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“Akiko, are you alright?”
After leaving the Hokage Tower, Kai asked Akiko with concern.
Akiko shook her head at Kai, then looked at Minato.
“Thank you, Minato. If it weren’t for you, I would have been captured.” Akiko looked at Minato gratefully, her cheeks flushed.
“Don’t mention it. We’re teammates.” Minato smiled back.
Kai scowled. He had helped rescue Akiko too. Why was she only thanking Minato?
Shin, Kushina, and Mikoto walked behind them. Shin couldn’t help but chuckle.
Kai, hearing Shin’s chuckle, turned around angrily.
“What are you looking at? Want to fight?” Kushina threatened, raising her fist.
Her threat wasn’t very convincing, but Kai was intimidated nonetheless.
Kushina had taught him a lesson before; he didn’t want a repeat, especially not in front of the girl he liked.
Shin and his team parted ways with Minato’s team. Shin sensed the two Anbu agents following Minato and the others.
Good. No one was following him. He didn’t want to be monitored.
Back at the Senju compound, Shin and the girls returned to Tsunade’s courtyard, while Nawaki went to his own residence.
“It’s late. Let’s take a bath and get some rest,” Shin said.
He went to his room, while Kushina and Mikoto went to theirs.
Shin lay on the tatami mat, but he couldn’t sleep.
‘I’ll chat with the System and ask some questions.‘
He called out to the System in his mind.
“System, are you there?”
“Always at your service, Master.”
“System, how are missions assigned?” Shin asked.
When he infiltrated Kirigakure and stole the Forbidden Scroll, he had expected the System to issue a mission, but nothing happened.
“System missions are random. The difficulty and rewards are also random.”
Shin was disappointed. He preferred patterns to randomness.
“System, can Replication Cards copy anything?”
“Only Divine Replication Cards can copy anything. Common and Advanced cards have limitations.”
“Can you copy a person?”
“Yes. The required card level depends on the person’s strength. Kage-level or above requires a Divine Replication Card. With a Divine card, even a world can be copied. All things can be copied.”
Shin was surprised. The difference between Advanced and Divine cards was vast.
“What level of card would I need to copy myself?” Shin asked curiously.
“Due to your perfect Sage Body, you would require a Divine Replication Card.”
Shin nodded. He was just curious; he wouldn’t actually copy himself. Everyone wanted to be unique.
“System, I think there should be more card levels.”
He felt the gap between Advanced and Divine cards was too large.
“You can anticipate a System upgrade, Master. After the upgrade, there might be new card levels between Advanced and Divine.”
“So the System can be upgraded? When will that happen?”
“I do not know, Master.”
Shin sighed. The System was powerful, but it lacked Replication Cards.
He currently had two cards left: one Common and one Advanced.
He couldn’t use the Advanced card carelessly. He planned to use the Common card to copy either ocular power or physical abilities.
As he chatted with the System, he drifted off to sleep.
The next morning, after refining Chakra for a while, he heard a knock on his door.
“Shin, why are you so lazy today?”
Kushina entered, and Shin stopped his Chakra refining.
Unlike martial arts training, Chakra refining couldn’t be disrupted.
“Kushina, why did you barge in like that? What if I wasn’t dressed?” Shin said, exasperated.
“So what? I’ve seen it all before.” Kushina blushed slightly, then shrugged.
She had indeed seen everything when they were younger. But that was then. Now, even though they weren’t that old, they were practically adults by Shinobi standards.
“I haven’t been to your room in a while.”
Kushina pounced on Shin, tackling him to the tatami mat.
Knock knock
“What are you two doing?”
Mikoto stood at the door, knocking gently.
Kushina jumped up, flustered, as if she had been caught doing something wrong.
Then she realized she hadn’t done anything wrong.
“If you don’t come out for breakfast soon, it’ll get cold,” Mikoto said calmly.
Shin didn’t sense anything unusual in her tone, but Kushina felt a hint of danger.
They went out for breakfast. Afterwards, Shin went to the small training ground in the courtyard.
He continued to experiment with Ice Release. It had so much potential, as did every element, as long as the user could realize it.
Developing Jutsu wasn’t easy. Only geniuses could do it, and the process was tedious.
But Shin could handle the tedium. Taijutsu training was even more monotonous and tiring, yet he had persevered for years.
Kushina and Mikoto were also training diligently. They wanted to be able to help Shin.
During the Kirigakure incident, they had been helpless, forced to wait anxiously for Shin’s return. They would rather face danger with him than worry about him.
They were currently sparring.
“Mikoto, you’re attacking so fiercely!” Kushina dodged a sudden Fireball Jutsu and pouted.
“You’re not holding back either. I won’t go easy on you.”
“I’m always serious in a fight.”
Mikoto smiled. She recalled the scene she had witnessed that morning, of Kushina pouncing on Shin, and her attacks intensified.
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