After dealing with the printing factory matters.
Uchiha Makoto first shook off Senju Tobirama following him. As soon as he returned to the Hikarikage's office, he immediately summoned the president of the Akatsuki Village Publishing House.
"Tomorrow, the latest issue of 'New Ninja' will be sold, and the location is in Akatsuki Village."
The president of the publishing house standing in front of Uchiha Makoto revealed a puzzled look: "Akatsuki Village... But, Lord Hikarikage, didn't you specifically instruct that 'New Ninja' cannot be sold in Akatsuki Village bookstores?"
"The situation has changed."
"If Akatsuki Village ninjas ask about it then, just give a unified reply that this is a special publication for foreign ninjas and is not for sale internally."
Uchiha Makoto said this.
Because he was worried that the boomerang would hit him one day, Uchiha Makoto deliberately suppressed the spread of "New Ninja" in Akatsuki Village. This led to the book being famous in the Land of Fire and even the entire ninja world, but the response within Akatsuki Village was uncharacteristically mediocre.
Now that the incident happened suddenly, he could only make an exception and sell a special issue in Akatsuki Village.
"Yes, Lord Hikarikage."
The president of the publishing house nodded, said no more, turned, and left the office.
......
The next day.
Chiyo was currently walking on the streets of Akatsuki Village.
She was not at all the senile old woman in the original plot; at this time, she was only fifteen years old. Her honey-colored skin contrasted with her clear amber eyes, her black hair was tied high, and she wore a tight-fitting ninja outfit, looking neat and capable.
Everything before her made Chiyo feel a trance, followed by an almost illusory incredibility.
Since childhood, she had lived in the desert of the Land of Wind, experiencing years of war. It wasn't until the First Kazekage established Sunagakure that life gradually improved.
However, Sunagakure was still economically depressed and scarce in talent.
To survive and accumulate funds for the village as much as possible, many Sunagakure ninjas sometimes had to actively lower the mission level and do some very dangerous missions with not very high pay.
From the original plot, where the First Kazekage threatened Senju Hashirama like he had lost his mind at the Five Kage Summit, demanding fertile land from the Land of Fire and thirty percent of the funds other ninja villages used to buy Tailed Beasts, it could be seen that even during the village establishment period, Sunagakure's life was extremely difficult.
In such a harsh and cruel living environment, the entire sky of Sunagakure seemed gray.
While Akatsuki Village...
The sky was so blue, and the water was so clear.
Due to living habits, when Chiyo followed the First Kazekage to Akatsuki Village, she even specially prepared several masks for herself.
But... the air here was so sweet and fresh!
"How wonderful it would be if I could live in such a ninja village!"
Even though she shouldered the heavy pressure of life early, a girl of Chiyo's age was inherently full of longing for a better life.
The longing in Chiyo's heart was not unique; besides her, such thoughts lingered in the hearts of countless ninjas.
It was just a pity that this wasn't an easy thing.
Chiyo seemed to have seen her future destiny clearly. She would continue to live in that lifeless desert, struggling to survive in the hopeless Sunagakure until she died in a certain ninja mission.
Thinking this in her heart, she only felt an inexplicable chest tightness.
Subsequently, with such a mood, Chiyo wandered aimlessly. After a while, her attention was attracted by the sound of loudspeakers at the entrance of a bookstore.
"The latest issue of 'New Ninja' is on sale!"
"Special issue of 'New Ninja'...."
"New Ninja" had long become a best-selling reading material in the Land of Fire. Not only that, but it was also sold overseas and was a hit in several countries surrounding the Land of Fire.
Unsurprisingly.
The bookstore business was booming now, and foreign ninjas were queuing up in long lines here.
Chiyo had heard of the famous name of "New Ninja" during her missions, but she didn't pay special attention at that time. Seeing such a hot scene, Chiyo couldn't help but join the queue, wanting to buy a copy of "New Ninja."
After waiting for a while.
She got her first copy of "New Ninja" as she wished.
As soon as she got it, Chiyo felt that her fingertips touched not the roughness of paper pages, but a delicate and moist touch. The book cover wasn't ordinary linen or oil paper, but covered with a thin layer of matte film, feeling slightly grainy but silky smooth.
"With such a touch, no wonder one copy sells for 500 ryō."
"Hmm, it's worth the price!"
Chiyo exclaimed in her heart. The scent of ink rushing to her face made her want to flip through it immediately.
But in the next second, she held back.
This was her first "New Ninja"; when reading formally, there must be a sense of ritual!
Chiyo looked around, and soon she found a good place.
Not far from the bookstore was a dessert shop. Inside, more than a dozen foreign female ninjas dressed in various styles were tasting desserts while holding the newly bought "New Ninja" and reading with relish to show their style and taste.
In this atmosphere full of petty bourgeois sentiment, Chiyo instantly fell in love with this dessert shop.
"Is this a donut?"
"Donuts are really delicious!"
Full of joy, Chiyo opened "New Ninja." When she turned to the first article, she was firmly attracted by the title.
"Ninjas Have No Village Borders. Pursuing Happiness is the Right a Ninja Should Have!"
Pursuing happiness is the right a ninja should have?
From the perspective of human nature, there is nothing wrong with such a title.
But these words actually conflicted with the education Chiyo had always received. Both her family and Sunagakure repeated to her countless times: "Ninjas are people who endure. Ninjas exist as tools. Ninjas need to endure difficulties and contribute to the family and village...."
Such education was very anti-human and not free at all.
However, after countless disciplines, Chiyo almost accepted such thoughts.
But accepting was one thing; whether she was truly willing was another. More often, such acceptance was just a helpless compromise.
An excellent article is like this.
Even if one can vaguely guess the plot of the article in their heart, because of wanting to find a resonance in the soul, one still can't help but look forward to it.
Chiyo looked greedily at the words in the book.
She saw the suffering of ninjas, the difficulty of the village, the indifference of the village, the ruthlessness of the village!
And women are born with strong empathy!
In an instant, Chiyo couldn't help but put herself in Tatsuhiko's identity, as if she had suffered Tatsuhiko's hardships, getting injured and disabled to cover the retreat of the high-level officials, then not getting the treatment she deserved, and finally being discarded by the village as a tool.
Anger was suppressed in her heart.
Looking down...
Through the text, she experienced Tatsuhiko's despair again.
Clearly, she dedicated herself to the village, but was discarded like a worn-out shoe.
Until the angry and desperate Tatsuhiko fought hard to leave the cannibalistic original ninja village that brought him endless suffering and came to Akatsuki Village.
In Akatsuki Village, Tatsuhiko received treatment from medical ninjas, no longer had to endure oppression and discrimination from the original ninja village, obtained a job, successfully integrated into Akatsuki Village, and found his own salvation and happiness in Akatsuki Village!
Chiyo was in a trance, as if under a genjutsu, falling into her spiritual world.
For a female ninja of her age, pursuing her own happiness as mentioned in the article precisely hit the softest part of her heart.
It took a while for Chiyo to recover.
Besides empathy...
Chiyo recalled everything she saw in Sunagakure. Things like Tatsuhiko's experience were not unseen in a poor and weak village like Sunagakure.
The hardships she suffered in her life made her breathless.
Finally, she could only greedily breathe in the sweet and fresh air of Akatsuki Village. How strange and luxurious this was!
Her original ninja village, Sunagakure, was truly incredibly barbaric and backward!
"Am I going to live in a ninja village like Sunagakure with no hope and no way to get happiness forever?"
"What should I do..."
A seed of fleeing the original ninja village was planted in Chiyo's heart.
But she didn't know what to do... and soon, Chiyo found the answer.
[A certain Daimyō who wishes to remain anonymous learned about this and praised: It is precisely because of the courage of people like Tatsuhiko who dare to pursue happiness and freedom, as well as the Hikarikage's broad-mindedness, that Akatsuki Village has become a powerful ninja village that makes the Land of Fire proud. If a village chooses to stifle the ninja's will to pursue happiness and freedom, it is undoubtedly a failed and extremely selfish ninja village.]
[Even, if such a thing happens again, I will not hesitate to stand on Tatsuhiko's side. Encourage him spiritually, and even allow him to use force through the way of a ninja to win the right to pursue freedom and happiness for himself!]
[...It is probably because the ninjas of our ninja village still retain the deep-rooted bad habits of Warring States ninjas, and the village system lags far behind Akatsuki Village.]
The last few sentences, like a stroke of genius, illuminated Chiyo's dim future.
"Ah... so I also have the right to pursue happiness and free will.... even at the cost of using force!"
"The ninja village hindering me is failed and selfish... it has deep-rooted bad habits!!"
Chiyo muttered, unable to stop thinking.
But before she could think clearly, the voices of several other foreign female ninjas at the table next to her interrupted Chiyo's thoughts.
"I must pursue my own happiness like Tatsuhiko.... My original ninja village is really hard to describe in a few words... I have seen with my own eyes..."
"Sister, you are like this too; me too... The village high-level officials are too disgusting; each one has deep-rooted bad habits!"
"Mhm mhm... me too. After reading this article, I have awakened!"
"I must wake up... I can't ruin my whole life in the original ninja village; I must join Akatsuki Village!"
Several foreign female ninjas from different ninja villages instantly found a common topic.
As if they had known each other for many years, they immediately joined tables and began to denounce their original ninja villages.
In this world, even large ninja villages had their own difficulties, not to mention small ninja villages. Several foreign female ninjas chattered and picked on various faults of their villages, almost belittling their original ninja villages to worthlessness.
Chiyo listened with relish on the side. Associating it with Sunagakure... what they said was indeed absolutely correct.
Her original ninja village really brought her too much pain!
If there was a chance, she still had to find a way to escape the original ninja village!
However, a discordant voice soon appeared.
"I think.... your ninja villages shouldn't be as bad as you say."
"If you think your ninja village is not good, you go build it; if you think the ninja village high-level officials are not good, you go find a way to become a ninja village high-level official; if you think the villagers have no quality, you start from yourself to be a high-quality villager; if you think the ninjas in the village have deep-rooted bad habits, you start learning to change the people around you.... instead of thinking about abandoning your ninja village whenever there is a chance."
A female ninja who still had a bit of reason felt it was bad to belittle her own ninja village like this, so she said a few fair words.
However...
"Hmph... I think you will be abandoned by the village high-level officials like Tatsuhiko sooner or later. You'll be honest when you have a broken arm or leg."
"That's right!"
"How can a girl's youth be wasted on the original ninja village!"
"Only a ninja village like Akatsuki Village can let us obtain happiness!"
Several rebuttals sounded coincidentally.
"But... I think Akatsuki Village isn't good in everything; it must also have its shortcomings."
"Look at the dessert shop here, look at the.... this is Akatsuki Village.."
"Can that be the same!!!" *n
Several more extreme angry voices sounded.
They couldn't accept such remarks insulting Akatsuki Village!!!!
This phenomenon is generally called "idiot resonance" (echo chamber effect) in journalism and communication studies. That is, after a group of people communicate and affirm each other, they become more and more certain that their cognition is correct, and even unite to attack all different voices.
After a burst of ridicule, the foreign ninja just now shut her mouth resentfully.
Chiyo indeed felt something was wrong, but she just took another sip of sweet milk tea and threw the small interlude just now to the back of her mind.
She continued to flip through the newly bought "New Ninja."
Soon Chiyo found a column that attracted her attention more and made her yearn for Akatsuki Village even more—about female awakening and female independence.
......
Not only did foreign female ninjas have "idiot resonance," but foreign male ninjas did too.
Compared to female ninjas, male ninjas were the ones struggling on the front line of missions.
They were very familiar with Tatsuhiko's encounter in the article. Not only had they seen such things with their own eyes, but it was even very likely to happen to them one day in the future.
This led to the fact that Akatsuki Village's latest issue of "New Ninja" had only been on sale for half a day, and the Akatsuki Village Visa Office had added more unfamiliar faces.
This time, not only ninjas from small ninja villages sneaked over, but even ninjas from large ninja villages began to get restless.
And soon....
The four Kages of Kumogakure, Sunagakure, Kirigakure, and Iwagakure also realized something was wrong.
So they urgently held another meeting.
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