…There aren’t any traces of anyone having lived here for a long time. Looks like it’s best to think of it as an abandoned base.
He wondered how far they had walked.
Sasuke spotted a lone scroll inside the darkness.
It wasn’t placed in a way that stuck out. Amongst countless rotten scrolls, it was the only one intact. Someone without Sasuke’s rare skills of observation wouldn’t have been able to spot it.
Sasuke carefully took the scroll into his hands, and while making sure it’s outside wasn’t eroded, tied it to his belt.
A document that had been treated so it could withstand the passage of time had to be some confidential piece of evidence.
Outside the window, lightning cut through the shades of black upon black.
And, simultaneously, a slashing attack approached.
An enemy, huh.