The Wicked Are Always Bested by the Wicked (Please Recommend, Bookmark, and Invest!)
To be honest, the Konoha Hundred Man Killer mission was difficult and easy at the same time.
That was simply because the place where Aoba currently lived was in the civilian district, where bratty children could be seen running wild everywhere.
Moreover, the brats in the civilian district were easier to deal with. The proportion of families there planning to send their children to the Ninja Academy was actually quite low, because becoming a ninja meant participating in war—and meant danger and death.
On top of that, the enormous cost of raising a ninja was something ordinary civilian families could not afford.
Unlike those ninja clans in Konoha, which had basically completed their children's preschool education before they entered the Ninja Academy, and might even teach them some clan-exclusive secret techniques.
That meant the civilian district had plenty of brats, abundant wildness, and surprisingly decent fighting ability!
They were truly the perfect targets for completing the mission!
But the problem was, what should he do if he beat someone's child and the parents came knocking?
He couldn't beat the parents too, could he?
Putting aside whether he could win, children brawling with one another was perfectly normal. No matter what, it wouldn't become a major issue.
But if he also beat the parents who came to argue with him, it would become a public-order problem. By then, Jonin Mikawa would probably drown him in spit, and he might even get a savage beating. That wouldn't do!
So after racking his brains, Aoba devised a plan: strike secretly and never get caught!
For that purpose, he deliberately spent time buying a mask, then performed some DIY work on it. After that, he personally trimmed a black robe for