When Hanfu left the hospital, Anko, Iruka, and the others had already gone, so he had no choice but to head home.
On the way, Hanfu kept thinking about one thing: could his Golden Finger, the Collection Technique, be used to collect a ninja's corpse?
In theory, since he'd collected the Forbidden Body Activation Technique from a scroll, he ought to be able to collect that, too. But... practice was the only way to test his Golden Finger.
Hanfu regretted not sneaking into the morgue to take a look. He could've tried the Collection Technique; as long as a Green Light Orb appeared, that would mean it worked!
Hanfu returned home in a foul mood. The moment he opened the door, he heard a middle-aged man laughing inside.
Hanfu was shocked. He changed his shoes and hurried in, only to see Hayate acting sweet with a man whose back looked very familiar.
"Uh... Dad?"
Hanfu was a little dazed. His father had actually come back from the battlefield?
No wonder Keiko had been winking and urging him to come home.
"Big brother!" Hayate saw Hanfu and hurried over. "Big brother, where's my present?"
Hanfu took out a string of prayer beads worth fifty ryo and casually handed them over to get him off his back.
"Hanfu, you've gotten taller again!"
Gekko Hoshino looked at Hanfu with a proud smile.
"Dad, you..."
Hanfu asked without thinking, "Weren't you on the battlefield?"
"The war on the front lines has reached a stalemate, and there won't be any major battles for a while," Gekko Hoshino said. "So I was ordered to escort our wounded and captured comrades back, and bring another batch of supplies to the front."
I see.
Hanfu understood.
"Hanfu, Hayate told me you're excellent at Ninja Tool Throwing and have