"Excuse me, when can I leave?"
"Wait for the Anbu investigation."
"Don't you Anbu ask the involved parties during your investigations?"
"Wait for the Anbu investigation!"
After saying this, the cat-faced mask Anbu stopped speaking. No matter how Uchiha Yoichi asked, there was no response.
Seeing this, Uchiha Yoichi could only give up. Now he had to wait for the Anbu to voluntarily let him go, or for the clan's rescue.
However, knowing Uchiha Fugaku's slightly meek personality, he would probably negotiate with Konoha's top brass and then wait for the Anbu's investigation.
Thinking of this, Uchiha Yoichi couldn't help but sigh inwardly. The heavy casualties of his teammates weren't his fault; it was due to Konoha's inadequate intelligence. In a C-Class task, encountering a Jonin, a Chunin, and two Genin, bringing back even one teammate was already quite an achievement.
Uchiha Fugaku should have firmly held onto Konoha's failure in intelligence, biting this point about the task team's failure, which almost cost this Chunin of the Uchiha Race his life.
When will the Uchiha ever be a bit tougher?
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Uchiha Yoichi is a time traveler, having traveled to the Ninja World just a year ago.
The original self had quite a strong talent, graduating early and becoming a Chunin two years later, even awakening the Sharingan, although it was only a One-Tomoe. However, being able to awaken the Sharingan made him quite the rarity in the Uchiha Race.
One could say he had the bearing of a strong individual.
But after being replaced by the time traveler, it became a bit awkward, as he wasn't the original self. Although inheriting memories, the combat experience was essentially like watching a movie replayed in his mind.
Upon first arriving in the Ninja World, Uchiha Yoichi decisively took a six-month leave from Konoha through the clan, not accepting tasks for half a year in order to first hone his own skills.
He knew how to extract Chakra and understood how to perform sealing to release Ninjutsu, and could also use the Sharingan.
He just needed to turn these into his real strength, so he spent six months training within the clan.
During this half year, he made considerable progress, mastering Ninjutsu and Chakra based on memory, fully inheriting the original self's strength.
And he endured quite a bit of hardship from many 'golden fingers'!
Speaking of Uchiha Yoichi's golden finger, the superpower roulette, this golden finger highlighted an aspect of 'endless changes'!
Every month, a random superpower would appear. Some superpowers were absurdly strong, while others weren't even worth using for a dog.
For example, on this mission, as a regular Chunin with three Genin, he managed to survive and deal with the opposing Jonin, Chunin, two Genin, and a group of bandits, all thanks to today's superpower.
[Empty-handed Blade Catching]: When you swing a blade, your main target will unconditionally go down on one knee, clasping the blade between their hands. When they release the blade depends on when you withdraw it, but doing so will deplete all your strength.
It was thanks to this move that Uchiha Yoichi, together with a Genin, managed to kill that Jonin.
Actually, there was another instance when Uchiha Yoichi's entire ninja squad was wiped out while on a border patrol mission, encountering two elite squads from the Hidden Cloud Ninja crossing the border.
If it weren't for the timely suitability of his superpower, Uchiha Yoichi, after just six months in the Ninja World, would have been reporting to the Netherworld.
[Turn Enemies into Friends], which instantly raises the favorability of someone hostile to you to 99, but you must compliment and flatter them for three hours, or else the favorability will drop to -99.
If not for this skill, Uchiha Yoichi would have died along with the teammates.
Fortunately, after activating this superpower, Uchiha Yoichi successfully became best buddies with the two elite squads from the Hidden Cloud, hanging out for a few hours, and even inquired about their mission details.
He even managed to sidetrack the Hidden Cloud Squad on the mission to a small town along the way, had a few drinks, and casually learned the training method for the Lightning Release Chakra Mode from one of the squad leaders.
There was another mission squad where no lives were lost, but all four in the squad took a collective fall. Apart from Uchiha Yoichi, the others ended up with broken arms and legs. After recovering, the team mysteriously disbanded.
In half a year, he had disrupted three mission squads, so when Uchiha Yoichi returned to the village this time, he was taken by the Anbu for investigation.
However, calling it an investigation felt more like a restriction of personal freedom by the Anbu to Uchiha Yoichi.
After being locked up for four to five hours, apart from being given two rice balls and a cup of water, Uchiha Yoichi hadn't eaten anything else, despite needing a good meal to recover after his 'battle'.
Not sure how much time had passed, Uchiha Yoichi even took a nap in the detention room, until he vaguely heard knocking from the Anbu.
"Uchiha Yoichi, you can leave now."
The cat-faced mask Anbu said and directly opened the door to the holding room.
"Your efficiency is really fast, huh? I thought I'd be living here for a month, but it's just been a few hundred minutes..."
Uchiha Yoichi couldn't help but mock, but the cat-faced mask Anbu didn't respond.
Soon after leaving the holding room, Uchiha Yoichi met Uchiha Mabayashi outside, a squad leader of the Security Team and a well-known Jonin of the Uchiha Race.
"Yoichi, let's go home."
"Thanks for picking me up, Senior Mabayashi."
Uchiha Yoichi said, then glanced at the sky, which had turned completely dark. He had been detained for at least six or seven hours.
"Senior Mabayashi, what about the mission's conclusion? The Anbu didn't inform me of the outcome when they let me go..."
Upon hearing this, Uchiha Mabayashi didn't immediately respond. He led Uchiha Yoichi a distance away from the ninja building before speaking, "There's no outcome yet. There's no unified opinion among the top brass. However, some suggested having the Interrogation Team search your brain, but the clan leader didn't agree..."
"This mission was very strange; a Jonin and a Chunin appeared in a C-Class task, yet the task team refused to admit the intelligence mishap. They brought up your past issues... But fortunately, you brought back that Jonin's head, and after checking, it was deemed a coincidence."
"The Hidden Rock covert squad was likely trying to gather information on the National Capital Daimyo Mansion's movements, which you happened to disrupt, and that's also why the clan leader opposed the brain search."
"So, I'm a hero after all, what's the problem with the Konoha leadership?"
Uchiha Yoichi, despite his good temperament, nearly cursed out an entire family lineage and continued, "I risked my life to bring back intelligence for Konoha, and they're going to search my brain? Senior Mabayashi, don't you find it unreasonable? I'm the one who took down a Hidden Rock Jonin."
Moreover, it's very common for the task team to encounter accidents. On a previous mission, with Kakashi leading Naruto, what was initially a C-Class task escalated to A-Class or S-Class. If it weren't for Shiro's kindness, Kakashi's squad would probably have had two fewer orphans.
"Indeed, it's very unreasonable. The clan members in the Security Team were all furious upon hearing this news. However, the clan leader just assumed office, so you need to cut him some slack..."
Uchiha Mabayashi sighed, mentioning the clan leader's intent to advance the Uchiha further, as a clansman, they could only support him.
"By the way, Yoichi, how did you manage to kill that Hidden Rock Village Jonin?"