Chapter 300: ...the scapegoat Danzo

After Mizunuki Ryosuke left the inn, he returned to that restaurant with the characteristics of the Land of Frost and walked in slowly.

As soon as he entered, Ryosuke paused slightly, seeing a burly man with a square face buried in the dining table, a thick stack of plates piled up in front of him.

This burly man was none other than the famous Magnet Release ninja of the Cloud, Toroi.

Seeing this, Mizunuki Ryosuke couldn't help but laugh and cry.

It seemed Toroi really liked the food here.

Seeing Mizunuki Ryosuke suddenly walk through the door, Toroi's expression was somewhat awkward, and the eyes of this ninja, who was accustomed to silence, also showed a trace of evasion.

Because the reason he gave Bee when he went out was: investigating news in the town, alert for ninjas sent by the Rock to track the missing transport troops.

But who would have thought that while investigating, he would end up in this restaurant...

Well, perhaps it was because the food in this restaurant was very suspicious; smelling the aroma, Toroi's stomach started growling. It must be because the food in this shop had some magic cast on it.

Yes, it must be so.

Toroi said to himself in his heart.

Seeing this, Mizunuki Ryosuke didn't say much, just nodded at Toroi and walked straight toward the upstairs of the restaurant.

Looking at Mizunuki Ryosuke's back, Toroi's eyes were a bit strange.

Because according to what the shop owner said just now, the upstairs of the restaurant should be a "VIP room" specially prepared for distinguished guests.

Recalling Mizunuki Ryosuke's reluctant appearance when he came here to eat yesterday, Toroi muttered to himself in his heart.

"So the Fourth Mizukage is a tsundere."

I don't know what Mizunuki Ryosuke would think if he could hear Toroi's inner voice.

After stepping onto the second floor of the restaurant, Mizunuki Ryosuke walked directly toward a gorgeously decorated private room.

After arriving, he knocked on the door in a special way, and then the door was opened from the inside.

In the room, there were already people with serious expressions waiting for Mizunuki Ryosuke's arrival.

One of them was the owner of the inn, Honda Yuichi.

His identity was the person in charge of the White Shark Force in this town.

And the other two were intelligence officers of the White Shark Force from other nearby towns, who had come to this calm little town under Mizunuki Ryosuke's summons.

"Greetings, Lord Mizukage."

The three of them knelt on one knee in unison and said respectfully to Mizunuki Ryosuke.

"Get up."

To this, he just pulled out a chair next to him, and after sitting down calmly, said gently to the three people in front of him.

After hearing this, the three of them stood up slowly and sat cautiously opposite Mizunuki Ryosuke.

"How did the matter go?"

A solemnity flashed in Mizunuki Ryosuke's eyes; the matter concerned his next step of the plan, and there could not be even the slightest flaw.

"Reporting to you, my lord, the matter was completed perfectly."

"The Leaf's intelligence power in the vicinity is very weak; we didn't spend much effort to let the Leaf's intelligence personnel know that what was attacked and wiped out last night was the Rock's transport team."

Honda Yuichi replied to Mizunuki Ryosuke extremely seriously, not daring to be the least bit careless.

"Very good."

Mizunuki Ryosuke nodded, a trace of satisfaction flashing in his eyes.

"I called you here because there is a very important task for you to do next."

"Next, I want you to use the entire intelligence network of the Land of Frost, at all costs, to watch the Leaf's movements for me."

"Any disturbance must be reported to me immediately!"

Mizunuki Ryosuke said seriously, his solemn voice making the three of them feel a slight tightness in their hearts.

"Yes!"

The three of them subconsciously knelt on one knee again and responded with firm voices.

"Very good, go and do it."

Subsequently, Mizunuki Ryosuke waved his hand, signaling the three to retreat.

Soon, only Mizunuki Ryosuke was left in the room, and a profound meaning gradually appeared on his face.

The curtain of this grand drama was about to be drawn.

The entire plan had been carefully prepared by Mizunuki Ryosuke for a long time, and it was not just to cut off the Rock's logistics supply.

For the Mist, defeating the Rock and stabbing them in the back could only be considered as settling a past personal grudge.

But at the level of interests, the biggest opponent to the rise of the Mist had always been the Leaf.

So Mizunuki Ryosuke appeared here, ostensibly to deal with the Rock, but in reality, he was preparing to pull the Leaf down from its position as the hegemon of the ninja world.

Mizunuki Ryosuke waved his hand, took out a sealing scroll from his sleeve, and took out a chessboard from it.

He placed the chess pieces marked with "Cloud," "Rock," "Fire," and "Mist" on the board, constantly deducing and trying to find loopholes in his plan.

Finally, after thinking for a moment, Mizunuki Ryosuke took out a piece marked with the word "Takigakure" and placed it on the board.

Only then did he nod with satisfaction.

"Next, let me see who everyone has sent as their chess pieces."

A sharp glint flashed in Mizunuki Ryosuke's eyes again, and then he restrained the smile at the corner of his mouth.

On the endless tundra of the Land of Frost, a piece of slightly charred land appeared extremely abrupt.

On the charred land, one could still faintly see some withered bones burned to black.

This was the crime scene where the Rock's logistics force was attacked.

At this moment, dozens of figures rushed from the distant tundra and stopped in front of this charred land.

The leader had a sallow complexion, a cross-shaped scar on his chin, and a sinister color flashing in his hanging eyes; it was the leader of the Leaf's Root, Shimura Danzo.

As the Leaf closest to the Land of Frost, they were the first to arrive at this place, ahead of the Rock.

It was just unexpected that as the leader of the Root organization, Danzo would come here in person; it seemed Danzo also attached great importance to this matter.

After some investigation, Danzo muttered to himself.

"Done very cleanly."

"Almost no traces were left; to be able to reach this level, it must have been deliberately cleaned up afterward."

Thinking of this, a ruthless look flashed in Danzo's eyes.

In his view, the Cloud could erase the crime scene, which was just setting up a false trail to shift the blame onto the Leaf.

"That old guy Sarutobi Hiruzen guessed right."

"These guys from the Cloud really want to frame the Leaf."

Danzo thought secretly in his heart, while waving his hand toward his subordinates around him.

"It's here, do it."

As Shimura Danzo's voice fell, dozens of Root ninjas began to act.

These Root ninjas were all carefully selected and were all ninjas proficient in Lightning Release. They first released Lightning Release around this charred land to strike the ground, making the ground look pitted and bumpy.

Subsequently, several Root ninjas carried out several Cloud ninja corpses that had been dead for a long time from behind; because most ninjas from the Land of Lightning had dark skin and distinctive golden hair, they could be recognized as Cloud ninjas at a glance even without forehead protectors.