Konoha was located inland, while in a small coastal city far to the east—on the southeastern coast of the Fire Country's mainland, even farther south than the Wave Country—Wu Yu opened his eyes.
At his current level, it was no great difficulty for him to multitask, controlling both his projected body and his real body at once. But if there was no need to run two threads simultaneously, there was no reason to forcefully show off.
Mysterious Kaguya, hidden at his side, dispelled the Rinnegan's Chakra projection.
The black substance embedded in Wu Yu's Wood Style Necklace, as well as the identical substance on Tsunade's rabbit-head necklace with ruby gemstone eyes back in Konoha, severed their remote connection to Mysterious Kaguya's Chakra. The reason Wu Yu could project his body into the underground area of Konoha's Zero Training Ground was, naturally, because Tsunade's necklace served as a signal station. Otherwise, even Mysterious Kaguya could not have transported Wu Yu's projected body across half a continent. And even if she could, she would not be willing to waste that much Chakra.
"It's so hot—"
Karin's listless voice drifted in from outside.
Wu Yu pushed open the door and saw Karin slumped beneath a tree beside the pond in the quaint old-fashioned courtyard, holding the commission letter for this mission as she read it.
It was an A-rank mission commission.
According to the mission description, a series of bizarre deaths had occurred in this small coastal city over the past half month.
Wu Yu's task was to investigate the cause of those strange deaths and resolve the matter.
The city lord—or, in modern terms, the mayor—had issued two missions in total. Aside from the A-rank investigation mission accepted by Wu Yu's group, there was also a B-rank escort mission. On the very