[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-this-water-shadow-is-strong-but-excessively-caut":3,"chapter-this-water-shadow-is-strong-but-excessively-caut-this-mizukage-is-strong-but-excessively-cautious-chapter-136":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","This Mizukage Is Strong, but Far Too Cautious",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2194447,3774,"Chapter 136","this-mizukage-is-strong-but-excessively-cautious-chapter-136",136,"\u003Cp>To distinguish whether this was reality or a dream, a Jonin in the Hidden Mist village unceremoniously reached out and slapped his companion on the face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Smack!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The loud sound not only brought the group of Hidden Mist Jonin back to their senses, but also made the slapped Jonin furious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What are you doing!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the slapped Jonin finished scolding, the Jonin beside him still said blankly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Tell me quickly, is this real?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Jonin’s words also voiced everyone’s inner thoughts, causing a sense of unreality to appear in everyone’s hearts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is almost common knowledge in the ninja world that high-end summoning beasts are hard to come by.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Summoning beasts” even became a rare commodity in the ninja world for a time; even among the majority of Jonin present, very few had signed contracts with summoning beasts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they could, who wouldn’t want a powerful summoning beast?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the three squads stepped into the Cat Country, the group of Jonin had seen the strength of the ninja cats clearly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the ninja cats didn’t seem to possess ninjutsu abilities, their special Yin-Yang Release abilities were enough to make them the most excellent summoning beasts!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to mention, ninja cats with a talent for Yang Release are natural, qualified medical experts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ask yourself, who wouldn’t want to keep a doctor by their side while executing missions?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the ninja world, there is no doubt that medical ninjas are an extremely scarce resource.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even many years later, only the Hidden Leaf village in the ninja world had established a medical ninja system under the advocacy of Tsunade Senju.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for other ninja villages, they still hadn’t been able to achieve anything in the field of medical ninjas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, not every ninja village has a Hokage who excels in medical ninjutsu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, after a bit of aimless conversation from Ryosuke, the Cat King of the Cat Country had actually agreed to support Hidden Mist with one hundred ninja cats as summoning beasts every year?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to such generous conditions, the terms Mizunuki Ryosuke had agreed to just now all seemed acceptable!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially the few Jonin who had just been clamoring to punish Ryosuke; their breathing was now a bit rapid, and their eyes, looking at the water screen, revealed a hint of greed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire Hidden Mist now had, at most, only about a hundred Jonin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Hidden Mist really reached a deal with the Cat Country, it meant that all the Jonin present had a high probability of obtaining a ninja cat summoning beast through distribution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in the future, Hidden Mist would be able to receive support of one hundred ninja cats from the Ninja Cat clan every year, which meant Hidden Mist would never have to worry about summoning beasts again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This would be a huge boost to the strength of the village’s ninjas! And almost everyone could benefit from it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Ryosuke’s previous “criminal behavior” had all become acts of “meritorious service.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for whether Mizunuki Ryosuke actually had the right to represent the village in making this decision?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who could care about that question now?! Aren’t ninja cat summoning beasts wonderful?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If someone were to stand up now and say Mizunuki Ryosuke wasn’t qualified to make this decision, fifty Jonin would stand up and slam the table to argue with them on the spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But there was still one point: no one had figured out what was actually going on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How, all of a sudden, did the Cat King agree to such an “excessive” request from Ryosuke?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Jonin looked toward the shrewd Tian Tian Yuanshi; they didn’t know until they looked, and what they saw shocked them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Jonin squad leader, known for his “zombie face” and “rigid stiffness,” was currently wearing a stiff, ugly smile on his old face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although this smile was ugly, or even to put it bluntly, enough to scare disobedient children in the middle of the night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But basically all the Jonin could see that Tian Tian Yuanshi was very happy, perhaps even happier than he had ever been.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Tian Tian Yuanshi remained silent, he smiled while pointing his hand at the water screen, signaling that the Jonin could find the answer within it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So everyone stopped talking nonsense and cast their gazes into the water screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cat Country, Cat King’s Palace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dust had settled, and the Cat King had also lifted the “silence” effect on Suishi Tatsuo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How did you do it?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What on earth is going on?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two exclamations and questions in a row were asked by Suishi Tatsuo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The current result undoubtedly pointed directly to Suishi Tatsuo’s defeat, yet his heart was not filled with much disappointment, but rather surprise and questions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He really didn’t understand why such a result had occurred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the surprised expression on Suishi Tatsuo’s face, Mizunuki Ryosuke didn’t feel strange.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, when he first guessed this result, he was also taken aback.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the dust had settled, there was no harm in announcing the result.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Mizunuki Ryosuke began to explain everything to Suishi Tatsuo in front of the Cat King.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It turned out that from the moment he received this S-rank mission, Mizunuki Ryosuke had been full of doubts about it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The danger level of an S-rank mission goes without saying; was it too risky to use such a level of mission as the standard for the Mizukage assessment?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Given the danger level of an S-rank mission, it was very likely that all three squads would be wiped out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One must know that the three of them were the most suitable candidates to inherit the position of Mizukage in the vast Hidden Mist village; if they all met with misfortune, Hidden Mist village would truly have no hope left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he hadn’t already established contact with Uchiha Madara and killed Hozuki Mangetsu, Mizunuki Ryosuke might have suspected this was Madara’s conspiracy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But since it was confirmed that this matter was not Uchiha Madara’s doing, Ryosuke naturally began to guess the deeper meaning behind it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that time, Mizunuki Ryosuke made two judgments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Either the so-called “S-rank” was just a front, and everything was just to select the Mizukage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or the village was able to control the danger level of the mission to avoid accidents during it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With this as a premise, it wasn’t hard to guess that everything was just for the “Mizukage assessment.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, Ryosuke also guessed that, relying solely on a relatively rigid and general mission, how could the village judge who was the suitable candidate for Mizukage?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoever brought back the Mizukage Secret Scroll was the Mizukage?\u003C\u002Fp>",1104,"2026-06-17T05:01:41.164Z","2026-06-17T05:05:37.377Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","bc2b5d7172bf1983e2a38ba08d0709175d4c645a91e29e4bdf40eb50d17b04af","this-mizukage-is-strong-but-excessively-cautious-chapter-137","this-mizukage-is-strong-but-excessively-cautious-chapter-135",533,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthis-mizukage-is-strong-but-excessively-cautious-cover.jpg"]