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"Alright then!"
Tsunade nodded knowingly. "I'll start by fusing the Uchiha bloodline serum and unlocking the Sharingan first."
"I hope you succeed in your research soon!"
She wasn't about to hold off on injecting the Uchiha serum just for the sake of the Byakuran Eye. That would mean falling behind Orochimaru and the others, and that was absolutely not an option.
As for Jiraiya?
That guy still hadn't reached the required level of favorability toward Kaito, meaning he couldn't be contracted yet, and naturally, he wasn't able to enjoy these benefits.
If it weren't for Tsunade and Orochimaru stopping him, he might not even be in Konoha anymore.
After all, they'd been comrades for years, and neither Tsunade nor Orochimaru wanted to see Jiraiya get left behind. They hoped he would eventually be contracted by Kaito.
So, they had been forcefully keeping him in Konoha while constantly talking up Kaito's greatness, hoping to raise his favorability towards him.
They had practically exhausted themselves over this fool.
"I'll do my best," Kaito replied noncommittally.
"There is something you seem to have forgotten, Fourth Hokage!"
At that moment, Tobirama Senju spoke up, "We also need to focus on our operations in the pirate world!"
"The pirate faction is developing well, but it's time we increased our infiltration into the Navy!"
"I suggest you, Minato, and others find an opportunity to join the Navy, enter the elite training camp at Marine Headquarters, and become their top talents."
"Additionally, the Uchiha, Senju, and Uzumaki clans, as well as other contractors, should infiltrate the Marine Headquarters and its divisions across the four seas."
"That way, we can take control of the Navy in the future."
"We should also recruit as many Marine personnel as possible into our contract, effectively taking over the organization from within!"
"If possible, we should even try to infiltrate the World Government's military and CP organizations!"
"This will make it much easier to overthrow the World Government in the future and stabilize global affairs afterward. What do you think?"
"Uh..."
Kaito was a bit surprised by Tobirama's words. "That's a solid plan! We can definitely implement it."
"Actually, over the past few years, we've already sent people to infiltrate various factions and even royal families."
"And the number of infiltrators keeps increasing with each new contract!"
"However, I haven't attempted to use infiltration to gain control over the Navy and expand our influence because of Observation Haki."
"Let's go with your idea. Draft a detailed plan for me later—I'm sure you'll come up with a good one."
"As for infiltrating the World Government and CP organizations? Let's hold off on that for now."
"We still don't fully understand their methods, especially those of the Five Elders and Imu."
"We can't gamble on the chance that they won't discover our agents."
"Even with our emergency teleportation ability, which ensures our people's safety, we can't afford to take that risk!"
"The Space-Time gate may be nearly invincible in the Ninja and Pirate worlds, but that doesn't mean the World Government has no way to counter it."
"We can't take that chance."
Even if the probability of failure was one in ten million, Kaito didn't want to risk his people.
"That's true!"
Uzumaki Mito nodded in agreement. "We should avoid infiltrating the World Government and CP. If they discover our agents, even if we can teleport them to safety—"
"It will expose our entire infiltration plan to the World Government."
"Who knows what kind of purge they might initiate?"
"Given how the Celestial Dragons treat people like livestock, they would probably adopt a 'kill first, ask questions later' approach."
"That could lead to indiscriminate purges across the World Government, CP, and even the Navy."
"It's completely not worth the risk!"
"As long as we control the Navy, it doesn't really matter whether we infiltrate the World Government and CP, right?"
Even though most Celestial Dragons were idiots, some among them were quite sharp. In fact, the truly dangerous ones were simply hidden.
"No problem!"
Tobirama frowned slightly before nodding. "I didn't consider that. We'll drop the plan to infiltrate the World Government and CP."
"Instead, we'll focus on infiltrating the Navy and the more powerful kingdoms."
That should be enough.
Kaito had no objections. "I'll send a special Shadow clone to join the Navy soon."
"I've tested it—my advanced cloning technique can create Shadow Clones that are undetectable by Haki and other perception techniques, making them indistinguishable from real people."
"That way, I won't need to go personally, and we won't have to worry about being discovered."
"Soon, I'll teach this advanced technique with the hidden Chakra technique to all contractors. Try to master it as quickly as possible so we can execute the plan without risk."
"Until then, all of you—especially Minato—will have to join the Navy in person for a while under the Second Hokage's plan. Any issues with that?"
Kaito turned to Minato, Kushina, and Mikoto.
"No problem! We can still train while in the Navy. It'll just be a little inconvenient."
"I'll master the advanced Shadow Clone Technique as soon as possible! Fortunately, with the power boost from the Human-Human Fruit, the required time should be much shorter." Minato nodded firmly.
"I have no issues either! Hehe, I want to join the Navy with you, Kaito!" Kushina grinned.
"Same here!" Mikoto agreed.
"Perfect!"
Kaito nodded in satisfaction, then reminded them, "Once you're in the Navy, make sure not to use ninjutsu or chakra techniques to avoid exposing yourselves."
Chakra and ninjutsu were too unique. Since the Uchiha Pirates had already used them in public, if the Navy also started seeing the same techniques, they might connect the dots, exposing their plan.
"Of course! We're not that careless. You've warned us about this before, and we've always kept it in mind!" Kushina replied.
"Indeed." Minato and Mikoto nodded.
"Good!"
Kaito then used his Space-Time gate and contract runes to instantly transmit the advanced shadow clone technique to all contractors, saving himself a lot of time and effort.
This was one of his recent innovations in using the contract system.
It worked well.
He planned to use this method to distribute new techniques and important information to his contractors in the future.
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