"Nekomata, huh."
Qian murmured, and instantly thought of what he had asked Elder Huo Xuan to do before setting out.
From the look of things now, the leader of the Land of Artisans had already been found, and the Kusanagi Sword he had been thinking about all this time should soon be in his hands as well.
With that thought, Qian picked up the slip of paper. Sure enough, there was an address written on it.
Without a doubt, this was where the leader of Takumi Village was hiding.
Qian put the slip away, looked at the black cat, and said, "I've received the information. You can go back and report now."
"Meow~"
Hearing this, the black cat said nothing more. It only cried out once, then leapt onto the courtyard wall, its movements exceedingly light.
It looked at Qian one last time, then jumped down from the wall and vanished into the night.
Qian watched its disappearing back, withdrew his gaze, and went straight back to his room. After briefly washing up, he began to consider what he should do next.
First of all, he definitely could not let the Uchiha clan's ninja make a move.
Leaving aside the fact that he had long since agreed with Elder Huo Xuan that he would handle this personally, making it rather awkward to ask the other party to act now, just the risk of alerting the enemy was something he was unwilling to bear.
To be honest, aside from himself, Qian did not have much faith in anyone else's abilities.
Second, he could not send a shadow clone either.
Just as the earlier intelligence had mentioned, the leader of Takumi Village was indeed within the borders of the Land of Artisans.
And the Land of Artisans was an inland country. Though