Chapter 577: Maintaining Peace in the Ninja World
Compared to those noble officials who had no bottom line and were full of flattery.
Uchiha Shisui was more concerned about the black-haired girl who stood alone and looked at a loss.
The girl's originally exquisite princess dress was now stained with a little dust, which looked particularly messy.
Her big eyes were full of confusion, like a lost deer. She was obviously the only heir to the Land of Snow, and her father, the daimyo, had just been killed by her own uncle. She was obviously in need of comfort at this moment.
However, those ministers who had greeted her with a smile and were considerate in the past seemed to have completely forgotten her existence at this time.
She was left standing alone and helpless in the corner.
Tears kept rolling in the girl's eyes, but she stubbornly did not let them fall. It was just that her little face became paler and paler, and she was trying hard not to cry out.
However, just when Uchiha Shisui was about to step forward to comfort this distressed little girl, a blue-haired figure got there first.
Guren pushed away the ministers who were surrounding the three of them impatiently, without giving them any face, and walked straight to Kazahana Koyuki.
She leaned down and gently hugged the little girl into her arms.
The girl, who had been able to grit her teeth and hold on, completely lost control of her emotions and burst into tears the moment Guren hugged her.
Hearing Kazahana Koyuki crying, the officials who had previously flattered Yuki Enji and others were all embarrassed and stunned in place, their eyes wandering in panic, not knowing what to do.
Fortunately, no one knew what Guren said in Kazahana Koyuki's ear.
After a while, the girl slowly stopped crying and fell asleep with sobs.
However, with such a small episode, the originally lively atmosphere naturally could not continue.
Guren, Uchiha Shisui and others, who had already been a little impatient, also refused the so-called celebration dinner on the pretext of not delaying the aftermath of the Land of Snow and took the initiative to say goodbye and leave.
Perhaps they felt that the previous scene was somewhat embarrassing, or they had other little thoughts.
The officials of the Land of Snow did not try to keep them, but simply exchanged a few polite words and sent the six people out of the capital of the Land of Snow.
On the way back, the three Konoha people who had been ignored before had not said anything, but Yuki Enji, who had just been transferred to the maintenance force, was the first to complain.
"By the way, why do we have to do this kind of mission? Shouldn't these things be done by the village?"
Guren, who was standing aside, looked at his new teammate with her hands behind her head, looking silly, and complained with a look of disgust.
"Just now, I saw that you were very happy to be flattered by those people? Why are you dissatisfied now?"
Although she said so, Guren did not explain to him why the work content of the Maintenance Force had changed.
In fact, although Yuki Enji, a guy who had just joined the maintenance force, did not know, the few of them who had reported to the Chunin for more than half a year knew about it.
The original core mission of the Maintenance Force was naturally to fight against the Zero Organization hidden behind the scenes of the ninja world.
However, in the nearly two years since the establishment of the Maintenance Force, the Zero Organization has been hiding very well.
Although the intelligence investigation has been ongoing, there have been several times when the other party's tail was caught.
But after several dispatches, they were successfully shaken off by the other party.
It is impossible for such a large five-village joint organization to just enjoy resource support and do nothing practical, right?
So starting last year, the work of the Maintenance Force has gradually shifted towards "maintaining peace in the ninja world."
In the past, such tasks would indeed be handed over to the five great ninja villages for handling.
Or to put it more bluntly, it is usually the small country that issues tasks to the large ninja village to which it belongs, asking for help.
However, such a task related to the entire country, asking for help from the sovereign country, will inevitably involve things like influence and autonomy.
Now there is an organization like the Maintenance Force that claims to be neutral and maintains peace in the ninja world.
Those small countries are naturally more willing to ask for help from the Maintenance Force first.
It is not the first time that the Maintenance Force has intervened in such tasks as the Land of Snow.
Occasionally, there will even be ninjas from one of the five great villages causing killings in small countries.
In the past, these small countries would definitely have nowhere to turn for help.
Now in the Maintenance Force, there are always guys in the other great ninja villages who are looking for opportunities to disgust their opponents, and they are particularly enthusiastic in investigating.
As a result, the reputation of the Maintenance Force in small countries is relatively positive.
Of course, even for Guren, a teammate, it is not easy to tell Yuki Enji in front of people from other villages that they started taking on "side jobs" because they did not understand their "main job".
But Yuki Enji actually doesn't care about this.
Long before he came to the Maintenance Force, he had inquired about it and found that the work in the Maintenance Force was relatively safe, so he took the initiative to come here to gain experience.
If he really had to deal with some behind-the-scenes organization in the ninja world, this kind of work that sounds dangerous would have made him back off.
"I just think that if a big ninja village comes forward, it might be easier for the little princess to take over the Land of Snow in the future."
"Now, she is so young... Sigh."
As soon as these words came out, except for Guren who had a strange expression, the other people present sighed silently in their hearts.
They all saw the faces of those Land of Snow officials just now.
Can a princess who is only five or six years old, without relatives to take care of her, really become a daimyo smoothly with the title of an heir?
In the end, it was the relatively stable Uchiha Shisui who broke the calm first.
"Non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries is the most important purpose of our Maintenance Forces. If we take the initiative to intervene and support, why do these small countries still want to find us? We are from the great ninja villages."
Uchiha Shisui seemed to realize that what he said was not in line with the identity of Konoha ninja. He stopped talking halfway.
However, the other people already understood what he wanted to express.
In fact, as a member of the Uchiha clan, Shisui has gradually recognized the identity of a member of the Maintenance Force in the past year since joining the Maintenance Force.
Compared with being discriminated against by fellow villagers with the Uchiha surname in Konoha Village, in the Maintenance Forces, they have the care of their own family head, and the commander-in-chief, Hoshigaki Kisame-sama, is also clear about rewards and punishments.
Although there are occasional minor frictions between ninjas from different villages, they are more like a whole because they eat and live together for a long time.
If there are really people who take the initiative to cause trouble, the 40-meter-long sword of the commander will not have eyes.
Especially for them, the young people who will be rotated in later because of the change in the route of the Maintenance Forces.
Because they had never experienced the previous Great Ninja War, and because they had lived together for a long time, many people even left their missions to their companions from different ninja villages.
Uchiha Shisui himself also felt that maintaining peace in the Ninja World was making his ninja career more meaningful.
(End of this chapter)