After Anyo retrieved the marked intelligence, he swiftly reached the designated location. Ruined walls lay everywhere, and uneven sword gouges and fragments of puppets littered the ground. The air was thick with the stench of blood, and the bodies of Sand Ninja lay along the way. Clearly, a major battle had taken place here.
Following the traces of battle, Anyo finally spotted White Fang deep inside. He was unusually silent, and had even put away his blade.
"What happened? Didn't you kill all the Sand Ninja here? There don't seem to be any enemies left." Anyo scanned the area with his Sharingan. Only a group of children with no ability to fight remained. All the Sand Ninja capable of fighting had evidently died beneath White Fang's blade.
"Yes, there are no enemies left." Hearing Anyo's voice, White Fang answered reflexively, then gave a heavy sigh. "I stumbled across this outpost by chance. Here, I encountered the two strongest Puppeteers I've faced to date. They were formidable. I thought an outpost guarded by Puppeteers that powerful had to hold Sunagakure's most important supplies. I never expected that these children were the reason they fought so desperately."
Anyo did not quite understand what he meant. "So why did you call me here?"
White Fang fixed his piercing gaze on Anyo's masked face. "I know you have a way to infiltrate Sunagakure. I called you here because I want you to take these children back to their village."
"Teacher, you must be joking!" Anyo blurted out in surprise.
White Fang's expression was utterly serious. "You're the only person I can think of who could do this."
Realizing that White Fang was not joking in the slightest, Anyo said in bewilderment, "Teacher, this isn't just anywhere. It's a battlefield. Since they're here, they're enemies,