The six Rain Ninja Jonin arrived near Mountain Hollow Village just before dawn.
A villager responsible for emptying the chamber pots came out of the mountain hollow and headed toward the compost heap. Ordinary villages naturally were not so particular about collectively disposing of chamber pots, but Mountain Hollow Village was inside a mountain hollow, so they had no choice but to be more careful about it.
The moment the night-soil collector dumped the waste, a chill suddenly ran through his entire body—
"Don't move." Jonin Yin Yan pressed a kunai to his neck from behind.
"I—I—" The night-soil collector was scared nearly senseless, but he immediately said, "W-wait! Our village has samurai and ninja protecting it. If I don't go back, they'll come looking for me right away! Y-you should leave quickly. I—I didn't see anything!"
Naturally, he had no idea that the Rain Ninja who had come this time were entirely different from before.
To ordinary people, a village guarded by samurai was still safe.
Especially since there were Konoha ninja in the village now—
"And ninja?" Yin Yan froze at those words.
He had already known that this village had samurai, which was why they had not touched it before.
A single samurai was nothing, but if they startled the enemy and exposed their tracks, it could delay important matters.
Thus, despite the disparity in strength, the mobile squad had still avoided such villages. There were plenty of undefended villages, after all!
But things were different now—
With six Jonin, how could they possibly let the samurai inside escape? They would not even get a chance to raise the alarm!
They had only happened to encounter someone coming out and questioned him. And as it turned out—
They had truly found an unexpected gain!
"Y-yes! Ninja from