"Why are you crying? Why are you shaking me? This old woman is just tired, not dead!"
The High Priestess suddenly opened her eyes, glaring furiously as her blade-like gaze swept over the idiots around her.
"B-But you just coughed up blood!"
"I've eaten too much meat lately. It's just gum bleeding from excess heat."
"..."
The clan chief's mouth twitched. He coughed lightly and explained, "It's not that I doubt Xiao Ze's strength as a Trainer. It's just that everyone knows she's far too innocent. For all these years, she thought learning ninjutsu and becoming a ninja was a profession like being a police officer—helping others and doing good..."
"Hiss..." Everyone fell silent.
Some things were simply that strange. The reason Xiao Ze had mastered every ninjutsu inheritance in the village at the fastest speed, and could even hit a mosquito with a shuriken from five hundred meters away, was because she possessed such a pure heart.
But to bring out ninjutsu's true power, she had to become a bad guy. That really was...
"Oh, right. Did you get Sister Xiao Ze a Trainer ID?"
As the adults sank into thought, a child playing in the snow suddenly asked.
"A Trainer ID? What Trainer ID?" Everyone was stunned. Did ninjas need some sort of identification to travel now?
"Ah, I heard it from an older brother passing through our village. You need a Trainer ID to travel these days, or you can't travel between cities. The police will arrest you as a suspicious person without identification!" The little boy looked certain of it, apparently puzzled as to why none of them knew something so basic.
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For a moment, everyone's expressions became wonderfully colorful.
"Why are you making those faces? This old woman spent every day trying to calculate