The empty and uninhabited forest was covered with heavy snow, the temperature was very low, and an icy pale color could be seen everywhere.

In the ice and snow, a root ninja wearing a colorful animal mask stood in front of Tsunade, confronting her.

"How about it, Tsunade-sama, have you thought about it carefully? If you agree, we will return it to Miss Shizune immediately without harming a hair on her head."

"Shut up! Are you still considered a ninja of Konoha like this? You're actually taking hostages and endangering the people of your own village!"

Tsunade gritted her teeth at this root ninja and clenched her fists. She wanted to punch the root ninja in front of her away, but in the end she restrained her urge to do it.

It can be seen the anger and helplessness in her heart.

Facing Tsunade's murderous posture, all the nerves in the ninja's body were tense.

Although there was no fear in his eyes, his body's instinct still made him wary in his heart.

In any case, facing a ninja of the Sannin level alone, he had no chance of winning by himself.

Especially the Tsunade in front of me is a terrifying woman with unparalleled power.

To this day, the immortal myths and legends of her youth are still circulated in Konoha's bathhouses.

For example, one punch left fellow Sannin Jiraiya on the verge of death... This shows how terrifying this kind of strange power is. It is definitely not a powerful attack that ordinary people can withstand.

"Our basic research on tailed beast drugs has reached a bottleneck. We need better ninjas to break the deadlock and create more effective tailed beast drugs. This cannot be achieved without the help of Tsunade-sama."

"I told you, I won't do this kind of human experiment for you! Those who are sensible, please hand over Shizune to me!"

Tsunade angrily rushed to the root ninja, grabbed his collar with her palms, and effortlessly picked him up with one hand.

"This is for the future of the village... We must rely on this medicine to check and balance the Kingdom of Demons... Tsunade-sama's medical ninjutsu is an indispensable and important part."

The root ninja seemed not to feel the murderous aura in Tsunade and said without emotion.

"How many times do I have to say it before you understand?"

"Asking Tsunade-sama to join the research is the highest task given to us by Danzo-sama. Even if we die, we must complete it."

The root ninja responded mechanically, as if he had no emotions of his own.

"You are really like puppets without a soul. Then let me tell you, no matter how many times you threaten me, I will never cooperate with you!"

Tsunade frowned in disgust, left the root ninja roughly on the snow, turned around and left.

"Ahem." The root ninja coughed and spit out the snow in his mouth, looked at Tsunade's leaving back and said, "Is this really okay? Miss Shizune is the niece of Kato Jonin, and she is also the most important thing to you, Tsunade-sama.

People..."

However, his threat only made Tsunade stay on the snow for a few seconds, and then left even more determinedly, as if she didn't care about the threat.

The root ninja stood up from the ground and patted the snowflakes on his clothes.

"Thanks a lot."

The voice came from behind, it was a ninja without a mask.

He had an orange ponytail and carried a ninja sword behind his back.

He stared in the direction Tsunade was walking away with an expressionless expression.

It was Danzo's trusted guard, the Jonin - Yamafaze.

"It seems that she was not suspicious. She still thinks that we are forcing her to participate in the research on tailed beast drugs. She did not think that there was a problem in the village."

The root ninja whispered.

"Just hang her here so that she won't notice our real movements. There is no one here, and she won't have access to any information from the outside world."

"Then Jiraiya's side..."

The corner of Shanfeng's mouth curled up, and he was confident.
Chapter completed!