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Akira Tsubaki's slap was extremely powerful.
It slammed the head of an Iwagakure Ninja into his chest cavity.
"It's brutal!"
Seeing this scene, Kenjiro trembled all over.
After regaining his senses, Kenjiro hurriedly ordered a few timid men to clean up the corpses, then closed the shop door, and led Akira Tsubaki and the others into a secret room.
"I have three pieces of information here, all about you, and I originally wanted to send someone to deliver them to you."
While speaking, Kenjiro squatted his fat body and took out three scrolls from under the bed.
Taking the scrolls, Akira Tsubaki glanced at the content.
The first scroll was very simple: Iwagakure had bought some intelligence about him a few days ago.
Opening the second scroll, Akira Tsubaki was slightly taken aback.
"Orochimaru? Why did he collect my information?" Akira Tsubaki looked puzzled.
Namikaze Minato and Kakashi also saw the content and thought about it separately.
"He should be investigating the bombing of the laboratory," Namikaze Minato guessed.
"Is it possible that you often went to the back mountain to practice and were misunderstood by Orochimaru?" Kakashi added.
Akira Tsubaki was stunned.
Lab bombed? Misunderstanding?
This is not a misunderstanding; I was the one who did it!
On the last scroll, Akira Tsubaki narrowed his eyes as he looked at the content.
"Someone is spying on my whereabouts?"
"Yes! And the price is high," Kenjiro replied.
"How much?"
"Ten million Ryo."
Hearing this number, Akira Tsubaki touched his chin.
Ten million Ryo, just to know my whereabouts?
"This person probably wants to capture you!" Namikaze Minato warned.
According to his experience, when someone pays a lot of attention to a person's whereabouts, the probability is high that they will be kidnapped.
This kind of thing is very common in the Ninja World.
However, usually only wealthy businessmen and local tyrants are targeted. Akira Tsubaki? How could he be targeted?
"Could it be Cloud Shinobi?" Kakashi asked.
"No," Akira Tsubaki shook his head.
Cloud Shinobi knew his strength, so they definitely wouldn't do this, as it would only lead to their own defeat.
As for Iwagakure, the probability was not high.
He had never had a direct conflict with Iwagakure, and they wouldn't spend a lot of money to track him just because of a single piece of old information.
"I'm afraid it's Danzō!" Namikaze Minato suggested.
"Not him!"
Akira Tsubaki denied it again.
Danzō is willing to spend 10 million Ryo on me? Ghost story.
Although Akira Tsubaki had no clue at the moment, he had a method: if he deliberately revealed his whereabouts, the interested party would definitely show up.
Next, Akira Tsubaki began to inquire about Iwagakure's status in the Land of Grass.
"Kenjiro, I need to know the location of Iwagakure Ninjas in the Land of Grass."
"Their positions are many and not fixed," Kenjiro responded, sitting on the bed, making the springs creak.
"In recent days, many Iwagakure Ninjas have entered the Land of Grass to collect information at various hotels."
"They collect not only Konoha's but also Sunagakure's and Kumogakure's."
"And, they don't pay a cent."
Speaking of this, Kenjiro hastily added.
"I didn't mention you. At least you still trade."
After a while.
Akira Tsubaki held a map of the Land of Grass, and the three of them entered the guest room.
Spreading out the map, they saw densely packed red dots marked—the inns in the Land of Grass.
"That's too many," Kakashi was dazed.
"It seems it is very difficult to clear the Iwagakure Ninjas here," Namikaze Minato frowned.
With so many hotels, they would need to find them one by one. Even if they killed the Iwagakure Ninjas at a few hotels, the others would receive the news. This made tracking them difficult.
"Let's skip these hotels entirely."
Akira Tsubaki suddenly spoke.
His eyes were not focused on the densely populated hotels but on the border between the Land of Grass and the Land of Earth.
There, there was a bridge connection.
Akira Tsubaki pointed to the bridge.
"Let's go straight to the Kannabi Bridge!"
"Kannabi Bridge?"
Namikaze Minato looked at the location and felt that Akira Tsubaki's courage was truly immense.
This was the only way for Iwagakure to enter the Land of Grass. Once they were besieged there, they wouldn't be able to escape.
"There is no retreat here," Kakashi reminded.
He wasn't afraid, but simply felt that they were heading for certain death.
Seeing both his Sensei and Kakashi hesitating, Akira Tsubaki explained.
"We go to the Kannabi Bridge. Not only can we lure back the Iwagakure Ninjas from the Land of Grass, but we can also prevent the troops from the Iwagakure border from entering the Land of Grass! Isn't this the best of both worlds?"
The best of both worlds?
Namikaze Minato's eyelids twitched.
Kakashi was dumbfounded.
How is this the best of both worlds? It is clearly inviting an attack from two sides!
"Sensei, trust me!"
Akira Tsubaki looked serious.
"Akira, do you have other plans? You can tell me," Namikaze Minato asked patiently.
He always felt that this position was too dangerous.
If Iwagakure's frontier troops gathered, and the Iwagakure Ninjas in the Land of Grass also gathered, they would be attacked from both sides and could not escape.
Seeing his Sensei's suspicious gaze, Akira Tsubaki sighed.
"Sensei, actually, I am a genius!"
"Huh? I know that."
"No, what I'm saying is, I'm a genius beyond the First Hokage!" Akira Tsubaki reiterated.
"This... um..." Namikaze Minato was a little hesitant to respond.
If this student was a Taijutsu genius, he would agree. But to say he surpassed the First Hokage was a bit much.
"Akira, let's do this! Let's blow up the Kannabi Bridge! Then hunt down the Iwagakure Ninjas in the Land of Grass."
Finally, Namikaze Minato made a suggestion.
Blowing up the Kannabi Bridge would delay the Iwagakure border forces from entering the Land of Grass.
During that time, they would have enough time to deal with the Iwagakure Ninjas scattered in the Land of Grass.
"Sensei, bombing now is not the best time~~" Akira Tsubaki reminded him.
From Akira Tsubaki's perspective, Iwagakure's large army had not yet entered the Land of Grass. Blowing up the bridge now would minimize the loss to Iwagakure.
Once the bridge was repaired, Iwagakure would definitely strengthen the defenses there.
Instead of blowing up the bridge, it was better to block it directly.
Whoever comes, dies!
In this way, it would create a huge deterrent to Iwagakure.
Seeing Akira Tsubaki being so persistent, Namikaze Minato stared at his student seriously.
"Akira, I know you are very smart! You must have your reasons for insisting on this."
This time, Namikaze Minato did not continue to refute but chose to believe.
"Trust me, you will always win!"
Akira Tsubaki looked confident, causing Namikaze Minato and Kakashi to nearly fall over.