Hokage Building.
Rokuro arrived at Hiruzen's office.
He saw Hiruzen with a pipe in his mouth, puffing out clouds of smoke.
By the looks of it!
He was waiting for him.
Entering the door!
Rokuro said unceremoniously, "Old man, where is my Konoha ninja headband?"
Hiruzen casually pointed to the corner of the room. "It's right there. Bring it over, sign your name, and you'll be a Genin!"
Rokuro turned his head to look.
On a table piled with miscellaneous items in the corner sat a Konoha headband.
He quickly walked over, picked it up, and tied it around his head, complaining as he did so, "Honestly, for something so important, you didn't even put it in a box, old man!"
Hiruzen exhaled a puff of smoke and said calmly, "What kind of treasure is that? They can be mass-produced easily. It's just an identification mark. The important thing is your graduation certificate; that's what proves you are a Genin. The headband is just for you all to identify your own people!"
Rokuro took the headband off his head and strapped it onto his shoulder, asking Hiruzen curiously, "Then what if someone uses a fake headband to deceive us?"
Hiruzen rolled his eyes at Rokuro. "You are a ninja now. You have to learn to judge for yourself whether there is a problem with a companion. Isn't the Transformation Jutsu you usually learn meant for disguising as the enemy? Why are you even asking about this kind of thing? What goes on in that head of yours!"
Rokuro took the headband off his arm and tied it around his waist, curling his lip as he said, "Who knows? Anyway, I haven't heard of anyone deliberately taking off their headband during a battle!"
Hiruzen put down his pipe, glanced at Rokuro, and sighed. "That can be considered a consensus among ninjas. The probability of ninjas dying in battle is too high, especially in large-scale combat. Sometimes when people die, their bodies are mutilated, and it's impossible to tell who is who. If they aren't wearing their headbands, it's very difficult for our own people to identify them and bring them back for burial when they die!"
Makes sense!
Rokuro nodded, took off the headband, and tied it around his leg, asking Hiruzen, "Old man, where do you think I should put the headband to best show off my handsomeness?"
Hiruzen was speechless and glared at Rokuro. "What 'handsomeness' does a little brat like you have? Hurry over here and sign your name, and once you're done, get lost!"
In the end, Rokuro still put the headband on his forehead, because it was the most conspicuous there.
He walked up to Hiruzen, looked at the graduation certificate on the desk, and picked it up to examine it.
Opening the graduation certificate.
Inside was a half-body photo of himself.
By the looks of it!
It was taken while he was attending class.
Tch!
It didn't look handsome at all!
Rokuro grumbled inwardly for a moment, picked up the pen on the desk, and signed his name under the photo.
Just as he finished writing his name.
A message echoed in Rokuro's mind.
[Congratulations to the Host for officially becoming a Konoha Ninja.]
[New mission type unlocked: Konoha Ninja Missions. Completing missions issued by Konoha Village will reward Experience Points based on the mission's rank. There is no once-a-day mission limit.]
Holy crap!
So there was actually this method to gain Experience Points.
Damn it!
If I had known this!
I would have applied for graduation ages ago!
How many Experience Points have I wasted?!
Just thinking about it made Rokuro's heart ache.
Furthermore!
Becoming a Konoha ninja allowed him to accept Konoha missions to grind EXP. Then, if he became a ninja of another village, wouldn't accepting their missions also grant EXP?
Thinking about it!
It was highly likely.
However!
He couldn't even finish all the missions in Konoha Village alone.
Thinking about missions from other villages right now seemed a bit premature.
"What, are you dissatisfied?!"
As Rokuro's expression shifted constantly, Hiruzen asked a question.
Rokuro snapped out of his daze, looked at Hiruzen, coughed, and said, "I am indeed a bit dissatisfied. This photo doesn't capture my handsomeness at all. I want to apply to retake the photo!"
"Get lost!"
Hiruzen swung his pipe toward Rokuro's head.
"Honestly, if you won't let me change it, just say so. Is there a need to get physical?"
Rokuro took a step back and grumbled a couple of times.
Missing Rokuro, Hiruzen retracted his pipe and snorted coldly. "Weren't you going to treat the whole school to food? Hurry up and get out of here, stop getting in my way!"
Rokuro didn't want to leave.
He still had things to say.
The sudden system prompt just now had spawned a bunch of new ideas in his mind.
And these ideas...
Required Hiruzen's cooperation.
Konoha Village's missions were all decided by Hiruzen. In Rokuro's heart, Hiruzen had now been upgraded to a "Quest Giver NPC," so he absolutely had to butter him up properly.
Rokuro leaned close to the desk, looked at Hiruzen with a smile, and asked, "Lord Hokage, look, can I accept some low-rank missions now?"
Hiruzen looked at Rokuro and frowned. "Didn't I say it? It's best you don't leave the village!"
Rokuro coughed and said, "I'll just take D-Rank missions, and I'll use Shadow Clones to do them. It's just to grind some low-rank missions so that I'll have enough completed missions when it's time to be promoted to Chūnin!"
Hiruzen was taken aback.
Konoha indeed had a lot of boring D-Rank missions.
Those missions were too tedious, and basically no one wanted to do them. Sometimes he had to forcibly assign them out.
Now that Rokuro was willing to do them, that was actually quite good.
Hiruzen thought for a moment and said, "Fine, if you want to use Shadow Clones to do them, then do it. However, your real body must not go out. Konoha Hospital needs you, and you should be stationed at the hospital when you have nothing else to do!"
Hearing this, Rokuro immediately patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, I am someone who is extremely afraid of death!"
Hiruzen rolled his eyes.
Afraid of death!
Yet he says it with such pride.
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