Chapter 54: Prime Minister! I understand!
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Qianye: .
Damn it, I should have known not to help her up.
Konan lives right across the street, and she hasn't seen his Mirror Flower Water Moon yet.
Moreover, if he did that, Izumi would be heartbroken.
Crucially!
Mikoto was not a casual woman.
If he forced himself on her, unless he threatened Sasuke, she would probably try to kill herself every day.
Alas!
You can't get fat in one bite; everything has to be done step by step.
At this moment, Mikoto turned her gaze to Uchiha Izumi, changing the subject, "Izumi is..."
"Cough." Qianye coughed lightly, subtly taking a step back, deliberately distancing himself from Mikoto, and said seriously, "Mrs. Mikoto, Izumi doesn't know about the Uchiha Clan's extermination yet, and I haven't told her. If possible, I hope she can have a carefree girlhood."
Ding! Congratulations, Host, you have received 999,999 'i love a piece of wood'. They have been automatically stored in the System Warehouse.
"I understand. What do you need me to do?" Mikoto nodded, genuinely happy for Uchiha Izumi, grateful that she had found such a thoughtful and considerate partner.
After a slight pause, Qianye said, "Izumi knows about the Uchiha Clan's plan for a coup and Danzo sending me to exterminate them. Later, tell her that Uncle Fugaku and I discussed it and decided to fake your kidnapping as an opportunity to divert the Uchiha's hatred towards the Village, thereby ending the rebellion.
Allowing Konoha and the Uchiha Clan to live in harmony again."
As he spoke, Qianye unsealed Uchiha Izumi's pressure points.
"Qianye, have we left Konoha already? Oh, Aunt Mikoto, why are you here too?" This was the first thing Izumi said after waking up.
Qianye and Mikoto exchanged glances, and the two of them, with a tacit understanding, told Izumi a benevolent lie.
Then Qianye mentioned some precautions about this place to the two of them.
After hearing this, Izumi was happy for her clansmen.
She threw herself into Qianye's arms, her heart aching.
This made Qianye's old face flush.
To celebrate their escape from danger, that evening, Izumi used the ingredients Qianye had stored in the System Warehouse to prepare a huge table full of dishes with Mikoto.
After dinner, while Izumi was bathing, Qianye took out a pottery jar and handed it to Mikoto, "Mrs. Mikoto, this is for you."
"What is this?" Mikoto took the pottery jar curiously, asking with some surprise.
Qianye said solemnly, "These are your husband's ashes..."
"Fugaku..." Hearing this, Mikoto could no longer maintain her composure. She hugged the urn, weeping tears.
Qianye, without changing his expression, fabricated, "Although he wasn't a good clan leader, he was a good husband. After he died, I stole his body from right under Hiruzen Sarutobi's nose, and then secretly cremated it on the way here. Don't worry, his remains were intact before cremation; I didn't dig out his eyes."
He indeed didn't dig out the eyes; the eyes were taken by the system, and so was the Uchiha bloodline.
"Thank you..." Uchiha Mikoto picked up the urn, stood up, and bowed gracefully, expressing her sincere gratitude to Qianye.
Qianye smiled slightly, patted his own shoulder, and joked, "Do you feel better now? If you still want to cry, I don't mind lending you my shoulder."
"You're really not serious. I wonder where you learned that."
Uchiha Mikoto wiped away her tears, glared at him playfully, and then burst into laughter, feeling inexplicably much better.
"I won't talk to you anymore. Aren't you going on a mission tomorrow? I'll clean up the dining table later. After you shower, get some rest early. I'll take care of your clothes." As she spoke, Mikoto carried the urn and walked into her own room.
Qianye smiled calmly. After Izumi finished bathing, he also took a bath and returned to his room, beginning a long-awaited rest since the clan's extermination.
"Qianye..."
However, not long after he lay down, Mikoto knocked on his door.
"Mrs. Mikoto, do you need anything?" Qianye opened the door, smiling.
"Uh... I left in too much of a hurry this time and didn't have time to bring a change of clothes." Mikoto said, a little flustered, her cheeks flushed.
"I see. For tonight, you can make do with mine. Tomorrow, I'll ask Konan to get you a few sets. Give me your size." As he spoke, Qianye took out a white shirt and a pair of black capris from the System Warehouse.
As for underwear and bras, he didn't give them. He couldn't.
Izumi's bra size was too small, and underwear couldn't be worn randomly, so she had to make do.
"Thank you..." Mikoto quickly took the white shirt and black pants from Qianye's hand and hurried into the bathroom. She didn't turn on the shower until Qianye's room door closed.
In an instant, the sound of rushing water filled the bathroom.
The night passed without a word.
The next morning, just as dawn was breaking.
Mikoto, a former housewife, had already prepared breakfast for Qianye.
At the same time, she had changed into her own clothes.
As for Qianye's clothes, she had already washed them, dried them with an iron, and hung them up along with the clothes Qianye had changed out of yesterday.
"Um... Qianye, thank you for last night. As for the clothes, I've already talked to Miss Konan, and she'll bring them over later." Mikoto said, blushing and a little embarrassed.
"That's good." Qianye smiled.
"What happened between you two last night?" Uchiha Izumi's room door opened, and she asked, her face full of curiosity.
"Nothing much. Mrs. Mikoto just forgot to bring a change of clothes, so I asked Konan to get her a few sets, that's all." Qianye winked at Mikoto, who immediately returned a grateful look.
After Izumi sat down, Qianye again reminded the two of them of some precautions and that he might be leaving for a while in the future.
Only then did he put on his Akatsuki robe and leave with peace of mind.
At the staircase, he unexpectedly met Konan.
The two walked side by side, and Qianye said in a voice only they could hear, "After I leave, I'll entrust Mikoto and Izumi to your care. I'll give you information about the Masked Man as soon as possible."
"No problem." Konan replied indifferently, saying nothing more.
A moment later.
The two arrived at the clock tower where they had gathered yesterday.
Pain Deva Path was already waiting there. Itachi had also arrived, standing expressionlessly beside Pain. Seeing Qianye arrive, he immediately activated his Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
Qianye smiled, found a spot leaning against a pillar, crossed his arms, and closed his eyes to rest.
Not long after.
Zetsu, Biwa Jūzō, Orochimaru, and Sasori arrived successively.
Qianye only opened his eyes when Kakuzu arrived with that Akatsuki Organization cannon fodder member who died by his hands in the original work.
Because he felt an extremely strong killing intent from the other party, and this killing intent was directed at no one else but himself.
Qianye looked at Zetsu, who was closest to him, and without deliberately lowering his voice, he said loudly, "Is that masked guy out of his mind? He keeps releasing killing intent at the drop of a hat. Is he always this brave?"
"Kid, are you looking for death?" Kakuzu's veins bulged on his forehead when he heard this, and he looked at Qianye with anger and greed. If Pain hadn't been there, he wouldn't have been able to resist attacking.
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