Keep Going If You Dare!

Houka pondered under the moonlight. The intelligence had been sent back to Konoha from the Land of Fire's capital, and it had taken him no more than seven days to get here afterward!

Something must have happened during those seven days, causing all the Anbu he had sent to monitor the Guardian Ninja to disappear.

And the only ones capable of doing that were undoubtedly the Guardian Ninja themselves.

"Interesting."

Houka did not linger. He burrowed straight into the ground and left using Earth Release, but after making a circuit, he slipped up into a tree instead.

Before long, Kazuma arrived with several lackeys.

"Damn it, he already ran off?" Kazuma's face darkened.

"Kazuma, was that really a signal sent by Konoha's Anbu?" Ugly Lackey Number One beside him looked somewhat pale.

"Hmph, what are you scared of? Didn't we kill those Anbu too?" Kazuma snorted. "I just didn't expect Konoha's Anbu reinforcements to arrive so quickly."

"Kazuma, what do we do now? Do we continue with the plan and kill Asuma, Chiriku, and the others?" Ugly Lackey Number Two was quite bold. "Or should we eliminate the Anbu reinforcements first?"

Kazuma pondered for a moment, first giving his lackeys a meaningful look before sternly saying, "The Anbu are already on guard. If we spend time looking for him, we may draw even more Konoha Anbu here. So we proceed according to plan!"

"Understood!"

The ugly lackeys nodded, then swiftly vanished from where they stood.

Houka watched coldly. Based on their words, he instantly deduced Kazuma's plan: first, eliminate the Anbu surveillance; second, make a move on Asuma and the others. As for what came after... heh, now that Houka was here, would Kazuma and the rest even have an afterward?

What a joke.

Houka cautiously used the Chakra Sensory