The following time passed rather dully, Sakura studied quietly, Mizuki entertained customers from time to time and tidied up the furnishings in the store, although he was still not very familiar with it, but he managed to avoid making a fool of himself.

Nearing noon, Xiaochun brought lunch boxes for a few people, and the three of them sat around a small table and casually ate lunch.

"How did Mizuki-sensei and Tsubaki-senpai know each other?" Sakura seemed quite interested in their relationship.

"We have known each other since we were young and grew up together." Xiao Chun answered readily.

"A girl this young already has a gossipy nature?" Mizuki couldn't help but complain to Sakura in his heart.

"Eh?" Sakura obviously wouldn't be satisfied with the simple answer, "That's great, the relationship we've cultivated since childhood, I wish Sasuke and I could have the same success."

"Don't you know that childhood sweethearts are usually no match for the one who dropped from the sky?" Mizuki couldn't help but say, "You better keep a close eye on your Sasuke, or he might be snatched away by a strange girl who suddenly appears out of nowhere."

"Is that so? What is the Sky Drop System?" Sakura didn't quite understand.

"Shuimu," Xiaochun scolded, "Don't talk nonsense."

Then he comforted Sakura and said, "Don't listen to his nonsense. Sasuke will see how hard you work."

…

After quickly finishing lunch, Sakura continued with her studies, but Tsubaki pulled Mizuki aside, as if she had something to say.

"What's wrong? Is there anything wrong?" Shuimu said to Xiaochun.

"Something seems to have gone wrong with your experiments?"

"What?" This news really surprised Shuimu.

"There were some changes a few days ago, and I thought it was normal, but today I realized something was wrong."

"Did you bring the stuff?"

"I selected a few samples and brought them back."

"I see." Mizuki turned to Sakura and said, "We have to leave for a while, so Sakura, please help take care of the store."

"Okay, Mizuki-sensei," Sakura agreed.

After returning home, Shuimu couldn't wait to take Xiaochun's sealed scroll and opened it to take a look.

"It is indeed very abnormal, and the degeneration is very serious."

If it were just this, Shuimu would not be surprised. The atavism that only occurred due to the stimulation of the drug, without external interference, should have degenerated and disappeared as the development was complete, and should have been covered up by the more effective characteristics. It was just an empty shell of flesh, without the corresponding strength and internal support, and the mutations caused by the alienation of strength should have disappeared first.

But it was obvious that something was wrong with these experimental subjects. It seemed that most of them should be clones of Uchiha Sasuke. The vertical crack of the third eye on the forehead had completely disappeared, and the double horns on the head were almost invisible. If these were still expected, then the abnormal aging and atrophy phenomenon was incredible. With Sasuke's age and talent, the cell activity should be much greater than Mizuki's, but Mizuki's clones were still alive after continuous overdrafts, while Sasuke's clones could not hold on first. It was completely out of common sense.

"Could it be that the overpowerful atavism has overdrawn too much vitality? This is the result of trying to master too high-end power without the corresponding foundation?"

After thinking for a while, Shuimu took out some of the chakra that Sasuke had collected when his curse seal exploded, and injected some of it into a smaller, but extremely aged sample. In an instant, it quickly absorbed the nutrient solution and grew at an extremely terrifying speed. Red and black runes covered its entire body in an instant, and an inexplicable wave that even the room's shielding barrier could not block was emanating.

At this moment, in the intensive care unit of Konoha Hospital, Sasuke, who was originally in stable condition and sleeping peacefully, suddenly had his curse seal break out abnormally. Stimulated by the wave not far away, the curse seal slowly broke through the restraints of the evil seal. The severe pain immediately made Sasuke scream in his sleep, and immediately alarmed the Anbu on duty.

"What happened?" Faced with such a sudden change, the Anbu, who had no idea what was happening, was helpless. "Wasn't he fine just now? Did his injury get worse? Why did the curse seal suddenly break out?"

Hearing the noise, Hatake Kakashi, who was not far away, came over quickly, checked and asked; "Did anything happen just now?"

"Not at all. It just happened out of the blue."

"I see." Kakashi thought for a while and ordered, "Check the area carefully to see if someone or something has stimulated the curse seal."

"Yes." The Anbu dispersed in an instant.

In a private house not far from the hospital, Kabuto Yakushi, who was observing the situation from afar and preparing to attack Uchiha Sasuke, saw that the hospital had suddenly strengthened its security, so his original plan had to be temporarily postponed.

Far away in the Otonin Village in the Land of Rice, Orochimaru, who was preparing to assassinate the Kazekage, also felt movement from the direction of Konoha.

"What's going on? This curse seal's power? Could it be that someone has set their sights on my Sasuke? Is it Danzo? It doesn't seem likely. The Third Hokage wouldn't hand over the village's last Uchiha to Danzo. The Third Hokage is so old-fashioned that he probably wouldn't do anything. So, someone has set their sights on the curse seal's power and is trying to break it?" Orochimaru immediately thought of the attackers in the Forest of Death.

"I don't know if it's the same person. I didn't expect that after not being in Konoha for so many years, there would still be such an interesting guy lurking in there. I must see him next time I go there."

Inside Shuimu's house, the two were watching this horrible change in fear and trepidation.

"Shuimu, what on earth did you do?" Xiaochun was completely confused about the situation.

"I don't know either." Mizuki answered with a wry smile. Who could have thought that just a little bit of chakra containing the power of the curse seal would have such a scary change?

The clone on the opposite side grew rapidly and soon broke through the constraints of the culture dish. The pressure emanating from its body became stronger and stronger. Soon, the body that had grown to its limit began to stabilize, but the consequences of rapid growth began to appear, and the extremities aged rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

As the body continued to overdraw, the aura of the superior became stronger and stronger. The clone that had grown to its limit began to age and gradually turned into a wisp of black ash and fell. The whole body was shaking slightly, showing a strange red color. The tightly closed eyes trembled slightly, and seemed to be about to open. The aura of a natural enemy that had been in power for a long time and made people lose the ability to resist was about to burst out from the eyes.

"Not good." Mizuki suppressed the fear in his heart, took out a kunai, and swung it hard. The kunai flew out and directly blinded the opponent's eyes.

But it's not over yet. The blind clone opened his mouth wide, as if unwilling to never see the true face of the world since he was born. The evaporation speed of his body accelerated, and his limbs had already turned into powder, and the decay gradually extended to above the torso.

The clone's body kept disappearing, but its hair grew abnormally fast. Then Shuimu saw an even more horrifying scene. Something was bulging slightly at the position of the third eye on the forehead which should have disappeared long ago, and the skin there was cracked. The tissue that should have not existed long ago was about to appear in front of the person with all the vitality of all the cells in the body supplying it.