"Big brother, my clothes are dirty."
When Hayate crawled out from beneath the hallway, his clothes were already filthy black. But he'd been practicing swordsmanship and was drenched in sweat anyway, so Hanfu didn't feel bad about it. He simply told him to go take a bath, then carried the scroll, now coated in a thin layer of dust, into the bedroom.
After wiping the scroll clean, Hanfu unfurled it as far as it would go. Seeing the Forbidden Body Activation Technique, which stretched over five meters, and the Eight Inner Gates Formation recorded afterward in numerical code, Hanfu's heart pounded like a drum.
Collect!
Without a word, Hanfu used the Collection Technique on the scroll. The Green Light Orb in his mind churned, then gradually settled down again a short while later.
Another failure?
Hanfu frowned. Including the three attempts from three days ago, he'd failed four times already!
If the Collection Target had been a person, Hanfu could have coaxed them with cute behavior, acted sweet, or asked them for guidance to improve his chances of success. But this time, the Collection Target was a scroll. How was he supposed to coax it?
Was he supposed to make an offering?
Hanfu rolled up the scroll, then held it reverently against his chest and silently prayed to Oda... no, to Kishimoto. Three minutes later, he tried collecting again.
But the result was still a failure.
That made five attempts!
Hanfu glared at the scroll with a dark expression. There was no doubt that collecting the Forbidden Body Activation Technique was far more difficult than collecting ninjutsu like the Great Fireball Technique or the Chakra Refinement Technique. And since the Collection Target was a scroll, Hanfu could only rely on luck—he couldn't coax it into cooperating!
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