"This isn't right!"
"I clearly broke all five seals—so why is this restriction still activating???"
The entire bookshelf around Gekko Chizan was covered in electric arcs, and his whole state of mind instantly went bad.
They were real electric arcs—blinding white light and scorching heat had already caused pitch-black burn marks to appear on the bookshelf.
"Is there a possibility that these five barrier seals can only be removed, not destroyed?"
"That it requires five people to remove the talismans at the same time?"
"Instead of destroying them? And by destroying them, you actually triggered the mechanism?"
Hearing Chōmei's analysis, Chizan's eyes widened, filled with disbelief.
These days, barriers don't even need to be directly broken anymore? That's not right! In Gekko Chizan's view, barriers were meant to be broken!
"Chizan, are you stupid?"
"This is to protect an entire cabinet of forbidden techniques..."
"If you had to destroy it every time just to open it, wouldn't that be exhausting?"
Yeah… put that way, it really would be exhausting...
Did that mean Gekko Chizan had overthought things?
As the electric arcs increased, Gekko Chizan felt his scalp go numb.
"Ah damn it! It's already like this!"
"Hurry and salvage what we can!"
"Chōmei, use chakra to protect my body!"
Crystals covered both his hands, chakra layered over them, and Chōmei also began channeling his own chakra into Gekko Chizan's body.
Only under triple-layered defense did Gekko Chizan dare to act, forcing open the bookshelf straight through the electric arcs.
"Tss—damn it! Who set up these electric arcs? This is seriously numbing!"
"Huff, huff—I'm still feeling pain even through all these crystals! That's excessive!"
The electric arcs spread rapidly; in just a few breaths, the entire cabinet had turned pitch black.
If this continued, all the scrolls might turn to ashes in the next second.
Without thinking, Gekko Chizan used Crystal Release to directly cover every scroll, finally protecting them.
As the electric arcs exploded into a sky full of white light, the bookshelf was completely destroyed, turning into a pile of ashes.
Feeling the residual current still running through his body, Gekko Chizan bared his teeth—but when he looked at all the scrolls he had salvaged, he smiled.
Ignoring the dirt, he sat down on the floor and began searching through the scrolls for what he needed.
"Mm… not this one… Is that Fourth Raikage sick in the head? Why put a map here?"
"Oh? What's this? Black Lightning? Isn't this the Lightning Release developed by the Third Raikage? This one's good—take it, take it."
"Lightning Release Armor? This counts as a forbidden technique? Forget it. Only the Raikage lineage can learn it anyway, the physique requirement is way too high… but I'll take it too."
"Ah! This is it! Heavenly Transfer Technique! A treasure!"
Looking at the scroll labeled Heavenly Transfer Technique, Gekko Chizan's eyes lit up as he quickly tucked it into his clothes.
In the end, from the pile of scrolls, he took three ninjutsu and two sword techniques. The rest were either useless to him or not worth taking.
For example, Iron Sealing techniques and Genjutsu—what use were those?
If he wanted sealing techniques, he could just find Minato and Kushina. Weren't Uzumaki clan sealing techniques better?
As for Genjutsu, he didn't understand it at all and couldn't be bothered to learn. No matter how much he studied, it would never compare to those eyes anyway.
The sword techniques were Cloud-Style Swordsmanship and Lightning Release Swordsmanship. He originally didn't plan to take them—after all, he had no talent for sword use and no Lightning attribute.
But considering that his younger brother, Gekko Hayate, was a little brat who loved swordsmanship, he took them anyway.
Even though Gekko Hayate didn't have a Lightning attribute either, who knew—maybe that brat could gain some other insight from them?
With everything he needed secured, Gekko Chizan looked at the remaining scrolls. Without hesitation, he tossed them into the ashes of the bookshelf, snapped his fingers with his right hand, and chakra turned into a streak of flame that burned them all to nothing.
Then he turned to look at the Fourth Raikage, a deeply mocking smile on his lips.
In the next second, he became a porter, dragging the Fourth Raikage directly into the ashes. The recently burned scrolls were still hot, instantly leaving burn marks on the Raikage's body—it looked perfectly fitting.
"Tsk tsk, I've said it before—you're rotten to the core."
"This poor big idiot has been framed by you again. Accidental destruction of seals, resulting in all stored texts being burned."
"Why do you always ruin just this one person?"
Even Chōmei felt the Fourth Raikage was pitiful. His debts weren't even paid off yet, and now his village's collection was gone—he was a sinner through and through.
Gekko Chizan didn't care about the Fourth Raikage at all. Still, since today's business was done, he planned to spare the man's life.
"Fine, since even you can't stand it anymore, Chōmei."
"I'll show mercy and let him go. As long as he doesn't come mess with me again, I absolutely won't persecute him anymore."
At that moment, the system's notification sounded right on cue.
[Ding! Detected that the host infiltrated Kumogakure to steal forbidden techniques, destroyed a large number of documents, and framed the Fourth Raikage. This behavior greatly excites the system!]
[Special Reward: strength +5, speed +5!]
This was the real harvest! Forbidden techniques obtained, rewards obtained—pure happiness!
With the mission completed, Gekko Chizan naturally dispelled all his shadow clones.
As their memories flooded back into his mind, his eyes went blank instantly.
What did he just see??
Those bastard clones—some of them actually ran to the bathhouse to look for things??
All that dazzling white… damn, different land really nurtures different people.
That healthy wheat-colored skin, those figures… good kid, which clone did this?
How could he, Gekko Chizan, do something like this! Starting strong and ending weak! Completely against his character setting!
...
Leaving the Raikage Office Building, he didn't hesitate for even a second before sprinting straight toward the bathhouse!
It had to be said—Kumogakure really had a lot of beauties, and their figures were top-tier. Maybe because the village was built against the mountains, they naturally had better control over their bodies.
Anyway, Gekko Chizan had seen it clearly.
With the items secured and his fill of appreciation done, Gekko Chizan didn't stay any longer. But after leaving Kumogakure, his curiosity was drawn to another place.
That was the training ground of the Eight-Tails, Killer Bee—the Valley of Clouds and Lightning.
Toward this Eight-Tails Jinchūriki, Gekko Chizan actually hoped to recruit him into his own camp.
But thinking about how the man was sworn brothers with the Fourth Raikage, the A–B combo, he had no choice but to give up.
"That Eight-Tails guy is arrogant as hell."
"You'd better not go asking for trouble. Besides, his ink is seriously annoying—getting covered in it would be awful."
Chōmei immediately started complaining about the Eight-Tails. It was hard to imagine what kind of inhuman treatment he had suffered back then to make him hold such strong opinions toward all other tailed beasts except the Two-Tails.
Hearing Chōmei's words, Gekko Chizan gave up the idea and directly used Flying Thunder God to leave.
The early-stage intelligence work was currently handled by Yahiko and the others, leaving Gekko Chizan with some free time. He soon set a new goal for himself.
The ninja world was vast, and there were few places he hadn't been to—the Land of Iron was one of them.
A nation entirely composed of samurai—it still held a certain value.
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