Following the instructions on the mission scroll, Minato went straight to the village head's house, leaping through the night sky like an elf.
Minato quickly found the village head's house, but he didn't enter rashly. He listened from the rooftop for a while to see if there were any problems.
Minato's worries were unnecessary. He stayed on the roof for a long time without noticing anything abnormal. The village head also maintained a cautious demeanor. It didn't look like he was acting; otherwise, Minato would have noticed some slips after so long.
Considering much time had passed, Minato didn't delay any longer and flashed into the house.
"Hello. I am a Konoha ninja. I have accepted your request."
The village head was startled to find someone suddenly in his house. Luckily, Minato promptly revealed his identity; otherwise, the village head might have cried out in alarm.
"Lord Ninja, I've finally been waiting for you. But... is your strength enough to deal with those rogue ninja?" To be honest, Minato's age made it very hard to be convincing. But considering the other party was a ninja, the village head didn't say anything discriminatory and just asked if Minato could handle it.
"Don't worry. I am a Jōnin from Konoha Village. A few rogue ninja are nothing to me." Minato stated his strength. Of course, in the village archives, he was still a Genin. But Minato never cared about the rank in his file, only his own strength.
When the village head heard Minato was a Jōnin, he was instantly relieved. He wasn't afraid the boy was lying; having lived so long, he could naturally sense the confidence of the ninja before him.
"Lord Ninja, I suspect there is a traitor in our village. Every time I have a harvest, those bandit ninja show up on time the next day."
"So I'm worried... now that they know you're here, will they not come? And then... will they come back for even crazier revenge after you leave?" This was the village head's biggest worry.
"Don't worry. I've already come up with a plan on the way here. I guarantee those rogue ninja will come," Minato first reassured him, then continued:
"In a moment, I will give you 100,000 ryō. Tomorrow, you will take this money and show it off. I guess the hidden spy will definitely pass this information on."
"My teammates are lying in ambush outside. After the spy reveals themselves and passes the message, I'll take them down. Then, we'll just wait for those rogue ninja."
Minato told the village head his plan. 100,000 ryō was a considerable sum of money. He would just take it back after it was used.
The village head immediately understood Minato's meaning. It was to lure the snake out of its hole.
"I will definitely follow Lord Ninja's instructions," the village head immediately promised.
Minato handed the prepared 100,000 ryō to the village head, then said, "Go and do it with confidence. I will protect you from the shadows."
Then, Minato left the room and ran towards Mikoto and Nagakaze.
"How did it go? Did you find the village head?" Seeing Minato return, Mikoto asked in a low voice.
"I found him." Minato nodded, then told Nagakaze and Mikoto the plan he had arranged with the village head.
"In that case, does the village head not need someone to protect him?" Nagakaze asked after hearing the plan.
"My shadow clone is protecting him," Minato explained.
Nagakaze heard this and almost forgot. He had asked a stupid question. How could someone as meticulous as Minato miss that?
The three then rested in the tree. The night passed quickly.
The next day, the village head, following Minato's instructions, took the 100,000 ryō and showed it off in the village, claiming he found it outside yesterday.
He added to the act, saying he would take the 100,000 ryō tomorrow to buy a pile of goods to distribute to the villagers.
The villagers immediately began to thank the village head. Only three of them had a strange light flicker in their eyes. After exchanging a look, they nodded in tacit understanding.
That night, the three gathered in a house, tied a message to a carrier pigeon, and then one of them took it into the wild to release it.
This was their plan. They were afraid that if it was always one person, or if one person went alone, it would arouse suspicion, so the three of them took turns releasing the carrier pigeon to notify those rogue ninja.
It wasn't that they hadn't thought of robbing the money themselves, but the rogue ninja's cruel methods had settled their "little thoughts." They didn't think they could escape the pursuit of those ninja.
"I've been waiting for a long time." After one of them released the carrier pigeon in the wild, Nagakaze slowly walked out.
The spy was instantly terrified. He didn't think anyone would find out.
He was just about to silence the witness when he realized this person was not a villager. Looking at his headband, he instantly knew the other's identity: a Konoha Village ninja.
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