"Ding! System notification: Hunting mission initiated. Mission target..."
Uchiha Chen waited for a long time, but the system still hadn't said what the mission target was.
"Uh... did it crash?"
Uchiha Chen was speechless. This was the first time he'd heard of a system like this crashing.
If it had crashed, did that mean he wouldn't have to deal with this piece of junk anymore?
At the thought, Uchiha Chen's mood suddenly lifted.
However...
"Mission target: bandits. Required kills: twenty. The final reward will depend on the actual number killed.
Mission failure: If no bandits are killed within 72 hours, or if all the bandits escape, the host will die.
Failure penalty: The host's XXX will appear in XXXX."
Uchiha Chen had been in a great mood, but when he saw the second half of the mission, all his happiness vanished.
"System, you're getting more and more outrageous. What's with all these extra black bars?"
Although he had no idea what the censored penalty was, Uchiha Chen was 30,000 percent sure it couldn't be anything good.
"Don't sweat the details. Just do your best to complete the mission, and you'll be rewarded."
Chen didn't believe a single word from the shameless system.
"System, I have a question."
"What?"
"How am I supposed to leave Konoha? You can't leave without a mission. Are you planning to make me a rogue ninja, or do you think the guards at Konoha's gates are just for decoration?"
People couldn't come and go from Konoha as they pleased. Someone from a clan like Uchiha Chen's certainly couldn't just leave whenever he wanted.
For that reason, looking at the bandits' location in the mission details, Chen really suspected the system was trying to get him killed.
"Don't worry about that. I can send you straight outside the village, and Konoha's sensory barrier won't detect you.
See? Isn't this system the most reliable?"
Hearing the answer he wanted, Chen didn't know what to say. He had been in this world for several years now. It was about time he drew blood.
The mission had a three-day time limit, but Chen had no intention of waiting until the last minute to finish it. Who knew what tricks this lousy system might pull?
Uchiha Chen began preparing for the mission. Before long, evening arrived, and when hunger struck, he decided to sort out dinner.
That was when he saw a scene that left him stunned.
"What?"
Uchiha Chen stared in shock. Not far away, Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Izumi were walking back hand in hand.
It was obvious that Uchiha Itachi looked somewhat coerced, but when he thought about Itachi's strength, if he really hadn't wanted to do it, Izumi surely wouldn't have stood a chance.
"Sister Izumi, you..."
"Chen?"
At the sound of Chen's voice, Uchiha Izumi's face instantly flushed red. Then she ran off without looking back.
Uchiha Itachi watched Uchiha Izumi run away and seemed about to chase after her, but in the end, he didn't move.
What in the world happened? What's going on with those two? Could this be a different Naruto World from the one I know?
Uchiha Chen could hardly make sense of it. Itachi, who was always so serious he was practically expressionless, had shown a look of concern and tenderness.
Too bad I don't have a camera. I'd definitely take a picture.
(Itachi's shy photo saved.)
Whether Itachi was embarrassed or something else, he simply nodded at Chen and said nothing.
"Ding! System notification: Affection mission completed. Affection module unlocked. Completion time: five hours. Calculating reward...
Ding! Reward calculation complete. Mission reward: complete set of Icha Icha Paradise."
"What the hell? I'm not Kakashi, that old lecher. What am I supposed to do with this?"
Uchiha Chen wanted to dismantle the system again. What kind of reward was this?
"Don't sweat it. Besides, this mission was no challenge at all. You should be glad you got a reward."
The system sounded completely unconcerned, and its voice was downright smug. Chen really wanted to dismantle the thing.
Looking at the complete set of Icha Icha Paradise that had appeared in his hands, Uchiha Chen cursed the white-haired old man along with it.
As a result, when that white-haired old man was peeping, he suddenly sneezed—and then a whole crowd of girls gave him a friendly beating.
Chen stopped thinking about the system and began preparing for the mission ahead.
Shuriken and Kunai were essential, of course. Once he had everything ready, Uchiha Chen left behind a clone.
"System, send me outside the village."
The system didn't answer Chen, but a flash of white light later, Uchiha Chen was already outside Konoha.
"You finally showed a little conscience, sending me right to the road the bandits have to take back to their hideout?
Hey, there aren't traps all over this place, are there?"
The system was being so considerate that Uchiha Chen couldn't help feeling something was off. How could this shameless thing possibly be so nice?
"If you keep slandering this system, I'll issue a mission to make you attack the entire Akatsuki organization. Believe me?"
"..."
"You win."
Uchiha Chen didn't want to say anything more to the system. Instead, he started setting traps.
The mission details said the bandits were all ordinary people, but twenty was still a lot. What was more, with this lousy system around, Chen couldn't help suspecting that one of them might be a ninja.
"Ding! System notification: Mission targets approaching."
Chen had just finished setting the traps when the system's voice sounded. He couldn't help wondering whether the system had really changed its ways.
He quietly concealed himself nearby. Before long, the bandits arrived, carrying the loot they had stolen.
"They really are all ordinary people?"
Chen looked puzzled. The bandits didn't act like ninjas. It seemed this mission really was just a simple matter of killing bandits.
Soon, the traps were triggered, and a barrage of shuriken and Kunai flew toward the bandits.
The sudden attack left the ordinary men no time to react. In an instant, more than half of them were already dead.
Seeing this, Chen stopped hesitating and rushed straight out.
"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"
A fireball nearly five meters in diameter appeared and instantly swallowed the enemies in front of him. When the bandits saw a masked ninja appear, terror filled their faces.
However, after Chen dealt with the enemies in front of him, he stopped in his tracks.
There was nothing he could do. The heaps of corpses, along with several charred remains, made his stomach churn. It was his first time killing someone.
He fought down the urge to vomit and finally moved again.
A barrage of shuriken flew out. The bandits, who were only ordinary people, had no way to fight back. The one-sided slaughter soon came to an end.
However, after taking everyone out, Uchiha Chen noticed that the mission counter showed 19/20.
In other words, one person was still left.
"What happened? Did one of them get away?"
Just as Uchiha Chen was puzzling over it, a figure rose up out of the ground.
Seeing that pale complexion, Uchiha Chen couldn't help tensing.
"Orochimaru!"
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