Assistant to the Hokage

Ryoma had an illusion.

It was clear that Kagura was only a newcomer who had just joined the Root Organization, yet it felt like this teenager was speaking a bit like a leader in charge of personnel in the Root Organization.

Himself...

Instead, he seemed like a newcomer applying for a job?

Ryoma thought that there was something not quite right about this dialog exchange.

After pondering for a while, Ryoma realized that she had no way to answer the question posed by Akihara Kagura, nor could she interpret the will of the Root.

Can't solve the problem...

Surely it could only be solved by the person who asked the question.

Ryoma simply refused to entangle herself with Kagura, and said in a cold voice, "Kid, senpai's business is not something you should be concerned about, minding your own problems is enough."

"I just don't quite understand what Root's will represents."

Kagura looked at Ryoma and posed a question, "There is no past, and no future, so what is my life?"

"A mission."

Ryoma immediately answered the question, "It's enough to just carry out the mission diligently, there's no need to think about what your life is..."

"Then tell me..."

Kagura posed a philosophical question, "The missions I'll go on in the future will all be in the past, so are the past missions meaningful? Are the missions in the future that I haven't gotten to yet meaningful?"

"..."

Ryoma fell silent.

This ninja from Root understood the philosophical musings offered by Kagura, and ultimately decided to go with the simplest way of dealing with the situation, "It's enough to just carry out the mission in earnest, there's no need to think about whether or not your mission has any meaning at all..."

"..."

Akihara Kagura couldn't help but admire the other party a bit.

"Kou..."

Fearing that this little one would once again ask some strange philosophical question, Ryoma intended to completely cut off the little brat's messed up thoughts from her words.

"You're a member of Root..."

"There's no need to think about those questions at all."

"All you have to do is forget your name, forget your feelings, forget your past, forget your future, and just carry out the mission that Lord Danzo has given you!"

"Alright, alright..."

Kagura obliged with a perfunctory face.

"I hope you can do it..."

Just when Ryoma thought she had finally solved this troubles, a fist suddenly smashed into the small of his back, directly slamming her heavily against the wall!

"I understand the reasoning."

The teenage Kagura twisted his wrist, his voice icy, "But... Ninja Ryoma, who gave you permission to call Kagura by that name?"

"What..."

Ryoma spat out a mouthful of blood with a face full of dismay.

Whether it was from his identity or strength, or even examining it logically, Ryoma couldn't figure out why this newcomer was sneaking up on her?

Most importantly...

This brat was so strong and incredibly fast!

Kagura's physical strength was exceptionally amazing, and Ryoma had no idea that Orochimaru also relied on spell seals to bind Akihara Kagura in order to avoid the teenager's sneak attack.

Ryoma, an upper-class shinobi, was unable to react in time, and was directly and severely injured by the teenager's sneak attack strike, and her internal organs were even broken by the punch!

"The name kou, was chosen for me by Lord Junzo."

Kagura walked to the front of Ryoma, looked at the severely injured senior, and coldly explained out the reason why he had sneak attacked Ryoma.

"From today onwards, remember that for me!"

"This world..."

"Only Lord Junzo can call me by the name Kou!"

"..."

Ryoma couldn't understand the teenager's brain circuits.

This brat...

There must be something wrong with his brain!

Ryoma opened her mouth to spit out a mouthful of blood once again, and voiced, "Kou is just a code name, and the only code name you'll be able to use in the future..."

"But not one you can call."

Kagura shook her head, seemingly thinking for a moment, and said, "If you look for me in the future, address me by the name I used in the past... it's not like we Root don't have exceptions for using past names anyway..."

"I see...wait, that's not quite right..."

Ryoma looked at the teenager standing beside her, deciding not to be affected by the teenager's way of thinking, gradually starting to converge, "Kids are still a bit too arrogant... maybe Orochimaru coddled you too much before..."

Ryoma slowly struggled and fell off the wall, covering her violently painful belly and forcing herself to speak through the pain, "A newcomer... really does still need to be... taught a lesson..."

A swarm of black worms drilled out of her mouth!

This scene looked somewhat horrifying and frightening!

This was a secret technique that originated from the Aburame clan of the Konoha Village, by raising bugs in the body and utilizing them in battle.

"Kid, it's better to respect your seniors!"

Ryoma maneuvered the bugs to dart and wrap them around Kagura!

"..."

Kagura's face changed slightly.

Even small bugs, when densely swarmed, made one feel a little numb, not to mention that these bugs were still a strange species of the Shinobi world!

However...

Bugs were just bugs after all...

Pitifully slow...

Kagura's feet lurched as he flew around the bugs and pounced Ryoma, knowing full well that all of these people were pathetically weak!

BOOM!

The teenager's fist landed on the body of Ryoma once again!

This time, the feeling on the fist was nothing but weightless, somewhat as if it had smashed into the air, and indeed it did, the body of Ryoma instantly turned into a swarm of bugs...

"This is... a bug split?"

Kagura couldn't help but widen his eyes.

"Secret Technique - Insect tornado!"

The swarm of bugs completely surrounded Kagura's body in the blink of an eye, and as if they had smelled some kind of meal, they frantically tore into the chakra within Kagura's body!

Kagura's entire body was cloaked in a layer of bug mist, as if wrapped in a black coat!

Ryoma's main body slowly appeared and looked at the teenager surrounded by her own bugs, sneering as she opened her mouth to educate the newcomer.

"Kid..."

"Don't let the bugs scare you..."

"When I unleashed the bugs, I had already secretly created a bug doppelganger..."

"From what I know about brats your age, the fight would start with just attacking my body with my fists, and laying traps utilizing some low-level jutsu would be enough."

"Now..."

"Behave yourself..."

Ryoma spread her hands, seemingly satisfied with her first lesson to the newcomer, "The chakra in your body will soon be devoured by my parasitic worms..."

"Then let your worm step up its game..."

Kagura's voice came out of the insect mist, saying, "Aburame girl, haven't you ever let them get enough to eat?"

"What's going on?"

Ryoma frowned in some surprise.

This little brat hadn't lost the ability to resist?

This brat's chakra... wasn't it a bit too abundant!

What surprised Ryoma the most was whether this little brat's mental quality was a little too strong, and that he wasn't even half afraid of these dense bugs!

"This is too much of a waste of time..."

Kagura probed his arm, watching some of the bugs that had already eaten too much fall from his body, and slowly opened his mouth to summarize.

"Bugs are just bugs after all..."

"What worms should do is hide in a corner and live..."

"Instead of arrogantly and haughtily thinking that with numbers, it could take out an enemy that it couldn't visualize just how powerful it really was..."