Naruto Manga 407: Message Decoded!

Naruto Manga Chapter 407: To Naruto. As the decoding effort continues in the cryptography unit of the Hidden Leaf Village, Shikamaru is growing a little impatient with Naruto who has been looking at the coded message yet is saying nothing the whole time. It was then that he blurted out that it is because he is puzzled why, despite all the numbers, the message started with a katana “ta” character which everyone have mistaken for the number 9. Only Naruto managed to notice this from all those times Jiraiya made him read his handwritten drafts for the past three years. From this development, they figured that Jiraiya’s message could be in a line number, word markers, or pages of any of his written books.

With Kakashi’s suggestion, they looked in to the Come Come Tactics, the book Jiraiya was writing when he was training Naruto. From it, they manage to decode a message saying, “The real one isn’t with them.” They decided to consult it with Fukusaku-sama to see if it’ll make sense to him.

Elsewhere, the six-person Pain prepares to attack the leaf to capture the nine-tail beast.