Akaseki watched Sky Serpent Tanuki Treasure flee into the distance and could not help but breathe a slight sigh of relief—after about fifteen minutes, it should be able to relay the intelligence that "Ebizo was suspected to be active nearby" back to the recuperation station.
Minato was still trying to use the Thousand Worlds Awareness Technique to search for the enemy, but he had yet to find anything.
Even among sensory Jonin, Minato's sensory ninjutsu was considered quite good.
However...
Minato was only eleven years old!
At that age, most children had not even graduated from the Ninja Academy yet.
Sunagakure was one of the Five Great Ninja Villages. If it truly brought out its full strength, it would not be strange for it to send shinobi with stronger sensory abilities.
Ebizo himself was even renowned for his sensory abilities. If it really was him, surpassing Minato would be perfectly normal.
"Should we fall back first?" Claw asked Akaseki solemnly.
She was concerned about Shibi as well, but if the four of them were lost too, the recuperation station would become even more vulnerable. There were more than forty wounded there...
If it really was successfully ambushed, it would be Konoha's greatest loss since entering the war!
"Wait a little longer. If the enemy wanted to surround and kill us, they should have already cut off our retreat," Akaseki stressed.
Just then, Minato suddenly opened his eyes. "That's right! Behind us... there are other small puppets!"
For some reason, Minato could sense the small puppets again?
Akaseki was just about to ask, but after exchanging a glance with Minato, he changed his question. "Are they catching up to us, or lying in ambush?"
"They just arrived three kilometers away from us. They're lying in wait in the direction of Shen,"