Aftermath and Idle Chatter

Under Jiraiya and Tsunade's supervision, the cleanup work quickly got underway.

No matter how you looked at it, the attackers were all Konoha shinobi. Even if they would face trial and punishment after returning to the village, they still needed treatment now.

Besides.

Making the whole incident bigger would make it easier to force Danzo out of the Advisor Elder Council, but it would also weaken the authority of the village's upper echelons.

So after an urgent discussion, Jiraiya and Tsunade decided to do their best to cover things up and avoid making the incident look too ugly, lest the other villages laugh at them.

While Jiraiya and Tsunade were racking their brains over the aftermath, Shinji and the other students safely returned to the command headquarters under the escort of numerous Jonin.

Once they reached the base, everyone visibly relaxed and began asking questions all at once.

"Shinji, what exactly happened? Who were those attackers?"

"Yeah! How did you defeat them?"

"I heard there were dozens of them!"

Those who had gone to the scene and those who had not all gathered around, their faces filled with curiosity.

Yakumo, Neji, and the others were intrigued as well. Even Sasuke, who looked completely uninterested, subconsciously edged toward the crowd and pricked up his ears.

After the shock had passed, the four Ninja Academy prodigies had all replayed the battle in which Shinji was attacked in their minds.

They soon realized that if they had been in his place, even if they could have won, the scene would probably have been a complete mess.

Yet on Shinji's battlefield, there were only ninja tools scattered across the ground. The smell of smoke in the air was faint, and hardly any Explosive Tags seemed to have detonated. The terrain had not suffered excessive