Uchiha Nan returned to the small two-story building left to him by his parents, carrying the packaged pancakes.
As he entered the door and walked across the wooden floor, he saw a tea table in the center of the living room with some tea sets placed beside it.
Uchiha Nan locked the door behind him and went up the wooden stairs to the second floor; the first floor was where his parents used to live.
Since arriving here at the age of four and learning who his parents were, he had accepted this reality.
After simply tidying up the first floor and finding some of his parents’ belongings, he chose a room for himself on the second floor.
On regular days, aside from cleaning, he rarely visited the first floor to avoid being overwhelmed by grief.
Pushing open his bedroom door on the second floor, air filled with a faint musty smell wafted out.
Old, moldy pale yellow wallpaper was pasted on the walls, and clothes and books were scattered messily across the wooden floor.
Seeing this scene, Uchiha Nan sighed slightly but didn’t complain about anything.
After all, the original owner was just a six-year-old orphan; one couldn’t have too high expectations for him.
Uchiha Nan fetched a basin of water from the bathroom, took a tattered piece of clothing, and gave the room a thorough cleaning.
After finishing everything, he collapsed on the floor, panting heavily.
Doing housework was truly exhausting; even with a Ninja Academy-level physique, he was worn out.
But now was not the time to rest.
Uchiha Nan got up, boiled some hot water, and took a cup of noodles from the refrigerator.
Paired with the now-cold pancakes, he finished his dinner.
With that done, he sat cross-legged on the bedroom’s tatami and pulled the Chakra Refinement Technique left by his parents from the original owner’s memories.
Chakra in the Ninja World is a miraculous substance that spread throughout the world from the Divine Tree brought by the Ōtsutsuki.
This allowed the original inhabitants of the Ninja World to refine something like Chakra.
From Uchiha Nan’s perspective as a modern person, Chakra was simply an all-purpose energy.
It could generate electricity, create fire, produce water, heal others, and strengthen oneself.
It was practically the ‘Jinkela’ of the Ninja World.
With the improvements made by the Six Paths Sage, Chakra became a product of merging Physical Energy and Spiritual Energy; as long as your body and spirit were strong enough, you would have sufficient Chakra.
The original owner’s Ninja talent was lacking in every aspect.
Even with the Chakra Refinement Technique in hand, he could only refine a tiny, weak amount.
Fortunately, after this world-crossing journey, Chu Nan’s soul had completely merged with Uchiha Nan’s soul.
This wasn’t a simple case of 1+1=2; it had already filled most of the deficiencies the original body possessed.
The remaining issues were nothing at all with the support of his Golden Finger.
Now that Uchiha Nan’s physical fitness and Spiritual Energy had surged, he could naturally refine much more Chakra.
As Uchiha Nan operated the Chakra Refinement Technique, a special kind of particle slowly floated out from his mind and body cells.
They merged into Chakra energy and gathered in Uchiha Nan’s abdomen.
At the same time, at the Uchiha Clan Head’s residence…
Uchiha Fugaku returned home unhappy.
Uchiha Ryūgan had already sought him out because of today’s incident.
He originally didn’t want to bother with Uchiha Nan’s matter; a person without talent had no value.
He had originally raised that child to train him as a guard, just as his parents had protected him as the Clan Head.
He intended to raise him as a tool to protect his son in the future, but he didn’t expect the boy to be so useless.
Of course, the child’s parents had died for him after all.
If he did nothing in this matter…
It would likely alienate the clansmen.
So, he went with the flow to stop the matter and gave Jonin Ryūgan a superficial punishment.
In front of several clansmen who managed clan affairs, he took over the matter, solidifying the fact that he had once adopted Uchiha Nan.
He won over people’s hearts significantly and also gained Uchiha Ryūgan’s gratitude.
After returning home, however, he did not give his wife a kind look.
“Mikoto, I told you that Uchiha Nan no longer has anything to do with us.
You shouldn’t have helped him today.”
“If I hadn’t resolved it perfectly, I would have offended a Jonin.”
Uchiha Mikoto didn’t speak; she just stared blankly at her husband, not understanding why he was so cold.
That was the child he had adopted, after all.
The night passed in silence.
Sitting cross-legged, Uchiha Nan opened his eyes with a joyful smile on his face.
In just one night, the Chakra he refined could compare to what the original owner had refined in two years.
Of course, given the level of talent and the fact that the original owner was often bullied, it was normal not to have much Chakra under that double blow.
Uchiha Nan stood up and walked to a tree in the courtyard that was as thick as a man’s embrace.
With his legs slightly bent in a horse stance, he sank his energy into his Dantian and punched the tree trunk.
The trunk didn’t move, but the branches above shook slightly, and some small twigs and dead leaves fell.
Uchiha Nan looked at the bloodstains on the back of his hand and didn’t mind; instead, he nodded.
As expected of the Ninja World, even a Ninja Academy-level physique is already this powerful.
If this punch hit a person, it would be enough to break several of their bones.
Then, Uchiha Nan guided his Chakra to concentrate on his fist and experimented again.
This time, there was no obvious difference from before, except that more leaves fell.
Furthermore, at the point of impact, the bark had been punched until it cracked.
As for Uchiha Nan’s hand, aside from being a bit numb from the counter-force, no new wounds appeared.
Through this simple test, Uchiha Nan had gained a preliminary understanding of his own strength.
After all, his current physical fitness wasn’t as strong as in his previous life; he just had this extra Chakra energy.
Now it was time to settle scores and repay grudges.
He hadn’t forgotten that Uchiha Ryūichi wasn’t the only one who bullied the original owner.
In a plaza where Uchiha youth often gathered, Uchiha Nan finally found the two guys from yesterday.
Seeing the person who had pummeled Uchiha Ryūichi standing before them, the two felt their legs go weak and hurriedly explained.
“Nan-kun, everything before was Uchiha Ryūichi’s doing.
We were forced by him!
It has nothing to do with us!”
Uchiha Nan smiled slightly.
“It’s fine.
I will forgive you in one minute.”
Before the two could show joyful expressions, Uchiha Nan pushed off with his foot, leaped into the air, and knocked one guy down with a flying kick.
The other was stunned.
Didn’t he say he forgave them?
Uchiha Nan didn’t care what he was thinking; he put his weight into a right hook, hitting him heavily in the face and knocking him down easily.
After seeing two more ‘pending rewards’ appear on the Battle Record Panel, he let the two guys go.
He calculated the time; since a minute hadn’t passed yet, he gave each of them another kick before casually walking away.
The Uchiha youths standing nearby were all dumbfounded.
Was this really the same Uchiha Nan who used to let everyone bully him?
Before long, their companions notified the parents of the two unlucky souls about the situation.
The parents were also well-informed and knew about Uchiha Ryūgan’s forced entry into the Clan Head’s home yesterday.
They knew Uchiha Nan was the Clan Head’s foster son, but does being the Clan Head’s foster son mean he can bully others?
Several parents headed toward the Clan Head’s manor in a rage.