"Huh? We're starting with our fathers?"
Hearing Shikamaru Nara's words and seeing the obvious seriousness on his face, Ino Yamanaka and Akimichi Choji blinked, speaking with considerable surprise.
Why did it feel like...
Even though Shikamaru had put on a serious face, he was still trying to brush them off? For some reason, that thought arose in their hearts.
"Yes."
Shikamaru Nara answered with certainty.
These two are doubting me...
Ah! What a pain.
That was the thought that flashed through his mind.
The three of them had practically grown up together. Especially when it came to Choji, although he was not particularly good at reading people, Shikamaru was intimately familiar with the expressions of his two close friends. At this moment, neither of them showed any especially obvious expression, but he could still see something on their faces.
The two of them clearly thought he was brushing them off again.
"But neither Teacher Asuma nor our fathers gave us any information about this person. You said yourself that this person might be a rogue ninja, or a dead rogue ninja. There must be some reason why information about him can't be spread around, right? Then we probably won't be able to learn anything from Teacher Asuma or our fathers."
At that moment, Akimichi Choji, who usually disliked thinking and did not seem especially bright either, was unexpectedly sharp and hit the heart of the matter in a single sentence.
That was right. This was the key.
If things were as Shikamaru had speculated, then even if they went home and asked their elders, they would not be able to find the answer.
Or rather, obtain any useful information.
Judging from his father's earlier reaction, as well as the way Teacher Asuma had stopped himself from speaking, this Strongest Ninja