Only after answering Yuto's question did Xingzhuo turn to Lingyin and say indifferently:
"As long as we figure out what's unusual about this mission, that'll be enough. We don't necessarily have to complete it. This is an assessment, after all, and the assessment matters more than whether the mission itself gets done."
Though he said that, he added silently:
Compared to this so-called B-Rank Mission and assessment, his system-assigned mission mattered more.
After all, it was an S-Rank system-assigned mission. Just Konan alone had given him a Pseudo-Immortal Body. If he got another Kage Level Naruto, he really would become immortal.
He glanced at Yuto, who looked dazed after having his worldview turned upside down as well, and sighed inwardly, apologizing to him.
Then he gave him a comforting hug.
He knew he shouldn't have let Yuto learn the truth of the Ninja World so early. At the very least, he should have waited until he was older and better able to handle it.
But that was how things were, and the timing just now had been perfect. He could only make his little friend suffer a bit.
Not far away, two unexpected people had been watching the entire time as the three young Konoha Ninja carried out their mission.
They were Uzumaki Mito and Senju Tobirama's Shadow Clones.
As Mito's most beloved younger son, Yuto had never stopped worrying her. Though she hadn't tried to stop him from going on missions, she had insisted on coming along with her brother-in-law to keep an eye on him.
As for Senju Tobirama, he had made ten Shadow Clones, which had been trailing every assessment team and using the Water Mirror Telescope Technique to observe their performance in real time.
If any team got into danger, he could instantly teleport over using