Chapter 493: Seeking Asylum
Inside the Eight Trigrams Space.
Ryo extended his right hand and waved it briskly in front of Killer Bee's dual eyes: "Hey, are you fully intact, or did you turn stupid?"
Killer Bee's eyes were slightly vacant, monumentally dazed from his prolonged, heavy slumber. Who am I? Where on earth am I?
"Well! Brother Killer Bee!"
Killer Bee blinked his eyes: "Oh, yo~ waking up from a deep sleep, the environment is altered completely, and that voice resembles Nagato's cadence precisely..."
"Heh, he's still fully capable of rapping, it seems he hasn't turned stupid."
Killer Bee given a sudden pause, rising to examine Ryo before casting his gaze across the parameters of the surrounding landscape. Suddenly, his countenance experienced a sharp shift, and his dual hands tightly clamped down across his abdomen.
Ryo shook his head. Talk about an exceptionally delayed reflex. The brat had barely parsed out that the Eight-Tails was entirely missing from his matrix...
"Oh, yo~ I am so incredibly hungry!"
Ryo: "..."
Retrieving a cluster of food items, Ryo passed them straight over to Killer Bee. Watching him gorge himself with absolute wolfish intensity, Ryo and Nagato exchanged a prolonged look. Nagato hesitated for a brief moment before speaking up: "Brother Killer Bee, are you aware..."
"I parse it completely," Killer Bee nodded firmly. "The Eight-Tails has been cleanly extracted, and currently filling the cavern of my matrix is strictly the Senior's chakra, correct? Was it the Senior who successfully executed my rescue? Was this orchestrated by the Dark Akatsuki?"
Ryo blinked his dual eyes: "I was indeed the one who executed your rescue, but the entity who extracted the Eight-Tails wasn't the Dark Akatsuki; it was my... companion, specifically to formulate a structural countermeasure to resolve the Dark Akatsuki."
"Is that how things map out..." Killer Bee given another localized pause, leaning his head right back down to continue gorging on his food.
Ryo scratched his hair. Exactly what kind of structural reaction was this? That absolute melon of a Teuchi continuously saddles me with these monumental scapegoat shields to hoist on my back; my head hurts past normal recognition...
"Brother Killer Bee, are you completely unharmed?"
"Oh, yo~ I am perfectly fine, Nagato!" Killer Bee lifted his head. "Senior, would it be structurally possible for me to host two separate live concert blocks right inside the Land of Whirlpools?"
Ryo: ???
Is he actively demanding a premier technical compensation? This choice of compensation is... a fraction too excessive!
"That is likely out of the question. My companion carried the Eight-Tails away specifically to engage the Dark Akatsuki, meaning within the active parameters of the outside world, you currently operate as a completely deceased individual." Speaking of the word 'companion', Ryo was practically grinding his teeth to absolute dust.
Killer Bee sat dazed for an immense duration, subsequent to which his physical torso collapsed flat onto his back against the dirt: "The Eight-Tails is missing, the concert plans are entirely broken, and Master Killer Bee has officially kicked the bucket completely!"
Ryo burst into a gentle laugh. You truly are exceptionally optimistic...
"Refrain from harboring intense anxiety. In less than two years, the Dark Akatsuki will be entirely resolved, and the Eight-Tails will be cleanly recovered to be securely sealed right back inside your vessel. When that day arrives, the Great Ancestor will personally escort you to host a magnificent concert block. However, it cannot be hosted inside the Land of Whirlpools... Mmm, how about traveling to Konoha? The Konoha Stadium is monumentally massive, and the population volume is exceptionally grand."
Killer Bee violently bolted upright to a sitting position: "Oh, yo~ that is completely workable, completely workable, Senior!"
Ryo stood entirely speechless.
"Well! Teacher, when that day arrives, my presence shall participate as well!"
"Excellent, let's travel collectively together. We can formulate a premier Konoha Crush Plan!" Ryo laughed lightheartedly. "Killer Bee, I intend to have you reside across the subsequent two years straight on Turtle Island. Let's formulate a structural script to comfortably deceive your older brother..."
Killer Bee was naturally endowed with an exceptionally optimistic disposition, and his genuine, unadorned persona wasn't anywhere near as unreliable as his visual aesthetics projected. In truth, he commanded a non-negligible tier of mature stability, making him significantly easier to handle than Ryo had initially anticipated.
Having accepted Ryo's premier 'Konoha Concert' compensation package, Killer Bee turned exceptionally cooperative, systematically coordinating with Ryo to formulate a script to thoroughly blindside his older brother...
The absolute terminal narrative they compiled mapped out as follows: 'Killer Bee was successfully captured by the Dark Akatsuki and his tailed beast was stripped away, but Ryo arrived precisely on schedule to execute a high-powered rescue to salvage his life force. To repay Ryo's supreme life-saving grace, Killer Bee proactively requested to travel to Turtle Island to assist Naruto Uzumaki in completely conquering the Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, while concurrently remaining hidden on the island to cultivate his parameters, attempting to master Ryo's chakra within his matrix to reconstruct his peak strength baseline...'
By the time the script reached its ultimate loop, the Fourth Raikage would likely be weeping tears of absolute gratitude straight toward Ryo...
The Uzukage Residence.
"Nagato, exactly what are the precise technical details of the intelligence dispatched to you by the Akatsuki organization?"
"Well! Teacher, they explicitly stated that the Fourth Raikage intends to officially convene a Six Kage Summit, and currently they are merely seeking our active feedback."
Ryo gave a firm nod: "Grant your consent. When the time arrives, you shall escort two premier guards to participate in the summit."
"Well!"
Ryo fell into brief, focused calculation. Erecting and organizing a true Six Kage Summit would naturally consume one to two months of continuous diplomatic coordination down the chain. Was it genuinely appropriate to let Killer Bee reside flat inside the Eight Trigrams Space for that entire duration?
Shifting a layer of his conscious awareness inside his pocket space, Ryo's face instantly went pitch black. That absolute rascal was currently rapping to his absolute heart's content; this traumatic extraction had clearly gifted him a torrent of fresh creative inspiration. Wielding this tier of self-entertainment capacity, he would definitively never stifle to death!
However, Ryo simultaneously parsed out that his Eight Trigrams Space was on the absolute verge of being thoroughly contaminated; the atmosphere was literally radiating a toxic, linguistic gas...
"Then the Teacher shall return to Konoha first. I must ensure Obito grants his absolute consent as well."
"Well!"
Konoha Village, the Hokage Residence.
"You've already dispatched your official response to them?"
"Mmm, Master," Obito offered a scratch of his hair. "I have granted my consent to participate in the Six Kage Summit. Did I... execute the logistics a fraction too rashly?"
Ryo calculated the details for two seconds: "You single-mindedly desire to avenge Shisui, correct?"
Obito offered a cheeky chuckle: "Ever since little brother Shisui was manipulated into launching that hidden ambush against Konoha, he has continuously been running frantic operations on the outside to track down the coordinates of the Dark Akatsuki. He crossed his twenty-five-year milestone this exact year; it is about time for him to settle down comfortably..."
Ryo shook his head with a gentle laugh. Obito truly cared about Shisui, parsing out that the youth had reached the optimal age parameters to marry and sire descendants...
"Master, did I act too impulsively?"
"It's no issue, I originally intended to have you consent anyway. However, operating under the sovereign mantle of the Hokage, your execution was indeed a fraction too impulsive. You must realize..." Ryo activated his premier guidance protocol, and Obito immediately adopted a face full of earnest instruction.
"I understand completely, Master!"
Ryo nodded with deep satisfaction: "Furthermore, traveling to participate in the Six Kage Summit demands that you escort two specific guards. Lock the first slot down as Naruto; I intend to escort him to execute his cultivation rotation, which can comfortably be recorded as a single S-rank mission assignment."
"Mmm!" Obito nodded. "Since that is how the logistics map out, let's assign the alternative slot strictly to Sasuke!"
Ryo given a subtle pause, thoroughly caught between amusement and speechlessness. This child Obito has truly learned some underhanded routines; he razor-sharply parses out that pairing Naruto and Sasuke ensures the workload is executed with absolute, zero fatigue...
Right at that exact fraction of a second, a squad ninja from the Konoha Anbu materialized via Body Flicker: "Lord Fifth Hokage, two female shinobi have arrived at the primary village gates, explicitly stating they are seeking Senior Ryo Uzumaki."
Ryo was startled. Female shinobi, two of them?
Obito shifted his gaze to look at Ryo: "Master?"
Ryo nodded after a brief, hesitant pause.
"Yamato, escort them over."
"Hold on!" Ryo violently cut him off: "Your name is Yamato? Are you capable of executing Wood Style?"
The Anbu ninja's physical body given a sudden freeze: "Senior, my name is indeed Yamato. Even though I command the Water and Earth elemental attributes, as for Wood Style... I desperately desire to master it myself as well."
"Tsk, it seems I am the one who delayed your development parameters after all," Ryo burst into a laugh. "Go retrieve the individuals."
Yamato was entirely swimming in a fog of confusion, flashing out of the room at maximum velocity.
Obito looked back over with absolute curiosity: "Master, exactly why did you summon two female shinobi to your position?"
"To systematically enhance the talent repository of the Land of Whirlpools."
A brief moment later, Yamato returned, escorting the two female shinobi inside the office. Obito fell into focused calculation: "Master, I recall that she appears to be a formal subordinate of Orochimaru—Tayuya, whom you personally extracted from the High Security Detention Block back in the day?"
Ryo smiled gently, shifting his dual eyes to lock onto the alternative female shinobi. Extending his right hand forward, he lightly crooked his index finger...
That female shinobi's face instantly erupted into pure, unadorned rage... The secret code checked out flawlessly—it was Guren herself!
"Senior!" Guren grit her teeth together to launch a fierce counter-verbal strike: "Over these past two years, your vertical height has truly marked a monumental surge, and your horizontal adipose parameters have expanded a spectacular layer as well!"
Ryo let out a relaxed chuckle: "The children abandoned by Orochimaru have collectively traveled across distances to seek asylum under my wing, yet you lack the baseline realization to show the Great Ancestor a fraction of respect?"
"Who on earth said we traveled to seek asylum—"
"Sister Guren!" Tayuya frantically cut her off, bowing her body deeply toward Ryo: "Senior, Sister Guren and I have genuinely traveled to seek asylum under your wing. Please grant us your premier guidance and care!"
Ryo squinted his dual eyes: "Mmm, I will guide you exceptionally well."
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