Chapter 105: Repaying Kindness with Kindness, and Repaying Evil with Evil

Tsunade, who was wandering not far from the reef, witnessed everything that happened. This incident was beyond her understanding and aroused her infinite curiosity.

People always have a desire for knowledge and a desire to win when it comes to things related to their professional fields. Tsunade, as the best medical ninja in the entire ninja world, really wants to know how Yamashiro Tatsuya managed to resurrect a dead person, even if the cost is the death of another person.

Strictly speaking, all ninjutsu in the ninja world is the process of chakra transmission. As a kind of energy body, chakra's therapeutic limit is to repair damaged cells and give new cells a certain vitality, but it is absolutely impossible to transmit vitality.

Otherwise, everyone in the ninja world would be an excellent medical ninja, and chakra would not be the top priority as a killing tool in the hands of ninjas.

But Tsunade couldn't ask Hayama, one of the parties involved, at this time. A person who yells loudly is not to be feared, but a silent person is very likely to burst out with unimaginable destructive power.

There was only one thing she could do now, and that was to walk to the edge of the reef and pay tribute to the dead ninja from the same village in silence.

In Tsunade's opinion, no matter what bad deeds a ninja had done during his lifetime or what complicated political stance he held, he deserves to be commemorated after his death.

Firstly, the dead are the greatest, and secondly, a ninja who can voluntarily sacrifice his own life to save others cannot be a bad person.

Ye Shan looked at Tsunade's figure quietly, his eyes were scattered at first and then firm, as if he had decided on something.

"Tsunade-sama"

Ye Shan's slightly hoarse voice sounded uncomfortable: "Can I ask you a favor?"

Tsunade turned around, her eyes seemed to contain a trace of pity: "Let me take the bodies of your subordinates back to Konoha?"

Ye Shan was slightly startled, then turned his eyes to Yamashiro Tatsuya's face and squeezed out a "hmm" through his nose.

"You are wrong. Yamashiro Tatsu is not my subordinate. He is my best friend."

"The so-called captain title is just a means of keeping secrets during the mission. In private, we all call each other by their first names."

"So I can't stop you from going to the Water Kingdom to die again?"

Ye Shan felt a little annoyed. He wanted to take out a cigarette and light one for himself, but he realized that this action was disrespectful to Shancheng Chen, so he forced himself to hold back.

"What is the Ninja Way, Lady Tsunade?"

Tsunade frowned at the unexpected question. She didn't want to answer such a boring question, but in order to prevent Ye Shan from going to die, she thought about it and said, "I don't have the so-called ninja way, but my best friend believes that a ninja is someone who can endure everything and make changes. I want to give this sentence to you."

A little impatience will ruin a great plan. If you keep the green mountains, you will not be short of firewood. A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. These are the things Tsunade wanted to express.

Ye Shan closed his eyes, took out a kunai from the ninja tool bag behind his waist with his right hand, felt the coolness of the sharp blade passing over his fingertips, and remained silent for a long time.

"Do you know my origins?"

Honorifics are useless and seem very impolite.

"Of course I've heard some of it. After all, you're considered a prominent figure in the village."

"Hakumo Yeshan, 20 years old, a Konoha jonin, born in a civilian ninja family, skilled in lightning escape, fire escape, and earth escape. He studied under Hatake Sakumo's school and is now affiliated with the Uchiha clan."

Ye Shan opened his eyes and stared down at the kunai. The smooth and black ninja tool reflected his face, which was very ordinary, not ugly but not handsome either.

"You were born noble while I was born ordinary. You had a carefree childhood while I was exhausted. You were in a high position while I was low as dust. You had abundant cultivation resources while I had nothing. You were successful and famous while I was like a rat crossing the street."

"Tsunade, I am not saying this to lament my humble origins, nor am I lamenting my current unhappy life."

"What I want to say is that, from childhood to adulthood, all the people like me who don't have their own principles are dead."

"I don't know what other people's ninja ways are, and I don't want to know. For me, even if this world is destroyed today, it doesn't matter."

"Ever since I survived on the battlefield for more than two years, the village's high-ranking officials have always regarded me as a thorn in their side. At that time, I was just a small Chunin."

"I have been confused, struggled, depressed, and tried desperately to change everything, but in the end, nothing has changed."

"The war has caused me to lose my biological father, my mother is still bedridden, and I have lost the basic joy of being a human being. The first thing I do every day when I open my eyes is to pray to God and thank God for letting me survive another day."

"Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzo forced my teacher, Hatake Sakumo, to death and even plotted to take his body. I had no choice but to take up arms and kill several ninjas in the village, who are your so-called companions."

"But in the end, my mentor's son did not choose me, but chose to join the Hokage line."

"I don't blame Kakashi, I just feel a little guilty. He was so young, but he had already learned to compromise and to survive. I feel sorry for my teacher, Hatake Sakumo, and I feel sorry for Kakashi who took a thief as his father."

Having said that, Ye Shan shook his right hand, and the kunai shot out like a cannonball, nailing straight into the reef, and in the process piercing through the body of a crab that was crawling towards Yamashiro Chen with its fangs and claws bared, killing it.

"As a ninja, I am an utter failure. In my long ninja career, I seem to have never been firmly chosen. Hatake Sakumo, Sarutobi Hiruzen, and Hatake Kakashi, none of them firmly chose me."

"The words of a loser are pale and powerless, so I can only choose to shut up and watch all this silently."

"But losers also have bottom lines and principles. If someone treats me well, I will return five points of kindness. If someone resents me, I will repay them tenfold!"

"A ninja is just an ordinary person who has mastered extraordinary powers. There is no need to shout about lofty principles all day long. This will only make people sick."

"Repaying kindness with kindness and repaying evil with evil is my principle, and it is my way of ninja!"

Tsunade pursed her plump lips, and after a long pause, she said, "But Yamashiro Tatsuo saved you, not to let you die!"

Ye Shan's body began to tremble, and under Tsunade's strange gaze, he couldn't help but burst into laughter.

"Hahahaha, so you high and mighty people actually know nothing. You are just paper tigers. You are so majestic at ordinary times, but when something big happens, you hesitate to move forward."

"I've heard that Lady Tsunade is afraid of fighting and death because her lover died on the battlefield. Is that true or not?"

"But listen carefully. I, Baiyun Yeshan, will not be a paper tiger. I will be a lone wolf. Even if I lose everything, even my youth and vitality, I will still bare my teeth in front of the enemy and launch a full-strength attack."

"In this life, one should drink big bowls of wine and eat big chunks of meat, live brilliantly, and die gloriously."

"Since Shancheng Chen chose me, I must avenge him and vent his anger. Otherwise, he would be saving an ungrateful person and a waste."

Ye Shanwu pulled out a dagger and cut his left arm. He dipped his right hand in the flowing blood and wiped it across his eye sockets from left to right.

Three bloody marks appeared on his face, representing a fight to the death!

To repay evil with kindness is what a gentleman does, but Ye Shan is a complete and utter jerk and has never been a gentleman.

He wanted to let those Mist Ninjas understand how terrifying it was for a ninja to lose everything!