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Inside a wooden hut.
A boy scrambled up, pulling off the blanket covering him, and looked around in confusion.
Surrounding him were twenty or so children, aged three to five, all fast asleep. It looked like some sort of nursery, only this nursery was far too dilapidated.
It was just a broken-down wooden shack.
Less than thirty square meters.
Yet over twenty children were sleeping here.
After thinking for a moment, the boy looked at his own body and limbs, shaking his head repeatedly. "No, this isn't right. I'm an adult. How did I suddenly turn into a child?"
Rebirth?
Transmigration?
Soul transfer?
A pile of theories appeared in the boy's mind.
After letting his imagination run wild for a bit—as an adult who had read countless web novels—he quickly sobered up. He prepared to go outside and see exactly what the situation was.
He got out of bed.
He walked toward the door.
But he had barely taken two steps when the door opened. A man wearing a black flak jacket stared down at him and said, "Kanda Rokuro, it's this late. What are you climbing out of bed for?"
The boy was dumbfounded.
Because the language the man spoke seemed to be Japanese.
And for some reason, even though he didn't know Japanese, he understood every word.
Wait!
That's not the point!
The point was the forehead protector on the man's forehead.
That was the Leaf Village symbol from Naruto.
What is going on?
Is this guy a Naruto cosplayer?
While the boy was lost in confused thought, the man walked up to him. Without a hint of politeness, he picked the boy up like a little chick and tossed him back onto his bed. "Sleep obediently. You all start training tomorrow!"
The man finished speaking, turned around, and left.
The room went dark again.
The boy, thrown onto the bed, was now completely wide awake.
At this moment.
Memories that didn't belong to him flooded his mind.
These memories made the boy's forehead turn cold.
It's too miserable...
Just too tragic...
After reviewing the memories, the boy confirmed his situation.
His soul had transmigrated, and he had crossed over into the world of Naruto.
His current body belonged to a child named Kanda Rokuro. This Rokuro was a child from a peasant family in the Land of Rice Fields. He had five older brothers.
However!
All five brothers had starved to death.
The original Kanda Rokuro was likely on the verge of starving to death as well.
But his luck seemed decent; a ninja took a liking to him, bought him, and brought him here.
According to the memories, the ninja believed Kanda Rokuro had the aptitude to become a ninja.
A ninja, huh!
Thinking about it, the boy started to get excited.
Although the Naruto world was fraught with danger, becoming a ninja—even the lowest-ranking Genin—meant that starvation would definitely not be an issue. Furthermore, his memory of the Naruto plot was fresh. With these advantages, muddling his way to becoming a Chūnin shouldn't be a problem, right?
Thinking of this, the boy relaxed.
No matter what the future held, he had to survive right now.
Naruto!
What a dangerous world!
How can I survive until the finale?
Looking at the situation, this was likely the Konoha Orphanage (or Root training camp). These children were being prepared for war. If a battle broke out, he might be sent to his death as cannon fodder.
What a pitfall!
In his past life, he had muddled his way to his thirties with no achievements.
In this life, if he could become a ninja, he couldn't just die early, right?
That wouldn't be worth it. He had finally made it to the Naruto world; he had to see the world properly. He was quite interested in the girls of the Naruto universe, after all.
Huh!
What is this?
This doesn't seem to be Kanda Rokuro's memory.
While the boy was worrying, he suddenly discovered a string of text in his mind that didn't belong to him or the original Rokuro. He didn't know where it came from.
So!
He looked at it carefully!
One look!
And he became ecstatic!
[Training System Activated:]
[Host: Kanda Rokuro]
Taijutsu Level 1: EXP 0 / 10,000
Ninjutsu Level 1: EXP 0 / 10,000
Genjutsu Level 1: EXP 0 / 10,000
[System Training Quests & Random Quests Activated:]
Complete Daily Training Quests to gain a fixed 500 Experience Points.
Complete Daily Random Quests to gain variable Experience Points, depending on the difficulty of the quest.
[Today's Training Quest: 1,000 Push-ups.]
[Today's Random Quest: Prank Masashi Asayama.]
Is this a System?
This is the standard "Golden Finger" (cheat) for transmigrators!
Just a moment ago, he was thinking about merely becoming a Chūnin. With this cheat, if he didn't thrash Madara Uchiha and the Sage of Six Paths, he would be letting down this System and every other transmigrator out there.
The more he thought about it.
The more excited he got.
He felt it necessary to complete the quests immediately to improve his strength.
He looked at the two quests for today.
Right now, he could probably only do one.
He couldn't complete the quest to prank Masashi Asayama.
According to his memories, that guy wasn't in this room. He was in the room next door, which housed the "veterans" aged five to seven. The room Rokuro was in housed the newcomers aged three to five.
Kanda Rokuro himself was four years and two months old.
He had only been here for half a month and hadn't started ninja training yet.
As for what he had been doing for the first half-month?
Eating. Stuffing his face to let his frail body recover so he could handle formal training. Otherwise, if he trained without recovering, he'd collapse in ten minutes.
Since he couldn't do the Random Quest.
He could only do the Training Quest.
He climbed up and looked around; the other children were fast asleep.
To become strong.
He had to do these 1,000 push-ups.
He slipped out of bed and started doing push-ups on the floor right beside it.
With his tiny, weak body.
Even if he wanted to do them fast, he couldn't.
At most, he could do about thirty in a minute. And after doing a minute's worth, he had to rest for a minute before continuing; otherwise, his body couldn't take it, and he wouldn't be able to lift himself up.
Thirty push-ups every two minutes.
That was six hundred in an hour.
To finish a thousand, he would need at least two hours.
However!
Data was just data.
Real training didn't work like math.
By the time he reached five hundred, his arms were aching terribly. Without resting for two or three minutes between sets, he couldn't continue. So, it took him nearly three hours to finish the 1,000 push-ups.
Ding...
[Training Quest Complete. Reward: 500 EXP.]
Hearing this sound.
He revealed a faint smile.
Then.
He lay directly on the floor and passed out from exhaustion.
After Kanda Rokuro fell asleep, someone opened the door and walked in.
He walked up to the sleeping boy, nodded with satisfaction, picked Rokuro up, placed him back on the bed, covered him with the quilt, and left the room.
As a Root ninja.
His vigilance was extremely high.
The second time Rokuro climbed out of bed, the ninja had heard the noise.
He had prepared to enter and teach Rokuro a lesson, but then he discovered that Rokuro was actually doing push-ups beside the bed. This made him stop and watch from the window the entire time.
Only when Rokuro trained until he passed out did he enter.
As a ninja.
He had come from a background of bitter training.
Rokuro's performance satisfied him greatly.
He now felt that Kanda Rokuro was a good seedling worth nurturing. If Rokuro could become a Jōnin or a Special Jōnin, the ninja's own reward would be substantial.
However!
This was just one day!
He had to see Rokuro's future performance.
Only if Rokuro acted like this every day would it be worth reporting to the higher-ups.
For now!
For the sake of Rokuro's hard training, he would just add a big chicken drumstick to the boy's meal tomorrow.