Hankuang's Slick Moves, Hiruzen Sarutobi Has No Shame!

Kakashi's concern was not lost on Hankuang.

"For the sake of the village, what does it matter if my information gets leaked?" Hankuang said righteously.

Of course, only he knew what he was really thinking.

Just as Kakashi had feared.

The moment Team 9 left, Kenjiro immediately packaged up and sold all of Hankuang's information to the Stone Ninja.

He even got a pretty good price for it.

After sending off several Stone Ninja spies, Kenjiro "crouched" behind the front desk and sighed gloomily.

"Sigh~~ Hankuang, I had no choice. After all, selling information is what I do..."

After lamenting, he stared across the street and began supervising the work from afar.

Several hired ninjas were clearing the ruins, preparing to build a new inn.

Chapter 28: Hankuang's Slick Moves, Hiruzen Sarutobi Has No Shame!

After leaving the Land of Grass, Team 9 entered the Land of Fire and began their journey back to the village.

Along the way.

Bored with traveling, Obito started chatting.

"This mission was completed so easily. Looks like B-rank missions are nothing special!"

His words successfully caught the others' attention.

"Obito, Hankuang was the one who mainly completed this mission. It seems to have had nothing to do with you." Rin reminded him at the right moment.

"Really?" Obito scratched his head, feeling that he had contributed too.

After all, without him, Team 9 would not have been complete.

"The main reason this mission went smoothly was that Hankuang killed that Special Jonin." Kakashi pointed out the key.

He continued, "That made the other ninjas wary of our team. That was the main reason."

After hearing Kakashi's explanation, Hankuang agreed.

He had killed that Special Jonin precisely to intimidate the other ninjas.

Otherwise, the team would definitely have faced countless disturbances.

Night fell.

Beside the campfire.

"Kakashi, you write the report for this mission." Hankuang tossed the paper and pen to Kakashi.

Kakashi was a little confused.

You're the team captain, Hankuang. Why are you asking me to write the report?

"Wouldn't that be inappropriate?" Kakashi refused tactfully.

"How would it be inappropriate? I now appoint you acting captain of Team 9. You can write the report." Hankuang directly handed over his authority.

"Wait!"

Obito's eyes lit up as he stared fixedly at Hankuang.

"I can write it! Let me be acting captain."

To be honest, Obito had coveted this position for a long time. Now that he had the chance, he was ready to seize it.

"Get lost." Hankuang looked at him with disdain.

"Hankuang, I'm cutting ties with you!"

In the end.

Kakashi wrote it.

He carefully recalled everything that had happened and wrote two full pages of mission report.

After finishing, he handed it to Hankuang.

"This much?"

Hankuang frowned as he looked at the contents on the paper.

Then he tossed it into the fire.

"Hey! Why did you burn it?" Kakashi could not understand.

His mission report had recorded everything in detail, with one hundred percent accuracy. Why had Hankuang burned the whole thing after looking at only one page?

Seeing this, Obito curled his lips. "I told you to let me be acting captain. I'm best at writing essays."

Obito applied for the position again, but nobody paid him any attention.

Next.

Kakashi began writing a second mission report.

As he wrote, he thought it over carefully.

This time, he skipped over some of Hankuang's combat details and reduced the report to a single page.

But after he handed it to Hankuang, the other man tossed it into the fire again.

"You burned it again?" Kakashi was getting angry.

"Too many words." Hankuang spoke calmly.

Kakashi swore that he would write one last report. If it still was not acceptable, he would stop writing.

And so.

He wrote the mission report a third time.

This time, he skipped the entire process and wrote only the result.

It was only one line long!

It had gone from two pages at the beginning to a single line now.

[Team 9 acquired intelligence on the Stone Ninja border from Kenjiro.]

That was the entirety of the mission report.

Hankuang took the concise report and considered it carefully.

Then he used the pen to add a line beneath it.

[Intelligence value: 500,000 ryo!]

Kakashi was dumbfounded by Hankuang's slick move.

Even Obito and Rin were stunned.

What was this supposed to be?

Skimming the village's wool in reverse?

They remembered clearly that after killing the Special Jonin, Hankuang had found more than one hundred thousand ryo on him.

And now he wanted to fleece the village of another five hundred thousand ryo?

"This... You can write mission reports like this?" Obito was utterly impressed by Hankuang.

"Isn't this a little inappropriate~~" Rin was somewhat worried, though also a little awestruck.

"You're too clever." Kakashi managed to get the words out.

Hankuang looked relaxed, without the slightest pressure.

He glanced over his teammates and said with a smile, "Afterward, each of you gets 50,000 ryo as hush money."

The next evening.

The team returned to the village.

As acting captain, Kakashi went to the Hokage's Office to turn in the mission.

Hankuang, Obito, and Rin waited at Training Ground No. 4.

After all, they still had to split the money later.

Sitting on the familiar rock, Hankuang opened the Attribute Panel.

Constitution: 288 (144*2) [Super

"Today's doubled attribute is physique. No wonder I've been unusually energetic today."

At first, this had been a pleasant surprise, but by now, he no longer found it surprising.

Hokage's Office.

After reading the concise mission report, Hiruzen Sarutobi's mouth twitched.