Naruto: As a genin, I just want to live a normal life.

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In August, the climate in the Land of Lightning is quite pleasant. After all, the altitude is high, so even in summer, the temperature is exceptionally cool.

At this moment, Shirahoshi was traveling along the official road within the Land of Lightning with a caravan: on the way.

The boy wore a fox mask, and his hair, though not cut, was trimmed and had grown quite a bit longer. Now, with the mask on, it didn't quite match the original shape of his head.

When the caravan members asked Shirahoshi why she wore a mask, she replied that her good looks always brought her trouble, so it was better to wear a mask when traveling.

Another version of the story is that Shirahoshi claims to be a wandering doctor who enjoys traveling and sightseeing. It just so happens that the battles between ninjas seem to have stopped recently, and since the Land of Lightning has heard that there are many local delicacies, she wants to come and see them.

"Then you've asked the right person!"

The merchant in the caravan was a rather plump man. After Bai Xing finished speaking, he looked at Toka, who was sitting in the front row. While urging his horse forward, Toka smiled and introduced, "Wait for me to take you to the town of Cano ahead. There are high-end restaurants there that specialize in steaks, and the prices aren't too expensive!"

“Okay.” Bai Xing nodded, looking at the caravan behind him, which included a long line of other merchants and guards: each carriage was used to store goods, a very old-fashioned way of transporting goods.

Sometimes, Shirahoshi also thinks about some of the world's setting issues, but that's just how reality is, and she can only accept it: for example, the principle of ki is the same as the essence of chakra, both of which are refined by personal life force (cells and life force are the same thing).

However, his cultivation could only extract chakra; he couldn't see any qi or anything like that at all.

He believed that the system was definitely beyond the world level, but that didn't mean the rewards it gave him would be enough to suppress world-level rewards. Perhaps only when cells grew to a certain stage could they truly become what is called "qi"...

Tread-

Her thoughts were interrupted. Bai Xing glanced to the side, her pupils turning blue. The people in the caravan beside and behind her also looked up in the direction from which the voice came from.

In the forest, a ninja dressed in Cloud Village stepped on a tree trunk and then quickly passed through everyone's sight. When he saw one of them, Shirahoshi's eyes flickered slightly.

One of the Jonin immediately stopped in his tracks, and the other Cloud Village ninjas escorting the Jonin also stopped and looked nervously at the man: Brubi, whose original name was Fukai, was the partner who inherited the Absolute Bull Thunder Plow Hot Blade and needed to change his name.

"What's wrong? Is there something wrong with your body?" The Cloud Village ninja asked nervously as he took out a kunai and observed whether Brubi was leaking Tailed Beast Chakra.

The other Cloud Village ninjas also began to tense up and took out their kunai as well.

Their sharp gazes were fixed on their potentially out-of-control companions, while the kunai's edge was also subtly aimed at Brubi.

Brubi covered his head and looked at the caravan wagons that were still moving slowly forward, seemingly oblivious to them. "Just now, it seemed like a strange gaze had spotted me... or rather, it seemed like it had discovered the tailed beast within me."

—Shirahoshi's new skill: Chakra Eye.

It is a skill that imitates the Mystic Eyes of the Shadow Master.

Only those whose chakra extracted from their own cells is of a quality and strength far exceeding that of ordinary people, and who can master the technique of effectively strengthening their eyes with chakra, can use it.

For eye techniques other than Sharingan, Byakugan, and Blood Dragon Eye, the eyes that cannot see the white star turn light blue and still appear as black eyes.

Difficulty: Super S level.

Having Yin Release and Yang Release chakra attributes is the best, but having no attribute attributes is also acceptable. However, learning no attribute attributes is much more difficult, a level of difficulty that humans cannot achieve. Even having all attributes is about the same; one would need countless spare eyes to have a chance to learn it.

It's equivalent to simply using chakra to activate some of the functions of the Sharingan and Byakugan.

Normally, no ninja would dare to use it like this, because the cells and tissues of an ordinary person's eyeball are very fragile. If one is not careful, it may not be an enhancement, but a self-destruction.

But Shirahoshi's physical abilities are different, and she has trained many times in the ROOM space, which is why she can open it so quickly now.

"Eight-tails, huh."

Shirahoshi turned off her chakra eyes and continued to communicate with Toka with a smiling expression and tone.

Upon hearing Brubi's words, the Cloud Village ninja breathed a sigh of relief, lowered their weapons, and retrieved them.

"You're too cautious, sir."

"That's right. There's only one caravan here, and I also saw that the wagons are already quite full of goods, some of which are not even packed yet."

"Yes. This should be the Toca Merchant Guild from Cano Town."

After hearing this, Buliubi felt that his psychological issues had delayed his return to the village and had even caused his companion to make that face. He nodded dejectedly, "I understand. Let's continue!"

Brubi didn't go to the mental space to ask about the Eight-Tails, and the Eight-Tails seemed to have the same illusion. But this ability should only exist with the Sharingan, yet it didn't sense any Yin Release chakra from the Sharingan...

In the afternoon, Shirahoshi arrived in Kano Town and bid farewell to Toka's caravan. Before parting, Toka found Shirahoshi to be a very easy person to talk to and gave him a restaurant discount coupon with his name on it.

Bai Xing glanced at the restaurant and thought to herself, "This restaurant isn't yours, bro, is it?" But when they arrived, she indeed learned the owner's name from the staff: it really was Toca!

"Medium-rare beef steak, please enjoy."

"In addition, this is a complimentary bottle of red wine from our store. It is a fine wine made from black grapes that are a specialty of Gaoling Gorge."

The waiter poured Bai Xing a nearly full glass and explained the contents. At that moment, Bai Xing thought to himself, "Isn't red wine supposed to be decanted? Will it taste bad if I drink it like this?" He picked up the glass, listened to the waiter's explanation, and took a small sip.

His eyes immediately lit up: "Delicious! It doesn't taste like alcohol at all!"

The waiter picked up the bottle, took the cork from the table, sealed it, and said, "Yes, sir. This is a product unique to the town of Cano, a low-alcohol fruit wine. It's just a pity that the process is quite complicated and difficult to preserve... otherwise, it would probably be famous all over the world by now."

Then, the waiter saw Shirahoshi enjoying his wine and steak, but his handsome face seemed unfamiliar, so he asked, "Sir, you don't seem to be a local, do you?"

"Mmm." Bai Xing took a bite of the fresh steak, and upon hearing the waiter's words, nodded subconsciously: "I'm from another place. This is my first time enjoying such delicious food."

To be honest, a steak that is all-natural and freshly cut, and a wine that is like an artificially produced, low-volume fruit juice, would probably be very rare in modern times.

"Okay, then we won't disturb your meal any longer."

"By the way, how much does this bottle of wine cost? If the price is right..."

Upon hearing this, the male waiter smiled broadly and bowed, saying, "One bottle costs 100,000 Thunder Coins."

—The five great nations exchanged currencies with each other. At the end of the war, the exchange rate at the Ninja World Bank was 1.2:1; the exchange rate at the black market and gold exchange was around 1.5:1.

"..."

The male waiter looked up, glanced at the silent Bai Xing, and a smile of a top salesman appeared on his lips: "Of course, if the guest doesn't have much money on hand."

"You can also divide it into individual cups."

"Thirty thousand taels for a cup."

"..."

After waiting for a while without any response, the male waiter fell silent for a moment before finally smiling and offering Bai Xing a way out: "If the guest has nothing else, I'll..."

"One bottle, please."

"Eh?!"

"Iced."

Although Bai Xing felt bad about spending the money, she felt a little guilty for not spending it all, even though she had almost earned a hundred small goals.

Shortly after, the waiter placed a new bottle of wine on Bai Xing's table, along with a metal bucket filled with ice. After opening the bucket, he poured the wine inside, took a slight step back, and politely said:

"Guests, please use it slowly."

Then, Shirahoshi began to enjoy the fine wine and food in the hall, though his heart was bleeding inside. Luckily, he had exchanged a lot of Thunder Country currency on the black market, otherwise it wouldn't have been enough to cover his expenses.

The male waiter was wiping glasses behind the counter with a pleasant expression: a bottle of wine from Carnot would earn him a commission of two thousand taels of Lei coins, and a glass would cost five hundred taels.

At that moment, a dark-skinned man approached the counter. He wore a headband but had no markings, indicating that he was a wandering ninja.

"A glass of the town's special wine, please."

"Okay." The waiter thought to himself that he was about to make a fortune again, and hurriedly took out a glass of wine from the kitchen and poured it for the man... *smack!*

"A guest?" The waiter was surprised that the guest had grabbed the bottle from his hand. The man looked at the waiter expressionlessly: "Thirty thousand taels. Is that all?"

The waiter stiffly lowered his head, looking at the glass of red wine that was about to overflow if any more was poured, and nodded with a forced smile: "Yes. This has always been our standard."

The man sneered, picked up his glass, downed it in one gulp, and slammed it back on the table: "Not full? Pour it again!"

"Sir, sir, there's a charge for refilling your cup! I'm just a regular waiter, please don't..."

In an instant, a murderous gaze swept over, and the aura changed slightly, directly frightening the waiter into not daring to move.

"I'm a ninja! Do you even know how prestigious a ninja is?!"

"fall!"

At this moment, the restaurant manager, dressed in a suit and tie, came out and quickly apologized to the waiter for his behavior, saying that he would give the wandering ninja a discount coupon so that he could...

stab-

The sound of the bottle shattering on the ground made Shirahoshi, who was enjoying her meal, frown slightly. She looked up, her pupils turning a light blue, and upon realizing the other person's strength and the presence of other ninjas, she closed the shutter: "What? A sting operation?"

The restaurant manager's expression changed. This bottle of wine was not cheap; it cost five or six thousand taels of silver per bottle, which was equivalent to a month's salary for many ordinary people.

"This isn't your first time here! Aren't you afraid of the Cloud Village ninjas? This is the Land of Lightning!"

The wandering ninja, hands on hips, sneered, stepping over spilled drinks and shards of glass, and lifted the restaurant manager with one hand: "What's wrong? Are the Cloud Village ninjas so great? They're all holed up in Cloud Village, what does it have to do with you...?"

*Pfft, bang*

The wandering ninja was grabbed by the hair by a large hand covered in lightning chakra, instantly paralyzed by the electric shock, and unconsciously loosened his grip on his collar.

The Cloud Village ninja behind him raised the wandering ninja's hand, then grabbed his neck and slammed him to the ground: a floor covered in shards of glass.

The client's manager touched his collar with lingering fear, took two steps back, and saw three adults in front of him, all of whom deactivated their transformations: two boys and a girl dressed as Cloud Village genin.

"This is the end."

"Imamura Shinobu, a Class C wanted criminal from Kumogakure, you are under arrest!"

The Cloud Village Jonin pressed his hands against Imamura Shinobu's neck, releasing a fleeting arc of electricity from his palms, instantly paralyzing Imamura Shinobu's entire body. His stiff head struggled to make out the Cloud Village Jonin's face.

"It's, it's you?!"

"Miriah, the genius Jonin of Kumogakure?!"

"Hmph. It's me." Milie took out a sealing talisman from her body and stuck it on the head of the wandering ninja, instantly rendering Imamura Shinobu completely unable to move.

Then, he turned to look at his subordinates: Magnet Release Troy, an orphan and currently a genin; and ordinary genin Muka and Kali.

"mission completed."

"The mission went relatively smoothly. After waiting for three days, we finally caught up with this person. We'll hand him over to the garrison troops in a bit, and then we can prepare to go back."

—The garrison troops are soldiers assigned by the daimyo of a town and the lord who oversees the town's internal security.

"Great! This mission was worth the three days and three nights we spent camping here. We almost emptied our wallets!" Carly complained.

"Really." Wu Hua put his hands in his pockets. "If we don't catch him, our mission reward will be pitifully small."

"Thankfully, the mission was a success," Troy said, then glanced towards Shirahoshi's direction: "But there seem to be other ninjas inside the restaurant. Should we...?"

In his line of sight, Milie reached out to stop Troy, who stopped speaking and looked up to see his captain shaking his head.

"let's go."

"Yeah!" x3