Ryou suddenly appeared, grabbed Sasori, and gave him a severe electric shock: "Where you're from is none of my damn business!"
"Hurry up and give your regeneration core technology to your grandma!"
Sasori screamed from the shock: "I'll give it, I'll give it, alright?"
Ryou immediately let go of Sasori and said to the stunned Chiyo and Ebizo: "See that? To educate this kind of little brat, you have to be simple and crude. Don't hold back, beat him to within an inch of his life!"
"Even if you beat him to death, it counts as a good deed!"
"How hateful, Uchiha Ryou, you're bullying my Sasori again..."
Chiyo tried to fight Ryou desperately.
Ryou quickly left and went to the interrogation room of the Sunagakure Anbu.
Baki and the high-ranking officials of Sunagakure had all been implanted with spore by Candy.
Candy said: "The spore have been placed on them, so we can monitor them at any time from now on."
Baki and the Sunagakure Anbu all knelt on one knee before Ryou to show their submission.
At this time, Ryou did not use genjutsu to control them.
Instead, it was their own choice.
Candy had already told them the situation.
The Fourth Kazekage was dead, the Elder Council was wiped out, and Chiyo and Pakura, who could support Sunagakure, were also controlled by Ryou.
Candy also told them about Ryou's plan to treat Sunagakure as his back garden.
Baki and the others could, of course, expose him to Konoha or the Shinobi Allied Forces.
But then what?
With a single thought, Ryou could make Chiyo and Pakura commit suicide, and these people probably wouldn't survive either.
Once they died, Sunagakure would likely dwindle into a minor Shinobi Village and be taken advantage of by other Villages.
Under the prevailing trend of the Shinobi Allied Forces, it might even be annexed by Konoha.
Compared to that, surrendering to Ryou might be better.
At least he didn't kill innocents indiscriminately like Sasori, and he had even saved these Sunagakure Anbu earlier.
Ryou nodded to Baki's group and finally went to Karura and Yashamaru's room.
Nekomata had already told Karura and Yashamaru that Rasa had been killed by Sasori.
Karura was very sad; even if Rasa had abandoned her, it was for the Village, and she had sacrificed herself voluntarily.
That was her husband after all; she couldn't feel no sadness at his death.
Because she was crying so bitterly, Nekomata released a genjutsu to make Karura fall asleep.
Ryou could only interrogate Yashamaru and Gaara.
Ryou hung Gaara up with vines and shouted at him: "Speak, who sent you?"
"Waaaah—"
Frightened by Ryou, Gaara immediately burst into loud cries, his voice tender and fragile, sob after sob.
Ryou pinched him: "Crying?! Crying counts towards your time!"
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Candy and Nekomata watched helplessly as Ryou threatened a newborn premature baby.
The pride of the Uchiha Clan was being completely thrown away by Ryou.
Yashamaru pleaded: "Lord Ryou, please stop interrogating Gaara, he doesn't understand anything! Torture me instead!"
Ryou snorted coldly: "No, I want to interrogate Gaara!"
When Ryou wanted to pinch Gaara again, a swirl of sand protected the child.
"This is—"
Ryou looked at the sand protecting Gaara, then looked at Karura nearby.
Karura hadn't passed her protective chakra to Gaara; after all, Karura was still alive and should have kept her own power to protect him.
Candy speculated: "It might be the Tailed Beast's chakra from before; Gaara had half of Shukaku's chakra sealed within him."
"Although it was taken back, some of Shukaku's chakra must have remained in his body, and you also saved him using Wood Release chakra."
"Shukaku's chakra must have become his own chakra."
Ryou stroked his chin; Gaara's current situation was that of a pseudo-Jinchuriki.
Similar to Sora in the original work—the Twelve Guardian Shinobi arc—the poor child who was transformed into an artificial Jinchuriki by Kazuma injecting Nine-Tails chakra.
Also similar to Kinkaku and Ginkaku; not Jinchuriki, but possessing Tailed Beast chakra.
Generally speaking, even if it's just chakra, a Tailed Beast's power isn't something an ordinary person can withstand; Sora would go berserk with only a portion of the Nine-Tails's chakra.
Gaara could accommodate Shukaku's chakra so perfectly partly because Shukaku's chakra was weak and not as violent as the Nine-Tails's.
On the other hand, Ryou had used his own chakra to suppress Shukaku's, forcing it to merge with Gaara.
If Shukaku were to die in the future, it would likely be resurrected from within Gaara's body.
With the fusion of Shukaku's chakra, even if Gaara isn't Shukaku's Jinchuriki, his starting point is faster than others.
He can already manipulate sand, and as the descendant of a Kage, his talent is better than others.
Speaking of which, Gaara's starting point was faster than others from the beginning.
Gaara was a premature baby; he had to fight even during birth, isn't that a fast start?
While teasing Gaara, Ryou said to Yashamaru: "Yashamaru, it seems fate doesn't completely hate your Sunagakure."
"One Kage just died, and Heaven sends another."
In the original work, Sunagakure's greatest opportunity was Gaara's friendship with Naruto, establishing a die-hard alliance between Sunagakure and Konoha.
Gaara is the child of destiny for Sunagakure.
Yashamaru looked at Gaara and was also pleasantly surprised that Gaara could possess Shukaku's talent—sand manipulation—at such a young age.
The previous sealing wasn't entirely misfortune; there was a reward as well.
"My Lord, as long as you don't hurt Gaara and my sister, I am willing to do anything for you, if you don't mind—"
Yashamaru had a feminine beauty, and some in Sunagakure who liked the 'back door' followed him all day long.
Occasionally dropping a bar of soap or two.
For the sake of his sister and young nephew, Yashamaru could sacrifice everything.
"Get lost!"
Ryou gave Yashamaru a slap, sending him spinning.
Ryou usually just joked around about such things; essentially, he was still a conservative person—he'd never even smoked an e-cigarette.
Ryou then asked Yashamaru: "Yashamaru, Rasa is dead, do you hate me?"
It was true Sasori killed Rasa, but that didn't mean Ryou was an innocent bystander.
Rasa's death was partly due to him; even if Sasori hadn't killed him, Rasa would likely have died at Ryou's hands or been controlled as a puppet.
"..."
Yashamaru was silent for a moment. He was a gentle person; even after how Rasa treated him, he chose to endure it.
Rasa was dead, and his sister was very sad. He didn't know if Temari and Kankuro would be able to handle this blow.
Losing Rasa would definitely be a major blow to this family.
The death of one person is nothing more than an extra grave to the world, but for those who depend on each other, it feels as if the entire world has been buried by that grave.