Around five, after Keiko got home from work, she sent Hanfu and Hayate straight to the backyard. The couple hadn't seen each other for over a month, so naturally they had plenty of private things to talk about.
In the backyard, fired up by the battlefield, Hayate gripped a wooden sword and excitedly went to town on a wooden post.
Hanfu sat on the veranda. Hidden beneath the floorboards, under his backside, was the Forbidden Body Activation Technique Scroll he'd swiped from Shennong.
After collecting the Forbidden Body Activation Technique, Hanfu had once entertained the wild idea that Collection Technique could collect three ninjutsu from each person, so perhaps it could do the same with the scroll. He tried collecting from it again, but reality was cruel: the green light orb in his mind didn't react at all. The scroll had lost its value as a collection target. Annoyed, Hanfu memorized the long string of numbers at the end of the scroll, then tossed it underneath the floorboards. A few days passed, and he'd basically forgotten all about it.
But Hanfu might have forgotten. Hayate hadn't.
"Big brother."
After whacking the post for a while, Hayate came trotting over. He glanced eagerly at the gap beneath the veranda, under Hanfu's backside, and asked in a whisper, "Big brother, when are you going to teach me the ninjutsu from that scroll?"
"Um... when you're a little older." Hanfu's brow twitched.
The Forbidden Body Activation Technique was far too difficult to master. It used Chakra to stimulate cells; too little force had no effect, while too much could either kill the cells or speed up their division and cause them to die sooner. It was extremely dangerous. On top of that, the human body had as many as two hundred types of