After dinner, Hinata Yuki, who was sitting around the fire, began to review the day's itinerary, and the topics involved were also strange, but then they gradually unified.

"Although nothing happened today and the journey was smooth, I felt a little nervous as soon as I relaxed." Mitarai raised his voice, probably because he was deliberately trying to attract each other's attention.

"There are about two days and one night left for the next trip, and it shouldn't be as easy as it is today."

The calculation of the return journey and the outbound journey is different, and the route of the same distance does not exist according to the unified calculation of ninjas and ordinary caravans, so Orochimaru said before that it is at least three days.

"After all, we have already left Konoha Village for some distance, and on the next road, there is a high possibility of problems."

Hinata Yuki could understand what Mitarai meant, and her eyes were fixed on the flames, feeling a little worried about the coming tomorrow.

"But don't worry too much, even if there is anything, Orochimaru-sensei will take action!" Mitarai Kai's words about wanting to be very perfunctory were stared at by Hinata Yuki, and became a little vague.

"I think I'll make a move, right?" When he himself said this for the second time, he was already a little unconvinced.

"Orochimaru-sensei refers to the one who was with you before?" Smoke's question was met with a nod of affirmation.

"Orochimaru-sensei is our guide Shangnin, and he is also the most powerful person in Konoha, so you don't have to worry so much." Hinata Yuki was worried that the topic that she and Mitarai brought up would cause the other party to worry, so she explained.

"After all, this task is more of a test of our abilities."

"So ·····"

Her next words were more like answering a certain possibility that Mitarai had some doubts before.

"Let's hope there aren't any tricky guys!"

"A rare unity."

Although the two men said this, the two pairs of eyes in the dazzling firelight did not explain it like that.

Winter nights look out over the hustle and bustle from the crowd.

Biting on the sour fruit, the winter night scanned the surroundings, and the ears began to ignore the noisy chatter, and began to spread into more subtle sounds.

From dinner to night, it is all watched by the winter night, which can be regarded as a way to take the initiative to get rid of chatting on the winter night.

The night was getting darker, and the caravan had to go to bed much earlier than usual because they had to leave early in the morning, and the much dimmer flames warmed the cold of the early summer nights, and some of them had already begun to fall asleep.

Because of the winter night's watching, Hinata Yuki and Mitarai can sleep well before it is their turn to work.

When the temperature difference is quite large, the cold no longer invades the body of the winter night as easily as before, and even if there is a sparse flame shining on the quiet night, it is still terrifying to shock his overwhelming endlessness.

The misty sleepy eyes, and the caravan who was also in charge of the night vigil in the winter night, shook their heads and shook off their embarrassment.

Winter Nights is accustomed to nights and solitude, but occasionally when it is quiet, he also wants to find someone to talk to.

Leaving his post without permission, the back of stepping into the darkness alone attracted the eyes of a few people, and then naturally retreated.

"Is there something wrong?" Winter Night's jumping body stepped on a tree branch, accustomed to the darkness of the naked eye, and not far away, a figure that had disappeared for a long time was sitting, and the golden eyeshadow that flashed in the darkness made Winter Night stop approaching him.

"Something." Explained the winter night he came from, with his back against a solid tree trunk.

Silent and unanswered, Winter Night knew he was waiting for his own speech.

"Today, there are ninjas from the shadows looking for me, and it was in the thirty minutes that we were separated." It's like sharing an experience with someone you know, and the winter night you are telling about is stuck in a memory.

"Shadows." There was no particular tone in his voice, just a quiet repetition of two words.

"Are you sure?"

"Root! I guess that's what I call it, after all, they said that Lord Tuanzang was looking for something wrong with me. Winter Night said the answer and basis for his guess, and completed the content or setting of the story.

"Looks like you refused." In two sentences, the winter night after telling the story was subjected to the expected inquiry.

"That's right, I don't know him, after all, and I don't like to talk to strangers." affirmed the other party's statement, and Winter Night strengthened his own communication guidelines.

"But, they, no, he won't give up." That man, the man who was deep in the dark, even Orochimaru might be a little jealous, but maybe it's more interesting, isn't it? I couldn't see the movement of his tongue in the dark, but I always felt that I cared.

"So, here I am." As for Orochimaru's prediction of the future, Winter Night agrees, and he is here for this.

"Come to me? Do you think I'll help you turn him down? ”

"No!"

"It's too much trouble."

"No value!" Both Winter Night and Orochimaru himself knew that he couldn't do it, but the reasons might be different.

"Listen to you, from the beginning, you were going to meet him?"

"I don't like strangers, but isn't there no way to do it?" In other words, but affirming the problem of Orochimaru, helplessness is the status quo he wants to show.

"Let everything be open to the sun, he doesn't like such things."

"The more annoying things are, the more you want to do them."

"What a bad character!"

"It's not your turn to say that!"

Two people, one big and one small, opened their eyes at this moment and looked at each other tacitly.

"Sometimes, I really want to cut open your head and see what kind of person is inside."

"Do you mean to kill me?"

The expression on Winter Night's face was not as relaxed as his body, facing the indifferent golden pupils, Winter Night couldn't see through his thoughts, and it was precisely because he couldn't see through that it was even more terrifying.

"Are you really a little ghost?"

"I think so, but you don't necessarily believe it."

"Then don't give me an answer from the beginning."

With a slight leaning back and straightening up from the trunk, it was time to go back, such words warned the winter night in his mind.

"You were going to ask something, right?"

Orochimaru took the initiative to raise the topic to save the winter night who was about to return to his post, and his upper body stiffened for a moment when he bent his knees and prepared to jump down.

"Is it that obvious?"

"But no, it's enough."

"Do you have an answer?"

"After all, you promised so simply, Orochimaru-sensei, you're not as good at lying as you think."

Leaving a fiery comment on Orochimaru, one of the three ninjas, the body of the winter night disappeared in place.

"Won't you lie?" The voice of surprise seemed to be surprised to get such an evaluation.

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