Konoha's morgue was pretty good

After pestering him for a long time, Bieshu Feifan finally got Hiruzen Sarutobi to give him a month to study the Will of Fire.

To answer Bieshu Feifan's question about enemies who couldn't understand the Will of Fire and wanted to cut him down, Hiruzen Sarutobi also gave him a scroll.

It contained a ninjutsu.

Bieshu Feifan knew when to quit while he was ahead, having scored a free ninjutsu.

He happily left the Hokage Building.

Only after Bieshu Feifan left did Hiruzen Sarutobi sit down and rub his brow.

Dealing with Bieshu Feifan felt more exhausting than fighting a war.

The problem was that Bieshu Feifan was an idiot who couldn't understand a word he said.

And Hiruzen Sarutobi wouldn't use his authority as Hokage to pressure Bieshu Feifan.

He had always cultivated a kindly image. Ordinary Shinobi wouldn't pester him, nor did they have the nerve to make things difficult for him.

Even if his kindly act didn't work on them, he was still the Hokage, the strongest person in Konoha.

But Bieshu Feifan was different. He was an idiot and a child.

This was Hiruzen Sarutobi's first time encountering someone like this, someone even stupider than Might Duy, that eternal Genin. He couldn't understand plain speech or grasp authority at all.

Hiruzen Sarutobi smoked through an entire bowl of tobacco before he could barely pull himself out of Bieshu Feifan's talk about enemies refusing to listen and wanting to cut him down, and return to the documents on his desk.

But the moment he picked up a document, Bieshu Feifan's claim that he would help grade his homework surfaced in his mind, and he immediately lost the desire to read it.

These were important Konoha documents, not homework.

Once home, Bieshu Feifan immediately jumped up. He had gotten another ninjutsu.

He eagerly opened it, only for his expression to turn strange.

What the scroll recorded was:

Fire Release: Phoenix Flower Jutsu.

Another Fire Release jutsu commonly used by the Uchiha.

Moreover, Bieshu Feifan felt that Hiruzen Sarutobi knew Danzo had given him the Great Fireball Technique and had deliberately avoided giving him a duplicate.

Still, Bieshu Feifan didn't care about the higher-ups' schemes. Having ninjutsu to learn was a good thing.

Besides, he really didn't get along with the Uchiha.

Most importantly, Bieshu Feifan had secured a month of safety.

On his way home, Bieshu Feifan had already decided how to spend that month. He would help out at Konoha Hospital and see whether he could pick up any overlooked treasures.

Even if he couldn't, he could still learn some methods for treating injuries.

For now, though, he would train first.

As for the book Hiruzen Sarutobi had given him, "The Third Hokage's Will of Fire: Deluxe Edition," Bieshu Feifan tossed it straight into a corner.

Who in their right mind would read that stuff?

Even Kakashi, after becoming depraved later on, read smut like "Icha Icha Paradise."

The following afternoon, after finishing his training, Bieshu Feifan went straight to Konoha Hospital and found a Chunin on duty.

"Hello, what illness are you here for?"

The moment the Chunin on duty opened his mouth, it was clear he wasn't very educated.

Bieshu Feifan straightened his collar.

"I'm here to help. I've noticed the hospital has been busy lately. It needs me to do my part."

The Chunin looked at the short little Bieshu Feifan.

"Hahaha, brat, you're here to help? Wouldn't you faint from fright at the sight of the wounded? Hahaha."

"Are you questioning the abilities of the Hokage's brother, Chunin?"

Borrowing someone else's authority to throw his weight around, Bieshu Feifan rattled it off without hesitation.

And he actually bluffed the Chunin on duty.

"What? You're Lord Hokage's brother?"

"That's right. Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi is my big brother. If you think I'm not capable, you can go to the Hokage Building and check with him."

Seeing how confidently Bieshu Feifan spoke, the Chunin instinctively believed him.

"Please forgive me, sir. I must have been blind, hehe. Which department would you like to go to, sir? I'll arrange it for you right away."

Very satisfied with his attitude, Bieshu Feifan nodded.

"Then send me to Tsunade. I hear her medical skills are fairly decent."

The Chunin couldn't help rolling his eyes at Bieshu Feifan. Tsunade's medical skills were merely decent? Then there were no medical experts in this world.

"Sir, Lady Tsunade has gone to the front lines. She isn't at Konoha Hospital. But there are plenty of excellent medical ninja in the trauma department."

"Forget it. Since Tsunade isn't here, I won't go there. Where are the seriously wounded? Especially the ones about to die. And the morgue, too. I'll work there. What's the pay?"

After some back-and-forth, Bieshu Feifan got a job moving the seriously wounded to the morgue.

It was easy and unimportant.

Of course, the pay was very low, too, but it was better than nothing.

That was because this job hardly needed a specially assigned worker. The nurses treating patients could take care of it along the way.

Once Bieshu Feifan went to work, the Chunin on duty immediately ran to the Hokage Building.

Hiruzen Sarutobi had just finished reading an important document. The fighting at the front had grown even more brutal. The last batch of newly graduated cannon fodder... Genin had nearly been used up again, and fresh crops were urgently needed for harvesting.

But this year's students at the Ninja Academy had already been all but picked clean.

Just as Hiruzen Sarutobi was nursing a headache, he heard news of Bieshu Feifan again, and a Chunin was shown in.

"Lord Hokage, a child claiming to be your younger brother found a job moving corpses at our hospital."

Him again. Hiruzen Sarutobi's head hurt even more.

"Let him be. Don't bother with him."

After the Chunin who had come to report left, Hiruzen Sarutobi realized another problem. That idiot Bieshu Feifan seemed to genuinely think of him as his big brother.

That wouldn't do. He couldn't let an idiot benefit from the reputation he had spent over a decade building.

Hiruzen Sarutobi immediately put aside his work and wrote an inspirational piece about caring for intellectually disabled children.

And the example he used was Bieshu Feifan.

There were quite a few corpses in Konoha Hospital's morgue, all Konoha Ninja who had died in battle.

Although the Land of Fire's Shinobi were mainly concentrated in the military stronghold of Konoha, they came from all across the Land of Fire.

After they died in battle, their families couldn't get there right away, so they lay in Konoha Hospital's morgue.

Since a Chunin had brought him over, Bieshu Feifan entered the morgue without any trouble.

Then Bieshu Feifan began checking them one by one.

"Genin Bieshu, what are you doing?"

Watching Bieshu Feifan pull open the drawers and inspect the corpses one after another, the Genin guarding the morgue felt his scalp prickle.

But Bieshu Feifan ignored his horror. He only wanted to find special chakra he could absorb.

"I'm checking whether they're dead. If they aren't, I can send them for treatment."

The Genin at the door fell silent. This child seemed a little dim.

Bieshu Feifan touched corpse after corpse, paying particular attention to their eyes.

Although the Uchiha and Hyūga probably wouldn't leave their clansmen's corpses in a place like this, what if they did?

This one won't do. He's been dead too long, and his chakra has already dispersed.

This one has been dead for less than a day, but he's just an ordinary Shinobi with no special chakra.

It wasn't until he had checked over forty corpses that Bieshu Feifan's eyes lit up the moment his right hand touched one's arm.

It had reacted,

his Innate Divine Ability

had reacted.

Suppressing his excitement, Bieshu Feifan activated his Innate Divine Ability.

Special chakra, absorb.

In an instant, the chakra remaining in the corpse flowed into Bieshu Feifan's body.

Senju Bloodline!

I've landed a big one.

The moment this special chakra entered his body, Bieshu Feifan understood its nature.

The Senju's Kekkei Genkai, a faint remnant of the Sage Body.

Bieshu Feifan could feel his constitution improving at that very moment.

He clenched his fists. They were brimming with strength.

Thank you, Senju. Thank you for integrating into Konoha's civilian population.

Bieshu Feifan was genuinely grateful. Unlike ocular power, the Senju's Sage Body chakra affected the entire body.

From this moment on, he finally qualified to be a Genin.

As Bieshu Feifan basked in the pleasant sensation, what surfaced in his mind was the last of the Senju bloodline,

Tsunade.

But Tsunade was very strong. He would need to plan carefully over time.

Bieshu Feifan also regretted that Senju Nawaki had died too early.

After finishing absorbing from this civilian Senju, Bieshu Feifan showed nothing and continued reaching toward the next corpse.

Konoha's morgue was large. It took Bieshu Feifan several hours to go through the motions of checking all several hundred corpses.

Then he let out a long sigh:

"Not a single one was alive!"

Seeing Bieshu Feifan like this, the Genin at the door opened his mouth but ultimately said nothing more.

With no dead people left in the hospital, Bieshu Feifan didn't stay any longer.

As for his job moving corpses, who cared?

The moment he got home, Bieshu Feifan eagerly began testing the Sage Body's special chakra.

As Bieshu Feifan trained, this chakra slowly altered his own chakra, and his constitution gradually improved as well.

"Ah, that feels good."

The feeling of clearly sensing his body improving really was addictive.

Just as Bieshu Feifan was immersed in the strengthening of his body,

Knock, knock, knock.

"Bieshu Feifan, open the door."