Second Pillar had yet to decide what to do, but he had silently added Shimura Danzō to his kill list.
As for Kitahara Kaede, he could only vent in his Diary. So what? There were people out there expanding their territories through their Diaries—what was wrong with him using his to curse people out?
That was perfectly reasonable, wasn't it?
Although he had utterly failed as a transmigrator, transmigrators from other stories would have been beating up Uchiha Madara and kicking around the Otsutsuki at his age, while he still had to lie low and develop.
That was the gap in strength.
Fortunately, he had been reincarnated from birth, so he had long accepted the reality that he was merely an ordinary person.
If the Diary System had not suddenly appeared, he probably would have lived out his life as an ordinary person.
Of course, that was assuming he hid somewhere safe and avoided the hordes of inhuman beings in the future.
Where was that lofty ambition of, A true man should be like this; I could take his place?
After putting away the Diary, Kitahara Kaede kept watch from afar while using the Rasengan training method he had seen in the anime, compressing the chakra in his hand and making it rotate bit by bit. His progress was clearly far faster than Uzumaki Naruto's. Before long, it was already taking shape.
After fusing with the Uchiha Clan Standard Bloodline, Kitahara Kaede could be considered a genius in every sense. His speed at learning ninjutsu was no longer comparable to before. The three ninjutsu he already knew improved by an entire level in the shortest time with barely any practice.
What had once merely been proficiency gained through frequent use had now become mastery. Both their power and casting speed had increased greatly.
This left Kitahara Kaede, who had originally needed long periods of repeated practice to gradually master ninjutsu, feeling rather unaccustomed to it.
On the third day, Kitahara Kaede and the others arrived at the town marked by the mission. According to the intelligence report, Suzuki Ryujin was here.
"According to the intelligence, Suzuki Ryujin has disguised himself as the owner of a hot spring inn. This should be one of Orochimaru's intelligence bases." Kitahara Kaede looked at the information recorded in the mission file. "We'll go in and take him out without causing too much of a commotion."
Kitahara Kaede had no intention of making a big scene. The relationship between ordinary people and ninja in this world was nowhere near as harmonious as it appeared in the manga from his previous life. Many ninja could hardly be called good people.
After all, they possessed immense power beyond the reach of ordinary people, and from childhood, they had been trained as killing machines. They enrolled at six, then graduated and went to war to kill people at an age equivalent to elementary school students.
How could ninja like that not have some kind of mental illness?
As a result, there were countless lunatics among ninja, and quite a few of them would massacre entire villages or cities at the slightest provocation. This made the relationship between ordinary people and ninja extremely tense.
It was only because ninja did not engage in production themselves and genuinely needed ordinary people to provide basic necessities that ordinary people had any way to survive.
In the Land of Fire, Konoha's founding ideals meant that the relationship between Konoha Ninja and ordinary people was still fairly decent. In some countries, however, ninja and ordinary people were outright enemies.
Ordinary people both respected, feared, and envied ninja.
Since this was within his own country, Kitahara Kaede did not want to leave people panicking.
Hyuga Keiko was the first to activate her Byakugan and inspect the hot spring inn in the distance.
Kitahara Kaede could not help but marvel at how useful the Byakugan was for reconnaissance. Who said the Byakugan was inferior to the Sharingan?
The Byakugan was great. Truly great.
"Captain, it's confirmed. There's a chakra source at the Elite Chunin level inside. It should be Suzuki Ryujin. Aside from him, there are three Genin, probably the intelligence squad stationed here."
A moment later, Hyuga Keiko finished scouting and deactivated her Byakugan.
"Take them all out!"
Kitahara Kaede said, "I'll handle them. You two keep watch outside. If anyone escapes, kill them!"
"Alright!"
Soten Genryu nodded.
After several battles, even if he was not particularly sharp, he could see that Kitahara Kaede's improvement in strength was absurd.
Originally, Kitahara Kaede had only barely been stronger than him, but now there was no telling how far ahead he was.
Even their former team leader, Akai Akimoto, who had now been promoted to Tokubetsu Jonin, was probably no match for Kitahara Kaede.
Kitahara Kaede said nothing more and walked straight inside. In an instant, he activated his Sharingan.
With his two teammates absent, he no longer needed to keep it hidden. Once he activated his Sharingan, his perception immediately improved greatly. Though it could not compare directly with the Byakugan, he could still easily sense chakra sources.
"Hello, customer—"
Before the attendant could finish speaking, he noticed Kitahara Kaede's outfit—the unmistakable attire of a Konoha Ninja.
A trace of displeasure appeared on his face, but he quickly suppressed it.
He thought he had not exposed himself. Although it was strange for a Konoha Ninja to appear here, Kitahara Kaede looked young and probably was not strong. Besides, he was alone. Perhaps he was not here for them.
But Kitahara Kaede merely glanced at him and instantly controlled him. Then, with a flick of his shuriken, he slit the man's throat.
At that moment, the entire hot spring inn contained only the four members of Suzuki Ryujin's intelligence group. It was not open for business, which made Kitahara Kaede's actions all the more convenient.
Dealing with ordinary Genin was effortless for the current Kitahara Kaede. Combat power no weaker than an Elite Jonin's was a complete massacre against ordinary Genin.
They had no ability to fight back at all.
Even someone like Kitahara Kaede, who did not know many ninjutsu, could easily crush them with extremely crude and simple techniques.
Unless he encountered another Jonin Level opponent, there was no difficulty at all.
Before long, those Genin had all died at Kitahara Kaede's hands.
Soon, Kitahara Kaede found Suzuki Ryujin. This time, however, he did not use his Sharingan. After all, he still had to take Suzuki Ryujin's head back to complete the mission, and according to Anbu procedures, someone from the Yamanaka Clan would likely need to inspect the memories in his brain.
For now, Kitahara Kaede did not want to expose his Sharingan.
"Who are you?" Suzuki Ryujin was startled when he saw Kitahara Kaede barge directly into the secret room.
He was a potbellied middle-aged man. Back when he served under Orochimaru, he had possessed Elite Chunin-level strength. But after spending all these years merely leading an intelligence group and gathering information, he had declined far too much.
Facing Kitahara Kaede, his throat was pierced by a shuriken almost instantly.
"How is this possible?!"
Even as he died, Suzuki Ryujin could not believe that he had died just like that.
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