After hearing Nagato's words, Tsunade's first reaction came out of his heart was to reject his request.

The goal of this mission is to be a veteran ninja for decades, with rich experience, and Nagato is just a novice who has graduated less than a year. It is too dangerous to ask him to search for the other party's traces alone.

After all, this is just a B-level wanted mission, and even if it fails, it is no big deal. But if something happens to Nagato, it will be a real unacceptable loss for Konoha Village.

Tsunade opened her mouth and was about to say no, but suddenly hesitated.

Nagato could not always be under Konoha's protection. The third-generation Naruto and several consultants spent so much resources to cultivate him in order to allow Konoha to appear another powerful person like the first-generation Naruto, so that Konoha can dominate the world again.

If you want to become the strongest, talent alone is not enough. You have to go through a lot of tempering and even tests between life and death. At that time, her grandfather, Hashirama Senju, grew up little by little in the cruel war, experienced countless battles, and eventually became the invincible god of ninja.

Last time in the final of the Chunin Exam, Nagato had proved that he had combat power comparable to the Shanginin. According to the information of the third generation of Naruto, Yuki Oshiba was seriously injured and his strength was greatly reduced, which was a very suitable opponent for Nagato.

Of course, this alone is not enough to change Tsunade's mind. There is another reason why she hesitated.

Because he was the first squad leader of the Uenin, Tsunade not only knew about the Samānāna, but also knew a secret, which was told by the third generation of Naruto.

Nagato and Uzumaki Kushina are related to the Samurai Eye and the Nine Tails. They are extremely important to Konoha and have no substitutability. Therefore, in order to ensure the safety of them, whether in Konoha Village or when they go out to perform missions, there are always two Ninjas from Anbu who are secretly protecting them by their side.

And these four Anbe ninjas are all proficient in hidden ninjutsu, so the third generation of Naruto doesn't have to worry about being discovered by Nagato or Kushina Uzumaki's perception ninjutsu.

Tsunade knew very well that Anbe ninja was now hidden dozens of meters behind the four. They would only rescue them when the first squad encountered a huge crisis that she could not solve.

Just relying on Nagato to search for Yuhui Oshima alone, even if the latter is seriously injured, there is still a high risk of failure. However, the two Anbu Shanginin are different. In this case, even if Nagato really meets Yuhui Oshi Oshi and fights with the other party, it is impossible to encounter real life danger.

Moreover, the process of finding Yuuki Oshima can also increase Nagato's ninja experience. Since that's the case, it's better to take this opportunity to let him exercise.

Thinking of this, Tsunade changed her initial thoughts and nodded to Nagato, "Okay, Nagato, what you said makes sense. The four of them are indeed a little less efficient in acting together. Since that's the case, let's act separately."

"But Nagato, you have to remember that compared with completing tasks, your own safety ranks first, so you must be vigilant when acting alone. And if you really discover Yuuki Oshima, don't act rashly. It's best to notify us first."

"In addition, in three hours, whether there are traces of Dachai Yonghui found or not, we will come back here to meet."

Nagato nodded solemnly, "Yes, I get it."

"Tsunade Teacher." Uzumaki Kushina, who was standing next to Nagato, blinked, looked at Tsunade, and said, "I also want to search for Daishi Yukihiro alone like Nagato. We can divide it into three groups, so the search speed will be faster."

Although she knew that she had been far away from Nagato in terms of strength, Kushina Uzumaki had never given up on her idea of ​​overtaking Nagato, so in order not to lose to Nagato, she also made the same request.

"No." Tsunade did not hesitate this time and decisively rejected Kushina Uzumaki.

"Why?"

Tsunade looked speechless, and reached out to lightly knock on Kushina Uzumaki's head, "Kushina, don't forget, we are the only ones who can sense ninjutsu here. If you go to act alone, then Kou and I will become blind, so you must act with us."

"Uh...so that's it, okay." Kushina Uzumaki nodded angrily.

Tsunade looked around and found that she was standing in the center of the Flame Castle now. She thought for a few seconds and said, "Kushina, I want to search for the northern part of the Flame Castle, Nagato, and the southern part of the Flame Castle."

"No problem." Nagato nodded again.

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Watching Tsunade and the others walk away, Nagato turns around and opens the eyes of his soul again, dozens of chakra auras appear in his perception.

Except for Tsunade and the other three who had not yet left their perception range, these auras were mostly very unfamiliar to Nagato, but there were two different auras. Not far behind him, there were two chakra auras that were very familiar to him.

This was the breath of the Anbe ninja who had been following him to monitor and protect him. More than half a year ago, he left Konoha for the first time to complete the mission. These Anbe ninjas also followed him together, and they were not absent from every mission out since then.

Nagato himself was not surprised by this. When he was in Konoha Village, the third generation of Hokage could not feel at ease with him. He wanted to send Anbu ninjas to follow him. It would be even more unlikely to feel at ease after Konoha came out, so there was nothing strange about these Anbu followed him.

According to his conjecture, these Anbe ninjas who secretly protected him and Kushina Uzumaki should have specially learned the ninjutsu of hidden breaths, which can block the detection of the perceptual ninjutsu.

The reason why Nagato thought this was because Uzumaki Kushina, Uzumaki Kushina, who were the same perceptual ninjas he learned, were both the eyes of the soul, but he never found traces of these Anbe ninjas around him.

Uzumaki Kushina is just a ten-year-old child and it is impossible to deliberately disguise like Nagato, so the only explanation is that she really knows nothing about these Anbe ninjas.

And this can also explain why the third generation of Naruto knew that Nagato had learned perceptual ninjutsu, but he was not worried that he would notice the monitors around him.

But what the third generation of Naruto didn't know was that these Anbe ninjas could not hide from Nagato's perception.

The simple mind eye cannot sense these Anbe ninjas, but Nagato's mind eye is greatly enhanced by the Sakura Eye, just like his other ninjutsu. Both the perception range and the perceptual intensity are far beyond the limit of the B-level ninjutsu, but he usually shows it unsatisfied.

After the strengthening of the Samānarine Eye, Nagato's Mind Eye had cracked the Hidden Technique and detected their traces.

At the same time, Nagato also knew one thing. In addition to these two Anbe ninjas, there were other surveillancers around him, that is, Bai Jue, who was responsible for collecting intelligence under Uchiha Madara.

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