Inside the conference room, a heated discussion about insurance company shares was in full swing.
The group had started by discussing accidental injury and life insurance. Everyone present today carried serious weight—more than half of the village's influential clan heads had shown up.
As the discussion progressed, something strange happened that puzzled the clan leaders. Though several of the village's top officials looked extremely displeased, none of them seemed inclined to intervene.
After several rounds of heated debate, the accidental injury and life insurance shares were distributed. Large and small families alike had to contribute funds proportionally to establish and maintain this so-called insurance company, with income distributed according to the same ratios.
To mitigate risk, Hiruzen Sarutobi specifically emphasized that all revenue from the first two years would be held by the company as reserves for emergencies.
After covering all this, Hiruzen cleared his throat. His gaze swept over everyone present, lingering on Rinjin, who sat to the side like a well-behaved student, before speaking slowly:
"Third item: property accident insurance."
No sooner had he finished speaking than everyone fell into contemplative silence, preparing to voice their opinions.
Suddenly, Rinjin stood up with a beaming smile:
"Um... I'll take the property insurance. I'm representing the Hatake clan.
Who's in favor? Any objections?"
The moment those words left his mouth, a sharp-eyed, distinguished middle-aged man rose to his feet and declared righteously:
"I object!"
Hearing this, Rinjin felt completely unfazed—in fact, he wanted to slap the guy. But with so many important people present, he figured it was better to keep a low profile.
After a moment of silence, Rinjin nodded with a forced smile:
"Alright then, it's yours!
A sack of rice for you to carry~"
With a friendly wave, he turned and headed for the door.
In that instant, Danzo, seated beside Rinjin, felt a chill shoot straight to his skull, his vision going dark with rage!
Idiots!
Idiots!
Idiots!
I've been watching this Rinjin bastard constantly, terrified he'd slip away!
And you fools are falling over yourselves to push him out!
Damn it! These pig teammates are killing me!
I brought him back here specifically to get him invested, so he'd temporarily stop causing us trouble for the sake of insurance profits!
At that moment, dragged into the pit by his own teammates, Danzo triggered his passive skill—Enlightenment in the Pit!
Legendary Skill: Enlightenment in the Pit
Trigger Mechanism: Automatically activates when you fall into a carefully orchestrated conspiracy
Skill Effects:
Mental Overload: Forcibly enhances thinking speed and depth, passively boosting thought processes by 500% for three minutes
Super Sixth Sense: You can predict outcomes without reason or cause; greatly increases chances of seeing through conspiracies
Note: Pit, pit, pit—where you fall is where you lie down. Only those who can maintain their true heart after countless painful torments and self-doubt can acquire this skill. Congratulations, you are that one-in-ten-thousand ultimate unlucky bastard!
---(All of the above is made up by me; this book has no system)---
At that moment, Danzo's mind, seasoned by countless betrayals, spun at lightning speed as memory fragments shattered and reassembled:
Red hair... insurance... Sakumo Hatake... S-rank mission... Kakashi Hatake... leaving the village... returning to the village...
The next second, an incredibly absurd theory suddenly emerged in Danzo Shimura's mind.
Rinjin might have known all along that Sakumo Hatake was going to get into trouble!
If that were true, everything would make perfect sense!
The red-haired Uzumaki clan member came to Konoha to scout the situation.
Then, unhurriedly, he approached the Hyuga clan head to sell insurance.
After that, he left the village openly with Tsunade, avoiding the coming storm.
Then Sakumo failed his mission and the village began applying pressure.
Sakumo committed suicide, and Rinjin began retaliating against the village—bombing Hiruzen's statue and distributing letters had clear motive.
Then he pretended to return to the village and attended the meeting.
It all seemed unconnected, but was actually intricately linked!
Because I saw this guy's motive!
Why sell insurance? Why did he want property accident insurance?
This guy was waiting for something to happen to Konoha, so he could use insurance leverage to drain the blood of the major families and the village!
This guy must own a lot of property in Konoha!
That's also why he told me "insurance has no short-term problems!"
However, insurance is insurance—ultimately, it still needs to be sold to pull off this con!
In Konoha's peaceful environment, property accident insurance would be impossible to sell!
So this guy used Sakumo's death as an excuse to attack Konoha's Hokage Rock, telling everyone that Konoha isn't absolutely safe while also avenging Sakumo—killing two birds with one stone!
At the same time, he spread letters to sow discord among ninja relationships, letting suspicion and distrust spread among the ninja.
This undoubtedly intensified everyone's sense of danger.
It also made the soon-to-be-launched insurance red-hot!
After all, when everyone's in danger, everyone only thinks of themselves—under these circumstances, could insurance that reduces various risks not sell well?
Wait!
No! Something's wrong!
Is he also warning Konoha by doing this? Did Hiruzen do something to offend him before?!
No! Something's still missing!
Right! To legitimately devour a third of this massive pie, he's also keeping us higher-ups busy with internal troubles!
Yes, that's it!
Now it's not about whether he wants to eat this pie anymore!
It's that we must kneel and beg him to eat this pie!
Thinking of this, Danzo Shimura broke out in cold sweat, his entire back soaked.
Damn it!
What kind of monster are we fighting against!
And how did he know Sakumo Hatake would get into trouble?
Just as Danzo's mind was spinning wildly, a familiar and dear voice echoed in his head:
"Rinjin, he's best at seeing through people's hearts and manipulating them. Never let him enter Konoha's leadership!"
Although he couldn't fully explain why Rinjin could predict Sakumo Hatake's troubles, Danzo believed his teacher would absolutely never be wrong!
This chain of thoughts seemed long, but with Danzo's overclocked brain, only three or four seconds had actually passed.
Just as Rinjin was casually pushing open the conference room door, a tired, hoarse voice suddenly rang out:
"Rin... Rinjin-kun, please wait..."
Hearing this, Rinjin whipped his head around, his calm eyes instantly filling with surprise as he looked toward the source of the voice.
There, Danzo Shimura sat powerlessly slumped in his chair, his gaze actually showing some fearful evasion.
Seeing this scene, Rinjin's face lit up with even greater joy.
He was so bored—bored that his casual insurance-selling scheme went unnoticed by anyone.
But this couldn't be blamed on Konoha's leadership; after all, this was too coincidental, so coincidental that no one would dare believe it.
Ignoring everyone's strange looks, Rinjin quickly walked to Danzo's side, delighted:
"You... you figured it out?"
Hearing this, Danzo didn't look into Rinjin's eyes, just smiled bitterly and nodded.
Seeing this, Rinjin became even happier, excitedly clapping his hands:
"Then do you know why I could guess it?"
The seemingly random question confused everyone, but only Danzo understood—Rinjin was asking how he had guessed that Sakumo would commit suicide.
To this, Danzo honestly shook his head, looking exactly like a confused student.
Seeing this, Rinjin immediately smiled and said:
"The general trend—do you understand the general trend?
With any situation, if you can see some small details, you can glimpse the whole picture.
At this time, that kid was very much in the way—it was only a matter of time before he crashed.
But that kid was a skilled driver who drove very steadily—it was hard for him to crash.
So there weren't many ways he could crash—just a few possibilities.
The crash was the conclusion; how he crashed was a process that could be exploited.
Do you understand?"
...
Looking at the earnestly teaching Rinjin, Danzo pieced together the connection between "crashing" and Sakumo's death, finally understanding Rinjin's meaning.
This guy... no... this old schemer meant:
The leadership couldn't tolerate Sakumo, so Sakumo had to die.
However, Sakumo was famous and low-key, making him hard to frame, so the leadership's methods of framing him were limited.
So it was easy to guess.
Damn, sounds simple.
If I had that kind of ability to see the big picture from small details and read people's hearts, I would have kicked Hiruzen off his throne and taken over myself long ago!
Screw it!
Thinking about the whole affair, Danzo realized this bastard Rinjin had done all this for just one thing—money!
This dog had orchestrated this entire conspiracy just to sell insurance.
Watching Danzo constantly overthinking, Rinjin nodded with satisfaction.
Truth be told, he actually had no idea when Dog Bro would snap and want to commit suicide. The only thing he knew was:
Before Sakumo killed himself, he would definitely come report to him first!
After all, they were childhood friends—life and death weren't Sakumo's decision alone to make.
He could only say that Danzo was overthinking again...
He wasn't that godlike—he just happened to have good luck frequently!
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