Chapter 1: Konoha Anbu, Crescent Moon
Konoha Village.
An Anbu wearing a Fox Mask hid in the woods at the street corner, tailing an izakaya in the distance.
What bad luck, transmigrating into an Anbu Chunin, a civilian ninja named Yoru.
According to intelligence, there might be a Stone Ninja spy in that izakaya.
Time entered the latter half of the night, and the Anbu Squad Leader appeared behind Yoru with a Body Flicker.
“Fox, the izakaya has few people in the latter half of the night. Take off your mask and vest, pretend to be an ordinary person, and go in to scout for intelligence.”
The captain called him by the code name of the mask Yoru had chosen.
Yoru took off the mask, removed the Anbu vest, untied the ninja tool bag, and only hid a kunai on his body.
If he scouted the intelligence, that would be best.
If he died inside, that would be even better.
His death would be the intelligence, proving there must be a spy in the izakaya.
Yoru extended his hand to the Squad Leader.
The Squad Leader asked puzzledly: “Hm? What do you mean?”
“I have no money to buy sake. Won’t you reimburse the sake money? To extract intelligence, don’t I have to order the most expensive sake? To attract the spy’s attention?”
The Squad Leader reluctantly took out his wallet from the ninja tool bag and pulled out a stack of money.
After Yoru pocketed it, he extended his hand again.
The Squad Leader took out another stack of money: “Don’t go overboard. It’s not a sure-death mission.”
Not sure-death? That means there’s a chance of death?
Yoru walked heavily into the izakaya, hit by a smell mixing strong liquor, perfume, and sweat.
Smelling the perfume, avoiding the strong liquor smell, Yoru went to a table in the corner.
“Give me the most expensive sake!”
The boss of this izakaya was a beautiful and voluptuous young woman. Hearing someone order the most expensive sake, she instantly perked up.
The female boss carried the sake, her eyes full of coquettishness, and came to Yoru’s side.
With one bend, her cleavage spilled out as she placed the wine cup on the table in front of Yoru.
Voluptuous, but not trembling; under the soft and greasy fat, there might be muscle—this was a trace of training.
Yoru was mentally tense, seeing danger in everything.
The female boss’s voice was both soft and sweet:
“Ninja Lord, did you return victorious from the front line? Let me recommend some entertainment to help you brush off the fatigue from your front line mission.”
Yoru downed a whole bottle of sake in one go.
The sake in this world wasn’t very strong, like Erguotou diluted with boiled water. Yoru pretended to be drunk and tipsy:
“Entertainment? Do you know what I went through on the front line? What entertainment can relax me?”
“Private Room!” the female boss said excitedly: “There’s a private room on the second floor!”
“Private Room? This izakaya is old; is the wooden floor shockproof? If we shake on the upper floor, won’t the people on the first floor eat dust?”
“Hehehe.” The female boss covered her mouth laughing: “Ninja Lord, then shall we go straight to the backyard? The backyard also has private rooms; it won’t mind shaking there.”
“Backyard is good; I like the backyard. The second floor’s offerings are a bit ordinary; how could they satisfy me?”
The female boss proactively placed Yoru’s hand on her slim waist, her chest pressing against Yoru’s side rib, and walked toward the back.
Lifting the curtain, they entered the backyard, and the surrounding light instantly dimmed.
The female boss pressed even tighter.
The feeling of being squeezed by fullness felt really good.
If he weren’t Anbu, it would be great; with mission earnings, he’d come to this izakaya for entertainment.
After entering the side room in the backyard, the female boss forcefully closed the door.
“Ninja Lord, do you like Yin Release or Yang Release?”
“The Ninja Academy teaches nothing; what’s the deal with this Yin Release and Yang Release?”
“The Yin Release and Yang Release here depend on who’s on top. Do you understand?”
“Who’s on top? I get it.”
Besides Five Elemental Release Jutsu, certain secret jutsu clans also master Yin Release and Yang Release, above ordinary Yin Release and Yang Release, even reaching Six Paths level Yin-Yang Release.
The female boss’s Yin-Yang Release was clearly not ordinary Yin-Yang Release.
Yoru nearly drooled from his mouth, but deep in his eyes, he was extremely alert.
However, alertness was useless.
With low strength, constant alertness wouldn’t discover anything.
A kunai stabbed into Yoru’s lower back!
In the darkness, the enemy infiltrated behind Yoru with methods he couldn’t understand and ambushed him.
Just as he tried to shout, his mouth was blocked by the female boss’s lips.
Dead, the transmigrator died just like this… Died quite fragrantly, in the softness of red lips, the world fell into darkness.
Yoru’s pupils dilated.
In that instant, Yoru woke up again.
The System arrived.
【Moon Arc activated!
Between two full moons, the host has only one resurrection opportunity; upon death, resurrection will occur on the previous full moon night.
Reward: one lucky draw opportunity:
1-B-Rank Earth Release: Fish in Water Reflection Jutsu（Beginner）;
2-Chunin Level Chakra Amount（Stackable）;
3-Kunai Stab（Mastery）.
Note: Killed twice by the same person, the host will die directly!】
He returned to five days ago, the full moon night of the 15th.
In the Anbu’s semi-underground room, Yoru looked at the full moon outside the high side window.
Moon Arc, his golden finger.
One resurrection opportunity per month, returning to the previous full moon night.
Also a lucky draw opportunity, with draw contents related to his death.
Facing the three options, Yoru thought carefully.
Kunai Stab（Mastery）; the person who stabbed him to death was skilled with kunai, mastering certain small techniques to make kunai stabs faster and more powerful.
This ability was somewhat useful, but not very.
The stackable Chunin Level Chakra Amount wasn’t the most urgently needed now either.
Yoru chose Earth Release: Fish in Water Reflection Jutsu（Beginner）.
Perfect, since he had Earth Release Chakra.
This jutsu sounded like the perfect match for infiltration, escape, killing, and looting.
Once in Anbu, it’s as deep as the sea; without acting, you’d die quickly and sloppily.
He wasn’t fit to be a traitor ninja either; Anbu wouldn’t tolerate it and would have the entire ninja world chase and kill him.
In an instant, Yoru learned Earth Release: Fish in Water Reflection Jutsu.
After forming three seals, Yoru pressed his hand against the wall; his hand slowly disappeared, sinking into the wall.
The wall rippled like water surface under chakra’s effect.
After pulling out his hand, the wall returned to normal.
He could move quickly underground, with no traces on the ground.
Not bad, not bad; finally learned a ninjutsu.
【Host Status:
Chakra Amount: Chunin Level.
Chakra Nature: Earth.
Ninjutsu: Basic Three Body Techniques, Earth Release: Fish in Water Reflection Jutsu.
Taijutsu: Basic Taijutsu（Chunin Level）, Basic Kunai Throwing Technique（Chunin Level）.
Other: None】
This was true cannon fodder, black as ash.
Taijutsu had low chakra demands; with not much chakra, he was a taijutsu-type Chunin who diligently trained basics.
Anbu mainly carried out assassination missions; during assassinations, they couldn’t expose the killer’s intelligence.
The Hokage didn’t want others to know who he intended to kill.
Secret jutsu, ninjutsu, etc., were unsuitable; instead, basic taijutsu and kunai were more crucial. Even Nara Clan ninjas in Anbu mainly used taijutsu and kunai.
At this time, Root had not yet been established; Danzo, as Hiruzen Sarutobi’s absolute confidant, managed Anbu in place of Hiruzen Sarutobi.
A month ago, Danzo commanded Anbu in a clash with the Third Raikage in the Land of Hot Water, suffering heavy casualties; most of Anbu fell to the Third Raikage, and Danzo alone escaped back to Konoha.
Anbu urgently recruited, letting the original body into Anbu.
Suddenly, a knock sounded outside the door.
The Squad Leader walked in.
“Fox, come with me; tail an izakaya.”
The captain didn’t know this was the second time Yoru heard him say the exact same words.
He silently packed his ninja tools.
This month’s death count was used up; he absolutely couldn’t die again, or even the system couldn’t save him.
New book~ Seeking recommendations, seeking collections, seeking reads~ I don’t even know how much got deleted from me, without even notifying, sigh.
