Hinata, Stop Pretending

She immediately ran over to the machine and peered through its glass window at the scene inside. It was illuminated by a blue light, and aside from that light, there seemed to be nothing else.

Seeing this, Hinata secretly breathed a sigh of relief. As long as the system was not conducting some horrifying human experiment, it was fine. It was not because she was especially kind, but because she was still human.

Naturally, she could not accept things that seemed cruel from a human perspective. Those who could accept them could no longer be called human.

At that moment, the system's voice sounded again. "Charging complete. Character creation will now begin."

Hinata saw that inside the so-called character creation generator, the blue light that had filled the space began to grow brighter and brighter. Then, as if drawn by something, the lights began to converge.

In less than a moment, the light gathered into an extremely bright beam floating at the top of the machine, seemingly solidified into a physical form.

The beam began to scatter specks of light. These specks floated in the air beneath it, and as more and more fell from the beam, they seemed to gain consciousness and began outlining line after line.

By the time the shape of a person had been fully outlined, the beam had finished scattering its light.

Then the entire machine let out a whine like a steam engine. Hinata watched as it instantly erupted with an incomparably powerful suction force, pulling in the surrounding rocks, trees, river water—everything visible—through a huge opening at the top of the machine.

Of course, Hinata did not feel any pulling force. It seemed this machine came with artificial intelligence as well.

Within a few dozen seconds, the surrounding area had become vastly more open. Then, a grayish-white mist suddenly descended inside the machine. When it touched the humanoid outline formed from blue specks of light—

Something happened to its body. The grayish-white mist instantly wrapped around the outline, making it look like... well, an egg. Hinata found it rather absurd. Could it be that every character generated in the future would have to hatch from an egg?

Next, she would probably have to wait for the egg to hatch. But judging from this, it seemed she would have to wait a while longer, so Hinata withdrew her gaze for the time being.

Instead, she looked around and exclaimed, "Good grief, this system's character generator looks like a giant vacuum cleaner."

Within nearly two hundred meters of the surrounding area, everything had been stripped bare.

Hinata thought optimistically that it seemed her original plan to come here and wreck the place had already been accomplished.

Well, although it was the system's doing, the system was hers. So from another perspective, it would not be wrong to say that Hinata had destroyed this forest.

Then she remembered the special circumstances the system had mentioned before. So this was what it meant by special circumstances. Fortunately, she had managed to restrain herself, or the outcome would definitely have been wonderful.

Waiting was ultimately boring. With nothing to do, Hinata began reminiscing about the hardships of the past—ptui, she was recalling why, when creating the character template earlier, she had not been able to write the character's name first.

She had been dazzled by the system's operation just then, so naturally she had not thought much about it. But now that she thought it over carefully—

Hinata was not a fool. Coupled with her observations of the system's personality, she finally noticed what was wrong.

The gender of characters generated by the character generator was completely random. No, perhaps it depended entirely on the system's mood.

That was why names could only be given after the character's gender had been determined, so as to avoid anything laughable and embarrassing.

She thought about the system's purpose in doing this. Putting herself in its shoes, her expression immediately changed, and she said indignantly in her heart, "System, you're even taking away this little bit of freedom? Are you still a good system?"

Yes. If she considered it from another perspective, the system had done this to prevent Hinata from using the character generator template to create a whole group of women. That did not suit the system's tastes, so it had unhesitatingly cut off that possibility of free choice.

Hinata roared inwardly, "System, you've gone too far! What's wrong with bringing a group of pretty young ladies to stir up trouble in the ninja world?"

But she could only complain here by herself. As for running over to confront the system, she did not believe she had the courage. So frustrating!

As she stewed in indignation, time passed bit by bit. After about ten minutes, the system's voice sounded in Hinata's mind again.

"Character creation successful. Memories are now being implanted. Please wait, Host."

"Characters generated by the character generator will never betray the Host. Please use them without concern."