The Third Shinobi World War had ended.
This was a fact every country had no choice but to acknowledge.
The massive losses of ninja during the war
meant that every country could only maintain squad-sized operations.
Large-scale conflicts would be difficult to wage for the time being.
Therefore...
Harassment, assassinations, raids...
All kinds of operations that crossed national borders became the strategy of every village.
Before the Shinobi World War,
when their forces had been sufficient,
each shinobi village could naturally lavishly dispatch large numbers of personnel to blockade its borders.
But with the sharp decline in the number of ninja available,
blocking the borders...
had become impossible.
This meant that every country could only protect some important areas.
The other villages, towns, plains, deserts, oceans...
could only let the enemy infiltrate them, with no way to stop it.
Of course, every country faced this disadvantage.
They could only dispatch their own personnel to harass the enemy.
And the enemy... would harass them in turn.
These meaningless small-scale conflicts could only be resolved after the villages recovered their strength and the next generation of ninja grew up to fill the positions of those lost in the past.
That morning,
Hyuga Sho first checked Yakushi Kabuto's progress in his studies, as usual.
Next, he went to the Torture Department's branch.
He tried to persuade Pakura.
As a third step, he arrived at the training room.
There, he sparred with Nohara Rin.
As for Gui...
After her injuries improved, she began running all over the Shinobi World again, gathering intelligence for her superior, Hyuga Sho.
To reward her,
Hyuga Sho would give Gui pointers from time to time.
Or he would use the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms to widen her meridians and promote the circulation of her blood, allowing her to better