"Sensei, are you sure you're not joking?" At last, Haku carefully asked.
Haku's reaction was understandable. What Soji had said was simply too outrageous!
It could be said that if there had been even the slightest chance of accomplishing it, he would not have asked such a question.
"Yeah, yeah, Sensei, we'd get beaten to death, wouldn't we?" Even Yota, who had always feared neither heaven nor earth, lowered his voice at this moment.
"Sensei, if you want us to complete this mission, all we can say is that we'll do our best!" Kimimaro, who had been silent for a long time, spoke without any confidence either.
They could only hope that their teacher was joking with them, or that the other four great ninja villages would not stoop to arguing with three children because of their age.
Otherwise, their teacher would be burning paper money for them next year...
Seeing the three little ones looking worried, nervous, and utterly hopeless, Soji's tightly drawn face finally broke into laughter.
For Soji, teasing his three young disciples was quite fun sometimes!
"Alright, I wasn't actually joking with you, but I hadn't finished what I was saying. What I want each of you to defeat isn't an entire village, but a Ninja Academy!" Soji laughed as he revealed the rest of what he had left unsaid.
"Ninja Academy? ×3" The three little ones echoed in confusion.
"That's right! The Ninja Academies of the other four great ninja villages! Your graduation training mission will be for each of you to defeat one Ninja Academy alone!" This time, Soji was not joking in the slightest.
Because this was the graduation training mission Soji had arranged for them.
At the same time, having the three little ones complete such a graduation training mission was also