socalfunplaces Chapter 137 Do you want to give it a try?
Chapter 137 Do you want to give it a try?
Chapter 137 Do you want to give it a try?
A few days later, Hiruko presented Shiba Kiyokawa with two plans regarding transportation.
One set he was familiar with: trains.
In fact, the ninja world already had the technology for trains, and this thing has already appeared in Boruto.
The other set, however, was somewhat unexpected; it was an airship.
"You'd recommend an airship? Why?" Shiba Kiyokawa asked, puzzled.
Hiruko calmly replied, "Because laying railway tracks requires a lot of steel, and unfortunately there are no iron mines in the Land of Rain or even in the deserts near Loulan."
The largest iron ore deposit in the ninja world is in the neutral Land of Iron. Besides that, the closest iron ore deposits are in the Land of Grass and the Land of Fire, but we can't currently access any of those places.
After a moment of silence, Shiba Kiyokawa said, "Then let's try building a few airships and establishing flight routes."
But don't give up on the train project. You work through the necessary technology first; I'll handle the iron ore issue later.
Hiruko looked up, met Shiba Kiyokawa's gaze, and smiled again.
"You seem to be making no attempt to hide your expansionist ambitions, Chief. What has solidified your resolve?"
Shiba Kiyokawa did not answer, but simply smiled slightly.
During his trip to Loulan, his repeated questioning of Sasuke and the others was also a process of strengthening his own beliefs.
To hell with the correct trajectory!
As Little Dragon Vein said, even if the world is burned to ashes, it won't be any worse!
Therefore, he is destined to overturn this world!
His undisguised ambition at this moment inspired Hiruko.
However, this ambition initially burned Sara, who had just arrived in the Land of Rain.
Sara, who was forcibly abducted to the capital of the Land of Rain, was initially terrified and uneasy, cursing Shiba Kiyokawa in her heart the whole way.
"Waaaaah, I thought the Akatsuki were a bunch of good people, stopping those bad guys from sealing the Dragon Vein, but it turns out they're just a bunch of evil schemers! Villains! Perverts! Wife-obsessed! Traffickers!"
She cursed the whole way, and she was worried the whole way.
I was constantly worried that if I went to the lair of an ambitious person, I would be completely devoured. Would it be a place of utter desolation and rampant evil?
However, when she actually arrived at the capital of the Land of Rain, the scene before her eyes left her somewhat stunned.
The city, which the "ambitious man" had made his lair, did not seem to be as desolate and impoverished as she had originally imagined, with cattle, horses, and slaves everywhere.
On the contrary, this place is much more prosperous than Loulan, where she had always lived!
The people on the street had genuine smiles on their faces, as if life was full of hope, without any sense of being forced or miserable by the "ambitious man".
This surprised Sarah greatly, as it was completely different from what she had expected.
Just as she was in a daze, a woman with red hair like hers suddenly rushed over and hugged her tightly.
"Hey hey hey? You you you! What are you doing? Who are you? What are you going to do to me?"
Sarah, who was new to this foreign land, was particularly sensitive. She immediately broke free from the person's embrace and launched into a barrage of questions.
The woman holding her snapped out of her reverie and quickly bowed to apologize, "I'm sorry, I was too excited. May I ask your name? Is your surname Whirlpool?"
"You're insane!"
Startled, Sarah didn't answer the woman's question at all. She left with a curse and walked away quickly, leaving the woman standing there dejectedly.
It wasn't until several days later, after Sara had settled down in the capital of the Rain Kingdom, that she learned the whole story.
It turns out that the woman who suddenly hugged her on the street that day was named Uzumaki Kaori, a tragic figure who was the only survivor after her clan was wiped out.
The other person didn't actually have any ill intentions; they just saw her red hair and mistook her for a long-lost member of their clan.
The moment Sarah learned the truth, she was so heartbroken she wanted to bang her head against a wall.
Looking back on my behavior at the time, I felt like I would wake up and slap myself even when I was asleep.
Fortunately, there is still a chance to make amends for this guilt.
Not long after, she saw Kaori Uzumaki again.
This time, the kind-hearted Sarah didn't push the other person away with harsh words. Instead, she took the initiative to tell Xiangye about her and her mother's background.
Upon learning that they had always lived in the Land of Wind, Loulan, and had no connection with the Land of Whirlpools, Xiangye could not hide her disappointment.
However, due to this wonderful coincidence, Sarah quickly became friends with Sakura.
Perhaps because she was too uneasy about being "deep in the devil's den" by herself, after a while, Sara couldn't help but ask Koyo about the "ambitious man" Shiba Kiyokawa.
Unexpectedly, when this topic was brought up, Kaori Uzumaki smiled happily.
"You mean Qinghe Jun? He is our leader, and he orchestrated all the changes here."
He is a very capable person. Although he is not old, he has a strong will, as if no difficulty can shake him.
He said he would change this bleak world, and we all believed he could!
Although Xiangye's words were all praise.
But in Sarah's ears, it was automatically translated into—
This person is autocratic and dictatorial, handling everything himself;
Ambitious and headstrong, he cannot be persuaded of anything;
He said he was going to conquer the ninja world, and everyone around him was fooled into believing him!
Upon hearing this, Sarah trembled with fear.
Good heavens!
What a terrible ambitious man and dictator!
It's all over. My future is bleak...
Even Sarah's gaze towards Sakura Leaf at this moment carried a hint of sympathy.
She couldn't help but think of the changes in her mother before her departure; her alluring appearance was something she couldn't bear to recall.
"Sister Xiangye, you wouldn't happen to be one of the Qinghe leader's... playthings, would you?"
Unexpectedly, Xiangye blushed and slapped her, but denied it.
"You're still a child, what are you thinking? Qinghe-jun isn't that kind of person!"
But this explanation clearly failed to reassure Sarah.
It wasn't until what Sakura Leaf said next that Sarah completely changed some of her views.
"Qinghe Jun doesn't want us to just depend on him for a living. He said that if we do, we'll become parasitic plants."
Although I've never quite understood the meaning of this word, I know that it means he hopes we can find our own will and our own life.
So, little Sarah, I'm not a caged canary, you know. I have a job too; I'm a teacher here.
"A teacher?" Sarah asked, still somewhat doubtful. "Sister Xiangye, are you a teacher at the ninja academy?"
Kaoru Uzumaki shook her head. "My ninja skills aren't that great yet."
"So...you were a tutor who served a nobleman?" Sarah then guessed.
But Xiangye still shook her head.
Then, Kaori Uzumaki stopped letting her guess and directly revealed the answer.
"I teach the residents here, mainly children of school age, to recognize characters, to read and write, to do basic arithmetic and some simple common sense."
The Uzumaki clan was, after all, a powerful ninja clan that once ruled a country, and in a sense, they could be considered nobles. Naturally, their basic education was relatively advanced.
This race is particularly skilled in sealing techniques, which requires them to have excellent language and writing skills as well as a certain amount of knowledge.
Therefore, although Kaori Uzumaki's ninja skills were average, her level of education was outstanding in the Akatsuki organization, where everyone was practically raised like children.
She thus became an important assistant to Shiba Kiyoka in popularizing basic education.
"To be a teacher to...ordinary residents?" This answer completely shocked Sarah.
In the past, although her mother had always taught her to love her people and protect the Loulan people, even her mother had never tried such a radical approach!
Since Sara had already formed a preconceived notion that Shiba Kiyokawa was an evil and ambitious man who controlled the dragon veins, subdued his mother, and coveted the entire ninja world, in her eyes, Shiba Kiyokawa was no different from the daimyo of the Land of Rain.
Therefore, in her eyes, this matter was almost equivalent to the daimyo sending his concubine to teach the lowest-ranking people to read and write.
This is something that even the Loulan Queen, who had constantly taught her to love her people, could not do.
"Is this... really true?"
Sarah asked again, incredulously.
However, Kaori Uzumaki nodded and even picked up a few booklets from the small table next to her and handed them to her.
"What is this?"
"It's a textbook, and part of it was even compiled with the help of Qinghe Jun. He also said: Education is very important; it's the foundation for changing the world."
Sarah picked up one of the books, flipped through it, and after only a short while, she was certain: this was definitely not a product of casual perfunctory work!
The content was rudimentary yet vivid; even she, a well-educated princess of a city-state, couldn't find any flaws and even felt captivated by its contents.
"This... was all really done by that Shiba Kiyokawa?"
At that moment, Sarah felt that the image of the ambitious, evil boy who had seized the dragon vein and conquered her mother had been miraculously overturned and reshaped in her mind.
She couldn't believe that just a few days ago she was cursing this damn housewife-obsessed guy on the street!
Whirlpool Xiangye stepped forward and gave her a gentle smile.
"Yes, do you believe me now, little Sara? Qinghe-kun is truly a very good person."
She then extended an invitation to Sarah, "So, would you like to give it a try?"
In that instant, Sarah's face suddenly turned red.
"You! You! You! What outrageous things are you saying? What would I try? My mother has already... No! Absolutely not! I will never accept that! That kind of thing is too immoral!"
Whirlpool Fragrance Leaf looked confused.
"What are you talking about? I was just asking if you wanted to try being a teacher. Little Sarah, you don't have a job here right now, do you?"
"..."
(End of this chapter)