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  Gradually, Tsunade's stamina began to wane. Her delicate face flushed a deep crimson, like someooxicated, and she was dragged backward, her body pressed against the floor.

  The pristine floor was marred only by ten thin streaks left by her fingernails and three rge, suggestive… sweat stains.

  Just then…

  From around the er of the hallway, Shizune's voice called out, "Tsunade-sama~! Your fragrant afternoon tea is ready~! Would you like to have it now? It's very fresh~"

  "Eek! Shizune, don't e over here!"

  However, Tsunade's warning came too te.

  Shizune had already rouhe er. She saw—

  A pair of Mangekyo Sharingan, tears of happiness and pain flowing from their ers, gazing helplessly at her. And behind the Mangekyo Sharingan was…

  "....."

  Ctter—

  The wooden tray holding the afternoon tea, along with Shizune's resped admiration for Tsunade, crashed to the floor.

  On this day, Shizune's worldview was… very shaken.

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  Hokage Tower, War Room.

  Gojo Kaigetsu took out the prepared intelligence reports and distributed them to everyone present.

  The ninja world map read out on the fereable. The Land of Hot Water, a recurring topic, was circled in bk by Gojo Kaigetsu.

  After expining the situation, discussions broke out:

  "Who would have thought that the remnants of the Sky Ninja still exist, and so close to our Land of Fire."

  "The remnants of the Sky Ninja are hiding in the Land of Hot Water? And they registered a cross-border pany as a cover? Unbelievable…"

  "'Ancor Vantian'? The remnants of the Sky Ninja still possess such power?"

  Before the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, took office, Konoha had never initiated a war.

  Most of the time, they were passively defending and then ung terattacks. There were many small ninja vilges that, like Sunagakure, dared to unch attacks on Konoha during the Shinobi Wars. Those vilges were simply swept into the dustbin of ninja history.

  The Sky Ninja Vilge was one of them.

  Led by the legendary ninja, Konoha White Fang, who was at the peak of his power at that time, Konoha directly destroyed the Sky Ninja's elite. Sihen, the Sky Ninja have disappeared.

  Because too much time had passed, many of the younger Konoha ninja had never heard of the name Sky Ninja.

  Now, the vanished Sky Ninja Vilge was brought back to the table of the Hokage Tower, naturally attrag heated discussions.

  Some older representatives of ninja s showed reminisce, obviously having participated itle against the Sky Ninja: "That was a truly memorable battle."

  "The Sky Ninja used those strange flying tools to attack the positions of our Konoha ninja. The battle started like that. White Fang Sakumo-senpai led us to shuttle directly through the Konoha forest, chasing the Sky Ninja in the air. Finally, we found their base camp and killed all the Sky Ninja inside."

  "Unfortunately, in the end, the leader of the Sky Ninja activated the self-destruct program. We failed t back the Sky Ninja's tools."

  "If we could obtain the Sky Ninja Vilge's flying tools, it would be a huge improvement to the overall strength of our Konoha!"

  The footprints of ninja covered mountains, rivers, forests, pins, and os… But the footsteps of ninja had always been uo set foot in the realm of the sky!

  The principle by whiinja stand on the surface of water is to use chakra to gather the surrounding water molecules together to form a tinuous surface. This surface support the weight of a ninja like a solid, enabling the ninja to stand oer.

  If you have something to step on, a ninja stand on the surface of the water. In the same way, climbing trees is the same principle. The force of chakra allows ninjas to defy physid walk orunks as if on ft ground.

  But the sky is different…

  Ninja have no way to step on their left foot with their right foot to asd to the sky.

  In this regard, the Creator was fair and did not give any of the Five Great Nations the ability to asd to the sky. Although the ventional anization of ninja troops included an "airborne ninja unit," it had never been fully staffed, and sometimes even appeared empty.

  Apart from ōnoki of Iwagakure, there were also ninja who had learh Release: Light-Weight Rock Teique. Taking advantage of their ability to fly, they caused a lot of trouble for the major vilges in intelligence warfare.

  Konoha had "Ink Ninjutsu," using ink to draw a ninja bird that could barely maintain flight. It is said that during the Sed Kazekage period, Kazekage Shamon once wao gather the puppeteer talents and funds of the entire vilge to create flying puppets, but due to Sunagakure's limited eic strength and the war, this idea was unfortunately shelved.

  The above was the imagination of the ninja vilges in the ninja world about the sky.

  The sky, from beginning to end, was a realm belonging to a very small number of ninja.

  Now—Konoha had quered the o with Kirigakure, quered the desert with Sunagakure, and finally, it was time to turn their attention to the distant sky?!

  "The sky is destined for us—Konoha!"

  Gojo Kaigetsu began to speak.

  Gin—the gold-medal reporter from [Konoha News], io attend this special bat meeting, was like a shark that smelled blood. He subsciously took out his pen and prepared to record this important moment.

  Of course, what Advisojo actually said was not important. What was important was what he recorded .

  No matter what Advisojo said or didn't say, he was definitely going to record Advisor's speech beautifully, and then add artistic elements with a high degree of processing. Uhe support of this sense of mission, there were even situations where he had already written the news tent before Advisojo had even spoken:

  [Advisojo gave important guidan the "Konoha's Space Agen"]

  "The ninja world, for the time being, has no victims of smht pollution. When I look up at the night sky, it feels as if the sky has been cast with a geous illusion. tless stars form a ribbon across the night sky, instantly quering my heart."

  "There must be a reason that make you wake up in the m and make you want to live wonderfully, otherwise what is the meaning of life?"

  Advisojo's words still echoed in my ears, and his speech tinued:

  [Sihe beginning of our knowence, people living in the ninja world have opped a seemingly irrelevant behavior—stargazing. The earliest stargazing activity be traced back to the era of the Aral try, when people observed a meteorite falling from the sky…]

  [Every time we tio observe the vast starry river visible to the naked eye, and for the pursuit of endless Exploration, we stantly exhaust chakra to i ninjutsu and sce, to discover some so-called ws or ars aial phenomena, this so-called stargazing seems to have real 'meaning.' If we never look up, never observe, the stars that have never been absent, and look the same and average—would they still have meaning for humans??]

  "My gaze has never been limited to a small ninja world." Advisojo pulled out his own kunai and poio the brightest star in the night sky: "My gaze has always been looking up at the gaxy above our heads."

  "My will is the stars and beyond!"

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  "Why does Konoha iens of millions of ryō in cash to implement the sky and space exploration pn when many childreill fag the threat of war and hunger?" Ihe Hokage Tower, a f participating in the meeting asked this question.

  Advisojo answered this way:

  [—I pletely don't mind paying more taxes each year to help children suffering from war, no matter where they are. And I have indeed put it into a. I have donated my sary to more than half of the orphanages in Konoha, and Konoha also has a rge number of standby foods for children. I believe that all Konoha vilgers have the same attitude.]

  [—However, we will not stop the exploration of the sky because of the implementation of such assistance projects. Our eyes are always oars. The Shinobi world is limited, but the starry sky is unlimited… I even think that by implementing the space exploration pn, we make greater tributions to solving the serious problems of famine, poverty, and Shinobi wars in the ninja world, and ultimately help find solutions to these problems…]

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