Singled out by name, Habara followed Orochimaru to the a of the camp. His teammates, meanwhile, departed to carry out their mission again, having been in the camp for less than half an hour.

  Onside the tent, Habara casually observed the surroundings. How should he describe it? It felt like a pce where a person would actually stay. If possible, he would have preferred to go on that reaissance mission with his teammates. Although reaissance missions were generally high-risk, he really didn't want to be around Orochimaru, because normal people simply couldn't uand what Orochimaru was thinking or what he nning to do.

  Besides the two of them, there was no one else ient.

  Orochimaru didn't beat around the bush. He directly said to him, "Habara, I have a mission for you."

  This opening line was a bit better than Habara had expected. He thought Orochimaru would say something like, "Don't say anything, just give me a tube of blood first."

  "Speak, I'm listening."

  Although Habara felt that a minor character like himself should do things befitting a minor character, as a "Konoha ninja," he couldn't refuse the orders of the front-line supreme ander.

  "…"

  Habara's attitude made Orochimaru feel a little strange, but he couldn't immediately pinpoint what was off.

  "The requirements are simple. I want you to go to a certain pd search for something. Acc to the intelligence I've gathered over the years, there are several suspicious locations. You'll be responsible for one of them," Orochimaru said straightforwardly.

  As he spoke, he handed a detailed map with marked locations to Habara.

  Habara looked at the map and found that the pce Orochimaru had marked required passing through an area where Konoha and Kumo were frequently engaged in battle, and it was actually located within Kumo-trolled territory. Based on this alohis mission was very dangerous.

  "Orochimaru-sama, shouldn't su important missiorusted to someone more reliable?"

  After thinking for a moment, Habara decided to subtly remind Orochimaru.

  "Due to a small misuanding that occurred retly, the vilge is keeping a closer eye on me now. In fact, I'm a bit short on avaible manpower. Uhese circumstances, you're someone I trust," Orochimaru said.

  Habara: "…"

  What did he mean by a "small misuanding"? Now he uood. Orochimaru was doing something behind Konoha's back. The so-called "searg for something" was definitely for those inhumane experiments.

  Orochimaru was truly tireless in pursuing such things.

  "Orochimaru-sama, entrusting such a secret mission to someone like me, who has no e to Konoha – what if I just disappear?"

  Habara was curious why Orochimaru would entrust such a private matter to him. Wasn't he afraid he'd just run away?

  Trust? Did Orochimaru trust anyone?

  "The cruel Shinobi World War is still ongoing. The Five Great Ninja Vilges are in a very bleak situation, but smaller ninja vilges are even worse off. As for wandering ninjas? They only be described as miserable. There's nowhere in this small world to escape the fmes of war… Where do you think you go?"

  Orochimaru's words were a direct hit. He chuckled softly and then tinued, "Habara, don't doubt it. You are now a Konoha ninja."

  As he spoke, he handed aem to Habara.

  Habara stared at the thing for a few seds, theantly reached out and took it… It was a Konoha forehead protector. Although they were onpce, Habara had never owned one before.

  "The specific mission requirements and the characteristics of the item you're looking for are written in this scroll. However, you only open it when you're he mission location.

  Also, if you're lucky enough to find the item, you store it in another scroll."

  Orochimaru presewo more scrolls: one was a mission scroll, and the other was a ste scroll.

  Habara took them. "A ste scroll… Are they useful? How do you use them? I have a few more?"

  "…" This btant attempt to get free stuff stunned Orochimaru.

  "You really don't knooliteness is." While telling Habara how to use the ste scroll, Orochimaru had no choice but to give him a few more empty scrolls.

  After expining the mission and paying a small price, Orochimaru urged Habara to depart quickly, then waved him away.

  Orochimaru seemed very fiderusting the mission to Habara, but iy, Habara himself had no fidence. As for whether he would carry out this mission, of course he would. A ninja had nht to refuse a mission. But that didn't mean Habara couldn't sck off.

  Orochimaru had also said that there were several suspicious locations. The one Habara was responsible for wasn't necessarily where the item was, and even if there was something there… who could prove it?

  In short, he still had to put on a show when it was necessary.

  Taking Orochimaru's mission orders, Habara resupplied himself from the camp's logistics. And after wandering around for several ps, finding no reason to stay any longer, he finally left the camp and began to move in a northeasterly dire.

  After roughly leaving the monit range of the Konoha camp, Habara immediately stopped. Without a sed thought, he took out the mission scroll and unfolded it.

  Only to be opened he mission location? We're all responsible adults here; there's no trust between people.

  Then, Habara uood what Orochimaru was looking for… corpses.

  The corpses of Konoha's Sed Hokage and Kumo's Gold and Silver Brothers.

  After seeing this, Habara's first rea was, "Wasn't the Sed Hokage cremated in a timely manner?" Thehought, "That seems to be a misception."

  Then his sed rea was…

  "I've been had."

  After uanding Orochimaru's objective, Habara suddenly didn't want to sck off anymore. He really wao search that suspicious location – leaving aside the Sed Hokage, that stingy old man who left all the good stuff to Konoha and gave his final instrus before dying, if Habara remembered correctly, the Gold and Silver Brothers should have dropped a lot of loot when they died.

  After the Gold and Silver Brothers died, Kumo's sacred treasures were reduced to only the "Amber Purifying Pot," which meant that the remaining items were taken away at that time.

  Habara wao pick up the loot. After all, a living example was right there. There was once a Sand puppeteer who became a winner in life by relying on the principle of "my teammates fight, I loot."

  Without much hesitation, Habara made up his mind. He decided to give it a try, because this matter was indeed worth trying – Orochimaru and his minions were able to simultaneously Edo Tehe Sed Hokage and the Gold and Silver Brothers, which meant that someone had indeed found their corpses.

  As for why Orochimaru hadn't obtaihe Gold and Silver Brothers' ninja tools, the reason was easy to guess… They'd been looted, just like what Habara nning to do.

  Anyway, Orochimaru only wahe corpses. He had no information about the ninja tools.

  So, the question was, how could he quickly reach that location, and then immediately retreat, regardless of whether he found any loot?

  This kind of job definitely required speed.

  And soon, a certain idea surfaced in Habara's mind.

  He decided to be bold and borrow (steal) something to cross the front lines.

  What to borrow? Naturally, a "reputation" that could intimidate Kumo ninjas in times of need.

  So, what could make battle-hardened Kumo ninjas pee their pants? The answer was four words:

  Yellow Fsh of Konoha.

  This showed that the Three Body Transformation Teiques were truly divieiques, after all, Henge = Hiraishin. [his is eg Transformation Teique to the Flying Thunder God Teique, based on Minato's speed and ability to seemingly appear anywhere.]

  No one had ever dohis before. First, it would muddle battlefield information too much, easily causing fusion for both sides. Sed, it was easy to backfire a surrounded by ehird, it was hard to expin to the person involved. Fourth, it was too uhical…

  So, the specific operation had to be very careful. Habara's best approach was still to reach the mission location without aig.