Half a month later.
Land of Earth, Iwagakure.
In the mission room, a disgruntled, short-statured young man was meticulously sorting through stacks of mission scrolls. Whenever he spotted a difficult S-rank mission, he would give it a second look, but the moment he saw an escort mission, no matter how high the reward, he wouldn't even glance at it before tossing it aside.
Chapter 73