Chapter 151

The interior of Kirigakure was currently in a mess and could not follow normal logic at all.

No matter who was chosen as a Mizukage candidate, it would inevitably cause dissatisfaction among other forces.

It was also impossible for them to obtain more than fifty percent of the votes in the Jonin squad.

Unlike the situation when the Third Mizukage succeeded, Kirigakure was currently in a state of chaos and urgently needed a Mizukage to take office to handle and resolve it.

Of course, they could not drag it out for a year or a half, and then let the Mizukage candidates go around soliciting votes.

By then, Kirigakure's civil strife would be endless.

And the root cause of this civil strife was actually the infighting between clan ninjas.

The massive consumption of the clan ninjas' strength had instead caused the civilian ninjas to have a trend of rising within the village.

At this moment, no matter who forcibly took office, as long as they did not get the support of the civilian ninjas, there would still be no end of trouble in the future.

To this, the three people with the highest calls for succeeding as Mizukage had no objections.

They also understood in their hearts that the plan proposed by Tian Yuanshi was the fairest.

"Everyone knows the rules, so let's start voting now."

Tian Yuanshi scanned the audience, and seeing no objections, he announced the start of voting.

As soon as the voting started, Kuroshima Morita, a Hozuki clan Jonin, and another Mizunuki Jonin respectively nominated the three of them, including Ryosuke.

Subsequently, other Jonin nominated a few scattered elite Jonin in a hubbub.

The one hundred and forty Jonin soon began to cast their votes for their preferred candidates in turn.

During this period, Mizunuki Ryosuke, Mizunuki Eiro, and Hozuki Mangetsu all sat in their seats without moving.

Soon, the voting ended, and the vote-counting board at the very front clearly announced everyone's vote counts.

First place, Mizunuki Ryosuke, twenty-seven votes.

Second place, Hozuki Mangetsu, twenty-five votes.

Third place, Mizunuki Eiro, nineteen votes.

Besides this, the remaining few could only be reduced to foils, and among them, not even one had a vote count breaking into double digits.

In the end, as expected, the three of them became the Mizukage candidates.

Besides this, it is worth noting that the total number of counted votes was less than one hundred.

One must know that there were over one hundred and forty Jonin participating in the meeting, which meant that at least forty people chose to abstain.

Among them, besides half belonging to Tian Yuanshi's force, the other half were clearly civilian Jonin who remained absolutely neutral.

It could be foreseen that whoever could get the support of these civilian ninjas would be the one who could sit firmly in the position of Mizukage.

Most of these ninjas who had mixed into today were without sect or faction, belonging to the retail investors that the major clans had looked down upon in the past.

Today is different from the past; the tides have turned.

Who would have thought that these civilian ninjas who were not valued in the past would now become the key characters deciding the position of Mizukage.

At this moment, Mizunuki Ryosuke looked at his name ranked first on the vote-counting board, his heart extremely complex.

He never expected that he, with the shallowest foundation and weakest momentum in Kirigakure, would win the first place in votes.

These twenty-seven votes, besides the Third's force represented by Kuroshima Morita, also included a portion coming from some unfamiliar civilian ninjas.

It seemed that because of Mizunuki Ryosuke's performance just now, they were conquered by Mizunuki Ryosuke.

Facing the "misplaced love" of these ninjas, Mizunuki Ryosuke was silent for a while.

Before he could continue to ponder, Tian Yuanshi had already spoken again.

"Good, the vote counting is over."

"I think everyone is clear about the results, so I won't elaborate on them one by one."

"This Jonin meeting ends here."

"Please go home and wait, the village will arrange assessments for the three of you soon."

After speaking, Tian Yuanshi left the venue first.

He did not show any desire to contact any of the candidates privately.

The Jonin left one by one, only Mizunuki Ryosuke remained sitting in his seat. ===== CHAPTER 153 =====