This way, I could see more clearly.
Naruto thought to himself.
Perhaps because he had directly obtained the Mangekyō Sharingan, Naruto had yet to learn how to revert the Mangekyō Sharingan into an ordinary Sharingan.
The moment he opened his eyes, they were already Mangekyō Sharingan.
The Mangekyō Sharingan greatly enhanced Naruto's dynamic vision, making everything he observed far clearer.
Yet no matter how closely he looked, he found the village to be nothing more than an ordinary village.
Then, Naruto began discreetly observing the villagers passing by him.
"Huh?"
Naruto noticed that the villagers' walking postures were strange, but he could not tell what exactly was strange about them.
"They seem to be walking normally..."
No matter how hard he racked his brain, he could not figure out what was wrong.
Naruto became fixated on it. He felt that this was important, perhaps closely tied to the truth behind this village.
"Naruto, Sasuke should be back by now. Let's go back first."
After circling the village twice without finding anything, the two could only helplessly return to the village chief's home.
When they arrived at the place the village chief had arranged for them, Sasuke was already sitting on the bed, waiting.
"Sasuke, did you find anything?" Sakura asked.
Sasuke's thoughtful expression as he sat on the bed made Sakura think he had discovered something.
"No." Sasuke shook his head. "I was stopped before I could enter the back mountain."
"You were stopped?"
Naruto was quite surprised. Sasuke had been stopped last time, so he should have been especially careful this time and not been caught so easily.
"And the person who stopped me was the same one as last time."
He had raised his guard to the highest level, but in the blink of an eye—just one blink—that