After leaving home, Chentian jogged all the way toward the training ground.
The war had ended two months ago. Though Konoha was still quiet, it had recovered quite a bit; at the very least, there were far more people on the streets.
However, Chentian did not care much about any of that. Before long, he arrived at the training ground.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The moment he arrived, he spotted his target: a watermelon-rind-haired man in a green bodysuit.
What surprised Chentian was that the person fighting Watermelon Rind was Hatake Kakashi!
Beside the training ground, a girl was watching Kakashi and Might Guy fight.
Though his memories were somewhat blurry, Chentian still recognized the girl.
"Nohara Rin is actually still alive!"
In an instant, ten thousand schemes surfaced in Chentian's mind.
"Let's do it!"
Chentian, who had previously had no clue what to do about the future, immediately thought of how he should proceed.
He would secretly win Obito over, protect the people he cared about, and then make sure the plot unfolded as smoothly as possible.
Thinking of the terrifying strength those people would possess later on, then thinking of the cards that could drop at any time, Chentian felt like he was about to drool!
But first, he needed to build good relationships with these three.
Tap, tap, tap!
With a series of quick little steps, Chentian stopped not far from Nohara Rin and pretended to watch Kakashi and Might Guy's fight.
Yet his gaze was fixed on the ground around them, where quite a few cards lay quietly.
"Little brother, are you here to train too?"
Nohara Rin noticed Chentian's arrival right away and asked him.
But judging from her expression, Chentian had the feeling that she was itching to knead his face with her wicked little hands.
Then again, after taking a closer look at Nohara Rin, Chentian thought it would not be so bad if such a beautiful big sister wanted to squish him!
"Yes. My brother said Might Guy is a very powerful taijutsu ninja, so he told me to train with him!"
Without hesitation, Chentian dumped the blame on Minato, without the slightest shred of guilt.
"Kid, who is your brother?"
Kakashi and Might Guy, who had noticed Chentian long ago, had already finished their fight.
While Chentian was speaking with Nohara Rin, they appeared behind him.
Hearing Kakashi's cold, emotionless voice, Chentian knew that Kakashi's heart was currently filled with darkness.
"Well, my brother is Namikaze Minato—your jonin instructor!"
Chentian spread his hands. Under the strange gazes of the three, he walked over to where Kakashi and Might Guy had fought and plopped down on the ground.
His hands slapped about at random as he collected card after card.
After gathering them all, he was about to stand when he suddenly noticed a purple glow coming from beneath his right foot.
He immediately looked down. Upon seeing the purple card under his sole, his face broke into wild delight.
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Watching Chentian sit on the ground and laugh uproariously, Kakashi and the other two exchanged glances, their eyes filled with pity.
Nohara Rin quietly walked over to Kakashi, tugged on his sleeve, and asked, "Kakashi, this kid hasn't gone stupid, has he?"
"Who knows." After giving that bored reply, Kakashi was the first to leave.
He still needed to ask Minato whether what the child had said was true.
[Ding! Congratulations, Host, you have obtained a white card. Strength +1!] [Ding! Congratulations, Host, you have obtained a blue card: Fire Release—Great Fireball Jutsu!] [Ding! Congratulations, Host, you have obtained a blue card. Speed +10!]
A string of notifications rang out, and Chentian's attributes underwent earth-shaking changes.
[Host: Chentian] [Strength: 23] [Speed: 25] [Constitution: 19] [Spirit: 25] [Chakra: 5] [Talent: Space Talent LV3.] [Skills: Shuriken Basics LV2, Basic Taijutsu LV3, Chakra Extraction Technique LV1, Great Fireball Jutsu LV5, Konoha Whirlwind LV4.]
"Now for the most important part!"
Chentian merely gave it a casual glance, then rubbed his hands together and eagerly opened the purple card.
[Ding! Congratulations, Host, you have obtained a purple card. Chakra +1000!]
"Holy shit! Holy shit!"
Seeing the system notification, Chentian leaped up in excitement.
A thousand points of chakra was jonin-level!
He had been worrying about chakra just moments ago, and now the problem had been solved for no reason at all.
Chentian felt as though the heavens had dropped a Lin Daiyu right into his lap. It could not have been any sweeter.
He immediately began admiring his status panel impatiently.
[Host: Chentian] [Strength: 23] [Speed: 25] [Constitution: 19] [Spirit: 25] [Chakra: 1005] [Talent: Space Talent LV3.] [Skills: Shuriken Basics LV2, Basic Taijutsu LV3, Chakra Extraction Technique LV1, Great Fireball Jutsu LV5, Konoha Whirlwind LV4.]
"Heh heh heh!"
"Chentian, are you all right?" Just as Chentian began drooling, Might Guy's right hand landed on Chentian's shoulder with a smack.
That finally broke Chentian out of his fantasy of stepping on Uchiha Madara and pummeling Otsutsuki Kaguya.
"I'm fine. I came to train with you."
After collecting himself, Chentian spoke seriously.
The moment he said that, he already knew what Might Guy would do next.
Sure enough, in the next instant, Might Guy rushed over like the wind, wrapped him in a hug, and burst into moved sobs.
Everything here had gone exactly as Chentian expected. Meanwhile, Kakashi had also learned Chentian's background.
Once he found out that Chentian really was Minato's younger brother, he finally put aside his doubts.
After temporarily gaining Might Guy's trust, Chentian followed behind him constantly, occasionally picking up the cards Might Guy dropped.
Watching his attributes rise bit by bit filled him with indescribable joy.
The only thing troubling him was that the Ninja Academy would be starting soon.
At this point, he no longer wanted to attend the Ninja Academy. Would it not be better to stay with Minato and the others every day and pick up high-level cards?
However, during this period, Chentian had also figured out how cards dropped.
The first method was high-intensity training, which had a tiny chance of dropping cards.
The second method was battle. The chance of cards dropping during combat was extremely high!
The last method was random drops. Whether one was eating or sleeping, there was a one-in-ten-thousand chance for a card to drop.
The golden card on Minato had dropped that way!
Therefore, if he wanted to obtain a large number of cards, he could only fight others or watch others fight.
But the possibility of getting Minato, Kushina, and the others to fight in front of him was far too low.
Chentian had also tried fighting the two of them, but the system did not consider it a real battle. Not even a single blank white card had dropped.
Combined with Minato and Kushina's strong insistence, Chentian could only helplessly enroll in the Ninja Academy.
"Whew... Hah... hah... I can't go on. Guy, you do it yourself."
With a thud, Chentian collapsed weakly to the ground, feeling as though his arms no longer belonged to him.
When he watched Naruto in his previous life, he had thought Guy was crazy, but he had never imagined he would be this crazy!
He started off with five thousand push-ups just to warm up. With attributes in the twenties, Chentian had only managed five hundred before he was done for.
Five thousand, my ass! Five thousand!
Looking at Guy, whose expression remained utterly relaxed, Chentian held it in and held it in, but finally could not help saying, "You really are a freak!"
"Ha ha ha! As long as you keep training, you can do it too!"
Guy grinned and gave him a thumbs-up with his right hand.
His other hand continued bending and straightening without pause, making the corner of Chentian's mouth twitch.
Chentian then reviewed his attributes. His strength had risen by two points, reaching twenty-five.
His weakest attribute, constitution, had also surpassed twenty and reached twenty-one.
As for the others, there had been no change.
"Sigh, only three points in total. That's way too slow!"
Chentian stared blankly at the sky and could not help sighing.
If his constitution had not increased by one point on its own during training, it would only be twenty right now.