As for Number 14, in a sense, she was actually the same kind of person as him.
That was the conclusion Chiba had drawn from the story Number 14 told.
That night, compared to Number 15's story, the tale told in Number 14's gentle, peaceful voice had nothing particularly thrilling about it.
Number 14's story had not been told from beginning to end like Number 15's. Instead, it had started somewhere in the middle.
Of course, even now, Chiba did not know how Number 14's story began or ended.
Presumably, those were the parts Number 14 was unwilling and unable to mention.
Naturally, Chiba would not press her about them.
What Number 14 told was the story of a very ordinary girl. She did not describe the setting in much detail, but based on the context, Chiba guessed that it had taken place in some ninja village—or rather, one of the major ninja villages.
In other words, the heroine of Number 14's story had been a ninja from a ninja village.
However, unlike Number 15, who possessed multiple Kekkei Genkai, the girl had truly been ordinary. She had no particularly exceptional talent or strength, merely average in every respect—not even bad enough to qualify as dead last.
She had attended the Ninja Academy ordinarily, graduated from the Ninja Academy ordinarily, and, just like the other ordinary graduates, watched a few geniuses emerge from each class while people like her were always drowned beneath their brilliance, becoming the most inconspicuous of all.
No.
Rather, aside from those geniuses, every ordinary person became inconspicuous.
After graduation, the girl had officially become a ninja. She had been assigned to a four-person squad, led by an ordinary chunin, alongside two equally ordinary teammates.
They completed ordinary missions.
She grew up, day by day, ordinarily.