As Mirai spoke with the girl, Yamaguchi was stunned. "How is this possible? Did he open his eyes in the back?!"
Naraku and his two little companions were equally shocked. They had never expected that, in such a remote place, the boy they had casually rescued—who had seemed completely ordinary—would turn out to be a ninja.
They were far from the ninja regions. Not only was the terrain poor and resources scarce, but the population was sparse as well. Even making a living, they could barely keep themselves fed and clothed. As for the number of ninjas, compared to a country like Tea, which had virtually no military preparations, there were even fewer here—so few that no one knew the exact number.
Moreover, no country was willing to develop this place. After all, what difference was a poor region without mineral resources from a salted fish?
Because of this, within a hundred-mile radius, there were only five villages and three small towns, with fewer than twenty ninjas in total. Those twenty were either fugitives or people weary of fighting, who had come to this poor region where there were no ninjas.
However, precisely because they were fugitives or tired of battle, they were extremely strong. Even the weakest among them was probably at the level of a mid-ranking ninja. There might even be two people like Naraku. Although Mountain Dog Tongmu was not among the three strongest ninjas within a hundred miles, he was still one of the top five experts, and his strength was at the elite ninja level.
That was why they were immediately astonished to see Mirai so casually take control of Mountain Dog Tongmu's scheme. They had never imagined that someone they had rescued on a whim would be so formidable.
At that moment, Mountain Dog