[{"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-487":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},2194798,3774,"Chapter 487: , the old six of the ninja world","this-mizukage-is-strong-but-excessively-cautious-chapter-487",487,"\u003Cp>Except for Salamander Hanzo himself, no one could understand what kind of state of mind he was in at this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>For Mizunuki Ryosuke’s elusiveness, Salamander Hanzo seemed to have become accustomed to it. Seeing Mizunuki Ryosuke appear, he just glanced at him coldly.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He also maintained his consistent wariness toward Mizunuki Ryosuke.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At this moment, Salamander Hanzo, who had just been forced to make a decision, was naturally extremely unhappy in his heart. Seeing Mizunuki Ryosuke appear, it was inevitable that he would be unable to control himself and make some sarcastic remarks.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"How about that, the battle is over, and my ally has finally come out to 'help' me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Or is it that Lord Mizukage was afraid I would hurt your sweetheart, so you specifically ran over to 'supervise the battle'?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Mizunuki Ryosuke did not care about Salamander Hanzo’s sarcastic words.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After all, Salamander Hanzo’s final decision to let the Sannin go was partly because he was influenced by him.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It was Tsunade’s intimate personal relationship with him that caused Hanzo’s hesitation. From this perspective, he really had to take the blame, so accepting two taunts was naturally a very normal thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Leader Hanzo, there is no need to be like this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Mizunuki Ryosuke did not retort, just smiled indifferently and responded to Salamander Hanzo.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Looking at the gentle smile on Mizunuki Ryosuke’s face, Hanzo felt a little angry in his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Because Mizunuki Ryosuke’s indifference formed a sharp contrast with his own exasperation at the moment, so it was hard not to associate this with the \"winner\" mocking the \"loser.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Thinking along this line, the more aggressive Salamander Hanzo acted, didn't it just show that he was at a disadvantage?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Hmph!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Thus, Hanzo simply stopped entangling and just snorted coldly.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Speak, what do you want to do?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Salamander Hanzo still stared directly at Mizunuki Ryosuke with cold eyes. He didn't believe that Mizunuki Ryosuke would be so bored as to specifically run over just to watch his joke.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He knew very well that this man must be plotting something, and nine times out of ten, it had something to do with him.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"I came for only two things.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"One was already mentioned when I met you before.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Mizunuki Ryosuke did not dodge either and directly followed Hanzo’s words to clarify his purpose.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Hearing Mizunuki Ryosuke’s statement, Hanzo also knew that the \"one thing\" Mizunuki Ryosuke mentioned referred, of course, to the \"bet\" he had mentioned before.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The so-called bet was actually not a big deal. This kind of agreement that only stayed at the verbal level did not have any profound binding force. Coupled with the fact that the conditions offered by Mizunuki Ryosuke were indeed tempting to him, Salamander Hanzo did not have any psychological pressure when he agreed to this bet at the beginning.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And the content of the bet Ryosuke proposed at the beginning was also very simple: the two bet on whether the Rain ninja led by Salamander Hanzo could push over the three mountains on their backs and successfully become independent in the ninja world.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Salamander Hanzo naturally bet on his own success.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And Mizunuki Ryosuke, of course, chose the Rain ninja’s failure.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The stakes for the two were also very simple. The stake on the Rain ninja’s side was that Salamander Hanzo needed to agree to a request from Mizunuki Ryosuke without harming his own interests.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And the stake on Mizunuki Ryosuke’s side was that if Salamander Hanzo really realized the independence plan of the Land of Rain, Kirigakure must diplomatically acknowledge that the Rain ninja enjoyed the same status as Kirigakure in the ninja world.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>That is, to acknowledge the Rain ninja as the \"Sixth Great Ninja Village\" of the ninja world.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At that time, Salamander Hanzo was full of confidence in himself and naturally agreed to this condition.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After all, according to Hanzo’s idea, as long as the Rain ninja could defeat the three major countries of Sunagakure, Iwagakure, and Konoha and move toward independence, it would show that the Rain ninja had the strength to be on par with the Five Great Ninja Villages.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At that time, the next goal of the Rain ninja would naturally be to move toward the \"old six\" of the ninja world, and if Kirigakure, as one of the Five Great Ninja Villages, was willing to come down and cheer for the Rain ninja, it would naturally be a great thing for the Rain ninja.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But looking at the stakes of both sides, there was no doubt that Salamander Hanzo himself took more advantage.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After all, what he paid was just an irrelevant \"favor,\" while what Mizunuki Ryosuke paid was the reputation of this village.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>....0\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It was just that now it seemed that this bet had ended in a comprehensive victory for Mizunuki Ryosuke.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Of course, still the same sentence.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This so-called \"bet\" was ultimately just an agreement reached verbally by the two. With Salamander Hanzo’s personality, if he made up his mind not to acknowledge it, Mizunuki Ryosuke couldn't do anything about him.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"As for the other thing...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Saying this, Mizunuki Ryosuke’s voice stopped abruptly, and he looked straight into Salamander Hanzo’s eyes, his gaze full of unfathomable depth.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Seeing Mizunuki Ryosuke pause, Salamander Hanzo originally thought Mizunuki Ryosuke was playing mystery, but when he looked along Mizunuki Ryosuke’s gaze, he instantly shattered his own thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Nothing else, eyes cannot lie.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And Mizunuki Ryosuke’s eyes showed that what he was going to say next was a big event, so big that even he was extremely solemn and had to be prepared for it!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Sure enough, as Mizunuki Ryosuke spoke slowly, Salamander Hanzo’s face revealed a look of great horror.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The negotiations between Sunagakure and Konoha were in full swing. Under Danzo’s leadership, every condition of Konoha hit the vital points of Sunagakure.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>These conditions were stuck at a point where Sunagakure could barely accept them but were extremely uncomfortable, which left the siblings Chiyo and Ebizo in a dilemma.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And just at this juncture, the connection between Chiyo and Sunagakure, which had been cut off, was finally restored.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Chiyo roughly wrote down the situation she was facing in a letter and then sent it to the Third Kazekage, hoping to get the Third Kazekage’s opinion and help.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But in the end, this letter sank into the sea without a trace.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Chiyo instantly became silent; she naturally understood what this meant.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The Third Kazekage’s meaning was already very clear—solve the mess you made yourself.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Thus, Chiyo no longer held any fluke mentality and began to agree to Konoha’s demands one by one, completely acknowledging the fact of her defeat.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And just when Chiyo and Danzo were entangled on the front line, two completely different things happened at the same time.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>One thing was that the Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, used the excuse that the war was over and there were other tasks to arrange, secretly transferring Sakumo Hatake back to the village and entrusting all matters of the negotiations to Danzo.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The other was happening in Sunagakure, in the heart of the Land of Wind.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This was a golden village. Looking around, there were all sand-yellow circular buildings; it was thought that this should be the unique architectural feature of this village.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And in the very center of this village, a huge circular building stood in the middle, with a huge \"Wind\" character inscribed on it.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This was Sunagakure, and the building in the center was named the \"Kazekage Building.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Inside the Kazekage Building, the long-vacant Kazekage office welcomed back its master. The Third Kazekage sat in the main seat of the room with his arms crossed, his face very ugly.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This Third Kazekage, known as the \"strongest Kazekage,\" looked somewhat haggard at the moment. His fair face, which originally had enough capital to \"eat soft rice,\" was now tanned somewhat dark by the scorching sun.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This was naturally normal; anyone who had been a \"miner\" sleeping in the open in the desert for a month or so would probably not be in a good state.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In fact, it was precisely because he heard the news of Chiyo’s defeat that our Third Kazekage temporarily freed himself from the \"mining business\" to deal with this major event.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Lord Kazekage, is it really unnecessary to support Elder Chiyo?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At this moment, besides the Third Kazekage, there were several Sunagakure elders in the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>These elders were all old-generation ninja who had accompanied the First and Second Kazekage to fight the world. Although they did not hold power like elders such as Chiyo, they had high prestige and status in Sunagakure.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>An elder tentatively asked the Third Kazekage, his eyes revealing hesitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In fact, these elders were biased toward the Kazekage’s faction in the village, otherwise, the Third Kazekage would not have summoned them at this juncture.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And for several elders, as members of Sunagakure, watching Chiyo be defeated seemed a bit unreasonable.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Hmph!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"I consider the friendship of being in the same village, but what about this old thing!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"When she was acting arbitrarily at the beginning, did she ever put me, the Kazekage, in her eyes?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The Third Kazekage’s resentment was evident, without any concealment, which made several Sunagakure elders speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Because they also knew that this was indeed a fact. Before the war started, the Third Kazekage only wanted to mine—oh no, he only wanted to develop and didn't want to cause trouble.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But who would have thought that Chiyo would force the palace and lead the war against Konoha.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Now that she was no match for Konoha and was licking her face to ask for help from the Third Kazekage, how could the Third Kazekage easily agree.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"What’s more,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"It’s already too late.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Right now in the village, there is simply no manpower to spare to mess around with Chiyo.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"You all know the profits of the iron sand trade. Now, if we draw people to support Chiyo, who will bear the losses?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The Third Kazekage did not avoid the fact that he was willing to be a miner and instead asked several elders bluntly.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Hearing this, several Sunagakure elders were silent again.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Some iron sand and minerals were worthless things to Sunagakure, and they could have as much as they wanted.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And after selling them through Kirigakure’s channels, they could exchange them for a large amount of scarce materials and even money, which was really too fragrant for resource-poor Sunagakure.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It was so \"fragrant\" that everyone in the village tacitly allowed this \"strongest Kazekage\" to \"not do his proper job\" every day and go to the desert to be a miner.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>With the continuous expansion of the ninja world war, the sales of weapons in the Land of Iron continued to skyrocket, leading to a surge in demand for raw materials. The Third Kazekage was almost too busy to touch the ground every day...\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But at the same time, the benefits brought were also considerable. Asking the Third Kazekage to give up this benefit to fill the hole created by Chiyo was simply out of the question.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Alright, don't mention this again!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"No matter what, I will not provide a single soldier for Chiyo!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Let her solve the trouble she caused herself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The Third Kazekage waved his hand, directly concluded the matter, and then flicked his sleeves and left. Only several Sunagakure elders were left, looking at each other, and finally sighed helplessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Yes, why did she have to do this in the first place? Chiyo’s handling of this matter was indeed a bit too stupid.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Chr\u002F>\u003Cp>\u003Cem>— Author's Notes —\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>·· ····Seeking flowers··· ····\u003C\u002Fp>",1930,"2026-06-17T05:01:42.922Z","2026-06-17T09:00:23.248Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","2c1a3fc9fe8d46221ede1dd0102d04c22e1427f676e707fb97b268e15c4e7006","this-mizukage-is-strong-but-excessively-cautious-chapter-488","this-mizukage-is-strong-but-excessively-cautious-chapter-486",533,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthis-mizukage-is-strong-but-excessively-cautious-cover.jpg"]