[Early Morning]
[Uchiha Clan Territory, Karin's Home]
Gurgle~
Karin woke up from hunger.
"I'm so hungry!", Karin covered her mouth as soon as she spoke.
"Huh? Why does my voice sound like this?"
"Ah…"
Karin tried to make a sound. The childhood voice was completely gone, replaced instead by a more mature voice.
"Seems not bad at all, hehe," She tugged at her pajamas and found they had already shortened by a section.
She immediately excitedly ran to the dressing mirror and discovered she'd grown a full twenty centimeters taller, and happily jumped up.
"Ah! Amazing! I grew taller again!"
She touched her chest. It seemed that part had grown too.
"Why did you get up so early today… ah?", Kasui opened the door when she heard the voice.
Although she had gone through this before, seeing her daughter grow more than twenty centimeters overnight still surprised her.
"Mom, Mom! I grew taller again!", Although her height had increased, her temperament hadn't changed much.
Karin happily hugged Kasui and spun around.
"Don't fool around, don't fool around, put me down! Let Mama see."
Karin put Kasui down and stood beside her to compare.
She had already grown to be as tall as her mother.
Karin remembered Mom was 162.
"Mom! I'm the same height as you now!", Karin's face was full of excitement.
Kasui sized Karin up and down. She looked a lot like her mother when she was young.
Suddenly there was that feeling of "my daughter has come of age."
"Suddenly growing so much, do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?", Kasui asked with concern.
Gurgle~
If she didn't speak, the noises wouldn't start, but once she mentioned it Karin's stomach growled.
"Mom, I'm hungry. I want to eat now."
Kasui knew this was Karin's natural reaction, "Then hurry over, the rice is already cooked."
She pulled Karin into the living room; on the table were golden fried egg pancakes and pumpkin porridge.
Smelling the food, Karin's stomach growled even louder.
She immediately rushed to the table and began devouring everything.
Her eating was frightening, one pancake gone in two or three bites.
Kasui had experienced Karin's increased appetite after growing last time.
So this time she had made extra.
Karin ate pancakes and drank porridge, her mouth covered in oil.
Kasui came to Karin's side and looked her over.
Her gaze landed on Karin's chest, then she reached out to press it.
'The child has suddenly grown up, we need to buy underwear,' Kasui thought this to herself.
Although Karin was a bit thin, she didn't seem weak. Maybe slightly malnourished.
"Mom, it itches," Karin mumbled; since she was eating even more, she didn't pay it much mind.
"I'll take you to buy some clothes later, your old ones won't fit anymore."
Karin poured the pumpkin porridge into her mouth and belched contentedly, "Burp! Next time then, Master said he'll take me to play today."
Kasui stroked Karin's hair, "You must be polite to the clan leader, don't be disrespectful."
"No way, Master likes me best."
"I'm going to wash up and change clothes first!"
Karin jumped off the stool and hopped to the washroom.
Kasui shook her head, a bit troubled. The kid was nothing like her, had no sense of restraint.
———
[Rengoku's House]
Although Rengoku was the clan leader, clan affairs were mostly handled by several elders who had stepped back from the front lines.
The Uchiha clan was flourishing now; those elders were like they'd been injected with chicken blood.
Each and every one was extremely diligent. They handled clan matters in an orderly way without Rengoku's urging.
Usually only major-direction matters came to Rengoku for consultation.
What mattered most in this world was strength.
Rengoku never reversed that order.
So what he valued most was the improvement of strength.
Because his own chakra base was overflowing, he hadn't harvested fruit from the Bond Stars for a long time.
Forget the two-star ones.
He hadn't harvested the four-star ones yet either, Fugaku, Kushina, Shisui, Miroku, Konan, Nagato, Kaori.
The three-star ones also weren't plucked, Shisui, Konan, Nagato, Kaori, Miroku.
Four-star fruits are usually chakra or pupil power, he couldn't store more.
But pupil techniques and secret techniques could still be drawn.
After all, the more skills the better.
Rengoku licked his lips; opening blind boxes still made him a little excited.
'What would Shisui's secret technique be? That would definitely be—'
["Ding, Uchiha Shisui three-level bond unlocked."]
["Congratulations, host obtained: Radiant Kotoamatsukami."]
'???'
'Kotoamatsukami… fine, but Radiant Kotoamatsukami, what the heck is that?'
Rengoku closed his eyes slightly, experiencing what this pupil technique was like.
After a moment he opened his eyes.
Radiant Kotoamatsukami was somewhat like sunlight bathing everything. It could harm the opponent's mind and spirit.
'How did I not know Shisui had this pupil technique?'
Rengoku thought it over, had no clue, and gave up.
'Don't be too greedy, having it is good enough.'
Worth mentioning: after Yahiko was resurrected he directly drew four stars, but starting from three stars they were locked.
Meaning Yahiko's power was too low to unlock.
After all, Yahiko is Yahiko, Pain is Pain.
Next was Konan; when Rengoku opened it:
["Ding, Konan three-level bond unlocked."]
["Congratulations, host obtained: Paper Dance."]
"Oh ho! Here it comes!', the thing Rengoku wanted most.
He raised his hand and innumerable sheets of paper began to split from it.
Rengoku went out into the courtyard, controlling the paper to form a huge pair of wings behind him.
With a light flap, the giant air current lifted him up.
As someone who once could only run on the ground, his yearning for the sky was indescribable.
Rengoku's mood was great.
Suppressing the urge to fly around right then, he instead landed back on the ground.
Kaori was still in the hospital accompanying Ryuri; if they saw Rengoku could fly, they'd probably be green with envy.
["Ding, Nagato three-level bond unlocked."]
["Congratulations, host obtained: Bansho Tennin (incomplete)"]
Rengoku nodded slightly, he had Dragon Life Reincarnation technique in hand, so he didn't need Rinnegan-born techniques much.
Bansho Tennin was not bad either.
Although he didn't have the Rinnegan, his chakra and pupil power were abundant, no problem.
Next was Kaori.
["Ding, Uchiha Kaori three-level bond unlocked."]
["Congratulations, host obtained: Pupil Technique • Null Horizon."]
Rengoku's figure immediately vanished, arriving in a dimensional pocket.
He was curious and moved about; this pocket space seemed like the real world stripped of color.
Everything in the real world was visible, but only in three tones. Black, white, and gray.
Rengoku arrived beside the courtyard's awakened bamboo.
The intrinsic scene couldn't be altered, and he couldn't affect the constantly striking awakened bamboo.
Instead, when the bamboo's strike moved, it pushed his hand away.
The next moment, Rengoku's world returned to color.
Plop!
His hand suddenly appeared beneath the awakened bamboo and the bamboo got stuck.
Although the two worlds couldn't interact, one could approach quickly, seems like another ability suitable for assassination.
Activating Unbounded only consumed pupil power when entering and exiting; inside the pocket space there was no consumption.
If one used it like Kaori, one could hide as long as desired.
Then there was Miroku.
["Ding, Miroku three-level bond unlocked."]
["Congratulations, host obtained: Netherworld Formation of the Marching Void Sky (incomplete)."]
This formation Rengoku had not learned, because the formation itself required shamanic power to activate.
Rengoku had no shamanic power, so he naturally couldn't use it.
Netherworld Formation of the Marching Void Sky's effect is an area suppression of soul-spirits.
Clearly Miroku designed it specifically to counter specters.
Rengoku saw Miroku still had a fourth-level bond but didn't hurry to open it.
Same as Fugaku, Kushina, and Shisui.
His body was full, no extra capacity to hold more energy.
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