Chapter 111 A whole new world On the way back that day, although Konan did not fully understand the meaning of Shiba Kiyokawa's words until the end, she at least understood part of Shiba Kiyokawa's thoughts - he would not stop after conquering the Rain Country. Just as he once said: There are stars and sea ahead of us, and what we want to overthrow is the entire old world! If it were half a year ago, Xiaonan would only feel scared and repulsive when knowing such an idea. The three of them formed the Akatsuki organization precisely because they hated war. Peace was their greatest pursuit, and they should have hated provoking disputes the most. But now, after she understood Shiba Qinghe's thoughts, she not only did not feel disgusted, but instead felt her blood boiling! It was not until he returned home and lay on his bed that Xiaonan calmed down and recalled the past, and then he realized the change in his mentality. For a moment, she raised her hand unconsciously and touched her forehead with the back of her hand. "Am I sick?" she asked herself doubtfully. It turned out that the temperature did not seem to be abnormal. It turns out that he wasn't sick. She was just...changed by someone! After realizing this, Xiaonan's face inexplicably turned red.
Because of this feeling, she was surprisingly neither panicked nor disgusted. - On this day, Xiaonan was not the only one who realized that he should change his mindset. Pharmacist Nono, who had just arrived in the Rain Country, was also trying to adjust his mentality amidst anxiety and fear. In fact, she had woken up early when the battle was about to end, but her years of experience in lurking and disguising made her subconsciously cover herself with a layer of protection and choose to pretend to be unconscious. Her camouflage skills were undoubtedly top-notch. Even a group of strong men did not notice her abnormality at close range. Because of this, she heard everything Xiaonan heard. Unlike Konan, whose trajectory had been completely changed, when Yakushi Nono first heard what Shiba Kiyokawa said, the first thing he felt was deep fear and panic. Is this man such an extreme warmongerer? He is hostile to the five major ninja villages at the same time! How terrible! The last madman she knew who had the same idea was Danzo! He is also a madman who regards all the surrounding ninja villages as equal enemies! Whenever he thought about the time when he was threatened by the Root in the past, Yakushi Nono felt uneasy all day long. Even after returning to the capital of Rain Country, Terai repeatedly assured her that Akatsuki was different, but Yakushi Nono's uneasiness was still difficult to dispel. On the morning of the next day, Terai himself went to report to the Akatsuki organization, leaving only Yakushi Nonou and Kabuto. According to Terai, his freedom is limited now, after all, he has just surrendered not long ago. This further increased the anxiety and fear in Pharmacist Nono's heart. So much so that when someone knocked on the door that morning, she subconsciously clenched her kunai. The moment she opened the door, the kunai almost hit the person coming in, giving the person a fright. After taking a closer look, Pharmacist Nonou quickly withdrew his hand and apologized, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, my reaction was too extreme." The person who came was just an ordinary, slightly plump middle-aged woman. She had just escaped a disaster and was still a little scared. She patted her chest and said in a panic: "Girl, why did you open the door with a weapon in your hand? I was scared to death!" However, the middle-aged woman was not a bad person and did not blame Nono. After a while, she took the initiative to apologize and said, "But it's also my fault for being too rash and mistaking you for a local. Can I come in now?" Pharmacist Nono's heart skipped a beat when he heard this. As a senior spy whose title includes the word "walking", she has traveled to many places in the ninja world over the years and knows very well that many ninja villages have very serious xenophobic tendencies. Foreign ninjas, non-locals, jinchūriki, and even ninjas with insufficient bloodline limits, all kinds of "unsociable" identities may become reasons for discrimination and exclusion. This is also the reason why she traveled to so many places but finally had to return to Konoha and accept the oppression of the Root.
The ninja world is such a bad place! My previous alert revealed that I am not a local. Will this be a foreshadowing of the tragedy that is about to happen? With such a worried mood, Pharmacist Nono nervously made way and invited the other party into the house. "You...please come in." "Don't be so nervous, kid. Oh, maybe you are too old to be called a kid. This is just my personal speaking habit. Don't mind it." The middle-aged woman was very friendly and talked in a chattering manner, which made Yakushi Nono feel flattered. "I'm from the City Residents Management Committee, a newly established organization here that is mainly responsible for the statistics and management of the city's residents. It seems that you just arrived yesterday, so I came here today to do a routine registration. What is your name? What are you doing in the city? Are you a ninja?" Yakushi Nono was trembling with fear at the moment. He did not dare to lie in someone else's territory, so he answered truthfully one by one. The middle-aged woman repeated "Don't be nervous" several times, and then asked: "Since you are a ninja, can you tell me what you are good at? Don't be nervous, don't be nervous. I know that you ninjas value your intelligence very much. We won't dig into it. We just want to get a rough understanding so that we can arrange work for you later." After hearing the last part, Pharmacist Nono's eyes widened in surprise. "Arrange jobs? Are you also responsible for arranging jobs for outsiders?" This was something he had never encountered in his previous walking career. Those big ninja villages all claim on the surface that they value and protect their companions, but in fact, under the loose ninja village management system, most of the time they still let the ninjas fend for themselves. The first discrimination and exclusion that outsiders feel in the Great Ninja Village always starts from accepting a mission commission! You have to snatch the good commissions. If you can’t get them, you will have to tighten your belt and live. Yakushi Nono, who has wandered to various places in the ninja world, feels this deeply! She had never thought that there would be a place that would take the initiative to introduce jobs to foreign ninjas. Wouldn't the local big ninja clans have objections to such preferential treatment? The middle-aged woman smiled and said jokingly, "Child, you shouldn't ask that. To be honest, the Akatsuki organization also came from the south. They are also outsiders. Now we are all citizens of the Rain Country. Don't say such things that undermine unity in the future." Although the middle-aged woman smiled gently, her tone was as if she was chatting and making jokes. But pharmacist Nono was shocked when he heard this. It was the first time she had encountered a place where the sense of national identity completely overrides that of the village. The Land of Rain really seemed like a whole new world she had never seen before. (End of this chapter)