In a forest, Shisui and the others were constantly weaving through the treetops, all three of them looking extremely grave, because this mission was A-rank!
This was already combat on a national level. At the very least, it would involve opponents at the Jonin level!
And to the three of them, this was no ordinary mission. It was a mission assigned by Shiro, and all three of them knew very well what that meant.
Since that Mystic Eyes incident, they had carried out several more missions assigned by Shiro and had more or less summed up some experience: their opponents were not the ninjas they were familiar with!
And this time, what they were fighting could not even be considered human. The solemn expression Shiro had worn when assigning the mission was still etched in their minds, and he had even advised them to give up the mission several times.
Unfortunately, how could the three kids, who knew part of the truth, possibly give up?
Elsewhere, Obito was engaged in an "intense" battle. His opponent was an elderly Chunin, around fifty years old in appearance, though the intelligence said he was only in his thirties.
There was only one possibility for this situation: this guy had experienced far too many battles and had severely overdrawn his own life force. Someone like him could be said to have nearly ruined himself on the path of the ninja.
Having overdrawn himself to this degree meant he basically had no future. That was one thing. The second was that, as a wandering ninja, he simply could not have gone through high-intensity battles, or even wars, as frequently as the ninjas of the great ninja villages.
They usually avoided that kind of fighting, typically choosing targets weaker than themselves, such as bandits, bandits, and