Chapter 4 C4
Kana, who was "sentenced to life imprisonment," considers herself to have good judgment, as evidenced by the fact that she has recently stopped using binoculars to catch Uchiha Itachi.
She's been replaced.
System: Ha, woman.
This time, the target is Kurama Sasa, who is two grades above her and needs to take leave from time to time to recuperate at home due to health reasons.
To be honest, Kana's "strategy" was quite clumsy in the eyes of the system that had gone through ninety-nine trials.
But if you say she's not putting her heart into it, it's true that cooking different dishes every day is no easy task. But if you say she's sincere, she's too lazy to even change her routine.
As it turns out, the Kurama clan was much easier to approach than the Uchiha clan.
Or perhaps it's simply because Kurama Hayate is much easier to talk to than Uchiha Itachi.
At least by the time she made boiled oranges with salt, Kurama Sa, who coughed violently on windy days and vomited on rainy days, had already taken the bait.
When she suggested studying illusion magic, Kurama Sa tactfully explained that it was a family bloodline barrier and might not be of much help to her.
Kana thoughtfully explained that she just wanted to broaden her horizons and never expected to reach the level of the Kurama clan's "creation from nothingness".
And she never asked to see illusions again after witnessing them once—because she found that this ability was dangerous.
Kurama Sa is a good young man with a conscience.
Feeling guilty for accepting her food, he decided to take the initiative to introduce her to his illusion teacher.
As for why he wasn't taught by an elder in the clan...
Because no one in the previous two generations of the Kurama clan had awakened the ability of illusion magic, no one could teach him.
The scarcity of bloodline talents is the reason why the Kurama clan has fallen into such a state of decline.
As one of the few in the Kurama clan to inherit bloodline abilities, his talent was so-so, but it was enough to excite the silent and depressed clan. When they discovered his bloodline awakening at the age of five, they immediately went to great lengths to hire an illusion teacher for him.
The system stared in disbelief as this person, through a bizarre maneuver, successfully found himself a free illusion teacher in this world where teaching and imparting knowledge was extremely limited and narrow.
Huang Xing agreed to teach a six-year-old girl only because he was a student, even though he had no intention of seriously teaching her anything—he wouldn't take someone he didn't approve of as a disciple.
Kurama Sasa is too lonely.
Because he awakened a rare bloodline limit, he was given high hopes by his family. He was not allowed to contact his peers, and at the same time, he was tormented and eroded by a serious bloodline disease. Now, he is gradually being deprived of the ninja academy life that he had worked so hard to obtain.
Huang Xing admitted that what he was doing was a bit despicable, but if it could help Sa get the friendship he craved, it wouldn't be a bad thing.
But Huangxing didn't expect that Kana was not so easy to fool.
"If you don't want to teach, then don't agree." The girl's round face scrunched up. "Adults always teach children not to lie, is it because they're afraid that if children learn it, they'll easily see through adults' lies?"
The child's gaze and words were so direct that even an adult who had become adept at lying felt ashamed for a moment.
But as he grew older, so did his thick skin, so Huangxing quickly adjusted his mindset and asked, "How did you know?"
"Although I know you all think that the Byakugan is a useless, worthless, and trashy eye technique, and that's true..."
Wilderness Star: ?
Huangxing: No, wait, wait, wait, wait! I didn't have it!! That's the Byakugan! One of the three great dojutsu of the ninja world! So many people are fighting over it! So many people are envious! You can't just say things like that! If this gets back to the Hyuga clan, won't your clan leader come and fight me in the Heavenly Strike Return?!
He rubbed his temples. "I don't think so. The Byakugan is an extremely powerful bloodline limit..."
Kana said there was no need to force comfort against her conscience; everyone understood.
Huangxing is going crazy: What do you know? What are the brains of a six-year-old made of?
“If it weren’t for this, I wouldn’t understand,” Kana said calmly. “I’m standing in front of you with my eyes open, and you’re too lazy to even let your chakra flow in an orderly manner. You just casually make a few hand seals and think I’ll believe you’re teaching seriously.”
Kana felt that since she occupied this body, she occasionally needed to defend the Byakugan: "The Byakugan is useless, but it can see through things."
If Arahoshi had previously treated Kana with the attitude of "she's only six, I can just brush her off," now he at least considered her a ninja capable of carrying out missions. This is because only excellent ninjas can sense the flow of chakra. The ninja academy's curriculum doesn't systematically teach them how to control chakra but focuses more on shuriken techniques and hand seals. Even elementary school kids who haven't graduated from the ninja academy and many genin who have graduated don't really care about the flow of chakra. They simply develop a vague "feeling" through constant practice and then repeat it when performing ninjutsu later on—that's empiricism.
His previously slouching shoulders straightened involuntarily. "Are you really only six years old?"
Kana rolled her eyes. "I'm six years old, not stupid."
"Or do you think I'm an idiot?" Kana frowned. "That's an insult, isn't it? I reserve the right to report you to your boss."
Kana gradually lost patience and refused to continue talking to the shameless adult. "Don't worry, I will continue to come looking for Kurama."
"This is an agreement between him and me, and it has nothing to do with you."
"Similarly, whether you teach me or not is a matter between you and me, and has nothing to do with him."
He stopped Kana, who was already packing her things to leave, and said, "Come on, I'll teach you."
His credibility has clearly been compromised.
"Don't look at me like that, this time it's for real!"
Huangxing may be a decent illusionist ninja, but he is definitely not a good teacher.
His teaching did not start with principles, but perfectly inherited the teaching method that was prevalent throughout the ninja world: "Don't hesitate, just charge straight in, and you'll get it eventually."
So in the first lesson, Araboshi gave Kana a demonstration.
A gust of wind blew by, and Kana felt a little cold, but otherwise nothing happened.
Huang Xing could actually discern from her lifeless, expressionless face the meaning of "Is this person impotent?"
Wild Star: A real man can't say no! I'm totally fired up!!
"Wait, give me another chance."
He upgraded the level of his genjutsu from something used to deal with a newly graduated genin to something used to deal with an ordinary chunin, and then he noticed that Kana's gaze towards him was not only clear, but she was even starting to look bored.
No, is your surname Hinata? This magic resistance isn't right.
"Oh, if I could, I wouldn't want to have the surname Hyuga either."
Wilderness Star: ...
As Huangxing continuously increased the power of his illusions, Kana remained focused on observing the flow of chakra within him and the illusion medium he used as a medium.
The system was not de-silent until today's training session ended.
It must be said that Kana was very prescient, because the system immediately started to unleash a barrage of attacks.
Kana: "Isn't everything alright?" Although she's fragile, afraid of pain, and a bit of a slacker, her mental strength is pretty good.
"And to ensure your existence isn't revealed to the people of this world, you should have some kind of protection mechanism, right? In other words, the thing that has the least impact on me in this world is illusion magic."
Although this is true, it was never revealed to the mission participants why she could speak with such certainty.
How did the mission takers know?
"Because you said that we cannot break the laws of this world."
Kana felt from the beginning that the system of ninjas possessing power comparable to nuclear weapons but being forced to become killing tools was very bizarre.
Yes, daimyo own land and grain, while ninjas have a low status and are not entitled to farmland, so they need to rely on nobles and exchange mercenary missions for resources to survive.
However, truth lies only within the range of cannon fire, and dignity lies only on the edge of a sword.
Kana, heavily influenced by the ideas of "Are kings and nobles born with special privileges?" and "My fate is in my own hands, not in the hands of heaven," cannot understand why ninjas and commoners, who are oppressed to such an extent, have not rebelled against those disgusting, empty-headed nobles.
He even considered running away and taking a strategy of encircling the cities from the countryside to overthrow the Daimyo of the Land of Fire and establish a republic—after all, the political foundation of this world is as naive as playing house.
Imagine the ninja world being covered in crimson flags, what would we do? It seems like we'd have to set them on fire.
When the system detected her faint danger signal, it stopped her with the absurd reason that "the structure of this world cannot be destroyed."
By the same token, things like the system, which have transcended the laws of this world, cannot be exposed. But this is the Naruto world, where there are genjutsu, memory snooping, and soul transfer abilities. Without a protection mechanism, what's the point of playing?
System: You can apply that analogy?
"The taskers are very clever."
Kana remained completely unmoved.
I've heard this kind of talk countless times in my past life—it's all nonsense when you need something from someone.
Kana felt that there was no future in learning illusion magic from Arahoshi, and that she would be wasting her time by giving him the title of "teacher," so she decided to run away. However, Arahoshi refused to accept this and insisted on taking her as his apprentice.
System: What a nice exchange of offense and defense.
In order to give Kurama Sa a chance to leave his clan's territory, one of the conditions that Huangxing agreed to teach him from the Kurama clan was that he must come to his home to study.
Now, Aragaki has also brought Kana into the course.
Sasa used his paintings as a medium for illusions, but Kana touched herself all over and decided to use her flute.
Huangxing said that Kana has a great talent for illusion magic and learns very quickly. She can already start casting intermediate illusion magic, but the flute is not good. In her hands, it can become a weapon of destruction. He suggested that she change to something else.
Kana thought about it seriously and started to get excited. "How about we switch to a suona? I play it pretty well too."
She just said the same thing about her flute playing skills, making the sound of a suona (a traditional Chinese wind instrument) on a mere bamboo flute, almost sending people to their deaths.
Sa gave a forced smile: "Kana, I think your flute sounds beautiful."
Huang Xing briefly imagined her playing the suona and couldn't help but gasp: "No changing it! I'll fight anyone who tells you to change it!!"
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