Anker Bandian (Continued)

Shinnō was not nearly as formidable as Hinata had imagined, if one thought about it carefully.

As she pondered this, Hinata arrived at the Hokage's Office and naturally spotted a familiar stranger.

With him standing in the office, Hinata did not need to think much to know that he was Shinnō. After all, his attire was far too distinctive.

At this point, Hinata did not know Shinnō. Sakura, however, had learned something about him because she had been helping out at Konoha Hospital.

Naruto was the first ninja to come into contact with Shinnō, so he was naturally familiar with him as well.

Thus, Tsunade briefly introduced Shinnō to Hinata.

Afterward, she formally issued the mission orders to the three of them.

The three immediately acknowledged the order.

Then they set out without hesitation.

Yuliu had said the situation was extremely urgent, but in truth, aside from Yuliu herself,

everyone else had already formed their own guesses. They simply did not want to say them aloud.

From the time Yuliu's village had been attacked to the time she arrived in Konoha to ask for help,

it was already somewhat too late for anything to be done. After all, the distance from that village to Konoha could not possibly be covered in just a few hours.

So even if they hurried as fast as they could, nearly three days had already passed.

Given such a situation, Tsunade would naturally have preferred not to concern herself with it and instead focus her efforts on Konoha.

But Shinnō had helped them so much that she truly could not bring herself to do that. So she only sent Hinata and the other two.

She hoped they could go and assess the situation. If they could resolve it, they would.

If they could not, or