Chapter 890

"I know, just let me tidy up and we'll head out…" Young Yuanzi rubbed her still-itchy ears, reluctantly leaving Lin Cheng's soft and loving embrace, and stretched lazily.

"It's fine, we can continue again at the next resting place." The current Lin Cheng—or rather, it would be more appropriate to call her 'Kaguya'—even though her appearance was different and her age didn't match the previous reports from Little Jue, she could be completely certain that the little girl Young Yuanzi before her eyes was the love she had lost a thousand years ago.

If this were a dream, she truly hoped she would never wake up. Watching Young Yuanzi reluctantly fixing her hair in front of the mirror, and recalling the feeling of Young Yuanzi obediently lying on her lap just now, Kaguya found it hard to suppress the turmoil in her heart, wanting to pull the other back into her embrace—little, soft Young Yuanzi.

Knock knock knock!

At this moment, the untimely sound of knocking rang out again, bringing Little Mei's flat, unchanging voice, interrupting what Kaguya had just been about to do.

"Lord Young Yuanzi, everyone is already prepared. How much longer will you need on your end? Do you need me to help?"

Hmph, this one called Mizukaze Mei—Little Jue's report had mentioned her very clearly. She was one of those vixens who harbored bold thoughts about Young Yuanzi. Before this, when they decided to rest here, if Little Jue hadn't relied on acting cute to demand sharing a room with her, one could well imagine what would happen if she were allowed to look after Young Yuanzi—it would simply be like putting delicious fried tofu together with a fox.

"There's no need to rush. Young Yuanzi and I know the time. We absolutely won't delay the departure."

Although she didn't want to give a pleasant face, she immediately let it go. She had been away from Young Yuanzi's side for so long, yet the vixen still hadn't been able to seduce Young Yuanzi away, so why bother with an opponent that couldn't even be called a threat? Her mood instantly improved, and Kaguya then added, "The enemies have already been driven back by Young Yuanzi, and when they finally retreated, they directly broke out of my Byakugan's tracking range. Even if they regroup and come after us again, we still have plenty of time to deal with it."

Actually, they won't come after us again. The purpose of the 'assassination' of Little Jue has already been achieved—that is, to make Lin Cheng leave the center of Konoha, so that Kaguya could replace her without being noticed. As for what comes next, the brief rest action has nothing to do with those Mist ninja anymore.

Precisely because she knew this, Kaguya was in no hurry at all. Only after Young Yuanzi had finished tidying up did she open the door for Little Mei, who had already been standing outside for quite a while.

A few minutes later, several people who would be acting together gathered in Jiraiya's room.

"First is the news brought to us by the Leaf Anbu. It seems the Mist ninja have already given up the assassination—at least on the surface."

Looking at Little Jue sitting intimately next to 'Lin Cheng' over there, whispering, Jiraiya secretly thought that their mission from here on could perhaps change its route.

"On the surface, that also means it's very possible they've gone into hiding, waiting for us to let our guard down?"

Little Mei also felt that the Mist ninja's previous retreat was too thorough. Not to mention the Byakugan's detection range, even the ice mirrors she had left along the way had shown no response.

"Unless the Mizukage personally orders the mission canceled, they won't give up the mission even if they fight to the last man." Zabuza seemed to recall something unpleasant, and even his tone was very heavy. It was obvious he was of the faction that didn't believe the Mist ninja would casually give up on assassination.......

"What's more, the commander dispatched this time is that Kisame Hoshigaki."

Zabuza, who came from the same village as Kisame Hoshigaki, saying this was more persuasive than anyone else present. Instantly, everyone fell into silence, pondering whether to proceed with the original migration plan or change course and head straight for the final destination.

Kaguya did not erase Lin Cheng's personality. If one absolutely had to give an example, it would be like adding about 1 GB of new content to a file named Lin Cheng. The file name is still Lin Cheng, but most of the content is Kaguya. What comes next will be a joint performance by Little Jue and Kaguya. This mother-daughter pair plans to trick Young Yuanzi into it as well.

Despite considering that the Mist ninja might still not have lifted the assassination order, Jiraiya still led everyone onward.

But for several consecutive days after that, their team was not attacked again. The Konoha Leaf Anbu's investigation also confirmed that Kisame Hoshigaki had already returned to the Mist Village with a dark expression. Presumably, through this failure, the Mizukage would develop great doubt about the strength of this right-hand man of his. Even if he immediately gave orders and sent someone else, it would be impossible to organize an assassination team of the previous scale too quickly.

"The latest bulletin from the Elder Council—the communication hawk at our liaison office in the City of Fire has relayed back the Daimyo's orders."

To ensure the accuracy and security of the intelligence, the Leaf Anbu did not choose to use a communication hawk, but instead directly sent a dedicated person to deliver the latest intelligence obtained into Jiraiya's hands. After reading through the entire scroll, Jiraiya furrowed his brows.