Shizuko Mizutani stood guard by the mountain path, her mind racing. She worried about the safety of Qingming and Ryosuke, and then wondered what she should do if the enemy came.
Time passed slowly as she waited anxiously.
After an unknown amount of time, a burst of hurried footsteps suddenly came from a distance.
Shizuko Mizutani woke up instantly, her spirit stretched to the limit at this moment.
'Who is it?'
'Qingming? No, his footsteps are not so heavy.'
'Ryosuke? No, the steps are too big, these are the footsteps of an adult.'
'It's the enemy!'
In an instant, Shizuko Mizutani got the answer.
At this moment, all the thoughts in her mind disappeared.
Shizuko Mizutani approached without much hesitation.
On the mountain path, two bandits were running one after the other.
While running, they did not forget to look back from time to time.
There was fear on their faces, as if they were worried that something was catching up with them.
Whoosh~
Suddenly, a sound of breaking through the air came from the side.
The bandit in front hadn't seen the object clearly when his calf was pierced by a kunai.
"Ah!"
A scream came out of his mouth, and then he stumbled and fell heavily to the ground, rolling several times, looking very embarrassed.
Seeing this, the bandit behind him stopped immediately and looked in the direction where the kunai came from with great anxiety, and then saw a little girl half a person's height walking out of the forest.
At a glance, his eyes were attracted by the thing on the girl's forehead.
Not long ago, two demons wearing the same thing slaughtered dozens of them, and now they met another one.
This made him extremely scared.
However, when he saw the girl's pretty face, he couldn't help but feel a glimmer of hope in his heart.
Without any hesitation, he fell to his knees and cried, "Please forgive me. I joined them out of necessity and have never done anything bad.
I have two children at home, about your age. If I die, they will not survive.
They are so small and pitiful.
Please, for the sake of the children, let me go. I will never do bad things again."
As he spoke, he kowtowed several times, with such force that his forehead bled.
The miserable appearance made Shizuko Mizutani feel a little bit of pity, and she thought to herself, "Is what the other party said true? If so, I will kill him, child."
Just as Shizuko Mizutani was struggling with her mind and could not make up her mind for a while, and the bandit showed a look of relief on his face, a kunai suddenly shot from a distance and accurately nailed into his throat.
Qingming flashed in front of the bandit, then suddenly pulled out the kunai, letting the blood splatter.
Then, he walked to another frightened bandit and calmly stabbed his chest with a kunai, ending his life.
"Qing, Qingming."
Shizuko Mizutani looked at Qingming and stabbed.
"Don't think too much when doing a mission."
Before she could continue, Qingming waved his hand to interrupt her and said, "Don't forget the mission requirements."
After that, he walked down the mountain on his own.
Shizuko Mizutani stood there, stunned for a long time, and then muttered, "Kill all the bandits."
That's right, the requirement of their mission this time is to kill all the bandits on Xiaohei Mountain. Letting any of them go, strictly speaking, will be considered a mission failure.
It's not that Qingming is so persistent about the mission, he is not Kakashi, the reason he did this is just to let Shizuko Mizutani understand that the mission is the mission.
Thinking too much when performing a mission can easily lead to bad things.
In the foreseeable future, for a long time, their Class 17 will be a whole and will perform missions together. Qingming doesn't want to be dragged down by stupid teammates one day.
So, be ruthless when it's time to be ruthless.
Of course, this is also a stopgap measure. It is impossible for him to do whatever the village asks him to do. Wouldn't that make him a task tool like the Root Ninja?
When he becomes stronger, he can make a choice.
At this stage, he
should just be a good tool!
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Down the mountain.
The three of them gathered together again.
Furukawa, who had disappeared for several hours, also reappeared.
He glanced at the three of them one by one, and finally said only "not bad", and then led the three of them to the direction of the village.
Perhaps considering the unsafe outside, Furukawa did not plan to camp outside and prepared to take them back overnight.
Qingming agreed with this.
If possible, he wanted to stay in the village all the time.
Unfortunately, this is impossible.
In fact, from now on, he will have to leave the village from time to time to perform tasks.
Now I just hope that Furukawa will take it easy and not take too many C-level tasks.
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In a flash, several hours passed.
Early the next morning, Qingming and others returned to Konoha Village. There was no danger along the way, and it was so smooth that Qingming felt it was unreal.
'Sure enough, I'm not the protagonist, the world doesn't revolve around me.'
Qingming couldn't help but feel a toothache when he thought of Naruto's random missions, and he would eventually soar to S-rank.
'Fortunately, I don't have the protagonist's halo, so I won't be so unlucky.'
Qingming secretly rejoiced in his heart.
"Okay, let's go back and rest."
Walking into the village, Gu Chuan stopped and said, "There will be no missions in the next three days, so you can relax appropriately."
"Goodbye, teacher!" ×3
Qingming and the other two replied weakly.
"Okay, let's go!"
Gu Chuan waved his hand, motioning them to leave.
Qingming and his two companions said goodbye, and then hurried to the Uchiha clan.
After returning home, Qingming sat on the chair for a while, and then took off his equipment.
Although this mission took only one day, he felt like a long time.
And he also went from an ordinary person who had never killed a chicken to an executioner with more than 20 lives.
Although he convinced himself that these people deserved to die, and even had the leisure to pay attention to the mental state of his teammates,
he still felt a little uncomfortable when he thought about it now. The scenes before those people died kept reappearing in front of him, making him lose the energy to practice.
However, no matter whether he could be motivated or not, he could not fall behind in practice.
Qingming forced himself to stabilize his mind, and began to perform the "Art of Reflecting the Heart" in a methodical manner, just like a beginner.
There were no accidents in this mission, and it didn't take much chakra to kill those bandits, so he still had plenty of chakra in his body.
This naturally couldn't be wasted.
So Qingming brushed up the proficiency of the "Art of Reflecting the Heart".
Looking at the proficiency increasing little by little on the panel, Qingming's heart calmed down unconsciously.
Soon, the chakra was exhausted, and Qingming began to refine chakra again.
When the chakra was full, he practiced the "Art of Reflecting the Heart" again.
In this way, after two rounds of practice, it was already noon, and Qingming could no longer hold on, so he washed up casually and fell asleep.
In the bedroom, Qingming had no idea what he was dreaming about, his brows furrowed and then relaxed from time to time.