So Close!

So perceptive!

I was almost discovered again!

The fox-masked man suddenly appeared on the branch of a lush tree in the woods outside the small cabin. Beneath his mask, his face had gone slightly pale.

Just now, he had been about to follow the target away from his original surveillance position. A single tiny movement had nearly been noticed by Taki Chiba. If he had not realized something was wrong and immediately used the Body Flicker Technique to hide, he would have been exposed by now.

Taki Chiba was actually this perceptive.

The fox-masked man was still shaken. If he had been discovered, he would undoubtedly have died.

"You got your life back."

At that moment, the cold voice sounded behind him again. The abrupt words made the fox-masked man's back stiffen, and he nearly trembled. But he was, after all, a trained ninja. Though startled and still unsettled, his outward appearance barely changed.

"Yes."

By the time he answered, he had already calmed his emotions and spoken with great composure.

Oh? After all these scares, this brat has grown a little? He should have been frightened just now. The curve of his back changed slightly, and it even stiffened. Yet in less than a second, by the time he replied, he had already regained his composure.

Perhaps there was a reason Lord Danzo promoted this brat exceptionally instead of following the standard procedure.

Does Lord Danzo favor him that much?

That was why he sent him here to carry out a mission an intern could never have undertaken.

Behind the fox-masked man, the tall, thin man wearing the same fox mask narrowed his eyes slightly. In them was reflected the fox-masked man below him, while countless suppressed thoughts flashed through his mind.

*So be it. Since it is Lord