End of Mission

"You want to know?"

Ryosuke looked at Ino with a smile.

"Ryosuke, do you know?"

Ino nodded and looked at him.

Ryosuke said, "I checked before I left."

Of course he didn't check as that wasn't appropriate. He used his Byakugan.

Through Byakugan's perspective, he saw the things contained in the boxes on the carriage.

Ino softly asked, "What is it?"

Seeing her appearance, Ryosuke laughed and said, "It's okay. They can't hear us talk, so there is no need to sneak around."

Ino said, "Ah? Is that so."

Ino blushed a bit, then looked at the caravan's own guards.

She found that they really didn't seem to have heard the conversation between herself and Ryosuke.

Ryosuke said, "It's just a little genjutsu."

In terms of genjutsu, Ryosuke is undoubtedly number one in this world.

Against just some ordinary people, he doesn't need to be serious.

He just confused their five senses casually.

"Amazing!"

Ino looked at him adoringly, which made Ryosuke very happy.

Who can resist the adoration of a beautiful girl?

Ryosuke said, "Actually, the boxes on these carriages are all empty."

"Huh? Empty?!"

Ino asked in surprise, "How? Why are they shipping a bunch of empty boxes?"

She couldn't figure it out. The reward for B-rank missions are not low.

A caravan shouldn't pay such a large sum of money for transporting a bunch of empty boxes, right?

That doesn't make any sense.

"Of course they're not going to pay us to escort a bunch of empty boxes."

Ryosuke said, and pointed to a carriage behind.

The owner of the caravan, a chubby middle-aged man was sitting inside.

Ryosuke said, "Have you met the caravan boss?"

Ino nodded.

"What he wants to escort is on him."

Ryosuke said, "I don't know exactly what it is, but it's in his bag."

Ino angrily said, "What! Why didn't this guy say it directly at the beginning?"

In this case, if there is a robbery, wouldn't they have to protect a bunch of empty boxes?

In contrast, if the target of protection is only one person, isn't that much simpler?

No wonder Ino was angry.

Ino said, "Fortunately, Ryosuke, you found out early on. Otherwise we would all have been kept in the dark."

Hearing this, Ryosuke rubbed her head with a smile.

In fact, Shikamaru probably found out about this a long time ago.

After all, the weight of an empty box and the weight of a full box are two completely different things.

This point can be seen from the marks left by the carriages..

Shikamaru is smart and it's impossible for him to not discover this kind of thing.

The second day after leaving Konoha

The caravan continued to set off after resting overnight. Team 10 was still protecting the back and forth.

At noon, the caravan was attacked by some bandits.

There were about 20 or 30 bandits in total, and the guards of the caravan were all frightened.

But there was no need for Ryosuke to remind team 10 at all. Shikamaru and the three of them could easily deal with this.

After solving these bandits, the caravan continued on the road.

It's just that the road was not as peaceful as yesterday.

As Ryosuke said to Ino yesterday, when the caravan is far away from Konoha, the attacks they will encounter will continue to increase.

Now, it's just bandits so it's not a big deal.

When team 10 meets those rebels later, their strength will be tested.

On this day, the caravan encountered a total of three attacks.

Bandits were responsible for the first two attacks.

But the last time, two rebels had attacked the caravan.

Fortunately, their strength was only equivalent to top level Genins of Konoha.

Shikamaru and the others cooperated and easily solved the two rebels.

The caravan arrived at the next town smoothly for rest.

On the third day, the caravan was on the road again.

Attacks continued to be faced on the road.

With such a large caravan, it was hard not to attract the attention of bandits, and even rebels.

So at the end of the day, they encountered five more attacks.

This time there were fewer bandits, only two groups of bandits came.

On the contrary, the number of attacks by rebels began to increase.

They encountered three waves attacks from rebels.

Fortunately, they were not strong enough. Shikamaru and the others could deal with it by themselves.

There was no need for Ryosuke to make a move.

On the fourth day, the journey was almost over.

Unexpectedly, this day turned out to be calm and there was no attack at all.

Shikamaru and the others felt a little uncomfortable.

After all, the previous two days were full of various attacks.

It's just weird.

Ryosuke was not surprised and he just went on his way with peace of mind.

At the end of the day, under the deliberate speeding up of Ryosuke and the others, they walked for almost a day and a half, and arrived at another small town to rest.

The Land of Fire has many plains and fertile land.

Therefore, the population is also large, and the number of domestic mineral deposits is large.

Thus, many small towns have emerged because of some local minerals.

If you zoom in on the map of the Land of Fire, you will find that the Land of Fire has the largest number of cities and towns among the five great countries.

Even!

It's several times more than the second place.

There are towns of all kinds, large and small all over the Land of Fire.

Therefore, the caravan didn't have to sleep in the wild.

But!

This is also because the route they took was planned and they did not deliberately choose roads that did not pass through these towns.

Otherwise, they would really have to spend the night in the wild.

It is normal for ninjas to spend the night in the wild during their missions.

But if there is a choice, who wouldn't like to sleep comfortably?

Somewhere in the Land of Iron

"How about it?"

"It's been confirmed. The target will arrive in the Land of Iron in two days. We will lay an ambush here then."

"Very well, then wait another two days."

Teams of ninjas were hidden in various parts of the mountains and forests.

These people are all teams sent by the three great hidden villages.

This time, Sunagakure, Iwagakure and Kumogakure, the three great hidden villages had joined forces to kill Ryosuke.

At this time, there are thousands of ninjas hidden here and all of them are elite.

The weakest among them is a Chūnin.

The number of Jōnin is more than three or four hundred.

Unless the Great Ninja War broke out, it would be impossible to gather so many elite ninjas to form a team.

They were even targeting one person.

It could be seen that the three great hidden villages attached great importance to Ryosuke.

On Iwagakure's side, the leader was Onoki's son Kitsuchi.

Kitsuchi is an Elite Jōnin, and his strength has even reached the quasi-Kage level.

He is extremely strong, and he is the second strongest person in Iwagakure besides Onoki.

On Sunagakure's side, the person leading the team is Chiyo.

After all, Sunagakure is too weak right now. If the veteran Kage-level powerhouse Chiyo didn't come, Sunagakure would appear too weak among the coalition forces.

At that time, people from the other two villages will inevitably think that Sunagakure has no sincerity.

Therefore, Chiyo came here in person, and brought half of the Jōnins in the village with her.

But!

In contrast, Kumogakure were giving this mission the most importance.

Kumogakure sent the most ninjas, and they even sent Eight Tails Jinchūriki and Two Tails Jinchūriki.

Killer Bee is the leader Kumogakure's team this time.

Although the Fourth Raikage did not come, his brother had come.

This was enough to show that Kumogakure was absolutely determined to kill Ryosuke.

After all, even the two Jinchūrikis were sent.

In contrast, neither Sunagakure nor Iwagakure sent their respective Jinchūrikis.

Sunagakure didn't send Gaara here because Gaara was not comfortable with using the power of the tailed beast unless he uses the feigning sleep technique.

And he himself is a little weak as he is still young.

And once One Tail gets out of control, it will probably attack Sunagakure before Ryosuke.

So, Sunagakure did not send Gaara.

As for Iwagakure?

That's even simpler. t's simply that the old purple man is not in the village at all.

Even if Ohnoki is Third Tsuchikage, his words don't work when it comes to Lao Zi's matter!

Old Zi doesn't listen to him at all, what can I do?

The eighth day after leaving Konoha.

The caravan escorted by team 10 finally entered the territory of the Land of Iron.

When they arrived here, they were only half a day away from their destination.

And the last half-day journey was quite quiet.

They escorted the caravan to the target point very smoothly.

"You guys have worked hard on this journey. This is a little care from me. I hope the four of you will not refuse."

The owner of the caravan smiled and handed over a few gifts to Ryosuke and the others.

"Take it."

Shikamaru and the others looked at Ryosuke, and only accepted the other party's gift after the latter nodded in agreement.

After saying goodbye to this cunning caravan boss, Ryosuke and the others also turned around and walked out of the town, while opening the gift that guy gave them.

"Wow~! It's explosive tags, a total of sixty pieces."

Ino looked at the stack of explosive tags in the box. The price of this thing is not cheap, and it costs 600 ryo in Konoha.

In some other places, they even 100 ryo per piece or even more.

The price in Konoha was relatively cheap.

But even so, the value of sixty explosive tags reached 36,000 ryo.

This is more than the remuneration for a few D-rank missions.

And!

The gifts Shikamaru and Chōji received were also sixty explosive tags, which together amounted to 108,000 ryo.

That middle-aged uncle who looks like a stingy man suddenly became so generous?

"Ryosuke, what gift did you get?"

After Ino looked at the gifts Shikamaru and the others received, she looked at Ryosuke and asked.

Actually, Shikamaru and Chōji were also curious.

They wanted to know what that middle-aged uncle had given to Ryosuke.

Ryosuke said, "Same as you, it's explosive tags, but there are three hundred of them."

Three hundred explosive tags cost 180,000 ryo.

Including Ino and the others, it's almost 300,000 ryo.

Ino asked with confusion, "Ryosuke, why do you think that uncle gave us so many extra gifts?"

"Shikamaru, what do you think?"

Ryosuke looked at Shikamaru and asked him.

Shikamaru said, "It should be to make amends."

"He deliberately concealed that the things to be escorted this time were actually on him, and those carriages with boxes were just a cover."

"He probably knew that we saw it, so out of guilt, or because he didn't want to offend Konoha, he gave such a gift of apology."

"Ah~! Is that so?"

Ino suddenly realized, and put away the explosive tags with a smile.

"Since it's a gift of apology, I will accept it!"

Ryosuke looked at the three of them with a smile.

Suddenly!

"These three kunai, you take them."

Ryosuke suddenly took out three special kunai and handed it ot them.

The reason why they are special is because these three kunais are all imprinted with his Flying Thunder God mark, and they are the improved Flying Thunder God mark of Ryosuke.

Direct remote activation, and then directly teleport the person holding the kunai to the location of another imprint.

It's a bit similar to the second-stage Flying Thunder God guide mine, but it's different.

It is a means of use that Ryosuke has only recently developed.