Chapter 14: ...but about human relationships

The Hidden Mist Jonin voting adopts a non-anonymous method, that is, voting on the spot.

After Maeda Yuanshi announced the start of voting, the Jonin present who agreed raised their hands one after another.

It can be clearly seen that about half of those who agreed were ninjas from the Mizunuki clan; these ninjas were all wearing uniform white kimonos, which can be considered a major feature of the Mizunuki clan in the Hidden Mist.

More than twenty Jonin, this is the foundation of the Mizunuki clan.

No matter what, with the contemporary Mizukage sitting in town, the Mizunuki clan is the largest ninja clan in the Hidden Mist today.

From here, one can also see how much advantage ninjas from ninja clans have.

And in contrast, on the seats opposite the Mizunuki clan ninjas, a row of sturdy ninjas sat neatly, the number being about the same as the Mizunuki clan ninjas.

These ninjas, regardless of gender, all had extremely developed muscles and had another common feature, which was that they had no eyebrows.

After shaving off their eyebrows, they used an eyebrow pencil to dot a black spot where their eyebrows should be.

Such an appearance looked fierce and gave people a funny and ugly feeling.

And the leader of this group of ninjas was a manic existence who was particularly burly and a size larger than other clansmen.

The Kaguya clan!

The leader was the current head of the Kaguya clan—Kaguya Ichiro!

He was also the mortal enemy of the Mizunuki clan!

At this moment, this group of fierce ninjas were all sitting in their seats, sneering and saying nothing.

Without exception, the Kaguya ninjas voted against Mizunuki Ryosuke's promotion.

The other Jonin were not surprised when they saw this; it seemed that such a situation often occurred.

It was not just the Kaguya clan; the Mizunuki clan also often gave a full vote against it when Kaguya clansmen were promoted to Jonin.

It was not just the Kaguya clan that voted against it; Mizunuki Ryosuke also noticed that Hozuki Suigetsu and the group of ninjas beside him all voted against his promotion to Jonin.

And Jonin Class Leader Maeda Yuanshi himself did not agree, but there were sparse two or three people beside him who agreed.

It could be considered as giving the Mizukage face.

The remaining ninjas who agreed were scattered and seated; they should all be Jonin belonging to the Mizukage faction.

Accumulating together, there were about forty votes.

It had already exceeded thirty percent of the participating people; Mizunuki Ryosuke passed this level easily.

But the scene before his eyes made Mizunuki Ryosuke unable to help but frown.

There were more than ninety Jonin participating in the meeting, which included more than twenty Jonin from the Mizunuki clan.

Mizunuki Ryosuke's promotion to Jonin was instructed by the Mizukage; as long as you are not blind, you should be able to see it.

After all, the surname Mizunuki is here, which is enough to explain some problems.

But the result before his eyes could not be said to be very beautiful.

Thinking deeply, it is terrifying.

A clansman nominated by the Mizukage, the number of affirmative votes obtained did not even exceed half!

Not to mention that there were large ninja clans and Anbu Ministers who jumped out and sang the opposite on the surface.

This is like a mayor nominating his brother-in-law to build a road, and half of his subordinates singing the opposite.

This is a quite dangerous ratio.

The Jonin class is the foundation of the village; the Kage's control over the Jonin does not exceed half, which is a quite dangerous signal!

And there was also the moisture from the Mizunuki clan; you must know that usually, there would not be so many Mizunuki clan ninjas coming to attend the meeting.

Actually calculating it, Mizunuki Taki's control over the village's Jonin should be around thirty percent.

Dangerous! Extremely dangerous!

As the saying goes, leaning against a big tree is good for shade, but looking at the situation of the Third Kage, this is not a big tree at all; it is clearly an old tree that is about to wither!

Mizunuki Ryosuke knew deeply that since he was born into the Mizunuki clan, this innate identity could not be shaken off.

According to the current situation, Anbu Minister Hozuki Suigetsu and the Kaguya clan were undoubtedly the great enemies of his current identity!

"It seems that my strategy of lying low is indeed correct!"

Mizunuki Ryosuke affirmed his strategy again in his heart.

And he became more determined to be "mediocre" to the end.

Soon, the promotion session reached the next item.

Mizunuki Ryosuke was still the last to appear.