Chapter 71 - Killing Bandits (1/2)

After visiting the village, I went to find my students. There are currently 5 factors involved in this farce, Suna, Kiri, bandits, Suna-missing nin, and us with villagers. Since there are many factors, I decided to cut them down a bit, starting with bandits.

I already got the approximate location for the bandits' route from the village head. Next, I just have to release several eagles to find their hideout from above, one of the many perks of having eagles summons.

Following Biller's instruction cry, I managed to find the hiding place of Yahiko and others. It is located deep inside the mountain, a pretty safe place. Three of them were patiently waiting for my arrival.

”Hey, brats. Did you miss me? I see you have found a nice place to hide.”

Three of them immediately turned their heads to me after hearing my voice. Even though we separate for only 2 -3 hours, it seems they were a bit afraid. Well, since it is their first time outside of Iwagakure as shinobi, I didn't blame them.

”Genji-sensei, you finally showed up. I thought you have forgotten about us and enjoy yourself. Did you bring anything delicious?” Yahiko asked me while running around me.

”Why would I bring something to eat when I went there to collect intel? Stop thinking only about food. If you are hungry, then eat a food pill.”

”Tch, I bet you ate all the delicacy village provided, hmph.”

”Enough about this, get ready for battle. When my eagles find bandits' hideout, we will go and wipe them out.”

”Finally, some action, cool!! We going to kick their ȧss, right Nagato?”

”No, Yahiko. You three are not just going to kick their ȧss. You three gonna kill them. This is also a test for you to see if you have what it takes to be proper shinobi. Listen, KILL them!!! Don't you dare spare or mercy any bandits!! Am I clear?”

Hearing my words, three of them all immediately became quiet. I could see their face is full of worriedness. Killing might be too harsh for them, but since they chose the shinobi way, they can't exactly complain.

”I know you all are afraid to end someone else's life, but it is your job as shinobi. You have to get used to this all the time.”

”But can we just beat them up and teach not to do ever again?” Yahiko naively asked.

”Listen, Yahiko. Human nature does not change simply like that. If you let your enemy go, one day they will come and bite you, unless you have special talk no jutsu.”

Since the atmosphere was heavy, I tried to close the killing conversation off from them. Luckily it worked as my innocent students got curious about talk no jutsu.

”What is talk no jutsu? Some kind of S-rank jutsu?” Nagato asked me. Yahiko and Konan also looked at me for an answer.

”Talk no jutsu is the very powerful jutsu that can persuade your enemies into allies and increase the power of your allies. It's literally motivational speech with powerful effects.”

”What's that? Motivational speech? Can we turn enemies into allies, just by talking? What the heck, you must be joking!” Yahiko told me.

”If you master this jutsu, you can persuade Kage-level shinobi or even more powerful shinobi to your side. But this jutsu is not something that you can learn. It is something you naturally possess.

Iwagakure had that person who could use this jutsu. But unfortunately, he was ȧssassinated by enemies due to his jutsu. It's up to you to believe me or not.”

'Hehe, 'unfortunately' my ȧss! I am just glad he drop dead earlier.'

”Wow!! I didn't know such powerful jutsu existed. How can we check if we possess such jutsu, Genji-sensei?” Konan asked me.

Just as Konan asked, the eagles sent to search for bandits' hideout arrived. They successfully found the bandit base. However, they couldn't find the mine no matter how they searched. It seemed like the bandits have done well in concealing the mine location.

”Alright enough about talk no jutsu. It's time to head out and hunt bandits. I won't come with you guys. It's solely up to you three to hunt down the bandits. For the 3 months, what I taught you should be enough to deal with mere bandits. But don't let your guard down.

Follow the eagles to bandit base. Now go!”

Yahiko and others seemed to be relaxed a bit and head out to kill bandits. I said I won't follow them, but of course, that was lying.

'I sent eagles to search for three targets, which is bandit base, mine and finally that Suna missing-nin. According to the village head, he should be on this mountain somewhere.

But eagles couldn't find him after 3 hours of searching. To be able to hide from eagles' eye, not bad!'