Chapter 200: Leisure At A Loss
The next day, while Qiao Yi was busy at the izakaya, Yoru got up and opened Yuka’s sealing jutsu scroll.
Blue secret medicine is good; blue secret medicine should be used more.
Yoru had previously learned contract seal and summoning jutsu from Yuka; this time, the sealing jutsu Yuka gave were more numerous and highly practical.
The first jutsu: sealing material seal.
A sealing jutsu that seals items like kunai, shuriken, or even corpses into scrolls.
With this jutsu, Yoru could create his own ninja tool sealed scrolls.
The second jutsu: five elements seal.
A sealing jutsu that seals and disrupts the enemy’s chakra, dividing the chakra into five parts to form a stable sealing ring through mutual generation relationships; it has remarkable effects on those with enormous chakra amounts.
The third jutsu: tongue-cutting curse.
Seeing this jutsu, Yoru thought to himself, it’s over.
Have I become Danzo?
Did I obtain the tongue-cutting curse even earlier than Danzo?
This jutsu is very complex.
Write the mission or order on a scroll, use one’s own blood as the medium, and seal the text on the scroll along with the blood into the target’s body, forming a firm seal.
Those hit by the jutsu cannot reveal the sealed content; once they say anything, their whole body will be paralyzed and unable to move.
Even if turned into a corpse, the seal can destroy the brain, ensuring the information is never leaked.
After studying the sealing jutsu scroll for a while, Yoru put on his mask and left the izakaya’s backyard, heading to Yakushi Nonou’s orphanage.
He wanted to try contacting Yakushi Nonou to see if he could obtain Root’s information.
There were four or five orphanages inside Konoha Village; the village provided no funding to the orphanages, relying entirely on charity.
For the orphaned children of sacrificed ninjas, the village would support them until they graduated from the Ninja Academy. Ordinary orphans did not receive such treatment, and the four or five orphanages were all struggling.
If someone donated money, or if grown orphans donated some money, the orphanage would fare better; otherwise, it would be feast one meal and famine the next.
Yoru arrived at a remote courtyard in the village and found the orphanage.
The person greeting him was actually the acquaintance Zhen Li.
Zhen Li was busy preparing simple New Year gifts for the more than twenty children in the orphanage, unsure what this tall young man wanted.
He was wearing a mask, so his appearance was unrecognizable; Zhen Li did not know him.
Yoru said: “I heard there’s an orphanage here. I have some spare money, and with the end of the year approaching, I want to do a good thing and donate here. You look young; where is your director?”
Upon hearing it was a donation, Zhen Li quickly said: “I’ll go invite the vice principal right away!”
The vice principal was a rather elderly woman; she said the director had gone on a ninja mission and had not returned for a long time.
Because of Yakushi Nonou’s erroneous intelligence, the Hidden Mist Village had suffered heavy losses, and she could no longer stay there.
No one knew where she had gone next.
Following the vice principal around the orphanage, Yoru saw that the children slept in upper, middle, and lower bunks, and their food was very simple, with little meat.
The Ninja World’s productivity was extremely low; whether agriculture or industrial production, it was in a precarious state of having today but not tomorrow.
No one knew if their farmland would be destroyed by a Fire Release tomorrow.
Meat was extremely expensive in the Land of Fire or in Konoha Village.
More than twenty children were crammed into a small room for class, with simple arithmetic on the blackboard.
These children were very serious and focused.
Their faces and hands were very clean, their eyes very bright; apart from poor food, the orphanage took good care of them.
Yoru took out 300,000 ryo and a letter, saying:
“This money is my donation to your orphanage; this letter of blessing is left for your director. I hope your orphanage gets better and better.”
The letter of blessing Yoru left contained a small half of a karma seal of retribution and a communication code.
Yakushi Nonou had obtained the karma seal of retribution from the Vortex laboratory in the Land of Whirlpools.
Seeing that small half of the karma seal of retribution, Yakushi Nonou would guess his identity and contact him using the communication code.
Yakushi Nonou’s intelligence was extremely crucial; it had helped Yoru rescue two Uzumaki guardian ninjas.
Cooperation with Yakushi Nonou could not stop; see if more intelligence could be obtained.
Zhen Li watched the tall young man leave, feeling something was off; that person’s voice gave her a sense of familiarity.
After leaving the orphanage, Yoru wandered around Konoha.
He sat on a bench, watching people coming and going buying New Year items, feeling somewhat at a loss.
He had spent the whole year on the front lines, first the Land of Rivers front line, then the Land of Whirlpools front line; returning to the village abruptly, he was extremely unadapted.
Moreover, with Anbu on the eve of reform, everything was waiting for action after the New Year, so Anbu had nothing to do.
After taking off the mask, aside from Qiao Yi, he surprisingly had no one in Konoha Village he could talk to.
Yoru scratched his head hard, suddenly realizing he had forgotten how to live after taking off the mask.
He followed the crowd; whatever they bought, he bought too, adding some New Year atmosphere to Tsuruzuki Izakaya.
The woman in front entered a paper cutout store, and Yoru followed inside.
He saw the woman ahead buy some exquisite black paper cutouts, so he also specified he wanted to buy black paper cutouts.
The beautiful store clerk said: “Do you want to buy black paper cutouts? May I ask how many family members passed away this year?”
Yoru was stunned, then turned to see the store mainly featured black paper cutout paintings, with only some white and red ones in the corner.
He suddenly remembered that Konoha funerals were mainly black, so he changed his words:
“Sorry, I zoned out. I don’t need black paper cutout paintings; please give me some red ones.”
The beautiful store clerk looked surprised at the masked Yoru: “Oh my god, today finally a customer buying red paintings.”
With the Ninja War ended, around 4,000 Konoha ninjas dead or injured; someone like Yoru with no family sacrifices was relatively rare.
It wasn’t that Yoru was lucky, but that Yoru had no family.
Carrying a package of red paintings away, after walking a dozen meters, Yoru suddenly remembered Qiao Yi’s sister had also died.
Although Qiao Yi’s sister had tried to kill Qiao Yi, Yoru wasn’t sure if Qiao Yi would hang black paintings for her sister.
He threw the just-bought package of red paintings into the trash can.
Walking along the street, Yoru followed people into stores to buy candles, buy fruit, buy beef, buy dumplings.
He didn’t know what to buy, so he bought whatever others bought.
Carrying large and small packages back to the izakaya.
There were still quite a few customers on the last day; after putting down the items in the backyard, Yoru came to the front shop to help Qiao Yi.
This izakaya had only six tables and one counter, not large in area.
Seeing Yoru help deliver wine and snacks, Qiao Yi suddenly felt a long-lost warmth in her heart.
Only with two people together does it feel like a home.
Qiao Yi suddenly thought of her own sister, wondering if her sister hated her in heaven.
The drinkers in the izakaya boasted about how dangerous their battles on the battlefield had been.
Yoru unexpectedly saw a person.
Senju Ka of the Senju Clan, who had retired due to a broken leg.
He was drinking alone sullenly, with his crutch beside him.
Qiao Yi whispered: “Ever since his son and friend died, he often comes here to drink sullenly; New Year is coming, and he’s still drinking sullenly.”
Senju Ka’s son Senju Kashi had died before Senju Nawaki.
“I’ll send him a plate of drinking appetizers.”
A plate of drinking appetizers appeared before him; Senju Ka looked up in a daze.
Seeing it was a masked young man as tall as his son, his eyes blurred for a moment.
“Appetizers for you; enjoy slowly.”
After seeing off the customers, the two ate some night snacks.
Yoru finally waited for the New Year, Konoha 40; he turned
On the second day of the New Year, Yoru arrived at the Anbu Base and learned that all Anbu ninjas were assembling at the training ground hall, so he breathed a sigh of relief.
The rest period after the end of the Second Ninja War had finally ended.
He had things to do again.
Arriving at the training ground hall, Yoru saw Danzo and Kiiroinu on the presidium.
Anbu reform was about to begin.
