"Ha~, second day back in the village."
Early morning, another day dawned, and Shin'un groggily opened his eyes from the bed.
"So sleepy..."
Lying on the bed, Shin'un turned his head to look at the thick book of Sealing Jutsu next to his pillow, which he had just brought back from Orochimaru's house yesterday.
After staring blankly for a while, Shin'un finally got up from the bed as if he had no bones.
Then, Shin'un picked up the Sealing Jutsu manual from the bedside table and reviewed what he had read and studied the night before.
"As expected, I still can't understand it..."
After forcing himself to read it for half an hour and memorizing the contents by rote, Shin'un simply closed the book with both hands, turned around, and threw it to the ground.
Standing up, Shin'un was not surprised that he couldn't understand the Sealing Jutsu manual.
He never expected to learn Sealing Jutsu smoothly, since ninjas who could freely use Sealing Jutsu and modify them were treasures in any ninja village.
Of course, Shin'un had anticipated this situation, and the [ Diligent Study ] skill was created specifically to deal with it.
"However, [ Diligent Study ] will only begin to take effect after a month of continuous and in-depth study..."
"That's good too, so we don't have to rely on skills for everything."
Shaking his head, Shin'un straightened up and stretched his limbs, then went to the window inside the room, opened it, and looked outside.
"The weather isn't as good as yesterday..."
Shin'un looked up at the sky.
Yesterday was a sunny day, but today the entire sky is completely covered by clouds, and the sun only shows its outline through the white clouds.
Perhaps because the sun's warm rays were completely blocked by the clouds, today's temperature is much colder than yesterday's.
A cold wind brushed against his cheeks, but without the warmth of yesterday's sunshine to ward off the chill, Shin'un already felt cold all over after just standing by the window for such a short time.
"Let's close the window..."
Shin'un wanted to open the window to let in some fresh air, but it had already gotten cold outside, so she silently closed the window again.
Turning around, Shin'un took off his pajamas and went to the wardrobe to Jonin outfit.
Immediately afterwards, Shin'un went to his bedside and pulled a cardboard box out from under the bed.
Tearing open the packaging, inside was a whole box of medical masks.
"Hehe, this makes me feel so safe."
Looking at the box full of medical masks, Shin'un felt very satisfied.
"It wasn't for nothing that I shamelessly begged a whole box from Konoha Hospital yesterday."
With a smile, Shin'un bent down and rummaged through the cardboard box, roughly figuring out the exact number of masks inside.
"A box contains eighty packs, and each pack contains one hundred masks, so this box contains eight thousand masks."
"My parents and I, the three of us, could wear masks 24 hours a day for more than half a year."
"Hey-hey..."
With a smile, Shin'un took a box of face masks from the box, stood up, and walked into the living room.
"Mom and Dad, remember to wear masks when you go out from now on."
With that, Shin'un placed the mask in her hand on the dining table in the living room, sat down, and began to eat breakfast.
Wearing a mask? Why?
Shin'un's mother, Toyoko Hirakawa, walked out of the kitchen holding a kitchen knife and looked at Shin'un with a puzzled expression.
"There's a strange illness in Konoha lately that can be transmitted through the air. You must wear masks whenever you go out."
Shin'un picked up a grilled sausage from the table in front of him and said as he ate:
"I've got it, this is important."
Beside him, Shinkaku Hirakawa, who was sitting at the dining table reading a newspaper, looked up and glanced at Shin'un.
Who told you that?
"I ran into Senior Tsunade when I went to see the Lord Hokage yesterday; she was the one who told me."
"Oh." Upon hearing Tsunade's name, Shinkaku Hirakawa nodded, took a sip of the oatmeal porridge in front of him, and then turned to Toyoko Hirakawa, who was holding a kitchen knife to the side, and said:
"Alright, Dai..."
"Just wear a mask."
"The kids are all Elite Jonin; they know more than the two of us combined."
"I know..." Hearing Shinkaku Hirakawa's words, Toyoko Hirakawa nodded and returned to the kitchen, muttering to herself, "Wearing a mask is so inconvenient..."
After breakfast, Shin'un spent some time alone in his room reading books on Sealing Jutsu.
Two or three hours later, Shin'un was about to put on a mask and go out to find Yūichi when he was suddenly attracted by a faint noise coming from the roof above.
" The Anbu? Are they here to deliver something?"
Raising an eyebrow, Shin'un gathered his Chakra, used Body Flicker Technique to leap out of the window, and landed on the roof.
Sure enough, a masked member of the Anbu was waiting on the roof of his house. Upon seeing Shin'un, he immediately held up a scroll and handed it to Shin'un.
"This is something from the Lord Hokage."
"Please burn it after memorizing it."
Upon seeing this, Shin'un took the scroll, but before he could even open it to examine it, the Anbu Ninja in front of him immediately vanished in Body Flicker Technique.
"Hmm?" Shin'un looked up, frowning as he watched the departing figures of the Anbu Ninja, feeling somewhat puzzled.
"Why does this Anbu seem to be in a hurry to leave? And the direction he's heading isn't the Hokage Building, it looks like... Konoha Hospital?"
"Is the Third there?"
"Or has something happened at Konoha Hospital?"
"Everything was perfectly normal when I went to Konoha Hospital yesterday morning..."
Shin'un narrowed his eyes slightly, a vague sense of unease rising in his heart.
A moment later, Shin'un looked down at the scroll in his hand.
Unfolding it, Shin'un examined it for a moment and confirmed that the scroll contained the Chakra Sensing Technique developed by the Second Hokage.
With both hands moving in quick succession, Shin'un rolled up the scroll and put it away, deciding to examine it properly later that evening.
"Sigh~"
With a sigh, Shin'un gazed into the distance towards the direction of Konoha Hospital.
"Should we go to Konoha Hospital to check on them?"
After thinking for a moment, Shin'un shook his head and gave up the idea.
"Forget it."
"I wasn't a medical professional in my past life either. I only knew some basic hygiene knowledge, so I wouldn't have been able to diagnose anything, and I would have just caused trouble for them..."
"Hopefully Tsunade can step up her game."
"Cough! Cough!"
Suddenly, a cough coming from not far behind him caught Shin'un's attention.
Shin'un immediately looked in the direction of the cough and discovered that the person coughing was actually the owner of the vegetable shop across from her flower shop.
She stood by the vegetable shop counter, her face flushed from coughing, as if she felt a bit hot. Although she was only wearing a thin jacket in the cold weather, she kept fanning her face with one hand.
With her eyes slightly narrowed, Shin'un knew that this vegetable shop was where her mother often went to buy groceries.
Is it airborne?
Thinking of this, Shin'un looked inside the vegetable shop.
Because the owner is hardworking and generous, the vegetables in her shop are always very fresh and inexpensive, so business is naturally very good.
It was nearing noon, and a dozen or so people were selecting vegetables in the small space of the vegetable shop.
Besides, several other people were chatting around the proprietress, occasionally asking her why she was coughing.
Shin'un stood on the rooftop, looking at this scene, and subconsciously reached out to adjust the mask on her face.
Then, Shin'un shook his head, turned around helplessly, and went home.
"Mom, please try not to go out anymore, especially not to that vegetable shop across the street. Please don't go there again."
After leaving a message for Toyoko Hirakawa, who was putting on a mask and preparing to go out to buy groceries, Shin'un jumped out the window and left.
An hour later, Shin'un walked around Konoha, gave Yūichi box of masks and said a few words before returning home.
Just then, Toyoko Hirakawa finished preparing lunch.
Just as Shin'un took off his mask and revealed
He smiled, sat at the table, and picked up his chopsticks to eat, but his expression suddenly changed.
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Standing up, Shin'un made a quick assessment before turning to look in the direction of Konoha Hospital.
" Chakra fluctuations from battle?"
"And there are quite a few of them, at least several hundred."
With his eyes slightly narrowed, Shin'un quickly made a decision.
"Mom and Dad, you eat, I'm going out to take a look."
While talking to her somewhat bewildered parents at the dining table, Shin'un had already put on a mask.
After saying that, Shin'un climbed out of the window and landed in the middle of the street.
Just as Shin'un was about to Body Flicker Technique to Konoha Hospital, something suddenly happened in his line of sight ahead.
A team of nearly a hundred Anbu Ninja appeared ahead, leaping swiftly between rooftops.
Every now and then, when passing through certain streets, one or two small teams would be separated from the large group of Anbu and stay behind.
Soon, the Anbu team approached the commercial street where Shin'un's flower shop was located.
Most of the Anbu Ninja simply swept across the rooftops, leaving only two teams of Anbu Ninja on the street.
As soon as they landed, these Anbu Ninja began loudly driving away all the pedestrians on the street.
Among them, an Anbu Ninja looked like the squad leader walked towards Shin'un.
"I apologize, Lord Hokage has ordered that Konoha be placed under the control of the Anbu Ninja from this moment forward."
"All civilians and ninjas must remain at home and are not allowed to leave unless conscripted. Anyone who violates this order will be treated as missing-nin!"
"Therefore, please cooperate with our work and return home immediately!"