Looking at the two guards next to Cardo, they were wearing black trench coats with an aster flower logo printed on the back of the black trench coat, and you knew that these people were not ordinary guards.

Not only that, beside the twelve carriages filled with goods, there were nearly twenty guards, all wearing the same style of black trench coats with asters logos printed on the back.

It means that they come from the same force.

After thinking about it for a while, the leading jounin felt relieved.

Although Aster Flower Company has not been established in the Kingdom of Ghosts for a long time, it is probably only a matter of time before it becomes a giant company in the pharmaceutical industry.

There must be a special department that trains armed personnel to protect the safety of their products.

However, with so many guards, it seems that the total value of this batch of medicines is so high that ordinary people can't even imagine that it requires so many guards to protect it.

In short, this is not something you should consider.

The mission of my team is just to safely escort the Shionka Company's caravan delegation to Konoha.

The rest of the business cooperation is the Hokage's job.

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The next morning, Konoha's four-man ninja team, together with the guards from Shionka Company, escorted twelve carriages loaded with medicines and set off towards Konoha, the Country of Fire.

Because these valuable medicines had to be escorted, the convoy moved very slowly.

It wasn't until two o'clock in the afternoon that I slowly felt the junction of the Kingdom of Rain and the Kingdom of Fire.

"Mr. Cardo, go through the canyon ahead and walk a little further to the border of the Fire Country."

The jounin leading the team pointed to the huge canyon submerged in the rain ahead, pointing the direction to Kado.

"Let the people behind you move faster."

Cardo nodded and said something to the guard next to him.

The guard then went down and conveyed Cardo's order.

"When you reach the border of Fire Country, you don't have to worry about bandits on the road. We have Konoha's border defense force at the border."

The leading Jonin said with a smile.

"The ability of Konoha ninjas has always been the best in the ninja world, which our company can trust. In fact, we come here with a win-win attitude of cooperation this time."

Cardo responded with a smile.

While talking, the convoy had slowly driven into the canyon.

When we got here, the rainfall began to decrease, but there was still a muddy road under our feet. Not only was it difficult to walk on foot, but the speed of the convoy also needed to be reduced to ensure the safety of the medicines in the carriage.

In this regard, the leading Jonin and Kado did not say anything. A country like the Country of Rain, which has been in chaos for many years, cannot even guarantee the safety and livelihood of its own people, let alone invest excess funds in road construction.

Already.

"team leader……"

Kakashi and the other three chuunin came up at this time and whispered softly beside the leading jounin.

"Ah, I know."

Since entering the canyon, the leading jounin noticed that something was not right about the atmosphere here, and there was a cold smell mixed in the rain.

boom!

The explosion came too suddenly, but the guards escorting the convoy and the Konoha ninja were not too scared.

As the fire exploded on the rock wall, huge rock blocks fell from above.

Kakashi took the lead and pulled out the White Fang dagger from behind, and swung it hard against the falling rocks.

The rock was divided into two halves in the middle, and then the falling rock was used as a stepping stone to attack the top of the rock wall.

Behind him, the Jonin captain and two Chuunin teammates also rushed forward.

What greeted them was a large number of kunai and shuriken thrown from the sky.

Cardo stood calmly in the team. The two guards in black trench coats standing beside him also had unchanged expressions, like stone pillars standing in the rain.

Among the guards wearing black windbreakers around them, half stayed to protect the vehicle, and the other half fought in cooperation with Konoha's four ninjas to annihilate the invading enemies.

"Really, I couldn't help but want to take action when I got here. It seems that I overestimated these people."

Kado was sitting on the footboard of a carriage, unfazed by the sound of fighting in his ears.

Since he took over the company, he has been subject to several such assassination attacks every month, but the fact that he is still alive and well is proof of the strength of Aster Flower Company.

"There's nothing we can do about it, after all, the value of this batch of medicines is too tempting."

"It's worth watching as a sideshow. Let's solve it quickly."

"yes."

Developing the company and making it profitable is Kado's mission.

And it is their job to destroy the enemy.

After fighting the attackers, Kakashi immediately understood the identity of these people through the fighting. They were samurai and knew some about the application of chakra. Some of them were wandering ninjas who knew some practical low-level ninjutsu.

For him, who had learned White Fang's sword skills, these people were not strong enough to pose a threat.

But it might be a little troublesome for those two chuunin companions.

Seeing the two of them fighting hard, they were almost hit by the enemy's attacks several times, but Kakashi just glanced at them and made sure that his leading jounin was not far away, and the lives of the two of them were not in any danger.

Therefore, Kakashi simply ignored the hard battle that the two faced.

Rather than thinking about this kind of thing, what he wants to do is to eliminate the enemy as quickly as possible and complete the mission as soon as possible.

As enemies fell one after another, as Kakashi shuttled through the rain, the blood on the White Fang dagger in his hand was washed away by the rain, turning red and white, white and red again, and changed repeatedly.

The battle ended after ten minutes.

At the cost of a few minor injuries, they defeated all these people. Some others saw that the situation was not good and ran away without anyone pursuing them.

"Mr. Cardo, we can continue on our way."

The leading jounin wiped the blood from his shoulders and clothes. The pungent smell of blood was very weak in the rain.

When Kado pushed up his sunglasses on the bridge of his nose and ordered the convoy to move on, there seemed to be a dispute on Kakashi's side:

"Hey, Kakashi, what's wrong with you? Didn't you see that we were sending you a support signal just now?"

After the battle, the two chunin who were working with Kakashi for the first time were very dissatisfied with Kakashi's indifferent attitude just now.

Because there were so many enemies besieging the two of them, they suffered a lot.

"With the strength of the two of you, I think you will be fine even without my help."

Kakashi told the truth.

These two people are also very strong, and in that situation of being surrounded, they are enough to defeat the besieging enemies.

Being able to eliminate as many enemies as possible, considering the situation at the time, Kakashi thought this was the best choice.

The sooner the enemy is eliminated, the sooner the safety of this batch of medicines will be out of danger.

"What did you say? Do you have the guts to say it again? Aren't we partners in the same team?"

The chuunin grabbed Kakashi's collar.

"I said, I judge that when your two lives are not in danger, destroying the enemy as quickly as possible is the top priority at the time. The longer the time goes on, the more dangerous the convoy will be. Compared to you,

The safety of this batch of drugs is more important."

The two chuunin's faces were ashen and they looked completely ugly.

"Okay, you three, don't end up like this the first time we work together. I was watching at the time, and I won't let anything happen to you three."

The leading jounin smiled apologetically at Kado, then walked helplessly to the side of the three of them, trying to stop their relationship from deteriorating further.

"Tch. I can't get along with this kind of person at all."

The two chunin then gave up and began to treat their wounds.

"I just want to minimize the risk of mission failure."

Kakashi also tilted his head to one side, apparently still believing that his choice was the right one.

The Jonin captain scratched his head, feeling a headache.

He knew that this was the case, Kakashi was more difficult to deal with than he thought.

He probably won't be able to stay in his team for much longer.

I really hope that some jounin can educate this genius brat well and then let him out to carry out missions.

Otherwise, if this continues, a team will not be able to form a good collaborative relationship at all.

"It's funny, Mr. Cardo, let you see such a shameful side of our Konoha."

"It seems like it's not easy to be a jounin either."

Kado said with a smile.

The Jonin captain smiled helplessly.
To be continued...