No sooner had he said he needed to find a chance to lie low than that "chance" arrived.
It came so quickly that it caught him off guard.
Near noon, three Anbu Ninja appeared before Qifeng.
"Maruyama Qifeng! By order of Lord Hokage, you are commanded to join the reinforcements and depart for the suna-nin front line in the Land of Rain at three this afternoon!"
With that, they tossed down a mission scroll and identification before vanishing in a blur.
Holding the scroll,
he fell silent for a while.
"Am I heading to the battlefield again?"
The one silver lining was that changing battlefields meant he would not have to deal with Orochimaru anymore.
The Land of Rain battlefield.
That meant the enemies would be Sunagakure and the suna-nin. The Land of Rain battlefield, where war had first been declared and erupted, was probably far more brutal than the Land of Waterfalls battlefield.
He knew that as a Chunin—and one of the few corpse collectors—he could not avoid going to war.
On second thought, going to the battlefield also meant collecting more corpses. It was at least a way to find a little joy amid hardship.
"Let me think... what powerful corpses does Sunagakure have?"
But after thinking it over carefully, aside from the Third Kazekage, whom Sasori of the Red Sands had secretly killed, there only seemed to be Chiyo, Ebizo, and Rasa.
The problem was that those targets were far too difficult to kill. He did not yet have that kind of ability.
Chiyo's son and daughter-in-law, on the other hand, were decent targets. Though White Fang had cut them down cleanly, they had still been Kage-level experts.
Besides, when had White Fang ever failed to kill cleanly?
He put away those somewhat unrealistic thoughts.
Thinking that