The Fourth Hokage's Kunai

"The boring lecture was finally over."

Saitama walked home with his hands in his pockets.

Meanwhile, Bai Ye took out his phone and checked the Hero Association's official website. Saitama's information was already on the Hero Roster.

He was last in S-Class, ranked seventeenth.

Bai Ye scrolled farther down and found himself at number fifty-six in the B-Class rankings.

He wanted to see whether the executives had settled on his Hero Alias.

B-Class, rank 56-[Kamui]

Bai Ye immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Thankfully, the executives had gone with his suggestion in the end.

If they had actually saddled him with [Red Eye Man], he would have wanted to resign on the spot.

"My Hero Alias is out. You'll have your own soon too, Mr. Saitama."

Bai Ye said this to Saitama.

"Hero Alias? What's that about?"

Saitama immediately asked.

"It's a name unique to each hero, usually based on their distinctive traits."

Bai Ye explained, "For example, my original tentative hero name was [Red Eye Man]."

As he spoke, he pointed to his Sharingan. The Hero Association executives must have come up with that Hero Alias based on his eyes.

"Why do you say it was your original tentative name?"

Saitama asked curiously.

"Because I asked the higher-ups to change it. They accepted my suggestion, so my finalized Hero Alias is [Kamui]."

Bai Ye briefly explained the situation.

"Oh, okay..."

Saitama nodded. "In that case, would my Hero Alias be [Bald Cape Guy]?"

Bai Ye fell silent for a moment. "...Very possible."

"That sounds awful. If it really is that, can I ask them to change it too?"

Although [Bald Cape-Man] suited Saitama's appearance perfectly, he was sensitive about the word "bald" and found it upsetting, so he certainly would not want to accept that Hero Alias.

Later, Saitama really did join the [Hero Name Victims Association] because of that Hero Alias. He stood outside the Hero Association headquarters with the others, protesting through a megaphone and demanding an apology from the association. That alone showed how much the name bothered him.

"You could try when the time comes. I'm not too sure about that myself."

Bai Ye gave a slightly awkward smile.

Barring any surprises, Saitama's Hero Alias would once again be [Bald Cape-Man].

As for why Bai Ye had managed to get his changed, luck probably played a part.

When he was promoted to a B-Class Hero, his Hero Alias had not yet been finalized. [Red Eye Man] was probably just one of the Hero Aliases the executives had come up with.

Bai Ye happened to offer his suggestion while they were still undecided, and the executives, too lazy to rack their brains, simply used it to finalize his name.

Most of the Hero Association's executives were like that. Its management had serious problems: not only were they unworthy of their positions, they were also incompetent, and had even committed plenty of evil deeds...

"Forget it. I'll worry about it when the time comes."

Right then, Saitama only wanted to go home, lie down, and read manga. He could not be bothered to think about any of this.

In his free time, Bai Ye decided to try out the Body Flicker Technique.

After receiving it as a reward from the system, Bai Ye had once again mastered the Body Flicker Technique directly, without needing to learn it.

Practice was still necessary, though. Otherwise, the basic Body Flicker Technique that nearly everyone in Naruto knew would not be much help to him.

Following the instructions the system had placed in his mind, Bai Ye gathered his mental energy and used it to energize his body, allowing him to move at high speed.

Originally, it used chakra, but the system had modified it to use mental energy instead.

Bai Ye tried it out and, with a thought, flashed several meters forward.

"It really is fast, but it's still not enough..."

Assessing the speed he had just reached, Bai Ye muttered to himself.

He soon understood that two things determined the upper limit of his Body Flicker Technique: his physical fitness and the strength of his mental energy.

Besides that, practicing the Body Flicker Technique more would help him use it more proficiently, which was useful too.

With that in mind, Bai Ye opened the system panel and glanced over it.

[Host: Bai Ye]

[Age: 20]

[Identity: Human, B-Class rank 56]

[Abilities: Dual Kamui, Flying Thunder God Technique, Body Flicker Technique]

[Weapon: Red Night Blade]

[Physique: 75 (+hashirama cells ×2)]

[Points: 41]

[Points Shop (Lv1)]

He had accumulated another forty-one points, but Bai Ye planned to save them for now and redeem items later as needed.

Next, Bai Ye would practice combining the Body Flicker Technique with the Flying Thunder God Technique while unlocking the remaining cities he had not yet visited.

Before he started practicing, Bai Ye needed to redeem some kunai.

[Ding! The host has redeemed "Fourth Hokage's Kunai ×10." "Points ×1" deducted. Current points remaining: 40!]

For this practice session, Bai Ye casually spent one point to redeem ten kunai.

Three-pronged kunai immediately appeared in Bai Ye's hands.

He then applied a Flying Thunder God Formula to each kunai, and Kamui marks immediately appeared on their handles.

With everything ready, Bai Ye began practicing at once.

He started from Z City. His training method was to keep moving at high speed with the Body Flicker Technique, timing his kunai throws as he moved through the air. The kunai had to hit precise targets, such as a rock jutting above the sea or the tip of a High Tower in some city—small targets like those.

Throwing kunai accurately while moving at high speed undoubtedly demanded exceptional reflexes and execution, and Minato was precisely that kind of genius.

Bai Ye had only just started practicing and was still unfamiliar with it, so he certainly could not reach Minato's level at his peak. That was exactly why he needed more practice.

Bai Ye moved through the air at high speed, but his afterimages were still visible. For now, he could not move so fast that even those disappeared.

Soon, he spotted a target—the tip of a High Tower—and immediately threw a kunai at it.

With the Mangekyō Sharingan enhancing his vision, Bai Ye's throwing ability far surpassed that of ordinary people, even without any practice.

The kunai he threw lodged precisely in the tip of the tower.

Great!

Bai Ye was secretly delighted.

Before long, Bai Ye arrived in W City.

[Ding! The host has arrived in W City for the first time. Reward received: 2 points!]

The next moment, while still moving at high speed, Bai Ye suddenly used the Flying Thunder God Technique and instantly teleported to the tip of the High Tower from earlier. His toes rested lightly on the kunai embedded in the steel as he stood atop the tower.

P.S. I cranked out fifteen thousand words yesterday (ten thousand for the new book plus five thousand across several older books). If I'm in good form today, I'll aim for four updates for the new book.