There had to be someone like that?
Looking at his close friend Akimichi Choji's somewhat fierce-looking face, made so by his excessive seriousness, Shikamaru Nara and Ino Yamanaka exchanged glances, both with a trace of doubt flashing through their eyes.
Could there really be someone like that?
But if there really were, there should have been some legend left behind, like the Konoha White Fang, Kakashi Teacher's father.
Besides, according to Teacher Asuma, if this person truly was Konoha's Strongest Ninja, then it was impossible for him to have left nothing behind.
They had never heard of him at all.
At the same time, Shikamaru Nara recalled how, whenever his dad got drunk, he would occasionally mutter things about how it would be nice if certain formidable people were still around, venting his frustrations over the occasional shortage of manpower.
He had heard quite a few names of Konoha's former powerhouses, or those from his father's generation, but he had never heard of anyone who could be called Konoha's Strongest Ninja.
Not even the late Fourth Hokage.
Therefore, the person Asuma spoke of should not exist. After all, even judging from the information from his father's side, if that person truly was Konoha's Strongest Ninja, then even if his father never mentioned him, tales of him would surely have circulated through the village.
In his father's generation, both the Third Hokage and the Fourth Hokage were around. Someone who could surpass two Hokage and be called Konoha's Strongest Ninja could never have been an unknown nobody.
There had to have been earth-shaking deeds. And the deeds of someone who surpassed two Hokage—especially the Fourth Hokage, who had shone brilliantly during the Third Great Ninja War, risen rapidly, and even directly become Hokage—would certainly have been passed down.
Moreover, Teacher Asuma