Though small, the Kondo Dojo had everything it needed, and the description fit it rather well. As Shizuka Hiratsuka felt her way forward, she had already come across who knew how many rooms she didn't understand and found rather baffling.
There was a cafeteria for meals, a training hall for cultivation, a bathhouse for bathing, a target range, a library for leisure, and even a smoking room. If she hadn't had such a clear objective, she might have gone in for a smoke before continuing her search.
Wait!
Wasn't something off here? A library for leisure? EMMM...
Something like secret technique scrolls shouldn't be kept in a library, right? Those were secret teachings never passed on lightly. If they were just placed in a library... no, it should be called an archive instead. If they were simply put in there, wouldn't anyone have a chance to learn them?
Secret technique scrolls ought to be kept beneath a Buddha statue or in some hidden chamber, shouldn't they!? Probably...
At any rate, in all the hot-blooded manga Shizuka Hiratsuka had read, nobody ever left something that important out in the open—not even in that Fire Ninja thing...
Sure, the protagonist had easily stolen the Book of Seals, but he was the protagonist! Besides, weren't there plenty of ninjas guarding the outer perimeter of the Book of Seals? Thinking of that empty archive where she hadn't seen a single person, Shizuka Hiratsuka immediately decided there definitely couldn't be anything important inside!
Shizuka Hiratsuka's reasoning was simple: there had to be guards around something like secret technique scrolls, at the very least. Yet all the way here...
How should she put it? It wasn't merely that she hadn't seen anyone—she hadn't even seen a shadow. Wasn't the Kondo Dojo supposed to be heavily guarded?