Shu sat up straight: “Um… Tsunade-sama, how is Miyuki’s condition?”
“Relax, she won’t die for now.”
Tsunade wiped the remaining water from the corner of her lips, “She only suffered an acute curse infection because her physical condition was too weak and she was too close to Tonba Lake. I’ve already used a sealing technique to extract most of the curse energy from inside her body. However…”
Tsunade paused for a moment, frowning as if contemplating something, and finally shook her head.
“Anyway, do we need to examine Saito Shuichi and Goshima Kirie?”
Tsunade shook her head: “Forget it! There is no laboratory equipment here, and we don’t have much time either.”
“Brat, you must have already prepared a plan to collect points, right? After all, that pair of eyes of yours can see the future.”
Shu smiled: “I didn’t expect Tsunade-sama to be so impatient after all!”
Tsunade raised her eyebrow: “Brat, stop constantly calling me ‘Tsunade’ with the honorific suffix ‘-sama’! It makes me feel uncomfortable all over. Even though your mouth uses an honorable address, there’s not a single trace of honorific tone in your speech! Don’t do that kind of pretense anymore, just call my name directly.”
“Alright, Tsunade!” Shu obeyed immediately and obediently.
Tsunade stared at his expression which took that for granted, and anger suddenly flared up inside her heart.
Even though it was indeed she herself who told Shu to call her name directly, this brat’s transition was way too smooth!
Without the slightest hesitation or transition, she suddenly felt a strong urge to punch that annoying face directly!
If it wasn’t for the need for his information in this cursed place…
Sure enough, just like Second Grandpa said, people from the Uchiha clan are all wicked bastards!
Shu ignored the deadly glare from Tsunade and said with a smile: “It seems Tsunade really, really wants to collect reward points!”
Tsunade’s gaze turned complicated.
“Yeah…” She muttered softly, “Anyway, I have someone who needs to be revived.”
“Even though right now I still don’t know how many Reward Points are needed to revive someone in the Main God Space, thinking with basic logic it’s obvious that just relying on the points we obtained today, to reverse this life and death that violates the laws of nature, it’s definitely far from enough!”
(Revive someone?)
(Is it because of her beloved younger brother, Nawaki? Or her former lover, Kato Dan? Or perhaps she wants to revive both at the same time?)
Of course, as an information provider who knew boundaries, Shu wouldn’t poke at her past wounds at a time like this.
“It seems Tsunade also carries many heavy burdens on your shoulders.” Shu said softly.
“I understand, we do have a mutually beneficial cooperative relationship.”
“Therefore, for the sake of your grand plan of resurrection, and also so that I can survive and become stronger, we must seize the time to act in the next few days!”
“Tell me, what’s your plan?” Hearing about action, Tsunade instantly perked up.
Shu extended his finger and tapped the table: “Tomorrow morning, we head to school!”
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The next morning.
The sky in Kurozu Town was still completely covered by a thick layer of dark clouds like lead.
So gloomy, not even a ray of sunlight could pierce through it, making the entire town appear gray.
Walking on the streets, the oppressive tightness in the air was clearly felt a few levels heavier than when they had just arrived yesterday.
As a small town located in a remote area, the educational resources in Kurozu Town were extremely minimal; the entire town had only this single comprehensive high school.
This meant that almost all school-aged teenagers in this town went to school here.
Once people gathered densely, the probability of the curse erupting naturally became unreasonably high.
Shu and Tsunade walked along the road and it didn’t take long for them to find this school.
Right now was the peak time for children going to school in the morning.
Students wearing matching dark blue uniforms walked in pairs or groups entering the school gate.
Tsunade stood beneath the shade of a tree across the street, staring at the students coming and going at the school gate, and asked thoughtfully: “It seems a world without chakra also has educational institutions similar to our ninja academy.” Find the original chapter at g.com.
“The nature of it is completely different.” Shu replied calmly.
“They learn mathematics here. Cultural knowledge like history is useful for finding a stable job in society later on, whereas what we learn at the Ninja Academy are all assassination techniques.”
Hearing that, Tsunade was stunned, her gaze turning somewhat complicated: “Come to think of it, the fate of ninjas trained into killing machines since childhood… it really feels quite pathetic, doesn’t it?”
“Isn’t that a natural thing?” Shu replied indifferently.
“The ninja world is fundamentally a distorted world, ninjas are a damn profession!”
“You, brat.” Tsunade’s tone was slightly peculiar, “The way you talk sounds as if you aren’t a ninja yourself?”
“I indeed don’t want to be a ninja.” Shu smiled: “Besides, a ninja indeed has limitations!”
“Tch, too lazy to argue with you about these unimportant things.” Tsunade pulled back her gaze, “Quickly tell me the important business, who is our first target?”
“Let’s just take a stroll first.” Shu observed the surroundings, “After all, what this pair of eyes of mine can see are only a few fragmented future scenes, it’s impossible to be accurate every second.”
“However, as long as we wander around this school, we will definitely get results. Besides, in horror and mystery stories, the school is definitely a crime scene that happens frequently, this is already a law of nature!”
“What kind of law of nature is this?” Tsunade rolled her eyes speechlessly.
Shu added inwardly, of course, the most important part was that Kirie and Shuichi, the male and female protagonists, went to school here!
As protagonists, catastrophic events always gravitated toward them.
To avoid drawing attention, the two of them didn’t pass through the main gate.
With their physical abilities, they easily evaded the security guards at the school gate and vaulted over the high wall at the back of the school to sneak inside.
The subsequent search process went even smoother than anticipated.
Inside an environment filled with long-term oppression and resentment like this, the dark side within human hearts would be amplified infinitely.
As the two of them rounded the back of the school building, next to the old equipment shed, they heard muffled collision sounds accompanied by fearless mocking laughter.