The Eighth Day

(I got the chapter numbers wrong for the previous two chapters—one was Chapter 662, one was Chapter 663, and Chapter 663 should have been Chapter 664. The chapter content is all correct, so please rest assured. Also, extremely sorry. There have been a lot of things going on lately, and I haven't been getting enough sleep. Sorry for the mistake!) Leaving aside Nao's helpless frustration and her anxious concern over the relationship between those two, the egg fried rice Chiba served last was clearly right up her alley. She ate so eagerly she nearly licked the plate clean. Seeing how much Nao liked it, Yukina took a taste as well. In the end, Chiba's egg fried rice earned unanimous praise from the two young beauties and was added to the cabin's menu as a must-have dish for every holiday.

Afterward, Chiba realized that while Konoha had plenty of Japanese-style cuisine, authentic dishes from his homeland in his previous life did not exist here. It seemed that in this Naruto World, aside from certain ninjutsu that bore traces of his former country, the cuisine had not been greatly influenced by it. The hometown dishes from his previous life were apparently something new here.

Thus, after dinner, while researching improved medicinal combinations and asking Nao about her recent reactions to the medicine, Chiba suddenly had the thought: Once everything settles down, opening a restaurant in this Naruto World wouldn't be bad either.

The moment that thought surfaced, he rapidly began considering abandoning the profession of ninja altogether, even forming a whole series of plans to extricate himself from it.

Of course, that was merely Chiba's optimistic plan. A great mountain still stood before him, one he had to cross. Only after crossing it could he make further plans for his life.

So