"Click~"
Lin Ke returned home to find a sheet of paper and a scroll sitting on his table. He casually glanced at them.
He first cast a Clone Technique, ready to lose his head at any moment, before walking over. He knocked on the window, then opened it.
The two Anbu who had been openly following and protecting him from the rooftop diagonally opposite, while refraining from prying into his life, instantly entered the room.
Lin Ke retreated outside. After inspecting the table, the letter, and the scroll, the Anbu turned and nodded at him, indicating that there was no problem.
Only then did he enter. The note contained neither a name nor a reason, merely a time and place for a meeting.
When he opened the scroll, his heartbeat skipped half a beat. Inside was the Sealing Jutsu that had been rejected when he applied for ninjutsu last time—
One of the more powerful A-rank Sealing Jutsu: the Five Elements Sealing.
So I finally have some value worth exploiting.
After taking a deep breath, Lin Ke calmed down. Whether the scroll came from Orochimaru or Danzo—he was certain it had to be one of those two—he could not simply take it and learn it, nor could he try to play along with those two old schemers.
He was no match for them.
And what if the scroll was fake?
"Please hand this over to the Third Hokage." Suppressing the desire in his heart, he handed the note and scroll to the Anbu and spoke calmly.
"Yes." The Anbu accepted the note and scroll, then vanished instantly with his companion.
The curtains by the window fluttered in the gust stirred up by their speeding bodies, leaving Lin Ke alone in the apartment once more.
"Click~" He shut the window again,