Aokawa narrowed his field of vision as he spoke, shifting his ocular power to focus on the visual range and scanning down the mountain.
As expected!
Except for the cliff at the back, about ten Ninjas were rapidly approaching from each of the other three directions. They were led by three Jonin, while the rest were Chunin and Genin.
After seeing the signal flare, they galloped up the mountain like a pack of wolves that had caught the scent of blood.
After his initial panic, Aokawa's eyes grew brighter and brighter, as if he were seeing many walking energy crystals.
"I was wondering why this mission seemed so perfectly suited for the Hyuga; turns out they're coming for us!"
He licked his dry lips. "In that case, let's have them all stay here!"
Beside him, Hyuga Fu also adjusted his Byakugan and saw the same scene.
He looked at the enemies frantically climbing the mountain with a face full of disbelief, even pulling out the mission scroll to confirm once more.
"This really is a C-Rank Mission! Which heavenly law did I break?"
He hurriedly took out a rescue signal and fired it into the sky, hoping against hope that some Konoha Ninjas nearby might see it.
Then he looked back at the leg-weakening cliff behind him. After a moment of calculation, he shook his head inwardly.
"At this height, my Chakra would be bottomed out halfway up."
Seeing the enemies swarming up from the foot of the mountain like a tide, Hyuga Fu gritted his teeth and made a firm decision. "Aokawa, Kurenai, stay on the summit and find a place to hide. I'll go lead them away."
With that, he was about to rush down the mountain.
"I'll do it!" Aokawa grabbed Hyuga Fu. "Wait for my word on the mountain."
"Aokawa, you—" Just as Hyuga Fu was about to stop him, Aokawa's figure suddenly blurred for a moment, causing his grasp to miss.
The next moment.
Aokawa had already appeared on the canopy of a large tree below.
Following a few flickers, he vanished into the forest below.
"What... is this?"
Hyuga Fu was dumbfounded. How could it be that after not seeing him for a while, he couldn't even understand his son's Body Flicker Technique anymore... "S-Senior, I sense the target coming toward us."
During the raid, Akiyama Shugo uneasily gripped the Kunai at his waist, his voice trembling slightly.
In the past two years, friction between nations had become increasingly severe, and the volume of commercial missions had plummeted. Small countries like the Grass Ninja Village couldn't get any decent missions at all.
Many people had no choice but to take on black market missions.
Akiyama Shugo stayed at home for half a year before finally being forced to take off his forehead protector and head out to find a way forward.
After being badly swindled a few times, he was finally introduced by an acquaintance to follow a Senior and perform bounty missions.
"A single person?" Hino Kousuke's brow furrowed upon hearing this. "Wasn't it said that a Hyuga father and son took the commission?"
He rubbed his smooth head, somewhat puzzled.
But the opportunity was not to be missed!
He gestured to a burly man behind him. "Yuya, fire a signal flare to have the captain and the others surround them..."
"Don't worry, I've already prepared it." As Mizutani Yuya spoke, a signal flare had already shot into the sky.
Hino Kousuke looked back to see Akiyama Shugo's face full of tension and immediately scolded him with a stern face, "What the hell are you nervous about? We have over ten men here, what's there to fear?"
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