Catching Kittens Is Exhausting!

[Option task completed. Energy +0.1.]

"The task was completed?"

Hyuga Bin, who had just walked past Orochimaru, was a little surprised.

After all, completing the first option task earlier had triggered a chained task, yet this option had directly given him a reward. The difference was quite significant.

However, perhaps because the 0.1 increase in energy was too small, Hyuga Bin did not feel any different.

"The more ordinary the reward, the easier the option task is to complete. The richer the reward, the harder it is. So I need to think carefully before choosing tasks in the future. I can't just pick one because the reward is generous; I also need to consider whether the task is actually possible..."

After analyzing and speculating for a while, Hyuga Bin felt that he had gained some understanding of the system's quirks.

After returning to the clan compound and finishing his training, Hyuga Bin made another full circuit around Konoha, but he did not trigger another system option task.

This made Hyuga Bin realize that option tasks did not appear whenever he wanted them to. They depended on "luck."

It was not until dusk that Hyuga Bin returned home. He took off his shoes and entered the house. "Father, Mother, I'm back."

At the moment, Hyuga Bin's father, Hyuga Masato, was out at a gathering and was not home.

Hyuga Bin's mother, Hyuga Rei, carried soup to the dining table and gave her returning son a gentle smile. "Dinner will be ready soon. Sit and rest for a while first."

"Okay."

Hyuga Bin responded and leaned back in his chair to rest.

He had spent half the day working hard with several little girls from the Hyuga Clan at the training hall, so he was a little tired too.

Hyuga Bin's transmigration had not come with the usual trope from transmigration novels of "sacrificed parents, boundless power."

His life was quite good. Someone washed his clothes, someone cooked his meals, and he did not even have to do housework. Life at home was much easier than before his transmigration.

His father, Hyuga Masato, was a Konoha jonin. His mother, Hyuga Rei, was a clan ninja who was not listed on Konoha's ninja registry and had chosen early retirement after becoming pregnant. She was now a housewife.

Because his father, Hyuga Masato, was a jonin, Hyuga Bin was never short on money. The small amount he spent treating Uchiha Obito to dumplings meant nothing to him.

Of course, within the clan, he was also favored by the older generation because he was diligent and fairly talented.

It could be said that aside from enduring cold stares every day, he lived quite comfortably. All he lacked was a Porsche Design Huawei Mate 40 Pro.

Nights without a phone were truly hard to endure.

After dinner, Hyuga Bin chatted with Hyuga Rei for a while before washing up and going to bed.

He slept until early the next morning. Hyuga Bin got up early and began his morning exercise: running.

After making a lap around the familiar clan compound, Hyuga Bin passed the home of an elderly clan member, Hyuga Kei, for the second time. He saw Hyuga Kei standing anxiously at the door, looking around as though she had lost something important.

As the warmhearted Hyuga Bin was about to go over and ask, new options appeared in his mind once more.

[Option A: Take the initiative to help Hyuga Kei find her lost kitten. Completion reward: Manipulation—Shuriken Technique (C-rank reward).]

[Option B: Comfort Hyuga Kei with words. It doesn't matter if the cat is lost; she can just buy another one. Completion reward: Clone Technique (D-rank reward).]

[Option C: Pretend not to hear anything and run past. Completion reward: Random Attribute Points +0.1.]

Faced with such a simple option task, Hyuga Bin believed he could obtain the best reward, so he directly chose Option A.

Hyuga Bin quickly ran up to Hyuga Kei and said, "Grandma Kei, I'll help you find your kitten."

[Option completed!]

[Follow-up task unlocked: Help the elderly Hyuga Kei find her lost kitten. Reward will be issued upon task completion.]

[Task completion requirement: Use your own strength to find the lost kitten before dusk and bring it back to Hyuga Kei's home.]

"As expected, another chained task." With the experience from the first time, Hyuga Bin had already mentally prepared himself for chained tasks.

"It's Bin-chan." Seeing Hyuga Bin run over, Hyuga Kei lowered her head. A gentle expression appeared on her anxious face. "But I don't even know where she ran off to."

"It's okay, Grandma Kei. Just tell me what she looks like." Hyuga Bin did not mind.

"Her name is Xiao Hua. She's black and white, and she's a very obedient little girl. This morning, when I took her out for a walk..." Hyuga Kei told Hyuga Bin what the kitten looked like and where she had gone missing.

"Grandma Kei, I understand. Don't worry, I'll definitely bring your kitten home today." Hyuga Bin smiled and nodded. Then he bade Hyuga Kei farewell and began his search for the kitten.

At that moment, he felt full of motivation.

A task as simple as catching a kitten obviously could not stump him, the future Strongest Under Heaven.

He believed he would not even need to wait until dusk. He could bring the kitten back to Hyuga Kei by noon.

The advanced-sounding technique, [Manipulation—Shuriken Technique], was destined to be his.

It was not until dusk.

The utterly exhausted Hyuga Bin finally found Xiao Hua among a group of stray cats, but he failed to catch her using his own strength.

The stamina and agility of kittens in the Naruto world could not be measured by the standards of cats from his previous world.

Xiao Hua hid in every corner, and with the help of the other stray cats, Hyuga Bin chased her for half an hour without catching her. In the end, it was only with the help of a kind passerby that he managed to catch the mischievous Xiao Hua.

At the same time, it marked the failure of his task.

After working hard all day, he received no reward at all.

Only then did Hyuga Bin understand why Konoha had so many D-rank missions involving catching cats and dogs.

They did not merely train the temperament and teamwork of newly graduated Genin. These cats and dogs really were difficult to catch.

"Catching cats is way too exhausting. I'm never doing this again."

As night approached, after Hyuga Bin handed the kitten to Grandma Kei, he felt just the tiniest bit regretful.

Wouldn't it have been better to just "run past" that morning and get 0.1 Attribute Points for free?