"Are you sure she'll die?" Noboru asked impatiently as he looked at his mother.
He was already annoyed because his brother was able to open his shop without problems despite the difficulties his mother put in his way.
And now that Kozue has left the city, he hopes her murder will be carried out so he can obtain what he thought was his.
After all, Kozue is unmarried and has no children, so his property would go to his dying father and then fall into his hands when he dies.
The only problem was that his father might die soon, so Noboru hopes that Kozue will die now and not later.
"Yeah"
"And don't raise your voice"
"Someone might hear you," Hanako said, shouting to her son in a low voice.
Although she had ordered the maids not to approach the room, one of them might come if it was for something urgent.
After making sure that no one was near the door, she sighed with relief and returned to her son's side.
"I've commissioned someone to do the job," the woman said, taking a sip from a teacup that a maid had left there before this meeting.
Leaving the empty cup on the table, Hanako hoped that Kozue's murder would be successful. But then she shook her head.
That organization was extremely dangerous, and I only knew of it because of my possible involvement with the Ishihara family and the cooperation between them.
She wouldn't normally approach that organization for this task, but Hanako was annoyed with Kozue after her plans to open her shop fell through after she had promised many favors and spent money with those trading companies to avoid doing business with her husband's son.
The woman had received reports about Kozue buying things at the markets and returning to her shop under a different appearance.
If his men hadn't seen him undoing the disguise outside his shop, he would never have known how Kozue got his products.
Angry with Kozue, she waited for the arrival of the man who was her connection to that organization and gave him the task of making Kozue die in a painful way so that she could not connect with her.
Knowing that the young man had to leave the city to claim the other properties left to him by his husband, the woman hoped that this would be the date of his murder.
Of course, the murder was not easy.
Putting a reward on the black market would make some people aware of it and suspicious of her because of the coincidence.
Therefore, he preferred to contact that man's organization and promise him certain favors for when his son became the leader of the Ishihara family.
"Did you put a bounty on the black market?" Noboru asked, and Hanako shook her head.
"So how...?"
"It's better if you don't know," Hanako said quickly, shaking her head.
That man was very dangerous, so she didn't want her son getting close to him so soon.
"You just need to know that Kozue will die and you must be ready to act like a young man who lost his favorite brother," Hanako said, and Noboru couldn't get any information out of her.
Unable to get any more information from his mother, Noboru could only shake his head and say goodbye to her.
He had a meeting with his friends and planned to have some fun with some women along the way.
As Noboru left, Hanako planned to wait for good news. But then she realized it wasn't very likely the murder would happen so close to the city, so it was more probable she'd have to wait a day or more.
Therefore, she left the room and went to the room where her dying husband was resting.
After all, she was a wife grieving the early death of her husband.
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Meanwhile, Kozue, Mikita, Raynare, Kalawarner, and Mittelt were riding in a carriage on their way to Hanasaki City.
Hanasaki City was the closest city to the capital of the land of fire and where one of the properties that Kozue inherited was located.
Needing not much time, Kozue expected to arrive in that city after 8 hours.
Of course, Kozue and the others enjoyed the scenery, but they quickly grew bored and returned to their shop in the capital of the land of fire.
Now he could teleport directly to his shop, so he didn't have to appear in a nearby, empty alley to avoid attracting attention.
Those who stayed in the carriage were shadow clones and continued the journey so as not to alert their pursuers.
While they were in their shop, they felt they were being spied on by several people, and when they left the city a group followed them.
What caught Kozue's attention was these people's ability to suppress their emotions.
Although it wasn't perfect, Kozue could sense how these people quickly suppressed the few feelings and emotions that naturally arise in their minds.
'Danzo' was the first thing Kozue thought when she found herself in this situation.
Although Danzo may not be the only one who trains his subordinates to be emotionless, he is the most famous and the one who operates mostly in Tierra del Fuego.
Knowing that Root could attack him, Kozue was ready to finish them off.
But it seemed that he would not be attacked so close to the capital, so he headed to his shop with the girls and would return later when the attack occurred.
What did surprise him was that Hanako had connections with Root and could commission them to assassinate him.
After his attempt to sabotage her store failed, he didn't think much about the woman and didn't keep an eye on her.
But he showed her that it was a mistake and planned to correct it soon.
While spending time with his girls while waiting for the Root ninjas' attack, he sent a shadow clone to monitor Hanako's movements from a distance using Observation Haki.
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And he didn't have to wait long.
Since the Den Den Mushi didn't work outside the pirate world, he bought magical communicators and a shadow clone in the carriage summoned him when he sensed his pursuers' intentions.
With a flash of light, Kozue appeared above a magic circle and stood in the carriage.
And he immediately activated his observation haki to sense his attackers.
Several hundred meters away, a group of 5 people approached silently, hidden among several trees, after the group's leader ordered an attack.
"They are waiting"
And as they were about to separate to surround the carriage, one of them stopped the group when he suddenly felt another chakra signature appear inside the carriage.
The sensor told the team leader what it found, and he was in a dilemma for a second.
A variable had appeared in the mission, but as members of Root they had been trained to carry out the mission regardless of the difficulties.
So normally the man would choose to lead his team to continue the mission, but the way that chakra signature appeared on the carriage out of nowhere made it so he could only think of one possibility.
Teleportation
"Withdrawal"
Surprised by the possibility, the man immediately ordered his team to retreat and abandon the mission.
Although they were members of Root and trained not to abandon the mission, they were also trained to obey their leader, so they didn't hesitate for a second to turn around and follow their leader.
"Why are they leaving so soon?"
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Suddenly, a voice took them by surprise and the group stopped in their positions.
But that pause lasted only a second before a shower of Kunai and Shurikens rained down on the figure that had suddenly appeared.
Of course, that figure was Kozue, and the thrown weapons only fell on his afterimage, and he appeared dozens of meters away in another tree and analyzed his enemies.
There were five ninjas wearing white masks, four of whom had chakra levels at the elite genin level and one at the chunin level. None of them posed a threat.
Kozue was already expecting it.
After all, Jonin-level ninjas aren't cabbages that can be easily grown.
Danzo definitely wouldn't have many of them and he wouldn't send them to kill a young samurai who was unknown until now.
And Kozue will show him that it was a mistake to underestimate him.
"Fire Release: Fireballs!"
"Wind Release: Major Breakthrough!"
The Root ninjas quickly performed several hand seals and released two fire and wind ninjutsus, creating a combination that drastically increased the destructive power of their attacks.
This combined jutsu would easily finish off a seasoned and powerful chunin, demonstrating Root's training ability and his capacity to fight against ninjas above his level.
Of course, that training was useless against Kozue, and the Root ninjas' ability to maintain their emotional stability collapsed when a flying sword light split their attack in half.