At this moment, when Fuguki Suikazan looked at the Sunagakure ninja in front of him, whom he had originally found hateful, he suddenly felt that the other party's face was rather pleasant and easy to approach.
For Fuguki Suikazan, his hatred toward Sunagakure was hatred that could pass.
War was a matter of the shinobi world. It was the decision of two ninja villages.
But after being targeted, framed, expelled, and hunted by Kirigakure—after Suikazan Butterfly died at the hands of Kirigakure ninja while fleeing—Fuguki Suikazan's hatred toward Kirigakure had become eternal.
The moment the Sunagakure ninja explained, Fuguki Suikazan immediately realized it.
This was an excellent opportunity to take revenge on Kirigakure.
It would definitely strike Kirigakure.
It would definitely strike Yagura.
"Ask away. I will tell you everything I know."
Fuguki Suikazan was extremely cooperative.
Very quickly, the Sunagakure ninja finished asking all the questions he had prepared.
After the questions were over, Fuguki Suikazan still refused to let the Sunagakure ninja leave just like that. He continued to say many bad things about Yagura, one after another.
Three days later.
Yagura gathered an elite ninja force, preparing to launch a punitive expedition against the Samehada Sailing Crew and the Blast Sword Sailing Crew.
At that moment—
"Ninja Major Events Weekly!"
"Ninja Major Events Weekly!"
One newspaper after another, through the efforts of Sunagakure ninja and traveling merchants, quickly spread to almost every corner of the shinobi world.
As the story of Pirate King continued its serialization, the popularity of Ninja Major Events Weekly grew higher and higher.
It was different from The Kouga Ninja Scrolls.
The Kouga Ninja Scrolls was indeed a good story, but it was a tragedy.
And tragedies were destined to have a smaller audience than passionate adventure stories. Hot-blooded stories were the kingly path, more favored by young people.
And young people were the future of the shinobi world.
In addition, the appearance of large numbers of sailing crews in the Land of Water also created positive feedback for the story of Pirate King.
Some people only read Pirate King after hearing about the existence of sailing crews.
As for Konoha Weekly—
Even though Homura Mitokado worked diligently and exhausted all his thoughts, in terms of popularity, it still could not even come close to catching up with Ninja Major Events Weekly.
There was even less need to mention Iwagakure Weekly and Kirigakure Weekly.
Once those two newspapers left their villages, they had almost no influence at all.
Even inside their villages, there were few people interested in them.
"Mizukage-sama, look at this quickly."
An ANBU ninja held a copy of Ninja Major Events Weekly and quickly delivered it to Yagura.
Yagura took it and looked.
In an instant, the veins on his forehead throbbed uncontrollably, and his expression became extremely ugly.
"Fuguki Suikazan!"
"Sunagakure!"
"Rasa!"
"You've gone too far! Too far!"
Yagura was so furious he almost spat blood.
Fortunately, he was young and currently at the peak of his physical condition. Yagura suspected that if he were in the same state as the Third Mizukage had been at the end of the Third Shinobi World War, this newspaper might have angered him straight to death.
What was written on it was precisely the character interview with Fuguki Suikazan.
Homura Mitokado slapped his thigh.
"How did I not think of this? How did I not think of this?"
A newspaper office cadre stepped forward.
"Homura-sama, this character interview is indeed excellent. It easily draws people's interest. If our Konoha Weekly also had such a section, our popularity would definitely rise quite a bit."
"Why don't we copy this idea?"
Homura Mitokado slapped the table.
"What do you mean copy?"
"What do you mean copy?"
"Sunagakure used this character interview, so Konoha cannot use it? This is not something exclusive to Sunagakure. It is something everyone can use."
The newspaper cadre was startled, but still nodded repeatedly.
"Homura-sama is right. Something anyone can use cannot be considered copying at all. I misspoke."
Only then did Homura Mitokado's expression ease.
"Who do you think would be suitable for our Konoha Weekly's first character interview? Who can bring our Konoha Weekly higher popularity? Who can make more people read it?"
The newspaper cadre thought for a moment.
"It definitely has to be related to the current hot events in the shinobi world."
"Right now, the hotter matters in the shinobi world are one, the matter between the Seven Ninja Swordsmen and Yagura Karatachi, and two, the matter of the Shimura clan members being assassinated."
Homura Mitokado thought about it.
"As for the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, Sunagakure has already interviewed Fuguki Suikazan. Even if we find Jinin Akebino, we will still be behind Sunagakure."
"But Shimura Danzo is narrow-minded and extremely selfish. He may not necessarily help our Konoha Weekly."
By now, Homura Mitokado and Danzo had completely fallen out.
The two were sick of each other. Neither liked the other.
This was already clear to the entire Konoha high level. Everyone knew it.
Quite a few people sighed with emotion. Homura Mitokado and Danzo were both disciples of Senju Tobirama. They had been companions and colleagues for so many years. There had not been any real conflict between them before, yet now that they were old, they had suddenly broken apart.
The newspaper cadre suggested,
"Homura-sama, if Elder Danzo is unwilling to cooperate, you can first persuade Hokage-sama and have Hokage-sama order Elder Danzo to cooperate."
Homura Mitokado nodded.
"That is not a bad method."
Originally, after Yagura had deliberately created the Six-Tails rampage, he had already pulled most of the people's support back to himself and stabilized the village.
On top of that, he had also become a nearly perfect Six-Tails jinchuriki, giving Yagura full confidence in his own strength.
But the contents of this issue of Ninja Major Events Weekly once again made many Kirigakure villagers hesitate inwardly.
On one side was Kirigakure's glory, the Seven Ninja Swordsmen.
On the other side was Kirigakure's current Mizukage.
Who should they believe?
Who could lead Kirigakure back toward greatness?
"Can't they coexist peacefully?"
"Why can't Mizukage-sama and the Seven Ninja Swordsmen coexist peacefully?"
"If they could coexist peacefully, Kirigakure's situation would be much better than it is now, right?"
One ninja wore a conflicted expression.
"Mizukage-sama has indeed done a lot for us. Right now, it is also Mizukage-sama holding everything together. But it is also true that Mizukage-sama acted against the Seven Ninja Swordsmen first and persecuted them."
"We cannot decide who to support purely based on benefit. We also need to look at right and wrong."
In the character interview, Fuguki Suikazan's words were filthy and harsh.
He described Yagura as rotten to the bone, vile enough to ooze pus.
He even openly declared that all Kirigakure ninja were welcome to defect to him.
He said that sailing crews were the future.
He said he would take back Kirigakure sooner or later.
"Arrogant nonsense!"
Yagura's expression darkened until it seemed water could drip from it.
"Fuguki Suikazan, it seems you truly want to die!"
"I cannot wait any longer. Not even one more moment."
"Right now, I want to kill you!"
Yagura looked at the ninja army before him.
"Pass down my order. Move out!"
"Punitive expedition against the Samehada Sailing Crew!"
"Leave no one alive!"