After a long while, Nagato finally said, "These are only guesses. But from now on, focus on gathering information about Yeyu. We know far too little about him."
"No matter how strong he is, if he stands in the way of our gathering the Tailed Beasts, then even if he is a god, we must eliminate him."
No one spoke. Their expressions varied.
Kakashi, Neji, and the others led their teams back to Konoha.
Among the Konoha 12, aside from Naruto, who had not returned, everyone else had been promoted to Chunin in these Chunin Exams.
Although Sakura had not participated in these Chunin Exams, the Third Hokage promoted her to Jonin as well.
The Third Hokage had long wanted to promote Sakura to Jonin.
She was now the strongest in Medical Ninjutsu in the Konoha Medical Department aside from Tsunade.
She was also responsible for the department's day-to-day operations and even served as captain of a Medical Corps unit at Konoha Hospital.
In terms of strength, she had unquestionably reached Jonin level.
She had also frequently left the village with Kakashi and Sasuke to carry out missions.
She had accumulated more than enough missions as well.
It was only that he had previously felt Sakura was still rather young and her strength had not stood out enough.
So he had delayed promoting her to Jonin.
This time, he promoted her to Jonin as well.
Neji had performed exceptionally well this time and was directly appointed by the Third Hokage as captain of the Konoha Reconnaissance Corps.
He also concurrently served as one of the Hokage's guards.
Sasuke and Neji were both Hokage guards.
Yeyu, on the other hand, was not. This was the Third Hokage's arrangement.
Yeyu naturally had no need to become a Hokage guard.
In fact, the