Hayashi paid no mind to what Sasuke was thinking as he stood there.
"I'm heading out."
He waved a casual goodbye, then turned and left the Uchiha compound.
The night wind swept down the street. He pulled his collar tighter and ambled home.
Home, door open, water on to boil.
Hayashi hummed an off-key tune as he washed up. Just before he climbed into bed, still warm from washing, something suddenly occurred to him-
Right, there was still something important to do.
The prize draw!
He should have done it earlier, but Sasuke had held him up, putting it off until now.
Hayashi sat cross-legged on the bed, rubbed his hands together, and opened the roulette wheel in his mind.
The wheel was packed with slots. He narrowed his eyes and made a wish: Advanced swordsmanship would work. Something to complement Ice Release would work too. Even another boost to the Chakra Refinement Technique would be fine.
The pointer wobbled through several rotations before slowly settling on a slot.
[Trait acquisition]
Hayashi stared at those four words for a long time.
...What the heck?
Hadn't all the previous prizes been things I could understand? Swordsmanship, Sage Mode-the names alone made it clear what they did.
What was this [Trait acquisition] supposed to be?
The next second, the system, which had made a habit of playing dead, actually spoke for once.
[Trait acquisition: Acquire an equivalent trait from another person] [Example: Kakashi Hatake's trait, "An even match for anyone"] [Example: Sasuke Uchiha's trait, "Show-off Release"]
Hayashi wanted to ask a few more questions, but the system had already gone back to doing nothing. No matter how he called, it refused to answer.
Fine. Going all in on playing dead, huh?
Hayashi: "..."
No, seriously.
*This system played