Curiosity

Although Shinzhen's words sounded like pure sophistry, he was the duly appointed squad captain. Tenzō and Yukimura were Shinzhen's subordinates. During a mission, so long as they did not violate shinobi regulations or disobey Tsunade's orders, all actions should follow the commander's lead.

What Amegakure was like, who governed it, what flaws it had, and what shady dealings were going on there had little to do with the Anbu squad led by Shinzhen.

As long as there was no evidence proving that these abnormalities threatened Konoha, they could simply turn a blind eye.

Their mission, the three of them, was merely to gather information on Shigure, an Amegakure jonin.

As Anbu shinobi, doing extra things during a mission was not necessarily a problem. It only depended on how serious those matters were and whether they warranted the effort.

"Save some energy and prepare for the battlefield, Tenzō. No matter what problems lie inside, as long as they are our allies, they are not problems. Once the war is over, there will be plenty of time to settle accounts."

Ever since entering Amegakure, the abnormalities lurking everywhere had been plain for all to see.

The order here was clearly vastly different from that of other shinobi villages.

Villages where shinobi gathered were vastly different from ordinary civilian settlements, and their methods and styles of governance were naturally different as well.

Amegakure's architecture was more modernized, with many abstract, three-dimensional stone structures. Though this differed from Konoha, it was not particularly strange.

In rain-soaked Amegakure, wooden buildings—and even ordinary stone buildings—were unsuitable. Years of drizzle would quickly erode and decay them.

Under such circumstances, only a few exceptionally hard and corrosion-resistant types of stone could serve as building materials in Amegakure, making the village's structures much taller than those of other shinobi