EFB Chapter 618 The Woman Who Has Gone Mad
Chapter 618 The Woman Who Has Gone Mad
The next morning.
Iruka stood with the woman in front of Sasuke Uchiha's house. It had been a wonderful night, and having tasted the sweetness once again, Iruka felt increasingly indebted to the woman and his son. He felt that there were some things he had to do, even if it meant sacrificing his dignity.
Sasuke's residence was one of the few detached houses in the village. Although it was not large, it was much better than the row houses that were like dormitories.
An unidentified tree stands at the entrance to the courtyard; half of its leaves have withered, and the remaining few yellow leaves sway precariously in the wind.
Iruka took a deep breath and raised his hand to knock on the door.
The door opened quickly, and Sasuke, dressed in black casual clothes, looked at them indifferently.
"Sasuke-kun." Iruka bowed slightly. "Excuse me for bothering you, but there's something I'd like to ask you."
"What is it?"
"This is..." Iruka stepped aside to let the woman behind him pass. "She wants you to cast an illusion spell on your child so the child can see the outside world. It only needs to be done once, and it won't take up too much of your time."
Sasuke's gaze swept over the woman's face before shifting away, his tone cold: "I refuse."
"Sasuke-kun——"
"I have a very important mission right now, I don't have time for these boring things." Sasuke said and was about to close the door.
"Sasuke! Let's go!" Naruto's voice came from the courtyard.
He came out of the house, buttoning his coat as he called out, "Kakashi-sensei is already waiting outside. We need to move that batch of goods before noon today, so hurry up."
That's right. Because he was upset last night, Naruto didn't go back to his own place. Instead, he stayed at Sasuke's place for the night. Sasuke wanted to kick him out because he only had one bed, but Naruto was shameless and the two eventually decided to sleep together.
This also caused Sasuke to not sleep well last night, because Naruto doesn't sleep still, just like an octopus.
Sasuke looked at Naruto helplessly, said to Iruka and the other two, "There's really no time," and then flashed away with Naruto.
The two disappeared one after the other at the end of the street in the blink of an eye. Iruka stood there, his face somewhat embarrassed. The woman, on the other hand, stared at the direction the two had vanished, her eyes gradually darkening.
She looked up and asked, "They said they're going out. What are they going out for?"
"He's probably... on a mission," Iruka tried to comfort her. "Don't overthink it. Sasuke-kun is really busy. Let me think of another way—"
"They can go out," the woman interrupted him, her voice as cold as ice. "They can go out anytime. But we don't even deserve to look at what's outside."
She turned and walked away, her back stiff as a walking corpse.
Iruka wanted to call out to him, but in the end, he said nothing. Because he suddenly realized that what Yumi said... might not be wrong after all.
There has always been a saying in the village, circulating among those who are unwilling to completely submit.
The high-ranking officials and ninjas of Konoha had long since reconciled with the outside world and the demons.
The reason they are still kept here and instilled with the idea that "demons lurk in the outside world" is because of the actions of these ordinary Konoha villagers. Now that the ninjas have grown up, they want to take revenge on them.
The most frightening thing about this claim is that it's not entirely false.
Because those Leaf Village White Elephants knew very well what they had done: the ostracism, the cold stares, the slamming of doors in front of the ninja orphans, and the vicious words spoken as jokes during casual conversations.
Similarly, they are well aware of how excessive their actions were.
Now, the balance of power has completely shifted. Ninjas have become a supreme being, and the days when they could be commanded with a little money are gone forever.
The former perpetrator has become the current victim.
The person who posted this statement was arrested the next day and never appeared again. However, a young, newly graduated ninja accidentally let slip the information to the family during a capture operation.
"There's a magical tree in the village; all those people were hung on it."
Where is that tree? What does it look like? Why was someone hung on it?
No one knows the answer, but everyone starts to speculate.
Some people's speculations are getting more and more extreme. The Konoha ninjas want to drive them crazy and make them do extreme things. No one will believe what they say if they go crazy, and they will eventually be despised by everyone.
The high-ranking ninjas of Konoha are terrifying; their minds are so twisted.
Today, Sasuke and Naruto left Sasuke's house one after the other, saying they were going out, which deepened the woman's suspicions.
They felt they had learned the truth about Konoha: they were just monkeys trapped together, being played with.
This could very well be a TV series, like the award-winning film "Wind, Flower, Early Snow" that they had seen before, which confines a person to a small room from birth to the end, and now the world is fake, everything is fake.
Then they drive people crazy little by little. The difference is that the people in the movie can find the truth and leave the world, but they can never do that!
Instead of going home, she turned into an alley on the east side of the village and stopped in front of an inconspicuous little house.
The sign on the door reads "Silent".
Shizune is a disciple of the Fifth Hokage and one of the few Jonin in Konoha. Yumi used to work at the hospital where she was Shizune's subordinate; they weren't exactly close, but they could at least talk to each other.
She raised her hand and gently knocked on the door.
The door opened quickly, and Jingyin, dressed in plain-colored loungewear, looked slightly surprised to see who it was: "It's you?"
"Lady Shizune, I have a question for you." The woman cut to the chase, with a desperate determination, "Naruto and Sasuke leave early and return late every day, saying they're on missions. What exactly are they doing out there?"
Shizune remained as gentle and composed as ever: "They were just carrying out a mission to ensure the safety of the area around the village. Yumi, I know you have many questions, but now is not the time to reveal everything. You must trust the Hokage and the ninjas of the village; everything they did was to protect you."
"Protect us?" Yumi's voice suddenly turned impatient. "Keep us trapped under a gray, black sky for the rest of our lives, eating the same food every day, wearing the same clothes, and pretending to be happy in front of patrolling ninjas. Is this protection?"
"Yumi, calm down! These are things you shouldn't be saying. You should remember the village rules; negative words can affect everyone's emotions and disrupt the village's peace. I won't tell anyone what happened today, but you need to be careful," Shizune reminded her.
Looking at Shizune's impeccable face, Yumi felt a chill run down her spine. She really did know the truth!