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Chapter 13: Finally, Wood Villa!

  Senshi, uned, walked over and sat right in the middle of Orochimaru’s sealing formu. Apparently, Orochimaru had developed this teique to aid his research.

  Once Senshi settled in, he could feel a special energy wave sing his chakra. After making these preliminary observations, the look on Orochimaru’s face riceless.

  He had great fiden his own research-supp teique, so he believed the measurements were accurate beyond doubt—and what he saw left him thhly astounded:

  “What oh… How does he have such a massive and pure chakra reserve? How he have Tailed Beast–level affinity with the Lightning nature? His physical stitution might rival—even surpass—the legendary Third Raikage’s. This body is beyond amazing—it’s a fwless vessel!”

  Orochimaru stared at Senshi, who was sitting calmly in the ter of his experimental seal. He could barely resist seizing that body for himself right then. But the terrifying amount of chakra inside Senshi, his incredible stitution, and his mastery of Lightning Release all kept Orochimaru grounded. Without meticulous preparation, there was no way he could handle Uzumaki Senshi head-on.

  Bzzz—

  After a while, the glowing lines of Orochimaru’s research seal faded. Orochimaru spoke:

  “That’s enough for now. I’m finished with today’s tests.”

  In truth, Orochimaru was also thinking about whether to hire Senshi to capture the Rinnegan from Nagato or the Sharingan from Uchiha Itachi. With Senshi’s enormous power, they might even have a shot at taking Nagato’s Rinnegan. But Orochimaru decided against it, for now. He po study Senshi over the long term aually steal his body as the perfect vessel. Only then would it be easy to cim the Sharingan or the Rinnegan himself.

  Senshi, of course, had no idea Orochimaru was thinking that far ahead. After cooperating on the research, he and Kari Orochimaru’s hideout. Ohey were away, Karin looked up at Senshi:

  “That guy means you no good. You o be careful.”

  Hearing that, Senshi reached out and ruffled Karin’s hair. Ign her annoyed gre, he messed it up thhly.

  “Hahahaha… You’ve got it backward. He’s the one who should be careful.”

  At this point, Orochimaru no longer posed any threat to him. Senshi was stronger day by day—certainly more so than someone like Orochimaru could handle. And as a mission fanatic, he komorrow’s Senshi would be strohan today’s. If Orochimaru couldn’t deal with him now, he’d be even more out of luck ter. Eventually, Orochimaru would end up providing his talents in various fields for Senshi’s be.

  Right now, Senshi hadn’t decided exactly what he wanted or how he’d use Orochimaru’s assistance. Perhaps f the stro merary for the shinobi world to fight the ōtsutsuki ? That idea sounded good, but for now, his main pn was still to grind missions nonstop a even stronger. When he reached the level of a “humaails,” or even beyond, maybe then he could literally look down osutsuki and ask them how big a psychological blow he was dealing.

  In the end, Orochimaru’s sudden arrival had at least let Kakuzu rest for half a day. If Kakuzu knew what was in store for him over the following weeks, he’d be deeply grateful to Orochimaru. The Akatsuki had been around a long time, and Kakuzu had seen many new recruits join, fired up at first, only to sck off eventually. He assumed Senshi might be simir.

  But he was wrong. From the day they formed their two-man squad, every day had beelessly busy for Kakuzu. He started to suspect that for Senshi, 24 hours in a day somehow sted 48. Physically, Kakuzu’s body could rotate through multiple hearts, so he didn’t get exhausted in that se mentally, he was drained.

  Senshi was like a soulless mission mae, either on a mission or traveling to the one. Like right now, the two of them were en route to yet another job. Uhe starry night sky, Kakuzu could only stare wordlessly, having lost t if this was their 48th or 49th job of the day. He used to ignore lower-paying tasks, but this “lunatic” Senshi accepted every ission job uhe sun. The two of them had made quite a name for themselves at the Rain’s bck market.

  Ninjas and local powers in Amegakure and the surrounding minor vilges had all heard about these two mission grinders. So long as it was a ission request, they rarely tur down, and their pletion rate was incredibly high. More impressively, despite such speed, they maintained a 100% success record. Kakuzu khe information but felt no joy. He watched Senshi flipping through aaission briefs while traveling, and only felt a splitting headache.

  Maybe I should take a mission to assassihe Fire Daimyō, then end up in prison for a while, just to get some rest…

  Senshi tiudying the missioails as he walked, now carrying Karin on his back. The girl was still young and couldn’t keep up with the insane round-the-clock schedule as easily as Kakuzu could with his multiple hearts. Earlier, she dozed off while walking, so he let her rest on his back.

  …

  Half an hour ter, they fihat day’s 50th ission and arrived at a hot springs inn. Kakuzu was worn out. Before heading to his room, he told Senshi:

  “We’re taking tomorrow off—no missions. Then we carry on.”

  Senshi ftly refused.

  “No way. We ’t betray Leader Nagato’s trust or fail the anization’s expectations!”

  Kakuzu simply ignored him ao his room. Holy, it had nothing to do with Akatsuki’s trust. Senshi just cared about money more than life itself, preferring to drop dead on the job if it meant squeezing in more issions. Where some ninjas dream of being Hokage, of proteg their vilge, Senshi’s “ninja way” boiled down to two words: Make Money.

  Unaware of his partner’s frustration, Senshi returo his own room with Kari her on the bed so she could get a prht’s rest. As for himself, he pulled out the day’s ission earnings and system rewards to start rolling. Now that word of their deeds had spread, the number of tasks ing in had skyrocketed. Over these days, he’d racked up a huge sum of ission Points—over ten thousand.

  Seeing the system panel show:

  [ission Points: 10,102]

  He couldn’t stop smiling. But after a while, his face started twitg from smiling too hard. It was truly a massive haul.

  “Time to draw!”

  [10,000 ission Points deducted! Remaining: 102 points]

  [Drawing…]

  [gratutions, you have received:]

  ? Shuriken ×3

  ? Kunai ×3

  ? Ninjutsu: Lightning Release – Chidori, Level +1

  ? +1 bar of Chakra

  ? World Affinity Level +1

  …

  [gratutions, Host. Ninja World Affinity has reached k; you have unlocked the Wood Release kekkei genkai!]

  [Unlocked Wood Release, current level: D]

  [New Jutsu Learned: Wood Release – Cutting Teique]

  [New Jutsu Learned: Wood Release – Wood e Teique]

  [New Jutsu Learned: Wood Release – Wood Transformation Teique]

  Huh? What’s going on? Gaining one point of World Affinity unlocked Wood Release for me? So now I do that “wooden vil jutsu” I wanted?

  …

  The day at dawn:

  Boom—

  A loud crash, and Senshi burst through Kakuzu’s door. Kakuzu steadfastly refused to rise—he needed his rest! But Senshi’s move stunned him: he simply grabbed Kakuzu and hauled him off to the Rain bck market to pick up another job.

  It truly was necessary for Kakuzu to e along; he’d been a fixture of Amegakure’s bck market fes. With his formidable reputation and a near-fwless success rate, many ts knew him by name. Rumor said he had once assassihe “God of Shinobi,” the First Hokage. That legend made him a top pi the bck market. Although Senshi’s own name had been rising quickly, it still couldn’t pare to Kakuzu’s. After all, Kakuzu was an “old G” from ba the day.

  So thanks to Kakuzu’s goldeation plus Senshi’s skyrocketing fame and their willio take almost any ission, they had a thick wad of mission briefs at nearly all times—a dream e true for tless ts who onever had a ce of hiring Kakuzu.

  Now, with the unstoppable duo’s insane pace, those same employers couldn’t believe their luck.

  Bleam

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