Chapter 448: Chapter 308: It’s Not Easy to Be a Magician!
"Naruto, have you got someone special in your life yet?" Chen Ze, while chopping fish in the kitchen, suddenly asked.
"Eh? Eh??" Naruto was dumbfounded, and then his face turned visibly red at a rapid pace.
"I... Master-in-law, that is..." Naruto was embarrassed, just like a teenager suddenly asked by his parents about love matters.
"There’s nothing to be shy about, if there is, there is," Chen Ze shrugged, thinking Naruto was still too innocent.
Chen Ze remembered when he went to buy vegetables earlier, he came across some mischievous kids, clearly in elementary school, already discussing who in their class was dating the class beauty and who had gotten their fifth girlfriend. ƒreewebɳovel.com
Chen Ze thought back to how he didn’t dare to give his crush a love letter until middle school, and felt really old, as if there was a generational gap between him and the youth of today.
"That... that... it’s Haruno... Sakura-chan..." Naruto’s face turned even redder, he bowed his head; if Chen Ze’s ears hadn’t been enhanced by a magic circle, he wouldn’t have heard him.
"Is that so..." Chen Ze nodded thoughtfully.
Chen Ze recalled reviews he had read before, saying initially it was planned for Haruno Sakura to end up with Naruto, but due to her character being disliked, it was later changed to Hinata Hyuga.
Chen Ze had no plans to interfere with Naruto’s love life; after all, Sakura had always been fond of the blockhead and even ended up having a daughter with him later on.
"Master-in-law... is something wrong?" Naruto looked at the kitchen curiously; he knew that his master-in-law rarely cared about these things.
"Nothing, by the way, this is something your master gave you." Chen Ze pulled out a book from inside his clothes and had Betty hand it to Naruto.
"From my master? This is... ’A Million Applications of Wind Magic?’" Naruto held the book, as thick as a brick, and was completely dumbfounded.
"Um, Lafra said this book is bewitched, only you and I can understand it, others can’t, and it can even affect their mind," Chen Ze nodded.
You should know that originally, Lafra was going to whip out ’Complete Compendium of Wind Magic and Its Use,’ which was twice as thick as this one.
"What’s so strange about that? Did you think you can become a magician by smacking your forehead? There are many more books to read; this is just the basics," Lafra had said.
According to Lafra, every mage is someone who has gnawed through countless books to grow; meditation is also a key factor since you need to sense magic power before you even have the right to memorize spells.
Truly terrifying.
"Thank you, Master-in-law," Naruto nodded earnestly. He wanted to become Hokage, and his current strength wasn’t enough yet.
"Betty, come in and serve the dishes," Chen Ze clapped his hands, the swamp eel rice was ready.
"Danzo..." In the Hokage Building, Danzo walked in with a gloomy face.
"You don’t need to worry about Naruto," Hiruzen Sarutobi hadn’t even let his old friend finish before he interjected.
"That’s a Jinchuriki! Are you really at ease letting him go to some random place?" Danzo was unhappy; in his view, Naruto should only stay within Konoha.
Moreover, his men who wanted to follow were stopped by the Anbu, and later Hiruzen directly warned him that no one except Naruto was allowed in that place.
"What’s there to worry about? That place also belongs to Konoha," Hiruzen Sarutobi took a puff from his pipe.
"... What are you doing with a bunch of civilians you gathered recently?" Danzo could only change the subject.
"..." Hiruzen didn’t answer, just kept smoking his pipe with a smile.
"..." Danzo left with a gloomy face, it seemed that his old friend had done something behind his back again.
"Do you think I wouldn’t know if you didn’t tell me?" Danzo snorted, unlike with Naruto, the civilians Hiruzen had found this time couldn’t all possibly have Anbu protection, but he always had his ways.
"Wow, Master, this eel rice is so delicious!" Naruto’s face lit up with surprise—honestly, he had also eaten Chen Ze’s eel rice before, but it had never been as tasty as it was now.
"That’s right, hurry up and drink some milk. How’s life been recently? Is it still the same as before?" Chen Ze asked with concern, looking at Naruto.
"Nope, the Third Hokage often gives me some silver taels, so I don’t have to drink milk that gives me diarrhea anymore!" Naruto was extraordinarily happy, his face beaming with sunshine.
Perhaps for Naruto, not having an empty stomach, not drinking milk that made him sick, was a kind of happiness?
Chen Ze sighed. Third Hokage, oh Third Hokage, after you die, how will you face Minato Namikaze and his wife?
If Minato Namikaze knew about the treatment his son had endured, would he, after being resurrected by Edo Tensei, head to Konoha to pound a few heads first?
"Remember to study hard. Although the book is quite thick, once you’ve learned it, you’ll have the foundation to stand on your own." Chen Ze smiled and ruffled Naruto’s hair.
Before becoming Jiraiya’s student, Naruto would either rely on his shadow clones to outsmart others in a fight or prepare to unleash the Tailed Beast.
"Thank you, Master!" Naruto drank a big gulp of the mooing milk, his face full of contentment.
Chen Ze went back to the kitchen and made two pizzas and three light cheesecakes for Naruto to take back with him.
For some reason, Naruto suddenly remembered the first time he left the Master’s place; he had encountered a little girl and given her a slice of cake.
"What was her name again?" Naruto scratched his head, pondering for a while before giving up.
After sending Naruto off, Chen Ze looked at the grey ghostly figure in the storeroom, walked over, and took out his phone to snap a selfie with it.
"Tsk tsk, it didn’t come out, huh? Even though I caught what people were up to on the Ferris wheel." Chen Ze shook his head and put away his Huawei phone.
"Betty, do you want this bowl of eel rice?" Chen Ze asked Betty.
"I do!" Betty immediately expressed her opinion.
Chen Ze wasn’t surprised; he couldn’t eat anymore, but he couldn’t waste the eel rice he had made either—sure enough, giving it to Betty was the right choice.
"Hey, want an apple?" Subaru Natsuki looked at the stall in front of him, bewildered, then rubbed his stomach, just having had his entrails pulled out by that Gut Hunter...
So he had come back to life again?
Subaru Natsuki was certain, he had to rush to find that shop and then prevent Amilia from going in.
"Wait for me, damn it!" Subaru Natsuki roared loudly.
Then he saw a wooden door, one he had never seen before. He was sure that he had passed this way before, and it had all been a wall.
Subaru Natsuki stopped, this was the first anomaly he had encountered, which made him hesitate whether or not to go in, but if he did go in...
In the end, Subaru Natsuki chose to push the door open and walked in; after all, if he died, he could just start over.
Subaru Natsuki wasn’t panicking.