The moment Shu heard the notification, his eyes lit up.
‘Just as I thought!’ Changing the original course of the story could earn extra Reward Points and Side Plot rewards from the Main God!
That part worked just like the classic giant ball of light.
‘But only 500 Reward Points?
Isn’t that way too little?’ Was it because the change he made was too minor?
Whether Shuichi’s father was cremated or buried, the spiral ruins beneath Kurouzu-cho still existed.
The town’s eventual fate of being consumed by the curse hadn’t actually been reversed.
‘This damn Main God is such a scam.
It doesn’t even give us an instruction manual.’ ‘Couldn’t it at least assign a guide at the start?
Then I’d know how this reward system is actually calculated.’ Still, even if it was only 500 points, this was an extremely important discovery.
In this Main God Space, Reincarnators really could farm rewards by actively interfering with the plot.
The corner of Shu’s mouth slowly curled upward.
Tsunade immediately noticed his expression.
“Hey, brat.
What are you grinning about over there?
Something happen?” “Heh, nothing much.” Shu snapped out of his thoughts and smiled.
“I just confirmed one of my guesses and discovered something very beneficial for us.” While they were talking, hurried footsteps suddenly broke the gloomy silence around the funeral hall.
“Shuichi!
I heard about your father…” A pretty girl with shoulder-length hair rushed through the Saito family’s gate, breathing heavily with a school bag hanging from her shoulder.
“Kirie!” Shuichi immediately hurried over and tightly grabbed the girl’s hand.
Shu turned and studied her from head to toe.
‘So that’s the heroine, Goshima Kirie?’ The moment Kirie appeared, Shu started thinking.
If the timeline had reached the point where Shuichi’s father had just died and Kirie had come to offer condolences…
Then the spiral curse was already affecting more people than just Shuichi’s father.
Several important side characters immediately flashed through Shu’s mind.
One of them was Kirie’s classmate, Kurotani Azami.
By now, Azami should already be showing the early stages of the curse.
She had a crescent-shaped scar on her forehead.
Because the scar resembled a crescent, it also carried the shape of a spiral.
Before long, that scar would rapidly expand.
Eventually, in front of everyone, the spiral would suck Azami’s entire body into itself until not even a trace remained.
It was also one of the most famous grotesque scenes in Uzumaki.
‘If I can stop that from happening, that should count as a major plot change.’ ‘The Main God would definitely give me another reward.’ Shu immediately scanned everyone inside the funeral hall.
Azami wasn’t there.
He turned around and quickly left the Saito residence.
Tsunade frowned but followed him outside.
The moment they stepped through the gate, Shu spotted a girl in a dark blue school uniform standing near a corner not far away.
Her bangs were unusually long, covering almost half her face as she stared toward the Saito residence.
“Sharingan, activate!” Shu immediately activated his Sharingan.
Through its vision, he could clearly see a cluster of strange energy gathered around the girl’s forehead.
‘Found her.’ “You’re Kurotani Azami, aren’t you?” Shu walked straight toward her.
Azami cautiously took a step back.
“Who are you?” Shu had no intention of wasting time explaining.
Trying to reason with someone already affected by the curse was pointless.
Using force was much more efficient.
Genjutsu: Sharingan!
Azami’s eyes instantly went blank.
Her entire body froze in place, completely motionless.
Tsunade walked over and looked at the controlled girl.
“What?
This little girl is infected too?” “Yeah.” Shu nodded.
“But it doesn’t look like the infection has gone very deep yet.” He reached out and lifted Azami’s long bangs.
“Hiss…” Even though Shu knew what to expect, he still sucked in a sharp breath when he saw what was underneath.
The flesh on Azami’s forehead was already gone.
In its place was a strange spiral.
It was still small, but it slowly wriggled as though it were alive.
“This thing is disgusting as hell…” Shu muttered.
“It can actually consume a person’s flesh directly?” Tsunade’s gaze sharpened.
“She’s still in the early stage of infection,” Shu said.
“Tsunade-sama, see if you can save her.” “If it works…
we might get another pleasant surprise.” Tsunade glanced at him.
She had no idea what he was planning, but she still nodded.
“Fine.
I’ll try.” She stepped forward as green chakra once again lit up around both hands.
After a while, Tsunade withdrew them with a deep frown.
“The curse energy is relatively weak right now.
I can use chakra to suppress it within a small area and stop it from spreading.” “But…” Tsunade paused.
“That’s only treating the symptoms.
The curse energy is incredibly stubborn.
It’ll slowly corrode my chakra.” “Once the chakra is exhausted, the curse will erupt again, and the rebound will probably be even worse.” Shu thought for a moment.
“Tsunade-sama, if chakra gets corroded by it, what about Fūinjutsu?” In the Naruto world, Fūinjutsu was famous for being absurdly versatile.
There was practically nothing it couldn’t seal.
Tailed Beasts, chakra, souls…
When taken far enough, people could even seal their own mothers!
‘There’s no reason it shouldn’t be able to seal some curse energy.’ “Fūinjutsu…” Tsunade’s eyes lit up and she nodded approvingly.
“That’s actually a good idea.” “If chakra will slowly be corroded, we can use a sealing formula to forcibly isolate the curse energy.” She turned toward Shu.
“Then you handle the sealing.
I’ll protect the girl’s brain with chakra and adjust things as needed.” “I still need to examine this strange energy carefully and see what other properties it has…” Shu coughed awkwardly and quietly took half a step backward.
“Well…
Tsunade-sama, about Fūinjutsu…” “I don’t know any.” “What?” Tsunade froze.
“Tsunade-sama, not everyone is you or the Fourth Hokage!” Shu spread his hands helplessly.
“Fūinjutsu is ridiculously advanced.
Isn’t it perfectly normal that I can’t use it?” Truthfully, Shu had always admired Namikaze Minato.
Of course, that admiration excluded Minato’s hopelessly lovestruck side.
What Shu truly admired was the man’s absurd talent for ninjutsu.
Minato could use advanced Fūinjutsu and space-time techniques like Flying Raijin as casually as ordinary attacks.
He had even created a ridiculous technique like the Rasengan himself.
Compared to a genius like that, Shu’s own talent as a shinobi was downright miserable.
He didn’t know if it was because he was a transmigrator and his soul didn’t properly match his chakra pathways.
Either way, learning ninjutsu was somehow even more painful than studying calculus in his previous life.
He could memorize the theory behind a technique and recite every hand seal perfectly.
But the moment he actually tried to perform it and circulate chakra through his body, everything went wrong.
His chakra would either get stuck somewhere or suddenly scatter before the technique could form.
After all these years, aside from awakening a One-Tomoe Sharingan after an accidental emotional shock and mastering the Ninja Academy’s Three Basic Techniques, he barely had anything useful.
The only offensive ninjutsu he could reliably perform was the Uchiha clan’s most common technique: Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique.
That was one of the main reasons he was still stuck at Genin level at twenty-six.
If he already struggled this badly with ordinary elemental ninjutsu, there was no chance he could handle something as complicated and difficult as Fūinjutsu.
Even throughout the entire shinobi world, only a tiny number of people could truly master sealing techniques.
Most of them were either members of the Uzumaki clan or ridiculous geniuses like the Fourth Hokage.
To Shu, learning Fūinjutsu was basically the shinobi equivalent of studying topology and advanced algebra.