The rest was rather uneventful.
To prevent the escort mission from going the way it had in the novel, with someone looking down on them and making things unpleasant enough to delay the mission, Xingzhuo had deliberately put on a flashy entrance.
But he'd overdone it, and the Fuma Clan now looked at them strangely. There was some admiration for their strength, but mostly they seemed to regard them as a curiosity.
They even privately speculated about whether Konoha was really so powerful that it could send three children with the strength of jonin.
It was hard to say.
Konoha had only just been founded, and it had no shortage of elites and geniuses. Even the Genius Class, where students received a formal theoretical education, had more than a dozen underage jonin.
Xingzhuo had also heard from his teacher Tobirama that there were ten times as many young jonin who no longer needed theoretical education as there were in the Genius Class.
He didn't know why the original story had never mentioned this, but he had a rough guess.
Perhaps after Senju Hashirama, the First, died, the First Shinobi World War—launched by the other four ninja villages—had wiped out most of Konoha's reserves in one fell swoop.
That would explain how, by the Second Shinobi World War, Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru had made names for themselves after becoming jonin.
It showed that Konoha really didn't have many geniuses left by then.
It seemed that the only other one who'd made a name for himself, Hatake Sakumo, had also been hounded to death by rumors.
It was utterly ridiculous.
That day, after showing off their strength, the three of them suddenly gained a lot more privileges.
Since the escort mission hadn't officially begun yet, they were given a luxurious courtyard and