It had been six days since Aoki and the others left Konoha, and according to the footsteps of the four of them, they were now close to the border of the Fire Country.

However, Niwa Shinsuke, the employer of this escort mission, is not a ninja, and cannot run on trees like them, so he can only walk on smooth roads.

So, now they are still some distance from the border of the Fire Nation.

"Well, that, I can't walk anymore."

Merchant Niwa Shinsuke's forehead was covered with rough men, and he suddenly couldn't help but say.

In fact, he had already felt physically exhausted, but whenever he thought that he would say to stop, he might upset Tsunade-sama, one of the three ninja of Konoha, so he didn't speak.

He wanted to hold on a little longer, and when the ninja kids got tired, they could stop and rest together. But they never expected that more than an hour had passed since they felt physically exhausted, and the four of Aoki still had no intention of stopping.

So, he couldn't hold on, so he had to muster up the courage to open up to the four of them.

Tsunade stopped when he heard this, and turned his head to look at Niwa Shinsuke.

And Niwa Shinsuke noticed that Tsunade was looking at him, and suddenly he was a little at a loss, worried that she would be angry with him.

However, Tsunade's next performance made him feel relieved.

I saw Tsunade nodding after seeing Niwa Shinsuke's panicked look, and then said, "Okay, everyone will rest for a while, but you must not change your position, you must be on standby."

"Hey!" The three of Aoki responded in unison.

Then, the three of them stopped and sat cross-legged on the floor, encircling Niwa Shinsuke in the middle in a triangular shape.

Niwa Shinsuke turned his head to look at the three Aoki next to him, shook his head helplessly, and then sat down cross-legged on the spot to rest.

Utsuki is on the left, Yamashiro Aoba is on the right, and Aoki is behind him.

Aoki also saw Niwa Shinsuke shaking his head just now, obviously, although Niwa Shinsuke believed in Tsunade's strength, he still had doubts about the three Aoki who looked like children, and he didn't believe that the three of them had the ability to protect him.

Tsunade was alone with his back against a large tree, his eyes closed, as if he was closing his eyes to recuperate, and he looked very careless.

But Aoki doesn't think so, after all, it's Konoha Sannin, even if he has hemophobia, but the combat consciousness experience and the like are still there, obviously Tsunade won't really be so careless.

In fact, Tsunade was actually looking around while closing his eyes.

The chakra of the whole body is distributed in a net, and you can clearly feel every move within a radius of tens of meters, which is a perceptual ninjutsu.

"Nani!" A sentence suddenly popped into Aoki's mind.

Because at this time, Aoki noticed that there were five or six people coming in the direction of himself and the others, and the distance was only ten meters, very close.

He meowed just now that Tsunade wouldn't be so careless, but in the blink of an eye, he slapped him in the face.

"No, Tsunade didn't even notice it...... It shouldn't be! Aoki groaned.

It seems that it's not that Tsunade didn't notice it, after all, with Aoki's consciousness, he was aware of the existence of those people, how could Tsunade, who was the three ninja of Konoha not be able to do it.

And Tsunade deliberately let these five or six people in, it must be for some purpose, such as testing himself and others.

Sure enough, the next moment, five or six wandering samurai armed with katanas suddenly came out of the bushes opposite, and then while approaching Aoki and the others, they said arrogantly: "Hmph! You guys, hand over all the valuable things on you! ”

Yamashiro Aoba and Utsuki Xiyan both immediately stood up when they heard the movement, took out the kunai from the ninja bag, and waited in place.

Aoki turned his head and looked at Tsunade, and saw that Tsunade seemed to be asleep.

Obviously, this is really a test deliberately set up by Tsunade.

However, Aoki had no interest in these wandering samurai who didn't know anything about ninjutsu at all, because they were all too weak.

After thinking about it, he still decided not to make a move, leaving these garbage samurai to Yamashiro Aoba and Utsuki Xiyan to deal with.

"Tsunade-sama! There are bandits! Tsunade-sama! You're waking up......"

Niwa Shinsuke looked at the wandering samurai who suddenly appeared in front of him and the others, and then at the three people who were only seven or eight years old in front of him, and immediately panicked.

However, no matter how loudly he shouted to Tsunade, Tsunade did not react at all, and his eyes were still closed, as if he were asleep.

"Tsunade-sensei!"

Yamashiro Aoba also looked at the place where Tsunade was, although he usually said that he wanted to kill the daimyo and protect the princess, but when he really encountered something, he was a little panicked and didn't know what to do.

And Utsuki Xiyan was the opposite at this time, glancing at Tsunade Sensei who was still "sleeping", she turned her head to the two of Aoba without hesitation and said, "Tsunade Sensei is asleep now, we must protect Mr. Niwa and not live up to Tsunade Sensei's expectations."

Aoki saw the determined look in the eyes of Utsuki Xiyan, and then looked at the somewhat flustered Aoba Yamashiro, and sighed a little in his heart: This little girl is quite brave, but she is still not smart enough, and she doesn't know that she has fallen into the trap of Tsunade.

"Okay, let's defeat these enemies together!"

Hearing the words of Mao Yue Xiyan, Yamashiro Aoba seemed to be infected as well, and put aside some fear, and directly opened his mouth and said loudly.

After saying that, Yamashiro Aoba directly took the lead and rushed towards the five or six wandering samurai.

Not long after Yamashiro Aoba rushed out, Utsuki Xiyan also followed, and the two of them fought with the wandering samurai in the blink of an eye.

Aoki saw that both of them rushed forward, and he was embarrassed not to do it alone, and he was also a little worried about the two of them, after all, they had just graduated from the ninja school.

Although he is a ninja, he is inevitably slightly lacking in combat experience compared to these bandits who lick blood on the knife's edge.

What's more, there is also a Tsunade on the side who is peeping in secret, and if she doesn't make a move, it will arouse her suspicions.

There was no way, Aoki pursed his lips and had no choice but to rush into their battle group.

However, Aoki didn't use all his strength, not even a tenth of his strength.

He went straight to two of the wandering warriors and kept going with them. If you don't hurt them yourself, they won't hurt yourself.

After about a quarter of an hour, with the "help" of Aoba Yamashiro, Aoki succeeded in killing the last wandering samurai.

"Good! We've finally killed them all! Yamashiro Aoba cheered.

"That's right, we're ninjas on our own." Mao Yue Xiyan pouted and agreed.

And Niwa Shinsuke behind the three of them had just recovered from his fear, and he originally thought that under the fierce attack of five or six wandering samurai, the three of Aoki would definitely not be able to stop him.

But I didn't expect that the three of Aoki were so strong, and Tsunade-sama, one of the three ninjas of Konoha hadn't made a move, so he ended up with the three of them.

Just as Aoba and Yuyan were still basking in the joy of defeating the enemy, Tsunade also woke up.

Aoki looked up and saw Tsunade yawning, pretending to have just woken up, and then scratching his head before walking towards them.

"Hey, what's going on?" Tsunade looked at the corpses of five or six wandering samurai on the ground, and asked.

"Oh! Tsunade-sama, just while you were sleeping, these wandering samurai suddenly appeared, but they were too weak, and we killed them in three or two. Yamashiro Aoba hurriedly spoke.

"Oh? Really? Tsunade pretended not to believe it.

"Hey! That is true! Mao Yue Xiyan also blinked and said.

"Hello, you're really good."

……

After another five or six days, the group of five finally arrived at the land border of the Fire Nation.

In front of them, the sea stretched as far as the eye could see, and the blue sky appeared.

The five of them walked along the coastline until they came to a small town, where they boarded a large ship bound for the country of vortexes at the town's dock.

On this day, the big ship Aoki and the others sailed out of the town's dock and embarked on a route to the country of Vortex.

The country of Vortex, a country that had long since perished in the original books, and now, it no longer exists, leaving only civilians who don't know any ninjutsu.

The fall of the country of Vortex is judged to have been a few years before World War II based on Aoki's knowledge of the original book. And the reason for its demise is due to the fear of its powerful sealing ninjutsu in all countries except Konoha of the Fire Country.

Aoki can imagine that on that dark night, the ninja army led by Yunyin and Kishigaku entered the Vortex Village without the knowledge of Konoha and the Vortex Village, and almost slaughtered the bloodline of the Uzumaki clan that had been carried over from the Warring States Period, leaving only a few lucky people to survive.

Since then, the country of Vortex has ceased to exist, and the village of Vortex has been left in ruins.