"Captain!!"
In a forest blasted into craters and shattered roots, an Iwa-nin stumbled forward, reporting in panic:
"There are too many traps ahead! Five of our men are already injured!"
"Captain… should we detour around this area?"
Huff… huff…
The chicken-nest-haired captain dragged a long, shaking breath through his teeth.
Then he exploded:
"ARE YOU A PIG?! If we detour—how the hell are we supposed to catch them?!"
The scolded Iwa-nin shrank like a whipped dog.
Of course he knew that taking a detour meant losing the chase entirely.
But going straight?
Straight into a field full of hidden traps, explosions, and death?
He swept a look at the other Iwa-nin—
All trembling.
All pale.
Not one eager to die.
The captain let out a deep, miserable sigh.
The "big catch" he was excited about earlier had escaped…
And now he had to report this disaster to the Third Tsuchikage.
After a long, suffocating silence—
"You. Go collect the bodies of our three comrades."
"Wh… what…"
The order drained the color from his men's faces even more.
"What? Do you want ME to go personally?! MOVE!!"
Under their captain's glare, the subordinates could only bow their heads.
The higher-ups crush you until you break…
No one dared refuse.
They jogged toward the lake—
Only to find that the diced remains of their comrades had drifted apart and sunk.
They stood at the water's edge, horrified.
Eventually, gagging, trembling, swallowing back vomit—
They dove in.
Searching for scraps of flesh and bone.
The lake was wide.
The current had scattered everything.
In the end, they scooped up whatever bits they could find, couldn't tell whose was whose, shoved them all together, and sealed the mess into a scroll.
A funeral mound made of minced meat.
Meanwhile
By a calm riverbank far from danger—
Yagami's team washed off the blood and smoke.
Tekuno had bandaged Kakashi's wounds.
The boy now sat on the bank, staring at Yagami with blank, dead-fish eyes.
The massacre replayed in his head.
He hadn't expected his new captain to be this powerful.
If Yagami hadn't unleashed such overwhelming killing power…
Kakashi was certain none of them would have survived.
Yagami finished washing, lifting his left arm to inspect it.
"The Uzumaki physique really is impressive," he muttered.
The wound he'd taken earlier—pierced fully through by a kunai—
Was already scabbing over.
A normal ninja would still be bleeding.
"System, I want to draw a lottery."
At the moment they escaped Tekuno's trap field, the system had already awarded him mission prestige.
He now had 2676 points.
Enough for two primary draws.
[Ding! Lottery panel opened. Please choose, master!]
"Primary draw."
Cards flipped in rapid succession—
Miscellaneous junk—
Snacks—
Tools—
Then the guaranteed reward lit up blue.
[Congratulations, master. You obtained skill: Kagura Shingan.]
Yagami froze.
"…I just got ambushed by someone I couldn't detect… so you give me a high-level perception technique?"
It was too convenient.
Too on-the-nose.
He suspected… strongly…
That his system had opened a backdoor for him.
But that was fine.
He liked this backdoor.
[Master, do you want to integrate Kagura Shingan?]
"How long?"
[Integration time: one second.]
"Oh? Then hurry up."
Instantly—
A surge of knowledge flooded his mind.
He opened his eyes.
"Kagura Shingan… activated."
A pulse spread outward from him like ripples on a pond.
Suddenly—
He could feel everything.
Every chakra signature.
Every life-form.
Every breath of movement—
Kakashi peeking at him from the corner of his eye…
Tekuno quietly opening a hidden snack under his shirt…
"…This teammate is really hungry."
The more he let go—
The farther his senses reached.
One kilometer.
Five.
Ten.
Tens of kilometers.
"It's too strong…"
If he'd had this earlier, he wouldn't have been surrounded at all.
He turned his perception toward the lake—
Wanting to see whether the remaining Iwa-nin were still nearby.
If they were…
He could go back and finish the job.
160 prestige from killing three enemies
was extremely tempting.
But halfway through scanning—
"Huh…? This is…"
He detected two chakra signatures.
Male and female.
Doing… very vigorous… "primitive exercises" in the forest.
"…PFT?!"
Yagami instantly shut off Kagura Shingan.
His face stiffened.
Ten years in this world.
Ten years training.
Ten years without… release.
His hormones were very much alive.
"…I think it's time to find a girlfriend."
Yagami sighed at the sky.
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