The Forbidden Body Activation Technique Scroll... was gone!
Gone?
Impossible!
He'd checked it when he took it off earlier!
So someone had stolen it?
Who?
Who had stolen it?!
Might Duy?
But he'd been in Shennong's sight the whole time. There hadn't been any chance for him to touch Shennong's clothes!
Then was it Might Guy?
Shennong recalled Guy hanging his clothes on the rack earlier. He was sure Guy hadn't done anything suspicious. Besides, Guy was wearing a tight green battle suit and hadn't even tied on a Ninja Tool Pouch. There was nowhere on him to hide a scroll!
Then who else could it be?
Wait, could it have been Gekko Hayate?
Shennong's face darkened. Thinking it over, he'd only taken off his clothes because Gekko Hayate had splashed boiling water on him!
But Gekko Hayate had already left before Shennong took off his clothes.
Even if Gekko Hayate had come back, how could he have stolen the scroll without Shennong noticing?
Shennong had surely let his attention wander at some point, but even so, stealing the scroll from the entryway without a sound would have required an Elite Jonin to do it in person!
Was Gekko Hayate an Elite Jonin?
Don't make me laugh!
Shennong wouldn't believe for a second that the kid who claimed to be only five years old was an Elite Jonin!
And there was one even more important point: aside from Shennong himself, nobody in the entire Shinobi World knew about the Forbidden Body Activation Technique Scroll he kept close to his chest. Whoever had stolen it, where had they gotten their information?
Wait, could it have been the Shencao Izakaya?
Every time Shennong returned to the Shencao Izakaya from Might Duy's home, he immediately recorded Might Duy's data on the scroll. If