—Third Person's POV—
"Oh and by the way, I might have a lead to where Kakashi might be." (Rimuru)
"Really!?" (Kabuto)
"Well, no. But a rat has finally fallen into my trap." (Rimuru)
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Rimuru had "borrowed" some members from a squad led by Accelerator.
She organized a trap for the presumed associates who are behind Kakashi's disappearance...
But to her dismay, all rats she has captured are dead.
"The fuck happened in here?" Darkly, she asks her current borrowed subordinates.
While kneeling, a root agent reporting in, "We captured the enemy with sleeping gas and the sealed room just like what you asked. One of them committed suicide and so we brought the two others here... We planned to threaten them for information and we even removed the poison pills they hid inside their mouth..."
"I already know that, this was my plan in the first place... What I want to know is what happened afterward." Even though her face was hidden by the white mask, everyone present could see the anger she radiated clearly just from her stern voice.
"O-one of them woke up earlier than we had predicted... And stole a blade from used to slit his friend's throat in order to stop them from giving us information... He also came after us afterward with the unknown weapon similar to a flintlock he pulled out and..." The agent who was making a report was then interrupted by someone.
"And I took care of it."
The voice does not have any signs of respect towards the superior in front of him.
The owner of that voice was a girl. Light brown pupils, violet hair styled in a short, spiky, fanned ponytail. Tan trenchcoat over her fishnet body suit from her neck to her thigh and a dark orange mini-skirt.
That currently 15 years old girl is Anko Mitarashi. A member of team Orochimaru in the past and currently serving under accelerator's order.
She was said to be a spy for Konoha despite Orochimaru dispatching Kabuto to the village too.
Even though in the original timeline she is not supposed to be on Orochimaru's side, this time due to the butterfly effect, is different.
"Is there something you'd like to say about it?" To say she doesn't have any respect for the current executive, Rimuru, was an understatement.
Accelerator may have told them to listen to anything the executive desired, but being told to sacrifice a comrade in order to catch some hostages!?
'The youngest executive of Root aside from Accelerator-sama... She's probably just a bitchy girl who can only tell others what to do.' that was what Anko is thinking right now.
"I see... No, not at all." Rimuru stated completely absorbing back the aura she emitted before.
And joyfully, she says, "You defeated some fearsome unyielding enemy, and protected your comrades... Anko-chan... Absolutely splendid. Without your powers, they won't be able to defeat such a powerful enemy on their own with a single blow..."
"Nothing less from a member of Root... Thanks to you, all the enemies we captured are dead." It somehow came up as sarcasm.
"The rats I worked so hard to keep alive... Now our clues to their information are gone." Rimuru ended it darkly.
Anko retorts, "Information you say? As if I would—"
Anko was not able to finish her words.
It wasn't because she stopped, but because a fist meet her jaw roughly.
*SMASH* *CRACK*
She was launched backward due to the attack.
"KUHHAK!! KUHAK-!" Her jaw is bleeding like hell.
"Did it look like I'm waiting for your excuse? Sorry to give you the wrong impression then..."
The masked girl turned back at the dead soldiers whilst ignoring the girl she just punched.
『Lust Ex』
*Ding*
《Conditions aren't fulfilled: "Victims have the will to live"》
"Tch, I can't even bring them back... They are even more suicidal than I am."
The agents around her just stared at her with three kinds of expressions; scared, confused, and wary.
But suddenly...
*Ding*
《Conditions fulfilled: "Victims have the will to live"》
Just then made Rimuru widened her eyes.
Well, even though she widened her eyes at the screen in front of her, the subordinates has other things that made their pupils narrow instead.
The scene of a soldier that they fought, suddenly breathe once more.
"Impossible..." One of the Root agents muttered lowly under his breath.
Rimuru slowly bends down to take two things from the ground.
One is a rusty lighter and... Another is a firearm.
Not the same flintlock guns that were currently popular among the criminals outside of shinobi villages.
It is the modern style resembling a revolver even though there are no more bullets inside the thing.
"I see now... Otherworlders, huh? How troublesome."
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[Root's headquarters, Otogakure]
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Kabuto Yakushi's POV—
"Hahaha! We finally won!"
"We've caught you!!"
"How is it! Do you admit defeat, Kabuto!!"
These are the voices of the orphan kids. Right after I came inside their room, they swarmed me as if we played the usual "Shinobi - interrogation".
On the floor, they sit and hold me down as they're shouting in victory, but then I threaten, "Ho~ it looks like I would need to show you the horror of a Shinobi!"
[2 minutes later]
"GAAAAAH!! STOPSTOPSTOPSTOP I'LL DIE! I'LL ACTUALLY DIE— BUHAHAHAHAHAHA"
All the kids are bound by their own blanket, immobilized.
And I am currently tickling the kid named Daisuke.
"Well, so you heed?"
"NEVER!!!"
[2 Minutes later]
"Kabuto-kun, Rimuru-san said she wanted to talk with you." After Daisuke admitted defeat to my 『Ninja Art: ticklish hell』, Mother told me that Rimuru is here.
And...
"Kabuto-kun, what you're going to hear is an S ranked confidential information." Rimuru stated these.
"Okay? Did Orochimaru-sama—"
"He'd given his permission."
Rimuru is unusually serious today...
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Otherworlders.
Just like their name, they came from another world.
Otherworlders can arrive in this world in three ways; Reincarnation, Space-rift between worlds, and... Summoning.
It's not really surprising to see an extraterrestrial life form in this world.
For example; Orochimaru-sama's snake summons is from the Ryuuchi cave. And not so much is known about them either...
But these ones are human terrestrial life forms.
According to Orochimaru-sama's research, they have lower Chakra reserve, or sometimes, they don't possess any chakra pathways and coils at all...
Their intelligence and abilities vary and sometimes powerful ones can appear.
"Huh? About how Orochimaru-san knows about this? Well, what do you think" (Rimuru)
"I'd say he met one in the past and... Oh dear, there are people from other worlds in our Organization...?" My eyes widened upon realizing that.
"Damn straight, the only one who managed to monopolize them too at that." (Rimuru)
"Huh!?" (Kabuto)
"Every Great villages has at least one. We sold a bit of information about them for a high prize to their village too. Though... Our otogakure, Rather... Root has at least 3 Otherworlders."
"Seriously!?"
"Seriously."
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"Speaking of 'otherworldly'... Rimuru are you perhaps..." (Kabuto)
"What do you think?" (Rimuru)
"...Were you reincarnated?" (Kabuto)
"Yup." (Rimuru)
"..." (Kabuto)
"What's wrong? Why are you silent?" (Rimuru)
"So you died." (Kabuto)
"Yup."(Rimuru)
"..." (Kabuto)
Why are you saying that so nonchalantly...
"You really desired death, huh?" I asked her.
"Yeah... I am."
"I see...
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"Well, does it mean our current enemies are otherworlders?"
"Yeah, they are... their organization's name is... Ashtrays"
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To be continued.