However, as Ueno Kei saw it, that possibility was vanishingly small.
After all, the money required to hire a jonin was already an enormous sum, and this was merely to wipe out a clan on the same level as their own. As far as the intelligence showed, the Wagarashi Clan could not possibly have hired two jonin.
The Wagarashi Clan was not some major clan, and it was in a country like the Land of Tea besides.
Hiring one jonin should already have been their limit.
Ueno Kei carefully avoided the Wagarashi Clan's night patrols and silently arrived outside the wall at the southwest corner. Earlier, he had already observed the general layout of the Wagarashi Clan from higher ground.
However, because mountains separated the area, he could not see the whole picture. That was perfectly normal; no clan head would be stupid enough to expose the entire clan residence on flat ground.
Still, even if he could only see the front courtyard near the main gate, it was enough.
Aside from the night patrols, there were also lookouts stationed on the tall arrow towers. The southwest corner was the place Ueno Kei estimated would be easiest to infiltrate.
"One, two, three... six patrol teams in total, huh. On the arrow towers, about four people or so. Factoring in the other guards, and the Mist Ninja... mm."
Ueno Kei stuck two explosive tags to a shadowed spot at the foot of the wall, drew the wires, and prepared them for detonation. After all, there were other ninja inside; it was not impossible he would be discovered. Besides, from the area Ueno Kei could see and what he had guessed, there was probably only one exit, the front courtyard gate. The area connected to the rear courtyard had to be high