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In the park...
"Iruka, do you think that guy will show up again?"
"It's already been two days, and we haven't even seen his shadow."
As he waited quietly, Iruka said with a firm gaze, "He'll definitely show up! I carefully studied the whole sequence of events over the past two days and found that his objective was very clear. This wasn't a spur-of-the-moment decision. Furthermore, there were about ten days between his second and first attacks. That was enough to prove that he had not only come prepared, but was also extremely cautious."
After hearing Iruka's analysis, his two teammates both wore troubled expressions.
"No way. Are we really going to keep waiting like this? What if he's already given up?"
"Exactly. I still think waiting here for our prey to come to us is unreliable. Teacher Yūgao really is something, just leaving us here without a care."
Faced with his companions' lack of patience, Iruka also began to waver. He couldn't guarantee that his deduction was correct. Not only had they wasted two days for nothing, but they also had no idea when they would catch the culprit.
It was only a D-rank mission, yet they had already wasted so much time. It truly wasn't worth it.
Although the three of them had graduated from the Ninja Academy the previous year and become glorious Genin, more than a year had passed without them even reaching for Chunin, and they had barely completed any C-rank missions. Almost all of their assignments involved finding cats or catching dogs—D-rank missions. The mission they had taken to capture the "mysterious boy" was already considered fairly difficult among D-rank missions.
But a D-rank mission was still a D-rank mission, and it was only natural for them