They ran for a day and a night in one breath.
The child being carried woke up midway, but before he could speak, Amamiya Ayane stuffed a Military Rations Pill into his mouth and promptly knocked him out again…
After escaping for a full several hundred miles.
The two arrived before a dense forest, and only then was Woodpecker willing to slow his pace.
“Alright, we should be safe.” He let out a long sigh of relief, his tone carrying a hint of the relief of surviving a disaster: “That guy Mashu probably won’t chase us anymore.” In order to flee for his life, the gruesome wounds on Woodpecker’s body had only received sloppy emergency treatment.
By now, the blood had long since solidified and hardened, sticking his tattered clothes and mangled flesh together, forming patches of purplish-black scabs.
Amamiya Ayane thought to herself: It’s quite possible that the Puppeteer named Mashu never even had the intention of chasing the two of them.
After all, this escape route had been…
a bit too smooth sailing.
Yet Woodpecker was jumpy and suspicious of everything; if he saw a dog by the road, he felt like throwing a shuriken first to see if it was a Ninja in disguise.
The caution of the older generation of Anbu…
You’d better learn it!
But this was just her guess, and there was no evidence, so she could only swallow her words in silence.
‘I really need to get my hands on something like Sensory Ninjutsu; being a blind bat is just too passive.’ In her past life, she would use map hacks and quest markers just to play a game; how could she endure this grievance?
Woodpecker seemed extremely familiar with this forest.
He twisted and turned until he found a hollow tree, then let out a breath: “This is one of the Anbu safe houses here.
There are supplies stored inside that are updated regularly.” Glancing at the boy Amamiya Ayane had been carrying all the way, Woodpecker asked again, “Why haven’t you left him behind?
Are you going to take him all the way to the battlefield?” Amamiya Ayane gently laid the sleeping child flat on the ground.
“If we leave this child behind too, then not a single person from Maba Village will remain.” She answered softly, “There has to be someone…
to remember them, right?” The girl’s heart recalled the previous mutterings of Principal Ichii.
Woodpecker snorted.
He looked up at the demon mask on the girl’s face and said no more, only muttering in a low voice, “Heh…
naive and foolish womanly compassion.” Amamiya Ayane puffed out her chest, not getting angry, but instead saying proudly, “That’s right, I am a woman!” Although they had only traveled together for two days.
After experiencing a life-and-death battle together, she found that this guy Woodpecker didn’t seem to be a bad person.
Even though he kept saying Anbu don’t need emotions, if he were truly as cold and heartless as he claimed, he wouldn’t have waited until now to say those things!
“Swan, I need to apply medicine first.
You keep watch for me.” Woodpecker sat down cross-legged and instructed, “Stay sharp.
We’re very close to the front lines now; there’s no telling if Konoha Ninja might be scouting around here.” Can you stop raising flags?
If you love making things difficult for yourself so much, why are you called Woodpecker?
You might as well change your name to Crow!
While Amamiya Ayane complained in her heart, she leaped onto a tree branch, responding with her actions.
She was also very tired now.
Her hands and feet were soft, and every muscle in her body was screaming for rest.
After successive battles followed by a day and night of flight, even a ‘vegetative person’ with 13 billion cells like a Ninja would find it hard to hold on.
But there was no choice; who told her she was the only pillar of support right now?
She briefly observed the surroundings and found no signs of abnormality.
She found a hidden spot to sit down and then called up her status panel.
[You have completed a grueling physical training!] [achievement points +16!] The first two prompts that popped up almost made the girl lose her composure.