mouth, but she also generously shared a cob with Kakuzu beside her.

"Thank you, I'm not hungry yet."

Looking at the plump corn, Kakuzu waved his hand in refusal with a face full of black lines.

"Mako, your appetite is as good as ever."

"Because I need to replenish nutrients recently."

While speaking, a small mountain of corn cobs appeared on the ground. If the Koreans saw this, they would definitely call it a waste.

"Of course, it's not excluded that it's from eating too much..."

Seeing this scene, Uchiha Gin changed his tone and revealed the same expression as Kakuzu.

"Mako is a bit greedy, but she is truly pregnant."

Seeing Shenhuo looked at his wife, who was devouring food, and scratched his head in embarrassment. A flash of pity crossed his eyes, then turned into deep worry.

"However, our child has some problems."

"Let's hear it."

Uchiha Gin glanced at Mako, who was eating like a cow, and then spoke.

"Satoru told Mako that the child she is carrying is a monster."

"What exactly is going on?"

Kakuzu, who had been eavesdropping on the side for a long time, couldn't help but interrupt and ask, the worry in his eyes not appearing fake.

"Lord God, that was just Satoru's one-sided statement."

Mako, who was chewing corn, also leaned over, pouting with an unhappy face.

"But your physical condition has been getting worse every day since you got pregnant. Isn't that the same as what Satoru said?"

Seeing Shenhuo put on a straight face, pointing at Mako, who was covered in food residue, and said with a pained expression.

"Uh... it's just that my body has become a bit weak. Isn't this similar to the early pregnancy symptoms the doctor in town mentioned?"

Mako, not wanting to make her husband too worried, still retorted stubbornly.

"Mako, if you really feel uncomfortable, go to a regular hospital and find a good doctor to check it out."

Kakuzu finally understood Mako's current situation. When they met before, he thought she was just simply pregnant.

He had even thought about preparing a red envelope after the competition, but he didn't expect that the child Mako was carrying had problems.

"Come over and let me see."

This situation was quite interesting. As a person with strong curiosity, Uchiha Gin naturally wouldn't let go of such an unheard-of thing, beckoning to Mako, who had a face full of resentment.

"It's not that I doubt your strength, Emperor Rider, but regarding obstetrics and gynecology, do you really understand it?"

Mako, who walked over very reluctantly, looked at Uchiha Gin with suspicion.

"I know a little, I know a little~"

Sure enough, handsome people always get inexplicable doubts.

"I still think the gynecological expert in Konoha is more reliable."

"Uh... my skills are on par with his. If you don't believe me, wait until I finish checking you, then you can go find him and see if what we both say is exactly the same."

He didn't expect Mako to doubt his medical skills. However, wearing this mask, he indeed had no credibility. Uchiha Gin wasn't angry, signaling the other party to extend her hand.

Placing his hand on Mako's wrist, Uchiha Gin sent a wisp of perception chakra into her body. After a long meridian, it finally reached the warm bed nurturing the baby.

"Huh?"

Uchiha Gin frowned. The child Mako was carrying indeed had some problems.

In his perception, the newly formed baby was actually emitting an aura identical to that of the monster Satoru.

Uchiha Gin, afraid that he had misdiagnosed, turned on his Byakugan. His gaze passed through heavy obstacles and finally reached the baby, seeing it thoroughly.

"It really is..."

After confirming it repeatedly, he closed his Byakugan and withdrew his hand, stroking his chin in thought.

Something was wrong, very wrong. Although Mako had been possessed by Satoru before, after he sealed Satoru into a card, she should have become a normal human. How could she conceive a child carrying Satoru's chakra?

"What did that monster say to you?"

Since he had no clue, Uchiha Gin turned to ask what Satoru had said before.

"Uh... it said this child is its."

When asked this question, Mako's face didn't look too good, but she still answered truthfully.

"Huh? Kid, you've been cuckolded!"

Uchiha Gin turned his head and looked at the nervous Seeing Shenhuo on the side with a face full of comfort.

"Don't talk nonsense!"

Seeing Shenhuo was anxious. His love with Mako was stronger than gold, and he would absolutely never commit adultery.

"Exactly, exactly. Satoru's voice was female, how could I have anything happen with it... uh?"

Mako also followed to defend herself and very seriously revealed information that no one else knew. As a result, as soon as she said it, she froze on the spot, her face changing, turning red and then green.

"Oh ho~ Kid, you are truly the successor of the Great Emperor Beifeng!"

With a strange cry, Uchiha Gin's eyes became gossipy. He scanned the confused Seeing Shenhuo several times and revealed an expression of great admiration.

"I'm not, I didn't!"

Seeing everyone's eyes fixed on him, Seeing Shenhuo was suddenly panicked, waving his hands repeatedly to show his innocence.

"Mako, believe me, I only love you in my life!"

Seeing his wife's face becoming increasingly ugly, Seeing Shenhuo hurriedly raised his hand to swear.

"Seeing Shenhuo, I believe you, but I want to ask you a question."

Mako's expression turned cold. Although she said she believed him, even the way she addressed him became somewhat unfamiliar.

"Don't say one, even if it's a hundred or a thousand, I will answer truthfully, without a single word of falsehood."

"Alright then, I ask you, how many times do we usually do that a week?"

"Ah? This question, do I really have to answer it?"

Seeing Shenhuo was stunned upon hearing this, his expression becoming coy.

"You must answer!"

"Five times."

"Snap!"

The corn cob in her hand instantly turned into powder. Mako raised her head, her face terrifyingly black.

"Is that wrong? Actually, sometimes it's six times, and basically it's in the middle of the night when I come back from the night watch..."

Seeing Shenhuo, thinking he had answered wrong, hurriedly tried to remedy it. However, with his words, Mako's expression became increasingly terrifying.

"Emperor Rider, do you know how to perform physical sterilization? I think Seeing Shenhuo needs a minor surgery."

Mako felt she had been backstabbed. Clearly, the couple only did that once or twice a week, and it was always when Seeing Shenhuo was resting during the day. Now the other party told her they were singing songs every night. Who could bear that?

"Sigh... he just committed the mistake that every man commits."

Uchiha Gin also figured out the reason, so he spoke up to stir the fire. Anyway, it had nothing to do with him~

Satoru was indeed right. The child in Mako's belly was indeed its, but it was the crystallization of it and Seeing Shenhuo. It was estimated that Satoru took advantage of Mako's lack of preparation to take over the account and build a small account.

"Go to hell! Seeing Shenhuo!"

Jealousy was burning. Mako never dreamed that one day she would be NTR'd by a monster, and it was using her own body.

She didn't get to enjoy it, and she had to help this pair of adulterers give birth to a child. Who could she reason with?

For now, the only way was to cut it off!

So she waved her fists, picked up Seeing Shenhuo, and gave him a fat beating. The punches hitting flesh made everyone around feel a chill.

"Don't! Mako, I was passive."

Bearing his wife's anger, Seeing Shenhuo, who felt extremely aggrieved in his heart, couldn't help but appeal for himself.

No wonder Mako was so active at night and her movements were so rough. It turned out it wasn't her~

"Alright, alright, if you keep hitting him like this, when will he die?"

Looking at the bruised Seeing Shenhuo, Uchiha Gin called a stop to the domestic violence scene.

"Hmph!"

Mako snorted coldly, threw the pig-headed Seeing Shenhuo aside like a rag, and took out the corn from her package to chew on.

After exercising just now, she was hungry again.

Since getting pregnant, Mako's hunger had become increasingly intense. Fortunately, her vitality was much deeper than ordinary people, otherwise, she would have been sucked dry by the child in her belly long ago.

"Emperor Rider, can you help us?"

Seeing Shenhuo, like a dead dog, crawled to Uchiha Gin's feet and raised his head tremblingly.

"There is a way, it's just that this..."

Regarding Mako's current situation, Uchiha Gin had many solutions, but if he told the other party easily, it would make his own status seem cheap. He then stretched out his finger and made a money gesture.

"We have it. This is the money the two of us have saved over the years. Please point us in the right direction!"

Seeing Shenhuo, who understood in a second, pulled out the scroll at his waist and respectfully handed it to Uchiha Gin.

Mako was only three months pregnant now, and she was already this weak. If it dragged on, I'm afraid she would die before the child was born.

"Tsk... just this much? Do you think I'm doing charity?"

Taking the scroll, Uchiha Gin explored it with anticipation, his face instantly turning ugly. There was no mountain of gold or silver he had imagined, only a few stacks of banknotes, totaling less than one gold brick.

No, you two have hands and feet, it shouldn't be that you've only saved this little money after so many years, right?

"Mako's appetite is a bit big, so..."

Seeing Shenhuo scratched his head in embarrassment. He had been working two jobs in town for these years, earning bounties outside during the day and night watching in town at night. Life was considered prosperous.

But unfortunately, his wife was too capable of eating. During her teenage years, Mako was already a competent big eater, and it was even worse after pregnancy.

Her small body could hold several times more food than herself, and the requirements weren't low; it had to be high-protein and high-calorie food.

"Are you saying I can eat? You weren't like this before!"

Mako felt angry and cold upon hearing this. Sure enough, whatever a man who made a mistake says is wrong.

"If there's only this much, I can't help you. It's not that I must have a lot of money, I just want an attitude~"

Throwing the scroll back, Uchiha Gin opened his mouth with famous quotes, making people's blood pressure soar.

"This..."

The couple looked at each other, and for a moment, they had no idea.

"How much is missing?"

Just then, Kakuzu, who had been listening on the side, suddenly spoke up.

"Uh... Sword Senior, you?"

"I have some here. I can lend it to you, but you need to sign a contract."

Kakuzu glanced at the stunned Mako, turned his head away, and skillfully took out paper and pen from his arms.

"Oh my~ Prison Kakuzu, how much do you have?"

Uchiha Gin smiled and scanned Kakuzu from top to bottom, his eyes very teasing.

"That depends on how much you want."

Shaking his head, Kakuzu asked back.

"Then, for the sake of our acquaintance, just give me this scroll."

His gaze fell on the scroll Kakuzu was holding. Uchiha Gin wasn't greedy, he only wanted that one.

"Are you sure? There's nothing valuable in here."

Kakuzu frowned. The scrolls he was organizing contained things he had snatched from the Takigakure treasury years ago. Anything that could be cashed in had already been cashed in, leaving only some bottles and jars.

"That's right. You also know, I actually don't love money. I'm not interested in money."

Taking the scroll from Kakuzu's hand, Uchiha Gin pretended to be cool, then turned to look at the nervous Mako.

"I have already received the reward from your old father."

"What are you calling me!"

Kakuzu stood up abruptly upon hearing this, his angry eyes carrying a trace of evasion and anticipation.

"Why, did I call you wrong?"

"Sword Senior, please accept my bow. From now on, you are my father."

Mako bit her lip and walked in front of the angry Kakuzu, bowing respectfully. After raising her head, her expression was very serious.

"Why are you following him to make trouble? We are not the same kind of people."

Kakuzu frowned and stepped back to distance himself.

"No, actually, I have long regarded Sword Senior as my father."

Years ago, after successfully resolving Satoru's crisis, Mako, who had regained consciousness, still had her thinking stuck in her teenage years.

As an orphan, she had lacked familial affection since she was a child. It just so happened that the older Kakuzu appeared, and under someone's coercion, he taught her to master the power of knights very seriously.

After a not-so-long and not-so-short time together, the simple Mako had regarded this stingy old man who was harsh in words but soft in heart as her elder.

Even after Kakuzu left, Mako still often wrote to him, asking for advice on cultivation, and also chatting about daily life. The connection between the two hadn't truly been broken over these years.

Kakuzu's experience was similar to Mako's. He also lost his parents when he was young, and after finally growing up, he was betrayed by his closest partner.

So, thinking he had seen through everything, he was only interested in money. For the familial affection Mako conveyed, he was deliberately avoiding it.

On one hand, he was a wanderer with no fixed abode, and his hands were stained with blood, so he didn't want to disturb Mako's ordinary life. On the other hand, he was afraid of being betrayed again. Kakuzu didn't want to taste that feeling again.

"Prison Kakuzu, this is your fault. You're about to hold a grandson, yet you insist on being a loner. Are you afraid of having to give red envelopes during the holidays?"

Looking at the struggling Kakuzu, Uchiha Gin couldn't help but push him.

The Prison Kakuzu in this timeline was still a good person and hadn't blackened into the miser who was good at backstabbing teammates in the original work.

Having finally encountered a good bond, why not take it?

Are you waiting to team up with that lunatic Hidan?

"Nonsense! I, someone, can still afford the red envelope for my little grandson!"

He didn't expect the other party to look down on him. Kakuzu subconsciously turned back to retort, but after turning around, he saw Mako's excited and tearful eyes. The momentum he had just been holding softened instantly.

"Father..."

"Hey..."

"Father!"

Seeing the warm scene of father and daughter recognizing each other, Seeing Shenhuo couldn't help but lean over, following up with a thick face.

"Get lost! You bastard who bullies my daughter, see if I don't dig out your heart!"

"Alright, alright, it won't be too late to deal with your unfaithful son-in-law after I finish treating the illness~"

Seeing Kakuzu take out his driver with an unfriendly face, Uchiha Gin immediately raised his hand to stop him.

"Hmph! Consider yourself lucky, kid. I'll deal with you slowly after Mako is cured."

Putting the driver away, Kakuzu's emerald eyes glared fiercely at the shivering Seeing Shenhuo, then turned to look at the smiling Mako, his tone rarely carrying a soft color.

"Don't worry, Father will support you from now on!"

"Thank you, Father~"

Experiencing the feeling of having her family support her, the haze in Mako's heart was swept away. She walked gracefully to Uchiha Gin, raised her head, and waited for the other party's solution.

"There are two plans to choose from now. First, abort this child."

If this small account created by Satoru continued to grow, Mako, as the seedbed, even with the vitality of the Senju clan, would be sucked into a skeleton like Nagato.

Taking the child out now could minimize the loss. The lost vitality could be replenished by seven or eight out of ten after some rest.

Uchiha Gin's first plan silenced the three of them directly. Mako's eyes were filled with deep reluctance, and she lowered her head to touch her slightly protruding lower abdomen, her expression extremely complex.

After all, this was the first life she had conceived. Even if the main participant wasn't herself, it was ultimately going to come out of her belly. Suddenly being told to abort it, how could she accept it?

"Abort! Now, immediately, must abort!"

It was Seeing Shenhuo who, after some ideological struggle, gritted his teeth and spoke.

This kind of 'save the mother or save the child' question, placed on any man, should be a choice to save the mother.

"Mako, what do you think?"

Kakuzu didn't express his stance, instead asking for the thoughts of the person involved.

"I want to hear the second plan."

This answer basically ruled out the first plan. Uchiha Gin nodded and continued.

"The second plan is to strengthen your own physique. As long as your health bar is thick enough, you can support the child until birth."

Mako's current predicament was that her income didn't meet her expenses, relying on consuming a large amount of food to barely maintain the needs of the child in her belly. If it wasn't enough, she had to add her own vitality.

In total, her physique was too weak. If it were Prison Hashirama, giving birth to ten or eight at once wouldn't be a problem~

"Strengthen physique?"

A flash of thought crossed Kakuzu's eyes. He hesitated for a moment and asked.

"Can my Earth Grudge Fear technique..."

"It's not impossible, it's just that the demand will be a bit larger."

He didn't expect Kakuzu's imagination to be so big, actually thinking of using the Earth Grudge Fear technique to enhance Mako's physique. However, doing so would be a heavy price for this family.

Not only would they have to look for new hearts frequently, but Mako would also be reduced to a monster covered in black tentacles.

"Is the vitality of one more person enough?"

Suddenly, Seeing Shenhuo, who had been silent for a long time, raised his head and asked an inexplicable question.

This guy, could it be...

"It's probably not enough. Looking at this child's appetite, the vitality of ordinary people is just a drop in the bucket."

Uchiha Gin then seriously looked at Seeing Shenhuo, who didn't have much presence. Since the other party could ask such a question, combined with his birthplace, he should have hidden some small Kekkei Genkai.

"What should we do then?"

The three, who had been rejected one after another, were somewhat at a loss.

However, just then, Uchiha Gin, who had been waiting for the best opportunity, smiled and raised the scroll he had just traded for.

"Actually, I have a special medicine here. It just depends on how much you are willing to pay~" (End of chapter)