The ninja said, "Then please follow me."
Meanwhile, above Aunt Yamada's house, a figure suddenly swept straight over the roof. But just as he was about to leave,
he seemed to notice something and let out a soft cry of surprise.
He was a man with a longsword strapped to his back, wearing a Konoha Anbu mask.
As if he had sensed something, he swiftly halted and entered the courtyard,
then began inspecting it. Before long, he made a discovery. Something seemed to have happened here. Although the scene had been fabricated, it had only just been staged,
and to an Anbu ninja, it was riddled with flaws.
After thoroughly searching the area, he immediately realized that this matter was not so simple.
After another careful investigation, he quickly came to a conclusion.
What he did not know was who this family really was, to have suffered such an unexpected calamity.
Normally, at such a critical moment when Konoha's survival was at stake, a trivial matter like this could have been ignored.
But he seemed to have caught the scent of an old adversary in it, and that made him take it seriously.
After thinking it over, he immediately headed for the Hokage Building.
His original mission had been a minor matter anyway, something he could complete at any time.
Compared to that, the matter before him was clearly more important.
On Sky City,
Zero-Tails—no, Shinnō—could no longer hold on under the combined assault of The Four Rookies, strengthened by the aura's boost.
Though Shinnō in his Zero-Tails state looked immensely formidable, The Four Rookies could tell that
his intelligence had clearly been affected as well, causing him to act entirely on instinct much of the time.
That made things much simpler. They would rather fight a monster with little