East Wind Bow and Wind Chasing Arrow

Hyuga Kazuya soon arrived at the spot where his Chakra Metal arrow had pierced through three trees.

He looked at the Chakra Metal arrow embedded in the fourth tree, pulled it out, and examined the arrowhead. It was neither damaged nor bent, so he put it away again.

"Not bad. This metal unique to the Shinobi World is really sturdy."

The three trees had been pierced with Big Holes as wide as bowls. Looking through them toward where he had come from, Hyuga Kazuya clicked his tongue inwardly. "What terrifying power."

Hyuga Kazuya then turned back and picked up the ordinary arrows he had fired earlier. The arrow wrapped in Chakra had only a slightly bent tip, while the other arrow, which he had dug out of the tree, had not been wrapped in Chakra at all and no longer even looked like an arrow.

He gained a new understanding of how an object's inherent properties changed somewhat after being wrapped in Chakra.

Looking at the bronze-colored longbow in his hands, he decided it was time to give it a name.

"What should I call it?"

Hyuga Kazuya recalled famous bows from his previous life. Ten-Thousand-Picul Bow? Overlord Bow? Wandering Son Bow?

What would be a good name?

Wait, he had it.

"How about East Wind Bow? It has profound meaning—East Wind Express, global delivery, mission guaranteed." Hyuga Kazuya thought the name was quite good, and it also represented his hope that he would one day develop terrifying archery techniques like "East Wind Express."

Yes, that was right. Archery techniques. They all flew out anyway.

Having named the bow, Hyuga Kazuya felt that he should also give a name to the arrow technique developed with the wind attribute.

"Since it was developed with the wind attribute, I'll call it Wind Chasing Arrow. East Wind Bow, Wind Chasing Arrow. Not bad."

Nodding in satisfaction, Hyuga Kazuya sealed all the Chakra Metal arrows inside the Storage Scroll and only took out ordinary arrows. Chakra Metal arrows were far too expensive. Using them to kill ordinary Chunin and Genin would be like using a cannon to kill mosquitoes.

Therefore, Chakra Metal arrows were most suitable and cost-effective when used only against Jonin-level and Kage-level powerhouses.

Before obtaining the East Wind Bow, Hyuga Kazuya had never touched a bow and arrow. He believed archery was actually simple to learn; as long as one's physical foundation was strong enough, it was not difficult. It came down to strength and accuracy.

However, necessary practice was still indispensable. For example, if the target was two kilometers away, considering the East Wind Bow's range, initial velocity, and the effects of gravity, by how many degrees should he raise the angle? How much lead should he give? How many seconds later would the arrow hit the target?

Questions like these all required a certain amount of practice to master.

Therefore, to better master this bow, Hyuga Kazuya continued repeatedly drawing the bow and firing arrows in the Forest of Death, practicing his proficiency with archery.

Time flew by, and a full day quickly passed.

As evening arrived, Hyuga Kazuya stopped practicing for the day and reviewed his gains.

After separately testing the power of the ordinary and Chakra Metal versions of Wind Chasing Arrow at noon, Hyuga Kazuya focused on practicing the East Wind Bow's lethality and accuracy against enemies over one kilometer away.

With the Byakugan's x-ray vision and his extraordinary control over his own body, Hyuga Kazuya could now confidently say that he could hit every stationary humanoid target within two kilometers without fail.

Although his accuracy dropped sharply against moving targets, the Byakugan was x-ray vision. It could see through things.

Combined with the immensely powerful Wind Chasing Arrow, it was like having both wallhacks and x-ray vision enabled in an FPS game. There was no need to demand excessively high accuracy against moving targets.

That meant he only needed to wait until the enemy was resting, or moving in a straight line, before launching an attack for a guaranteed kill.

Of course, that was not all he had gained today. Hyuga Kazuya wrapped Exploding Tags around the arrow shafts, then detonated the tags when the arrows struck the target or reached its vicinity, achieving the power of explosive arrows.

Hyuga Kazuya had even considered making a double-layered sealed container, placing Exploding Tags inside and many iron fragments around the outside. When the Exploding Tags detonated, they would blast the iron fragments outward, inflicting area damage on enemies.

Then, by mounting this kind of "grenade" onto an arrow, he could achieve long-range area-of-effect damage.

If he also acquired a flying summoned beast, then without exaggeration, Hyuga Kazuya could become a killer of small fry.

However, he could roughly estimate several technical difficulties. For example, what material would be most suitable for wrapping the Exploding Tags?

It had to ensure that the explosion from the Exploding Tags could launch the iron fragments rather than melt them directly.

Moreover, an Exploding Tag cost nearly ten thousand Ryo, though the price fluctuated slightly between wartime and peacetime.

At ten thousand Ryo per Exploding Tag, given this world's prices, one tag could buy 166 bowls of Ichiraku Ramen at sixty Ryo each.

One had to know that Ichiraku Ramen was a premium product among ramen.

One Exploding Tag was equivalent to fifty-five days' worth of meals. One could imagine how expensive explosive tags were.

And that was only the Exploding Tag. If he truly made such a fragmentation grenade, its market price would definitely be between twelve and thirteen thousand Ryo.

Even though ninja belonged to this world's wealthy class, they could not afford such consumption.

Hyuga Kazuya estimated the price of fragmentation grenades in his head and decided to forget about it.

The few Exploding Tags he had were all ones he had shamelessly pestered Uncle for.

Besides, wouldn't it be better to spend that time improving his own strength?

In this world where great power belonged to individuals, it was better not to manufacture things that were costly, expensive, and extremely easy to imitate once created.

Gunpowder? One's position depended on one's interests.

Setting aside whether ordinary black powder could even match the power of Exploding Tags, even if it could, would Hyuga Kazuya smash his own rice bowl?

Hyuga Kazuya was merely an ordinary ninja of Konoha, with neither power nor money, and his strength was even less worth mentioning.

If he researched it and truly developed an enhanced version of black powder, TNT, then without the ability to control such a thing, he would only bring even greater chaos to this already chaotic Shinobi World.

After packing up his things, Hyuga Kazuya walked deeper into the forest and retrieved the arrows he had fired earlier one by one.

He brought all the damaged arrows out of the Forest of Death with him.

After all, because of Chakra's protection, a considerable portion of the arrow shafts had not been damaged. Only the arrowheads had suffered varying degrees of damage and bending.

They could be used again after replacing the arrowheads.

Who told him he had no money? He had to be frugal.

And here was a bit of trivia: arrow shafts were much more expensive than ordinary arrowheads.

As Hyuga Kazuya was about to leave, he looked at the devastated forest and the Big Holes in each tree, and his head began to ache. He had gotten too absorbed in the fun and completely forgotten how to clean up the aftermath.

The traces on the ground could slowly disappear with rain and time, but what about the Big Holes in the trees?

He could not simply burn everything down, nor could he use powerful ninjutsu to destroy it all. Wouldn't making such a commotion be openly telling others that there was something wrong with this place?

He did not know whether stuffing the holes with branches would work, but Hyuga Kazuya immediately acted on the thought without wasting time.

He found several small trees, stripped off their bark, and stuffed them into the holes one by one.

After dusting the dirt from his hands, he looked at the trees, which at least appeared normal on the surface. Surely no one would specifically inspect whether there were holes in the trees over such a trivial matter?

"Does this count as grafting?" he thought, his thoughts drifting.

"That's enough. Even if someone discovers it, so what?"

"As long as I don't admit it. If it comes down to it, I can just say I was practicing Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm."

At that point, Hyuga Kazuya felt that he had done something unnecessary.

"Forget it, forget it. I've already done it, so why worry so much?"

It was all because, in the novels from his previous life, protagonists experimented with techniques, yet no one ever mentioned how they dealt with the scene afterward.

If they handled it poorly, wouldn't their intelligence be leaked?

Fortunately, he was an insignificant nobody. No one would pay special attention to him.

The last time he practiced the Rasenshuriken had been in a lake outside Konoha's Forest of Death, so there had been no need to deal with the aftermath. He had not expected to make such a childish mistake this time.

But he could not make such childish mistakes again in the future. When testing powerful new techniques, it was best to find a place that could be destroyed after the experiment.

After returning home, Hyuga Kazuya hastily finished several bowls of Grilled Meat Bibimbap brought over by the Maid.

Looking at the dozen or so large bowls stacked on the table, Hyuga Kazuya patted his stomach in satisfaction and slowly stood up.

He went to the backyard to find Uncle, praising the East Wind Bow's power and the long-range damage achieved by wrapping Exploding Tags around arrow shafts.

Of course, telling Uncle about the East Wind Bow's terrifying offensive power was not Hyuga Kazuya's true purpose. Hyuga Kazuya's real purpose was—

I, Hyuga Kazuya, have damaged arrowheads and consumed Exploding Tags. Give me money.

Wasn't it perfectly normal for a twelve- or thirteen-year-old child to ask the adults at home for money?

Therefore, Hyuga Kazuya did not feel the slightest embarrassment.

As for saying that he was already a Genin and could take missions to earn money himself—

Had they never experienced the bitterness of earning money? He could ask for money now while he was still young. He would not have such an opportunity later.

So he could not let this chance slip away.

I, Hyuga Kazuya, need money.