[{"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-408":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},2194719,3774,"Chapter 408: , Completing the Loop","this-mizukage-is-strong-but-excessively-cautious-chapter-408",408,"\u003Cp>But at this moment, Kurotsuchi was clearly different from the Kurotsuchi in Kitsuchi’s memory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Kitsuchi’s memory, although Kurotsuchi had a firm and precocious personality, she still looked very innocent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But right now, the Kurotsuchi appearing before him was unexpectedly full of mature and charming allure, as if she were a completely different person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kitsuchi looked at Mizunuki Ryosuke, who stood beside Kurotsuchi like a \"shadow,\" and then looked at this somewhat \"stranger\" daughter, Kurotsuchi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A terrifying thought suddenly appeared in his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"C-could it be...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kitsuchi said, trembling, his eyes filled with gloom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sigh.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just as you think, Father.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am that 'Kurotsuchi' you personally sent to the past.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mature Kurotsuchi shrugged, speaking to Kitsuchi in a calm voice, devoid of joy or sorrow, causing a look of numbness and regret to appear on Kitsuchi’s already gloomy face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no need for Kurotsuchi to continue; he had already guessed the result.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How did you 'come back' now?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kitsuchi looked at his daughter and asked with difficulty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he had already guessed it, Kitsuchi still subconsciously clenched his fists as he asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Kurotsuchi smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She smiled very brightly, as if mocking her father for asking such a childish question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course, I lived through it one day at a time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Kurotsuchi gave an answer that was incomparably cruel to Kitsuchi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing Kurotsuchi’s reply, Kitsuchi fell completely silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the daughter before him, who remained young in appearance but whose actual age was now nearly the same as his own, a wave of sorrow welled up in Kitsuchi’s heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was his own stubbornness that had sent his daughter back to the past, obliterating twenty-plus years of her life in the river of time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Mizunuki Ryosuke on the side couldn't help but sigh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew that although Kurotsuchi appeared calm on the surface, her heart was actually extremely suppressed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without a doubt, having experienced so many things, Kurotsuchi’s life experience now made her understand that Kitsuchi’s obsession with trying to traverse time was a complete mistake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the greatest victim of it was her, Kitsuchi’s daughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To comfort Kurotsuchi, Mizunuki Ryosuke stepped forward and slowly took her soft hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mature and charming Kurotsuchi turned her face to look at Mizunuki Ryosuke behind her, a moving shimmer flashing in her charming large eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had met Mizunuki Ryosuke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although they had been an old married couple for years, Kurotsuchi’s attachment to Mizunuki Ryosuke remained undiminished; she simply leaned into his embrace, feeling the warmth from her partner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You two...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kitsuchi was shocked; looking at the intimate Mizunuki Ryosuke and Kurotsuchi, he felt his mind go dim, and his chest felt stifled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nothing hits a man harder than his own daughter becoming the woman of his enemy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if deliberately trying to anger Kitsuchi, Kurotsuchi stood on her tiptoes and pressed her red, delicate lips against the corner of Ryosuke’s mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two only touched for a moment, but even so, it caused a massive impact on Kitsuchi’s spirit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Pfft!!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Kitsuchi could no longer endure it; he spat out a mouthful of old blood and fainted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Time—is it something a mortal can recklessly tamper with and exploit?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When you attempt to use time to change history, can you be certain that your actions aren't already a part of history itself?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mizunuki Ryosuke looked at the numb Kitsuchi and spoke slowly, his eyes filled with profound and inscrutable expressions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without a doubt, Kitsuchi’s attempt to reverse history was entirely wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The result of trying to play with time was that one would inevitably suffer the backlash of time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The path of space-time is mysterious and profound; even Mizunuki Ryosuke did not dare to easily touch it, yet Kitsuchi had the audacity to try and change history—it was nothing but a pipe dream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at this actual defeated opponent, and his nominal \"cheap father-in-law,\" Mizunuki Ryosuke’s tone held no reverence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, Kitsuchi’s attempt to exhaust all the Rock Village’s resources to study space-time ninjutsu and return to the past had always been under his control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the reason Mizunuki Ryosuke did not stop Kitsuchi was simply to let him successfully send Kurotsuchi back to the past, to meet his past self.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is ironic that what Kitsuchi did not know was that his attempt to change the course of history had instead personally created \"history.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kitsuchi sent Kurotsuchi to the past, thinking he could change everything, not knowing that such an ignorant assumption was the height of stupidity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time is inherently irreversible; the moment Kurotsuchi returned to the past, she had already become a part of history.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was precisely because of the \"cause\" of Kurotsuchi returning to the past that the \"effect\" of the mature Kurotsuchi standing before Kitsuchi now appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every action and reaction was already destined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kitsuchi’s actions ultimately only hurt himself and others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Kitsuchi in such a sorry state, vomiting blood and fainting from just this little bit of stimulation, Kurotsuchi shook her head helplessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To be honest, although she felt unhappy, she did not hate Kitsuchi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because if Kitsuchi hadn't sent her back to the past, she would never have met the love of her life, Mizunuki Ryosuke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At most, Kurotsuchi was just a bit angry in her heart at this incompetent father; now that Kitsuchi had collapsed, as his daughter, she still had to take care of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, Kurotsuchi cast a look of help toward Mizunuki Ryosuke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no help for it; when it came to medical ninjutsu, Kurotsuchi was truly clueless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Husband...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kurotsuchi whispered in Mizunuki Ryosuke’s ear, her pitiful voice softening Mizunuki Ryosuke’s heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This little girl is becoming more and more demanding lately,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mizunuki Ryosuke said to himself inwardly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, he smiled helplessly, then raised his hand and snapped his fingers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Golden radiance flashed, and Kitsuchi instantly recovered as if nothing had happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The recovered Kitsuchi slowly crawled up from the ground; not only had his daughter become the woman of his enemy, but Kitsuchi also hadn't expected to be treated by this enemy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at Mizunuki Ryosuke, who appeared like a god, a trace of gloom flashed through his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Kitsuchi understood that he was not only wrong to a disastrous degree, but he had also lost completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that things had come to this, what else was there for him to insist upon?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because his mistake had already led to the \"misfortune\" that befell Kurotsuchi, how much longer was he to remain stubborn?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I wish you happiness.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kitsuchi said in a hoarse voice to Mizunuki Ryosuke and Kurotsuchi; facing his now exceptionally strange daughter and son-in-law, he could only express his attitude with a dry sentence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that Kitsuchi had accepted his fate, Mizunuki Ryosuke waved his hand, dispelling the frozen space-time around them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time resumed its flow, and everything seemed to return to calm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(Everyone, rest assured, I won't be writing a dual-narrative; this \"future\" plot segment is only to complete the loop for Kurotsuchi’s storyline.)\u003C\u002Fp>",1173,"2026-06-17T05:01:42.922Z","2026-06-17T05:05:39.462Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","17d2e484099a868fe03d18386d5aa2c6fb1b13e2d78b4bb1717db4130d7ed718","this-mizukage-is-strong-but-excessively-cautious-chapter-409","this-mizukage-is-strong-but-excessively-cautious-chapter-407",533,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthis-mizukage-is-strong-but-excessively-cautious-cover.jpg"]