Chapter 489

At this moment, the Third Raikage was holding a letter in his hand, reading it carefully.

"Bee, the Fourth Mizukage has sent an invitation, inviting me to go to the Land of Iron for a talk."

"I have prepared to set off, and this time I plan to take you and Toroi with me."

Seeing that Bee had arrived, the Third Raikage raised his head and spoke slowly to Bee, his majestic face full of dominance.

"Dodai, the village is temporarily entrusted to you."

After finishing speaking to Bee, the Third Raikage ordered his confidant ninja Dodai beside him again.

"Yes, Lord Raikage!"

Dodai immediately nodded and responded with a fist.

Hearing this, recalling that man, Bee’s mind was a little complex for a moment. His expression flickered slightly, and then he nodded heavily.

Decisive and swift was the characteristic of the Cloud ninja. After explaining things, the Third Raikage also set off directly to the Land of Iron.

Although it was just ordinary sunlight, for this country that had long been accustomed to drizzling rain, it was so rare and precious.

At this moment, a man wearing a pitch-black rubber raincoat with light green hair was standing in the sunlight with a look of horror, his eyes full of disbelief.

Some wet water marks meandered down from his raincoat, finally gathering into a drop of water, and then dripped down.

"Drip."

The water drop reflected colorful colors under the direct sunlight, just like the mixed state of mind of the man at this moment, and finally, the water drop fell to the ground and merged with the muddy earth.

And opposite the green-haired man, the young man wearing a white god robe still stood there faintly, with his consistent unfathomable smile on his face, making people unable to figure out the depth at all.

After a long silence, Salamander Hanzo finally spoke.

"Why should I believe you?"

Although Hanzo pretended to be calm, from his hoarse and trembling voice, Mizunuki Ryosuke easily read the agitation of his heart.

It was understandable; anyone facing such a dramatic truth would inevitably be excited and unable to calm down.

But who knew, hearing Hanzo’s question, Mizunuki Ryosuke had no intention of explaining at all. I saw him just shake his head faintly and then say.

"It doesn't matter whether you believe it or not."

"The facts are just so."

"Instead of asking me here, you should ask yourself."

"Can you still believe in yourself now?"

Mizunuki Ryosuke still smiled and said in a calm voice.

Hearing Mizunuki Ryosuke’s words, Salamander Hanzo’s body trembled violently, the calmness he had pretended to have disappeared without a trace, replaced by a look of complexity on his face.

Yes, when did he, Salamander Hanzo, start to place his hope on others?

Believe or not, this was simply the most cowardly questioning.

For everything Mizunuki Ryosuke said, believe or not, he should have had his own judgment.

If he believed it, he just had to do it. Things were originally like this, and how to do it, he should naturally have his own way.

And if he didn't believe it, would he believe it again because Mizunuki Ryosuke made some explanation? Of course not!

Then since that was the case, what was the point of him making such a dry questioning? Wasn't this showing his weak side in front of Mizunuki Ryosuke?

Or rather, this failure had destroyed all the self-confidence Salamander had built up before.

"Heh!"

Suddenly, Salamander Hanzo laughed. This was a smile full of bitterness and irony.

I don't know whether he was laughing at Mizunuki Ryosuke on the opposite side or at himself who had just asked the question.

"Hahahaha!!!"

Laughing and laughing, the low bitter laugh suddenly turned into three loud laughs. Salamander Hanzo pulled out the kusarigama he had just inserted into the ground and carried it on his shoulder.

During this process, Mizunuki Ryosuke just looked at Salamander Hanzo faintly, neither interrupting nor expressing his own opinion, just smiling and watching this down-and-out demigod of the ninja world.

"I have made Lord Mizukage laugh."

Salamander Hanzo’s expression returned to normal, and the aura on his body gradually returned to normal. Compared to the unbalanced state just now, this showed that he had adjusted his mentality.

It also showed that Salamander Hanzo formally acknowledged his failure.

Failure is actually not terrible, because it is essentially just the result of a period of experience.

And what is truly terrible is that because of the result of past failure, it interferes with the future that is about to happen.

Either you cannot face failure, immerse yourself in past failure and cannot be freed, thus walking the old path again to welcome new failure.

Or you are directly knocked down by failure and never recover from then on.

And the correct way to face failure is never to be stubborn and not admit defeat, but to let go.

Only by letting go can you pick it up again.

Under Mizunuki Ryosuke’s guidance, Salamander Hanzo gradually understood some things in his heart, but for all this, he had a place that he could never figure out, which was lingering in his heart and he had to spit it out.

Since he had thought of it, Salamander Hanzo simply chose to ask it directly.

"Mizunuki Ryosuke, why are you doing all this?"

Hanzo looked directly into Mizunuki Ryosuke’s eyes without any avoidance, as if he wanted to see something from these gentle and elegant eyes, but in the end, he gained nothing.

Salamander Hanzo’s eyes were sharp, without any retreat, quite aggressive.

In this regard, Mizunuki Ryosuke did not mean to hide it either, but said two words to Salamander Hanzo with earnest expression.

"Peace."

Hearing Ryosuke’s words, Salamander Hanzo’s eyes were full of strangeness, and his stiff face was full of the look of wanting to laugh but not being able to laugh.

Salamander Hanzo didn't speak, just glanced at Mizunuki Ryosuke.

Almost instantly, Mizunuki Ryosuke knew the meaning in Hanzo’s eyes. Salamander Hanzo’s eyes seemed to be saying: "With your style, you are worthy of talking about peace?"

Seeing this, Ryosuke shook his head helplessly.

Regardless of what his original intention was, once his goal was achieved, the ninja world would naturally be at peace. Isn't this "peace"?

Of course, he would naturally not explain the details to Salamander Hanzo one by one.

"Leader Hanzo, do you still remember a sentence I once said to you?"

"The frog at the bottom of the well will never understand how vast the sky outside the well is."

"He will always only think that this side of the well is everything in the sky, and instead, it is not as vast as the space at the bottom of the well."

Mizunuki Ryosuke did not defend himself but brought up the old matter again.

When Mizunuki Ryosuke talked about this to Salamander Hanzo that day, Salamander Hanzo only felt that Mizunuki Ryosuke was belittling him.

Mentioning these words again today, Salamander Hanzo had a different understanding.

"I said this, not to belittle you and the Rain ninja at the beginning, but just stating a fact."

"The origin of the Rain ninja limited your vision, letting you only see the sky of this country and this place of the Land of Rain."

"You think that as long as you can lead the Land of Rain to independence, you can get so-called 'peace'?"

"It’s a big mistake."

"As strong as Konoha, as strong as the other four major ninja villages, who dares to say that they have really achieved peace now?"

"Even if the God of Shinobi Senju Hashirama and the Ninja World Shura Uchiha Madara joined forces, they only brought decades of false peace to Konoha."

"Wanting to fight for so-called 'peace' for a country and a village is always just false peace."

"Only by bringing peace to the ninja world is true peace."

After Mizunuki Ryosuke’s vigorous words, Salamander Hanzo had already been stunned in place, silent.

At this moment, he only felt that compared to this man opposite, he was so small.