“I…
I don’t have any money!” Shin said, patting his pockets, which were emptier than his face.
“No money?” Tsunade feigned confusion.
“If you don’t have any money, then there’s no helping it.
Stay behind and work for me.”
‘So this was your goal all along!’ Shin shouted internally.
This Tsunade was practically a profiteer.
However, this suited his intentions perfectly, as it was the only way to complete his mission.
“Does that include room and board?” Shin asked.
“Room and board?
I’ll have to calculate that…” Tsunade’s eyes rolled around in their sockets.
A moment later, she clapped her hands together.
“You owe me five thousand, with interest increasing by fifty every day.
Add another fifty for food and lodging, so you owe me an extra hundred a day.
That makes it five thousand two on the second day, and calculating it that way, the interest for the second day will be fifty-two…”
“It goes up by one every day!
This is usury!” Shin shouted after hearing this.
“What?
You aren’t willing?” Upon hearing Shin’s shouting, Tsunade immediately changed her expression.
With a dark face, she spoke to Shin, perfectly illustrating what it meant for a voice to be quieter while the aura became more imposing.
“Shin is willing to serve Lady Tsunade faithfully!” Shin immediately shouted back.
“That’s a good boy.” Tsunade switched back to a smiling face upon hearing this.
[Beep, beep, beep…
Skill ‘Face-Changing Art’ learned to Max!]
‘You can even learn that.’ Shin complained internally upon hearing this.
It was truly impressive.
“I wonder what Lady Tsunade would like me to do?”
“You can’t even use ninjutsu…
what can you do…” Tsunade thought about it.
She had been too focused on scamming him and had forgotten to choose a position for him.
“Looking at your appearance, I think you’d be quite good at working as a gigolo at a tavern.”
“Hiss…” Shin gasped.
This woman was truly vicious.
“That…
that wouldn’t be good, would it…” Shin said, trembling.
“I’m joking, I’m joking.
How about this: stay here with me and be my secretary.” Tsunade thought about it and said.
Shizune was currently helping out at the Konoha Hospital, and she herself didn’t have the time to go over there, so it would be perfect to have this kid fill Shizune’s position.
“That would be excellent.” Shin nodded quickly.
Tsunade really understood his heart!
Wouldn’t it be much easier to conquer her this way?
“Then go handle the handover with Shizune, and then come out with me later.” Tsunade nodded and said.
In truth, she kept Shin by her side, firstly, because he was a child who had lost his family to war within the Land of Fire and had been wandering for so many years, which was truly pitiful.
The second reason was that even if she let him leave now, he would have nowhere to go and would be left to fend for himself, so she used the pretext of him repaying his debt to take care of his food, clothing, and shelter.
Afterward, Shizune brought Shin to the room next door.
It was piled high with documents that Tsunade hadn’t had time to process, along with some that had already been processed.
Shizune told Shin about Tsunade’s various scheduled arrangements, which were packed almost every day, as well as some of Tsunade’s little habits.
As for the little habits, Shin listened very carefully and remembered them clearly.
These were all shortcuts to conquering Tsunade in the future.
His learning ability also demonstrated its power.
Everything Shizune said seemed to be carved into Shin’s brain.
It was impossible to forget.
Moreover, he could draw inferences from what he learned.
After hearing just a few words from Shizune, he knew how to handle these documents.
After explaining a great deal to Shin, Shizune quizzed him in return.
Shin recited everything back without a single error.
Shizune nodded in satisfaction.
Seeing how smart this kid was, her favorability rating rose again to 125 percent.
Once Shizune had finished explaining everything to Shin, Tsunade came to find him.
Only then did Shin realize that after Naruto returned, Tsunade had arranged for Kakashi to test the results of his and Sakura’s training over the past two years.
It was about to begin, and Tsunade was planning to go watch, also to let Shin gain some experience so he wouldn’t get stage fright when seeing ninjas fight in the future, which would embarrass the Hokage.
Shin was, of course, very willing.
If he could see this kind of battle, he knew how many ninjutsu he would learn.
He couldn’t ask for anything better!
When Tsunade brought Shin to the training ground, Jiraiya was already waiting there.
Shin had a strong sense of being a secretary and always followed half a step behind Tsunade.
“Who is this guy?” Jiraiya asked when he saw Tsunade bringing a young man.
“Your boy toy?”
“What?” Tsunade smashed her fist directly onto Jiraiya’s head, not leaving him any face at all.
“This is Shin, the brat you brought back.
From now on, he is my secretary.”
“What?
This brat is going to be your secretary?” Jiraiya was shocked when he heard this.
He knew this kid was a perverted brat and had even played a trick on him—not a good person at all.
“Is he capable of that?”
“Lady Tsunade wakes up at seven every day, breakfast is ready at seven-thirty, files to be processed for the day are ready in the office at eight, a ten-minute break for sake at ten, lunch is ready at twelve, and the lunch break is from one to two in the afternoon…”
“Alright, you don’t need to tell him that much.” Tsunade interrupted Shin and said, “How about it?
Is that okay?”
“…” Jiraiya had a deflated expression and was speechless.
Just then, Naruto, Sakura, and Kakashi also arrived at the training ground.
“Shh.” Tsunade made a gesture for silence.
The three of them watched intently, waiting for them to begin the battle.
The three of them exchanged pleasantries and felt sad for a while.
During this, Sasuke was mentioned.
Sasuke’s defection was a permanent regret for Team 7.
After the sadness passed, Naruto pulled himself together.
Their goal was to snatch Kakashi’s bells, the same as the previous assessment project.
The difference was that there was one less person and their abilities had changed.
Naruto launched the first attack, jumping up and throwing a few shuriken.
Kakashi ducked down, dodged the shuriken, and returned a few shuriken to Naruto.
Just from the two of them throwing shuriken, Shin’s learning ability allowed him to directly learn the Multiple Shuriken Jutsu.
Naruto, in mid-air, was unable to dodge the shuriken and directly used the Shadow Clone Jutsu, pulling his real body to the side in mid-air to dodge the shuriken.
“Shadow Clone Jutsu, I’ll take that.” Shin smiled behind Tsunade.
Naruto landed and turned the Shadow Clone into a giant windmill shuriken.
Kakashi took the opportunity to rush up, grabbed the shuriken with one hand, and pressed down on Naruto’s head with the other, pinning him down.
However, another Shadow Clone of Naruto appeared behind Kakashi, pointing a kunai at Kakashi’s waist.
“Not bad.” Tsunade said upon seeing this.
“Hehe, that’s my student.” Jiraiya laughed proudly.
Seeing that the sky was already getting dark, Shin quietly used the Shadow Clone Jutsu to create a clone.
He had already said in the afternoon that he was going to smash the bathhouse!
And he was definitely going to smash it!