Chapter 338
Seido did not immediately answer Haruto Saito but instead remained silent for a moment before saying, "I don't know the exact details of the situation at that time. What you described is only what you know, but there are also things you don't know. Therefore, I cannot tell you exactly how I would have killed Kaguya Rakuba!"
"But if we go solely by your method, the key is how to approach Kaguya Rakuba and place an explosive tag on him. Your hands are quick, allowing you to attach an explosive tag upon contact without being detected. If I possessed the same ability, I might have approached Kaguya Rakuba... by pleading for justice!"
"Uh..." Haruto was momentarily speechless, his lips twitching. After a pause, he said, "Pleading for justice?!"
"Yes!" Seido continued, "From your description, the leader of that village was not a good ruler. On the contrary, he was cruel; otherwise, he wouldn't have beaten you to the point of coughing up blood. In such a situation, it would be strange if there were no grievances within the village. So, you could have pleaded your case to Kaguya Rakuba!"
"As a Kirigakure ninja, the likelihood of Kaguya Rakuba being an evil person is quite low. While the five great ninja villages are constantly at war, filled with conflicts and killings, at their core—putting aside factional biases—most ninjas from the five great villages have received proper education and are not inherently evil."
"So, you should have approached Kaguya Rakuba, knelt before him, and accused the village leader. You must understand Kaguya Rakuba's mentality. His mission was to reclaim the village, so by doing this, you would have been helping him, making him realize that the village leader was unpopular. You could have even pleaded for Kirigakure to save the oppressed people... This way, you would have had a chance to get close to Kaguya Rakuba. He might have even personally helped you up to uphold justice."
"But what if Kaguya Rakuba wasn't that kind of person? What if he didn't care about justice?"
"Does that matter? At the very least, he wouldn't have hit you. He would have also stopped others from attacking you!"
"Then... what if he was actually evil?"
"Even if he was, he wouldn't dare attack you, because you were appealing to Kirigakure for justice, asking them to save the suffering villagers. How could Kirigakure refuse? His mission was to reclaim the village, so he would never do something that would tarnish Kirigakure's reputation!"
"Alright..."