Chapter 13: Captain Antelope Didn’t Die In Vain
Yoru carefully searched along the coastline.
The last time Antelope Captain saw Brown Bear Squad Leader was at the seaside.
Efforts paid off, and Yoru found a seashell half-buried in the sand, with three codes engraved on the seashell.
According to the Code Scroll, these two codes represented the time as next month on the 11th, the other represented the northeast direction, and the last one represented 3 kilometers.
The ninja world used a lunar calendar based on the full moon and waning moon, and the 11th was only 4 days away from the full moon.
Yoru didn’t dare act rashly and hid under the bushes in the coconut grove.
When the time reached the 11th, Yoru crawled out from under the bushes and ran toward the location indicated by the mark.
After arriving at the destination, Yoru didn’t show himself rashly but formed a Ren Seal and used Shadow Clone.
After the Shadow Clone left the hiding reef, it walked on the beach.
While walking, two black shadows suddenly jumped out, and the Shadow Clone froze at that moment.
“Who are you?”
One was wearing an Azure Wolf mask, the other a White Sable mask, and neither recognized the one wearing the Fox Mask as a Shadow Clone.
The Shadow Clone said, “Fox, the last surviving member of Antelope Squad, requesting the Squad Leader to reassign me.”
After verifying the identity, the two looked toward a coconut tree.
A person walked out from behind the coconut tree, wearing a Brown Bear mask.
That was Yoru’s Squad Leader, Brown Bear.
Brown Bear took a few steps forward and then looked toward the reef where Yoru was hiding.
Yoru thought to himself that he was indeed the Squad Leader with great strength, spotting the Shadow Clone so quickly.
He walked out from behind the reef and dispelled the Shadow Clone.
The Shadow Clone turned into white smoke, startling the Azure Wolf and White Sable who appeared first.
It wasn’t the white smoke that scared them, but the fear afterward—if Fox was an enemy, they two would already be at a disadvantage.
Yoru came before Brown Bear:
“Squad Leader, Antelope Captain and Horned Ox sacrificed, my squad has only me left. I followed Antelope Captain’s Code Scroll and found this place.”
Brown Bear glanced up and down at Yoru and said, “Your Shadow Clone has some essence of Antelope’s, and the basics are solid. What a pity for Antelope, such a cautious person still died.”
Yoru didn’t respond; saying more meant more mistakes, saying less meant fewer mistakes.
Antelope Captain was indeed cautious, but not cautious enough.
Brown Bear said, “Antelope Squad is disbanded. Next, you join Azure Wolf Squad and follow Azure Wolf’s command.”
Yoru felt greatly disappointed.
He had gone to great lengths to kill Antelope Captain just to become captain and access more information.
Now, he was still just a team member under the unfamiliar Azure Wolf.
He had to adapt to the squad all over again.
Anbu’s assessment of squad leaders was very strict and wouldn’t casually appoint a captain.
Loyalty, strength, judgment—all were indispensable.
Yoru glanced at Azure Wolf and White Sable.
How about killing these two as well?
If these two died, he could surely become squad leader, right?
Pulling a flagpole from chopsticks—as long as there were few enough chopsticks, even the shortest could be a flagpole.
Though he thought this in his mind, Yoru said, “Azure Wolf Captain, hello. I am Fox, learned a bit of Shadow Clone from Antelope Captain.”
To make the Shadow Clone Jutsu look legitimate, he had to reveal to the captain that he learned this jutsu from Antelope Captain.
Azure Wolf nodded and said, “Good, my squad sacrificed two team members, you can just fill in.”
Azure Wolf bid farewell to the Squad Leader and left with his squad.
Halfway, they came to a supply point, took off the Konoha Anbu outfits, and changed into Cloud Ninja vests and ninja swords.
These Cloud Ninja equipment still had quite a bit of blood on them, probably captured by Azure Wolf Squad before.
Following behind Azure Wolf, Yoru felt a bit dejected and a bit emotional.
He really felt it was not worth it for Antelope Captain.
If Antelope Captain didn’t die, Yoru was a team member; if Antelope Captain died, Yoru was still a team member—what a waste of death.
Like Antelope Captain, Azure Wolf Captain didn’t mention the mission content, just kept hurrying on the road.
After arriving at a town, Azure Wolf Captain told the two team members to stop.
“Fox, use Shadow Clone to enter the small town to scout intelligence, see how many Whirlpool Ninja are hiding in the town.”
Under the mask, Yoru frowned.
This was treating him like manual labor; knowing he mastered Shadow Clone, he was ordered to do the work.
Finding Whirlpool Ninja was probably the same as Antelope Squad’s mission, to seize the Uzumaki Clan’s Adamantine Sealing Chains Scroll.
After forming a Ren Seal, a Shadow Clone appeared beside Yoru, and he cast Transformation Jutsu on the Shadow Clone, turning it into an ordinary person carrying a sack toward the town.
After a long time, Yoru suddenly stiffened.
The Shadow Clone was burst, and the memory transmitted back to the main body.
“What happened?”
Facing the captain’s inquiry, Yoru answered, “The Shadow Clone wandered half a circle, sat in a wall corner to rest, and suddenly a kunai appeared behind, stabbing the Shadow Clone to death.”
“A kunai, not a ninja sword?”
Those using ninja swords were probably Cloud Ninja.
“It’s a kunai, not a ninja sword.”
Azure Wolf Captain said, “Continue using Shadow Clone to enter the town to probe intelligence.”
After using Shadow Clone continuously several times, the Shadow Clone was burst each time.
Yoru panted heavily, his whole body sore and weak as he sat on the ground.
Chakra was formed by mixing physical energy and mental energy; after over-extracting chakra, lactic acid accumulated in the body cells, making his whole body ache like after running five kilometers.
Azure Wolf Captain looked disgustedly at the useless Fox: “Continue, Fox, don’t slack off. The intelligence is far from enough; more than ten times, and you haven’t even seen the enemy’s face.”
Yoru had to lift his hand again, extract chakra, and use Shadow Clone.
This jutsu consumed half of the chakra each time, plus Transformation Jutsu, making his already limited chakra rapidly deplete.
The key was that Azure Wolf Captain didn’t give him a chance to rest—who could keep working nonstop except a nuclear-powered donkey?
After the Shadow Clone appeared, it walked toward the town.
Suddenly, rustling sounds came from the woods behind!
Six human shadows appeared from the dense forest behind—it was six Whirlpool Ninja!
They had discovered suspicious personnel multiple times in a row and had confirmed the hiding place of the three Anbu.
The battle instantly entered a white-hot phase.
However, the strength of the three Konoha Anbu was inferior to the Whirlpool Ninja.
Yoru really wanted to shout that he was Konoha Anbu, not Cloud Ninja. But the Cloud Ninja outfit on him made him feel that shouting wouldn’t help.
Azure Wolf Captain held a long sword, constantly pressing the Whirlpool Ninja, trying to get more intelligence and find out if these Whirlpool Ninja had a Sealed Scroll.
A summoned spider hid in the dark and bit Azure Wolf Captain.
Under the effect of the toxin, Azure Wolf Captain immediately stumbled.
Konoha and Hidden Whirlpool Village were allies, but Azure Wolf Captain was stubborn-mouthed and didn’t reveal his true identity until death.
More than ten seconds later, the three Konoha members were successively killed by the Whirlpool Ninja.
A kunai stabbed into Yoru’s lower back.
This familiar feeling—his previous Shadow Clones were all killed by the Whirlpool Ninja behind him.
The Whirlpool Ninja behind even twisted the kunai, stirring Yoru’s intestines into a vortex.
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His vision went black, and the view changed.
Yoru panted heavily and resurrected.
He was squatting on the reef.
In the distance, on the seaside beach, Brown Bear Squad Leader and Antelope Captain were arranging some mission, unknown.
Back to the full moon night, when Antelope Captain was still alive.
Yoru squatted on the reef, carefully calculating.
【Moon Arc activated!
The host has one resurrection opportunity per month and will resurrect on the previous full moon night after death.
Reward one Lucky Draw Opportunity:
1-Sealing Jutsu · Sealing Material Seal（Beginner）;
2-Chunin Level Chakra Amount（Stackable）;
3-Kunai Stab（Mastery）.】
