Chapter 6C6
Kana had guessed that Kurama Sa would eventually be taken back by the clan, but she didn't expect that day to come so soon and so suddenly.
Can't people just study peacefully for a few more days? She hated it.
Ultimately, the expectations that the Kurama clan and Huangxing had for him were different.
Sa's blood relatives want him to constantly improve his illusion magic, increase his strength, and revitalize the family. For this, everything else is unimportant.
Huangxing, whom he had only known for three years, wanted him to live, and if possible, to live a happier life.
The Kurama clan discovered that the essence of the Desolate Star Cult's control over illusion magic was to temporarily seal off some of his abilities to reduce the corrosive effects of the Bloodstain Disease on him, rather than to enhance the power of the illusion magic.
After all, they are an old bloodline family. Even though they have long since declined, a dispute with the village's higher-ups would be enough to make Arahoshi, a grassroots ninja with no background and no allegiance, suffer.
Sa was expelled from school and taken back to her clan for further education.
Huangxing was sent by the village to carry out a long-term mission.
As for her, perhaps because she was just an insignificant little thing, the Kurama clan didn't go to the Hyuga clan old men to complain. It was a minor matter if she was caught and scolded by the main family. If she were found to be "neglecting her duties" by learning illusion magic, it wouldn't be so easy to fool her. She might be forced to participate in the daily clan training.
Kanae went to several places the three of them usually frequented, searching every nook and cranny, but found nothing.
Neither Sa nor Huangxing said goodbye to her.
Perhaps it's because she's not important.
Kana wasn't actually that heartbroken. You see, that's the advantage of being "partners"—you can break up if something happens. If she had listened to Arahoshi's nonsense and become "friends" with them...
Well, she's bound to be upset now.
The fact that she had to reschedule her three mornings, which were originally filled with activities, made her a little unhappy; she didn't like things that went beyond her plans.
She did not go to find Itachi Uchiha as she had agreed with Shisui.
The question is, do you still have any shame?
This situation could easily lead people to misunderstand that she was keeping him as a backup option, right?
The timing was just too coincidental; it felt like she had no choice but to go to him because she couldn't have Sa.
Let's refuse to become "bad girls" starting with ourselves.
Kana changed her location to practice illusion magic.
Because the sound of the flute could easily arouse suspicion, she hung a small bell on the roadside bushes, set up wedges for illusions around her, observed people passing by who would trigger them, and repeatedly adjusted and improved the experiment.
The illusion techniques are harmless; they're just tricks that cause people to wander in the wrong direction. Even experienced ninjas can easily fall for them when they're caught off guard.
Some people didn't notice her, or even realize they had spent more time than usual, while others noticed but didn't care.
The white-haired ninja with a single eyepatch easily broke the illusion and quickly caught the culprit hiding in the tree. He picked her up, shook her, glanced at her, and judged that she exuded an aura of weakness and had no intention of killing him. He probably dismissed it as a child's prank and walked away with the composure of an adult.
It seems that this level of genjutsu still has too many flaws for a Jonin. Not to mention elite ANBU members like Haku-kai—of course they have masks—even Jonin like Hyuga Hiashi, who spends most of his time hiding behind the branch family and being protected, seems a bit crude.
Ugh... I don't know why, but it's so annoying.
Kana stopped her deduction, spread her arms and fell backward, sinking into the thick grass. The sky was cut into irregular holes by the branches and leaves, and the wind blew the clouds into ever-changing shapes, reflecting the sunlight that was scattered into many colors, just like the sky called spring in Kurama's painting.
It's so quiet... Maybe it's because Kurama and Arahoshi are too noisy. Habit is a terrible thing. It's only been a little over ten days, but her ears have already gotten used to the noise?
I feel a little sleepy... Even with the system cheat that makes one session better than six, the bliss of sleeping soundly in a soft blanket is still irreplaceable.
Or... should I quit?
System: Where's the logic?!
Kana: "System, could you check if the queue on the Bridge of Helplessness is still long?"
The system replied irritably, "Ten thousand miles."
"I don't think it's accurate. Why don't you go see for yourself?"
"This is the Naruto world, where many people die."
That reason worked, and Kana was convinced, so she stopped worrying about the queue. She lay down on the grass, and the leaves of the reeds shyly bent down to kiss her cheeks, but Kana, being the clueless straight woman she was, just waved them away.
The system was still earnestly advising her that if you don't work hard when you're young, you'll regret it when you're old. It urged her to take advantage of the fact that the target, Hyuga Neji, is young, naive, and easy to fool, and quickly increase his favorability.
Kana would rather choose HARD mode than take care of the crying little kid.
The system continued to tirelessly tell her that there would be rewards if she made progress in increasing her favorability.
"I'm getting annoyed, I'm getting annoyed if you keep talking," she warned the system.
The system with KPI pressure is much more dedicated than Kana, who is always ready to give up. Given that this task taker is not easily swayed by either soft or hard tactics, I had to reveal more information to her, telling her that if she wanted to make a significant breakthrough in illusion magic, she could also try to earn rewards by completing tasks.
However, the system's understanding of Kana is clearly not deep enough, because when she really gets stubborn, nothing anyone says will matter, and sometimes she is even prone to rebelling.
Kana did a sit-up, drew the short sword tucked behind her waist, and held it to her own neck with such fluid movements that one couldn't help but wonder if she had planned this all along.
"Get ready to go and find the 101st person..."
The book says that all the flowers in the world have faded in April. But here, the reeds are just beginning to bloom. The tiny stamens shaken off by the wind are like willow catkins, like clouds and smoke, and like fragments of time splashed in the ever-flowing river of time, reflected between two pairs of eyes that meet.
The wind stopped whispering, the spiders diligently spinning their webs remained motionless, and the dew hanging from the tips of the leaves stopped flowing.
In just a moment, the lost time was swept away by the massive torrent, and water droplets crashed to the ground, shattering into a final, poignant tale of fallen petals.
Itachi Uchiha gripped her hand tightly, his grip wide enough to almost completely envelop her hand. "What are you doing?"
Kana suppressed the strange feeling in her heart, unsure whether she had just been subjected to Itachi Uchiha's genjutsu, and how he could appear in front of her in an instant without her noticing.
Fate always seems to favor certain people, and Uchiha Itachi was a top-tier genius.
She frowned, but her hand holding the knife only moved slightly before it was immediately and forcefully restrained.
Looking into his incredibly serious eyes, Kana, torn between rambling nonsense and telling the truth, blurted out: "Life has no meaning."
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