"Captain Yechen, what do you think of this plan?"
Just as Yechen's mind was wandering, Tanaka Erito's voice brought him back to the present.
Yechen froze for a moment. He had long since tuned out the meeting, so how could he know what the plan was? But he couldn't pretend he knew nothing, either. He cleared his throat and said,
"I have no objections."
Surely that answer couldn't go wrong!
Tanaka Erito nodded in satisfaction.
"All right, it's settled, then. Captain Yechen will lead the team into Iwagakure's camp tonight. Minato, be ready to provide support."
"What...?"
Yechen looked utterly stunned, as if he hadn't quite registered what had happened.
It turned out Tanaka Erito had just asked whether he was willing to lead the mission. By saying he had no objections, hadn't he agreed to do it?
But Yechen hadn't known any of that. He had been spacing out, so how could he know the mission plan? Now he had accepted the mission without even knowing its details. How embarrassing would it be if anyone found out?
Minato Namikaze seemed to notice Yechen's predicament and repeated the plan for him.
The plan was called "Operation Decapitation."
The mission called for an expert like Yechen to lead a squad of Jonin into the Rock Ninja camp, locate the Rock Ninja Command Center, and summon Minato Namikaze and the others to carry out Operation Decapitation.
Meanwhile, the other Konoha teams would launch feints around the perimeter to create an opening for their retreat.
That was the entire plan.
After listening, Yechen nodded gratefully to Minato, then said to Tanaka Erito,
"All right, no problem."
At that moment, Minato Namikaze took a three-pronged kunai from his ninja tool pouch and handed it to Yechen.
Yechen accepted it and examined it closely. A