Naruto Reborn: The Rise of the Tsar

Chapter 266 Mission

Since Sandstorm Shinichi took over ANBU, he directly moved the ANBU headquarters originally located underground to the side of the Kazekage Building.

A huge building was even built for this purpose, only one floor shorter than the Kazekage Building.

The place where they live in daily life has become much more comfortable, but their daily actions are completely exposed to the village people and ordinary ninjas. The original privacy of ANBU ninjas has been lost.

Although the ANBU members still follow the tradition of wearing masks, the identities of the individuals among them are no longer a secret.

After Markey handed over his shift that day, he hurried back to his headquarters. After briefly saying hello to some of his close colleagues, he went to the locker room alone.

It stands to reason that Ma Ji had many ties with the Kazama clan before, and he also entered the ninja school through Ebizo's relationship. After graduation, he was directly absorbed into the Anbu by Ebizo. But how could the Kazama clan know these inside stories? All of them had been killed that night, and during that time, there were so many villagers and ninjas who had received more or less favors from the Kazama clan. If they all kept their money, I'm afraid there wouldn't be anyone left alive in the village.

Moreover, several patrol members once recalled that when the 'Desert Death God' was not well-known, Ma Ji had a great conflict with him as a civilian ninja, and even faced off against the scorpion sword at one time. With his "certificate of fame" and his own good strength, Ma Ji was able to still occupy a place in the Anbu after the big change.

"Hey, have you heard?" A good ANBU ninja glanced at the people around him and whispered, "Last night, Shinichi-sama's personal mission failed."

"What mission?" Marky's heart skipped a beat.

"Last night Shinichi personally set up a dragnet, preparing to take down the 'Desperate Puppet Master' in one fell swoop. I only learned this news after the fact."

"Guess why the mission failed?" The ninja looked incomprehensible.

"It couldn't be that the 'Desperate Puppet Master' knew the news in advance and didn't go."

"Hey, I went, but there was an unexpected person."

"Unexpected"

Seeing that Ma Ji's face was still full of doubts, the ninja felt extremely satisfied. After looking around again to make sure no one was around, he gently made a mouth gesture.

In the mission hall, the old man Wenye stayed at home completely after that night and never left the house, and the work in the mission hall was handed over to a girl named Nobuko.

The girl was meticulous and fair at the same time. In addition, after the positions in the village were controlled by various family ninjas, completing tasks and earning commissions became the only source of livelihood for ordinary civilian ninjas. Nobuko became very popular among the lower-level ninjas. .

Nobuko went to the mission hall today as usual. As soon as he sat down, he saw today's new missions that had been sorted out by others. One of the wanted mission lists clearly read "Fuchuan" and "Kazama. Scorpion".

"Sorry, I can't take on these two tasks." A woman with short hair sat in front of Nobuko's office. After seeing the task list, she was stunned for a long time and then slowly declined the task.

"Rika." Nobuko frowned slightly, "This is a task directly issued by the Kazekage Building. According to the current rules, all ninjas on duty must accept it unconditionally."

"Then I'll take leave and rest for a while."

"Rika!" Nobuko looked puzzled, "What's going on with you? Even if these are acquaintances that I met before."

Nobuko glanced around, but no one was around, and whispered, "It's okay if you don't finish it. Why bother to obey Feng Ying's order?" "Thank you, Nobuko, thank you for treating me as a friend. "Li Xiang slowly stood up, slowly touched the long knife at her waist, lowered her head and remained silent for a long time, "I'm sorry, I have my own insistence."

"In that case." Seeing that the other party was determined, Nobuko sighed slowly, "I will cross out your name from the ninjas on duty. You should stay at home as much as possible during this period. When the ANBU is inspecting, I will Let’s just say you were injured during your last mission.”

"Thank you" Li Xiang showed a sweet smile on her face, "I'll treat you to barbecue later."

"A word is settled"

Nobuko looked at the other person's leaving figure and couldn't help but become curious. As a mission hall assigner, many ninjas tried their best to please her. Only this girl who looked a little lonely always maintained an attitude of neither far nor close to her. .

Until one time, due to a mistake, he assigned an A-level task to her alone that was supposed to be completed by the team.

This is not a trivial matter. After the Third Kazekage came to the throne, many things were reformed in the assignment of tasks in the mission hall. For example, the previous mode of performing tasks by teams was completely banned and a one-to-one assignment system was adopted.

Generally, tasks will be assigned directly to individuals. If the task does require the cooperation of multiple people, it will be assigned to multiple people at the same time by the task assigner.

However, Nobuko took office not long ago and did not understand the rules, so he assigned Rika alone when multiple people should have completed the A-level tasks. This mistake was actually very obvious. In fact, Rika could have lodged a complaint directly, but Nobuko He might lose his job at the Mission Hall completely because of this fatal mistake.

At that time, Nobuko came to Rika in private with a gift and expressed the hope that she could take over the task temporarily, and then find a few friends to complete it together. She would owe the extra expenses first.

Unexpectedly, the other party directly rejected the gift she sent to her door. After Nobuko waited in fear for three days, when Rika pushed the door in again, the task had been successfully completed.

That scene was one that Nobuko would never forget. At that time, Rika's face was swollen, and one of her arms was tightly bandaged. She slowly unfolded the sealing scroll, sealing the corpses of more than twenty ninjas. Rebellious ninjas from other countries.

God knows how she accomplished the task.

But it was indeed since then that Nobuko discovered that Rika's strength was simply unfathomable, more powerful than those ninjas who looked much more powerful at first glance.

When she carefully tried to thank the other party, her actual words were, "Please treat me to barbecue."

After so many years, Rika has become Nobuko's only friend.

Nobuko slowly unfolded the task list and slowly touched the names on it. Is this Rika's family? Or a former friend? Other than that, she really couldn't imagine why the other party was unwilling to accept the task.

However, this is not important, Nobuko thought, at worst, he will just eat more barbecue this time.

(End of this chapter)