Chapter 69: The Curtain Falls
On Yukimura's side.
Yagura Karatachi and Suikazan Fuguki stood before and behind Yukimura, preparing to surround and kill him.
The other three Anbu members waited not far away.
They were waiting for an opportunity while preventing Yukimura from escaping.
At this moment, Yukimura was surrounded in the middle.
Knowing that the Yuki Clan no longer existed, he became frantic.
"Ice Style: Twin Dragon Blizzard!"
Two giant dragons, one on the left and one on the right, rushed towards Yagura Karatachi and Suikazan Fuguki respectively.
But both of them were elites; they each used their own methods to neutralize the attack.
Seeing that his techniques couldn't hurt anyone, Yukimura's heart turned ruthless.
He immediately condensed a suit of ice armor on his body and then charged towards Suikazan Fuguki.
He had no choice!
Yagura Karatachi seemed too difficult to deal with.
He couldn't get close to him in a short time.
But he didn't believe others could be that slippery.
No matter what, he was going to take someone down with him today.
Seeing Yukimura's current appearance, Suikazan Fuguki and Yagura Karatachi could both guess what he was planning to do.
Yagura Karatachi immediately shouted for Suikazan Fuguki to retreat, while he himself intended to continue wearing him down with Water Mirror.
But Suikazan Fuguki did not do so; instead, he raised Samehada and met him head-on.
When he saw Yukimura rushing towards him, he already knew what technique Yukimura would use next.
That move was indeed powerful, but the Samehada in his hand was the perfect counter to it.
Crack!
Suikazan Fuguki swung Samehada and slashed down fiercely at the charging Yukimura.
The massive impact carved a huge gap in the ice armor.
But immediately, the gap restored itself and locked Samehada in place.
It couldn't be pulled out in a short time.
"Hahaha, come down to hell with me!"
Seeing that Suikazan Fuguki actually dared to meet him head-on, the frantic look on Yukimura's face became even more pronounced.
After successfully locking Samehada, he immediately prepared to perform a Ninjutsu, intending to take Suikazan Fuguki down with him.
"If you want to swallow my Yuki Clan, then I'll make sure you break a bone! Ice Style... Uh... How is this possible... My Chakra!"
Suikazan Fuguki, seeing Yukimura preparing to use a technique, wordlessly controlled Samehada to absorb the Chakra from Yukimura's body.
Under Samehada's absorption, Yukimura's Chakra, which was originally in an explosive state, diminished at a rate visible to the naked eye, and finally, even the ice armor began to dissipate.
"idiot! Just as much of an idiot as your clan's Third Elder!"
After saying that.
He swung the freed Samehada and directly beheaded Yukimura.
[Heh, A-Long, you were right! The clan... ultimately lost its reverence for the Ninja World...]
"Shikura-sama. It's settled."
After finishing off Yukimura with one strike, Suikazan Fuguki ran to Yagura Karatachi to claim credit.
As one of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, he naturally belonged to the Third Mizukage's inner circle, and he was quite good at social climbing.
Suikazan Fuguki could still guess one or two of the Third Mizukage's thoughts.
Moreover, Yagura Karatachi was in full charge of this mission to purge the Yuki Clan, which made the implications quite clear.
"Mm! Let's go to the Clan Head's manor and take a look."
"Yes!"
...Meanwhile.
On a cliff at a mountain peak.
The previously high-spirited Yukimō.
Was also exhausted and cornered, finally sent off by Munashi Jinpachi with exploding tags.
To ensure he was completely dead, Munashi Jinpachi used the Explosive Blade in his hand to chop off Yukimō's head.
Looking at Yukimō's unwilling eyes, Munashi Jinpachi mocked him.
"Hmph! idiot! It's not like I didn't see your clansmen using those mutual destruction techniques.
Did you think I'd be stupid enough to just rush in? Can't I just throw exploding tags?"
After saying that, he walked back the way he came.
"Just a little rookie spoiled by his clan..."
...The next day, inside the Mizukage's office.
Yagura Karatachi was handing a scroll to the Third Mizukage.
"Reporting to Mizukage-sama, this is all the property and land deeds we seized from the Yuki Clan.
The Yuki Clan's foundations were indeed very substantial. Although they took a hit a dozen years ago, it was only a slight impact; they didn't even touch their hidden assets.
According to the information we found in the Clan Head's manor, the Yuki Clan's hidden assets might be as high as three billion.
Adding these public assets, shops, and fields, it totals a full five billion in assets."
The Third Mizukage spoke while looking at the documents Yagura Karatachi handed over and listening to his summary.
"Normal! After all, it's the accumulation of a prestigious family over a thousand years. If they didn't have that much money, that would be abnormal!
Moreover, the Yuki Clan hasn't faced many enemies in a thousand years; they could be considered local tyrants in this region."
"Mizukage-sama! Since the Yuki Clan is so wealthy, then the other two clans..."
Hearing what the Third Mizukage said, Yagura Karatachi asked.
He couldn't help it; it was simply too much.
With this much money, the Hidden Mist Village could develop into anything!
Yagura Karatachi himself didn't dare to imagine it.
"The other two families are paupers!"
"Ah!" Hearing the Third Mizukage's words, Yagura Karatachi, who was still fantasizing, was stunned for a moment. "That's impossible, Mizukage-sama. Even the Yuki Clan has that much money, and the other two families are equally famous. How could they be paupers?"
Looking at Yagura Karatachi's face full of disbelief.
The Third Mizukage expressed that he could understand, because he had the same expression before.
But to answer Yagura Karatachi's doubt, the Third Mizukage still spoke.
"The Kaguya Clan were originally refugees who fled here. Do you think they could have money after falling to such a state?"
"Uh..."
True!
How much money could a group of refugees have!
"Then the Hozuki Clan..."
"The Hozuki Clan is indeed a local clan! But who told the Hidden Mist Village to produce a Hōzuki Gengetsu!"
"???"
There's a story!
Seeing Yagura Karatachi's eyes hungry for gossip.
The Third Mizukage felt in a good mood today and said.
"Back then, Lord Byakuren had an agreement with the Hozuki Clan. He was willing to take the Hozuki Clan Head's son as a disciple and let him be the next leader.
In exchange, the Hozuki Clan needed to provide support during the construction of the Hidden Mist Village.
The Hozuki Clan Head agreed at the time. After all, the next leader would be his own son; there was no reason not to support him.
Ultimately, before and after the Village's construction, the Hozuki Clan shelled out five or six hundred million in assets."
"That's not that much!"
"Mm. It's indeed not much, because the bulk hadn't been shelled out yet!"
"Finally, Lord Byakuren passed away from illness, and Hōzuki Gengetsu successfully became the Second Mizukage. This made the Hozuki Clan extremely happy at the time.
Because through Lord Byakuren's efforts, the Hidden Mist Village was already one of the Five Great Ninja Villages, and the Village's leader was also called the Mizukage.
It was equivalent to someone originally just wanting to be a county magistrate, but suddenly becoming a provincial governor.
How could they not be happy?"
"True! Then what happened later? Logically, since Nidaime-sama became the Mizukage, shouldn't the Hozuki Clan be even richer?"
"Haha! That can only be said that Lord Byakuren taught him well!"
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