Relying on his soul perception, Kirito knew that both Akashige and Sara weren't dead yet, but they weren't far from it.
He wasn't really interested in killing people, as a living person was always a bit more valuable than a dead one.
Unsurprisingly, as long as the people of Sunagakure knew that the two were not dead, they would certainly be willing to pay a great price to redeem them.
After all, one of them was the son of the First Kazekage and Chiyo, and was a first-class puppeteer, so in Sunagakure's eyes, his standing was probably not much lower than the current Nawaki.
In short, these two are now two very big steamed buns that need to be protected.
Kirito decisively separated seven water bodies and had them bring Akashige and Sara out of the water, as well as those puppets of the two that had fallen on the battlefield, all of which were brought back to him.
At this time, a blue-haired Amegakure quickly came to Kirito and said with a respectful attitude, "Lord Masanari, let me handle these two, we Amegakure guarantee that we will be able to dig out all of the secrets from them."
Here comes the peach picker.
When Kirito heard this, his expression instantly became a bit unhappy.
Handing Akashige and Sara over to the Amegakure to deal with them did make sense, but as far as he understood, the Amegakure currently lacked medical ninjas with skillful means, and the level of that medical ninjutsu was even worse than that of the students of the medical class in the Konoha hospital, so it was estimated that the two people fell into the hands of the Amegakure, and the end result would be their deaths.
Although it is said that there is no lack of means of obtaining information from the dead in the Shinobi world, Kirito really does not have much trust in Amegakure's ability in this regard.
Unable to securely maximize the benefits, how could Kirito accept this result, which was the spoils of war that he had single-handedly fought down.
As for Amegakure's interests?
Until his interests were met, he did not give it a second thought.
Thus, Kirito very simply refused, "Go back and tell Hanzo that I'm taking these two away for the time being, tell him to rest assured that I'll bring the people back in one piece in a few days, and I'll also make sure that they're alive, and also, tell him to send someone to Sunagakure, Konoha, and Iwagakure to negotiate a captive trade."
With that said, he turned around and left with the seven moisture bodies without waiting for the blue-haired Ame-Nin to reply.
When the blue-haired Ame-Nin saw this, he opened his mouth, but eventually swallowed his words back.
He still has self-awareness. The Lord Masanari in front of him did not even give face to Lord Hanzo, the biggest card in Amegakure, so how could he give face to a small Chunin? If he didn't know what was going on, he might get beaten.
"Lord Jiraiya, he's leaving."
At the same time, behind Jiraiya, a Chunin of Aburame Clan with sunglasses saw that Kirito was leaving and immediately said.
Their mission this time was to find an opportunity to dissolve the relationship with Hattori Masanari, played by Kirito, so they couldn't let Kirito leave like this.
"No, there's no need to chase after him, it's time for the strongest to pack up the spoils, going after him now will only increase the other party's hostility in vain, especially with a status like mine going up, the increased hostility will be even greater."
Jiraiya shook his head and said.
When this Aburame chunin heard Jiraiya say that, he suddenly came to a realization.
Then, he continued, "Then should we let the ninja of the Hyuga clan follow from afar behind their Byakugan, this fellow's concealing ability is extremely great, once he loses him, it will be difficult to find him again, our Konoha's intelligence network in the Land of Rain is more difficult right now."
"That's not something to worry about, I have a feeling he and I will meet again soon."
Jiraiya said with a confident smile as he shook his head once again.
Jiraiya's words were foggy and confused the poorly educated Aburame Chunin, but Jiraiya was the leader of this mission, and since he had said so, he couldn't say anything else, but just looked suspicious.
When Jiraiya saw the Aburame Chunin's skeptical face, he just smiled faintly and did not intend to offer an explanation.
He had just absorbed a bit of the natural energy around him, and then used it to sense that the chakra on both Akashige and Sara showed no signs of dissipating, so it was clear that the two were still alive.
Since the living were more valuable than the dead, he was certain that Kirito would not let the two die nine times out of ten.
And if Kirito wanted to maximize the benefits of the spoils of war, he would definitely have to sell the two as captives to Sunagakure, Konoha and Iwagakure.
Unsurprisingly, the higher-ups of the three ninja villages would definitely want to make this sale.
At that time, he could completely come in contact with Konoha as a negotiator for Konoha, and there was absolutely no need to venture over to contact Kirito like he was doing now.
"Come on, it's time to go back."
Jiraiya said.
With that, he took the lead and moved to leave.
Seeing this, the other Konoha ninja around him followed.
Jiraiya's departure with the Konoha ninja was not hidden from the ninja of the other surrounding ninja villages, such as the Iwagakure, who had been keeping an eye on the Konoha ninja, who were the first to realize that Jiraiya and the others had left.
Iwagakure side of the leader is a stout young man, personal thick eyebrows, a big nose as well as wearing a string face beard, eyes tough and sharp, overall give a person a kind of strong and reliable feeling. His identity is Kitsuchi, the son of the third Tsuchikage.
" Kitsuchi-sama, Konoha's people have left, should we go after them now, that person has just used so many powerful Ninjutsu, he must have consumed a lot of chakra, with so many of us going together, we might be able to snatch those two Sunagakure Puppet Masters from his hands."
A yellow-haired Iwa-ninja inquired.
The other Iwa-nin heard the suggestion and their faces leapt to action.
The ninja of other Shinobi villages might be afraid of Kirito's Water Release Ninjutsu, but their Earth Release would not be, they were good at Combined Earth Release Ninjutsu which was the nemesis of Water Release Ninjutsu, and there was also this powerful Kitsuchi ninja by their side, so there was not a bit of pressure on Kirito at all.
They firmly believe that as long as Kitsuchi brings them together, it will be easy to defeat Kirito and take away his loot, and maybe even Kirito can stay with them as well.
Their Iwagakure always had the upper hand against the Amegakure, even if it was Hanzo the mountain pepper fish, in front of their Lord Tsuchikage's Dust Release, there was only room to run away.
Kitsuchi looked at the confident expressions of his compatriots around him, and his heart sank.
As an elite jōnin, his vision was much stronger than these compatriots who only had the strength of a chūnin, and knew in his heart that what the yellow-haired Iwa-nin had just said was wrong.
It was true that Kirito had used many powerful Water Release Ninjutsu, but to say that it consumed a large amount of chakra, that was not necessarily true.
The reason why Water Release ninjas have increased their strength dramatically in places where there is water is because they do not have to consume a lot of Water Release chakra to create water, they can directly manipulate the existing water in nature to continue to attack, which not only greatly reduces the consumption of chakra, but also eliminates the need to use Water Release chakra to produce water, which eliminates the need to make a number of extra seals, greatly increasing the speed of the seals.
According to his estimation, the chakra in Kirito's body was still enough to allow him to carry out a great battle for a long time.
And the strength Kirito showed this time is too amazing, he personally do not have much certainty that Kirito will be defeated, even if he added this group of fellow Chunin around him, once the battle started, Kirito may be fine, his group of Chunin folks may be killed or injured.
Also, once Kirito realizes that he can't keep the trophies in his hands, it is highly likely that he will destroy them with his own hands, leaving their Iwa-nin basket empty.
This was made even more certain after he realized that Jiraiya, one of the Sannin, had chosen to leave.
Kitsuchi, who had always been focused on his compatriots and unity, didn't want to leave his men to die or be injured for a trophy that he most likely wouldn't get.
He was silent for a while, then forcefully and seriously said, "Let's retreat as well, that Ame-Nin isn't as easy to deal with as you guys think, even if it's me, I'll lose more than I can win against him here, you guys would be better off not to get into a conflict with him when you come across this person in the Land of Rain in the future."
The other Iwa-nin couldn't help but show shocked expressions when they heard Kitsuchi actually give Kirito's character Hattori Masanari such a high rating.
Then, some of the Iwa-nin began to show expressions of fear on their faces, and stopped talking about stupid proposals like going out and grabbing Kirito's loot.
Even Kitsuchi had lost more than he could win against Kirito, so wouldn't they, these people, go over there and send them to their deaths.
Soon, Iwagakure's people quickly retreated under Kitsuchi's leadership.
As both Konoha and Iwagakure chose to retreat, the other small ninja village ninjas who were still thinking of fishing in the water had the good sense to leave as well.
However, there were still some people who chose to go after them, and that was a group of big black-skinned men from Kumogakure, and the one who led them was a Kumogakure jōnin with sunglasses.
"Hmph, a bunch of cowards, it seems that this big fish can only be taken by us Kumogakure, little ones, follow me, snatch those two Puppet Masters from that Ame-Nin, so that we Kumogakure can also have more Puppet Masters' legacies, and when that time comes, the boss will surely reward us heavily."
Kumogakure jōnin sneered as he saw both Konoha and Iwagakure's people leaving.
"Oh~"
The group of Kumogakure jōnins said excitedly, quickly following the Kumogakure Jōnin in front of them who were quickly running on the water.