Battlefield Analysis Unit

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Bang, bang, bang!

This was a battlefield where shuriken and kunai flew in all directions.

In the rear of the front lines, the members of the Analysis Division were rushing to complete their missions.

"Squad Leader, this is Tobitake Tonbo, a Genin with sensory talent who chose to join the Analysis Division after graduation."

Dokuro Kei pointed at Tobitake Tonbo behind him.

Yamanaka Inoichi looked at him, raising an eyebrow as he appeared visibly young.

Yamanaka Inoichi

Tobitake Tonbo was seen with a Konoha forehead protector tied around his head.

His eyes, ears, the back of his neck, and his entire head above the forehead protector were wrapped in pale gray bandages.

Could he observe the world without using his eyes? It seemed his sensory talent was quite good.

"Are... are you Inoichi-senpai? Hello, I am Tobitake Tonbo."

Seeing Inoichi look over, Tobitake Tonbo immediately straightened his posture, excitement carrying in his tone.

"There's no time to explain more. You'll take him under your wing, Kei.

Strive to have him learn the Mind Reading Technique in the shortest time possible. Can you do that?"

Yamanaka Inoichi ordered.

"You got it, Squad Leader." A bright flash crossed Dokuro Kei's eyes.

Ah!

Tobitake Tonbo's face fell. He had thought he would get guidance from a Jōnin!

His perception lingered on Dokuro Kei.

Dokuro Kei

This demon instructor of the Analysis Division was also young at the moment. He wondered when Kishimoto had given him the demon instructor setting.

He hoped it wasn't now.

He hadn't expected that after finding anime uninteresting and staying up all night reading a Naruto-turned-Xianxia novel, he would actually drop dead of overwork.

He had even transmigrated to the time of the Third Shinobi World War, being pulled to graduate when he was only in the fifth grade.

He was terribly afraid of death, so he quickly found the best place to turtle up: the route of Tobitake Tonbo from the original work.

He would be a member of the Analysis Division.

They had only one task, which was to read the intelligence in the enemy's mind, organize it, and hand it over to their superiors.

In times of peace, they would be like Konoha's two guardian deities, sent wherever they were needed.

This couldn't be better.

He followed Dokuro Kei to the side of the encampment.

Naturally, with the battlefield ongoing at the moment, there was no such thing as a good environment.

"Catch. This is the specific training method for the Mind Reading Technique. With your sensory talent, it shouldn't be difficult.

If you don't understand anything, you can ask me after I finish my mission."

Dokuro Kei tossed him a scroll, then left.

Tobitake Tonbo knew the battlefield was urgent and that this moment was all about racing against time.

Even his classmates, Might Guy, Ebisu, Shiranui Genma, and the others, had to immediately join the combat.

Naturally, someone in a logistical profession like him wouldn't have the resources for a one-on-one or one-on-three mentor setup.

He opened the scroll.

He pulled back the bandages on his face to expose his eyes.

He had assumed it would only contain the execution method for the Mind Reading Technique, which should be very simple.

He had let his guard down.

The scroll was densely packed with numbers, and it was quite long.

Yet as his reading comprehension deepened, he understood that apart from the execution method, the text also listed what to do after entering someone's thoughts in order to maximize the extraction of intelligence.

There were also methods for handling things so that other people's thoughts could not invade one's own mind after reading intelligence.

Anyway, this technique was like a whole academic discipline, and the execution method was merely the least important part of it.

As long as one had sensory talent and decent spiritual energy, execution was simple.

As he read, the text seemed to come alive, and Tobitake Tonbo felt it was extremely easy to understand, nowhere near as difficult as he had imagined.

Rat-Horse-Tiger...

When he finished reading it all, he formed hand seals rapidly.

The formula for the Mind Reading Technique was executed by him with ease.

He looked around the encampment and found nothing he could read the mind of, so he simply dispelled the ninjutsu.

"What should I do next?"

To prevent enemy attacks, the Analysis Division was naturally located in a hidden place, so he couldn't practice any ninjutsu that caused a big commotion.

He might as well practice sensory skills.

He was a ninja with sensory talent after all, and such people were much rarer than ninjas with, say, Wind Release chakra.

He covered his eyes with the bandages once more.

At that moment, in his perception, everything around him turned into lines.

This was why he could always keep his eyes covered without affecting himself.

He formed the Tiger seal and refined chakra.

Suddenly, his perception changed again.

Within a radius of one kilometer, distant small toads, flying birds, and ninja chakra reactions appeared in his mind.

Although not as direct as the Byakugan, this still counted as top-tier talent among commoners.

No wonder sensory ninjas were so rare.

He experimented with other ninja techniques, such as the Transformation Technique and the Clone Technique.

Moreover, he discovered a problem.

His talent seemed to have grown stronger after his transmigration.

No matter what knowledge it was, he seemed to easily master it thoroughly and innovate upon it.

Take the Transformation Technique, for instance. His original self could only transform into objects he had observed for a long time.

Yet he only needed to glance at a nearby animal for its physical shape and posture to immediately surface in his mind, allowing him to complete the transformation.

The same went for the Clone Technique; previously it took him a full second to complete, but now his hand seals were one-third faster.

On the battlefield, this made a qualitative difference.

"What are you doing? Didn't I tell you to learn the Mind Reading Technique?"

Just as he was practicing tree-climbing chakra on a tree, Dokuro Kei appeared.

Seeing that Tobitake Tonbo hadn't followed his instructions, a bit of annoyance stirred in his heart.

It was wartime now, and ninjas who disobeyed orders died easily.

"I learned it, but I don't have a test subject."

Tobitake Tonbo dropped down in front of him and spoke.

Dokuro Kei paused, disbelief written across his face.

According to his file, although Tobitake Tonbo was exceptionally strong in sensory talent, he had only been slightly above average in ninjutsu and theoretical classes at the Ninja Academy.

"Follow me."

Since he claimed as much, Dokuro Kei didn't question it further.

Mainly, his face was entirely wrapped in bandages, making it impossible to tell what he was thinking.

Tobitake Tonbo followed with a trace of curiosity.

Soon, the two of them arrived in an underground cellar.

A row of tightly shut heavy doors came into view along the corridor.

Dokuro Kei led him to one of the rooms.

"The ninja inside has already had their intelligence extracted, and their thought processes are already experiencing chaos.

Give it a try. Remember, don't push yourself."

Hearing this, Tobitake Tonbo walked through the door.

It was rather dim, illuminated by only a single candlelight.

There sat a dull-witted Sunagakure ninja. It seemed forcefully reading thoughts came with a few side effects!

Dokuro Kei didn't leave either, watching from beside him instead.

He was there to prevent Tobitake Tonbo from doing anything reckless.

Tobitake Tonbo skillfully formed hand seals, placing both hands on the neural center directly above the ninja's temples.

It looks like he really did learn it!

Watching his movements, Dokuro Kei knew he hadn't lied.

It had taken him three whole days to learn this trick back then.

Furthermore, Tobitake Tonbo knew the exact spots on the outside where nerves were most easily accessible.

Starting from there could save a lot of effort when reading thoughts.

Tobitake Tonbo's consciousness invaded the brain, and he instantly felt as though he were passing through a time tunnel.

Within the tunnel, a massive number of memory fragments flashed by.

From entering the academy as a child to graduating and being assigned to carry out missions, he was merely a lowly Genin.

Yet his experiences could still be considered eventful, having survived on the battlefields of the Third Shinobi World War for half a year.

Until he was captured by Konoha shinobi.

However, most of them were disjointed and intermittent, likely caused by the previous extraction of his thoughts.

Even so, Tobitake Tonbo still absorbed a great deal of experience—combat experience, reconnaissance experience, and so on.

He was also astonished, as if the other party's entire experience allowed him to draw inferences about other cases from one instance.

"It seems that in the Analysis Division, my combat experience won't lag behind anyone else's in the future."