After a heavy snowfall, the village of Konoha is shrouded in a snowy landscape and welcomes the New Year's Festival.

Keiko Yamanaka started cleaning the house a day earlier, and Kazuya Echizen gave herself a rare holiday, and followed Keiko Yamanaka to be busy inside and out.

To Echizen Kazuya's surprise, the New Year of the Yamanaka family turned out to be a whole family together, and hundreds of people in a large family, except for those who were not in the village, all gathered together to have a New Year's dinner and wait for the New Year's bell together, which was also a rare experience for Echizen Kazuya, who had always been an orphan.

Kaichi Yamanaka has been busy introducing Kazuya Echizen to the rest of the family.

Although Echizen Kazuya was led around by Yamanaka Kaichi, he kept getting to know other people in the Yamanaka family, like the white-haired, amiable old man Yamanaka Kaito; High-spirited, with a hedgehog head and likes to laugh nervously, Yamanaka Kaze is too, and so on.

But Echizen Kazuya didn't have any impatience, but kept enjoying it, constantly calling sweetly grandparents, uncles and aunts, etc.

The reason for the joy is of course that every elder will give the New Year's money, and I believe that no one will refuse to receive this kind of New Year's money!

Because it was still in the midst of the war, the New Year in Konoha was certainly not as hot as in China in the previous life, and after only two days, the festive atmosphere passed quickly, and it returned to the original trajectory of life.

Echizen Kazuya began to try to upgrade the "Bone Reduction Gong", and the upgrade direction he could think of was the "Bone Shrinking Skill", although the two are also physical changes, but the "Bone Reduction Gong" is undoubtedly much more difficult to achieve.

Because bone shrinking requires changes from the inside out, and it also requires super control over body muscles and bones.

There is still a big difference between "soft bone work" and "bone shrinking work", so Echizen Kazuya is not sure whether he can upgrade "soft bone work" to "bone shrinking work", so he just explored and developed it first.

But the thought of being able to change your body shape and appearance at will by learning the "Bone Shrinking Skill" is definitely a very valuable skill for the ninja profession, which can play a huge role in stealing and obtaining information, so I can't help but try in this direction.

"The Akido family in the Hokage can multiply the body, not only can the body become huge, but the strength will also be greatly improved, but the ability to multiply will also consume a lot of chakra, which is also the reason why the Akido family needs to eat desperately, and increase the body's energy reserves even if they become fat." Echizen Kazuya silently analyzed in his heart.

"In this way, the ability to multiply must also be achieved with the help of chakra, but no one else has discovered this role of chakra, so there must be something hidden in this, my current chakra control ability is not enough, you can wait until the chakra control is improved, and then try to use chakra to double and shrink the body."

Because I can't figure out Chakra's technique of controlling my body shape for the time being, I don't dare to experiment with my body when Chakra doesn't control it enough, and it's not a joke if it gets out of control, Echizen Kazuya decided to let go of the extravagant hope of changing his body type, and start by changing his appearance.

If you want to change your appearance, of course, you must start by controlling your facial muscles, because as long as you can control your facial muscles at will, then it is very simple to change your appearance.

After making his decision, Kazuya Echizen calmed down and began to close his eyes and feel his facial muscles.

Because of the foundation of the chakra refining technique, Echizen Kazuya naturally let his will enter his face, and then began to observe the facial muscles from the inside, analyzing which muscles need to be controlled in order to change the face, how to control them, and so on.

With Echizen Kazuya's careful observation, the nasal muscles, cheek muscles, frown muscles, and masseter muscles entered his volitional vision one by one, and he could also be controlled by his will, and adjust the muscle tension as he wanted.

Then, he noticed that his facial expression was constantly changing as his muscles twitched. When he controls his cheek muscles, the corners of his mouth twitch constantly; When he tightens his frowning muscles, his forehead will be tightly wrinkled.

"Looking" at his own facial expressions that are much richer than any other actor, Echizen Kazuya who finds it fun is constantly trying to control his muscles with his will, and then he looks at the various strange expressions on his face from a third party's point of view.

However, he soon couldn't laugh anymore, because his facial muscles were overcontrolled, and when he felt the muscle soreness and stopped trying, the cheek muscles were still shaking because of muscle fatigue, and the corners of his mouth were of course twitching, and he was temporarily out of control.

Echizen Kazuya, who was happy and sad, kept rubbing his tired facial muscles and massaging them, hoping to return to normal soon.

However, it was a little comforting that when Echizen Kazuya checked the attribute panel, he suddenly saw the upgrade prompt of the "Bone Tenderness" skill.

"Explore the direction of the 'Bone Tenderness' skill upgrade and obtain the skill 'Muscle Manipulation', are you sure?"

Without hesitation, Echizen Kazuya immediately chose to upgrade, and in the case that there is no way to change the body shape for the time being, it can barely be used to have a skill that changes the appearance.

Because he had more expectations for Chakra, Echizen Kazuya stepped up the practice of the Three-Body Technique, and when the proficiency of the Three-Body Technique continued to improve, he could also take the strengthening of the Chakra Refining Technique and the Control Technique, killing multiple birds with one stone.

And the proficiency of the three-body technique is more than 60%, and seeing that it is getting closer and closer to 100%, Echizen Kazuya, who can immediately open the brain hole to upgrade his skills, is of course full of expectations.

However, the Hase-brothers, who have been lurking, have not been so happy lately.

They were expecting that the protection of Echizen Kazuya by the Konoha ninja would be relaxed during the New Year, and they thought that they might find an opportunity to do it, but they didn't expect that Echizen Kazuya hadn't gone out for a few days and had been staying with the people of the Yamanaka family.

And the war on the front line eased again because of the New Year, and both Konoha and Yun Shinobi tacitly stopped their offensive and began to rest and recuperate under careful precautions, accumulating strength for the next war.

Konoha also took the opportunity to send some troops who had been stranded on the front line for a long time back to the village to recuperate, giving the ninjas who had been nervous a rare opportunity to relax.

In this way, the security force in Konoha Village naturally became stronger.

Of course, the Hasean brothers, who felt struggling in Konoha Village, would not do it in this situation, and there was no such way to die if they were looking for death.

The two of them could only miss their distant relatives at the same time, but at the same time, they were patient and lurked more carefully, perfectly substituting themselves into the role of pretending to be businessmen, and even the mission of detecting Echizen Kazuya's information was temporarily canceled.

Fortunately, Echizen Kazuya returned to the same state as he was a year ago, going back and forth between Yamanaka Flower Shop and Konoha Hospital every night, which was the only time the Hasei brothers could find to do it.

But now what makes the two jealous is Kakashi, who is always by Echizen Kazuya's side, they have known Kakashi's identity from the information from Cloud Ninja Village, although it is not completely certain, but the intelligence also gives a guess that Suzuki Taiga may have died at the hands of Kakashi.

This information made the Hasei brothers even more afraid to act rashly, they knew that if Kakashi really had the strength to fight or even kill Suzuki Taiga, then even if the two of them fought for their lives, it would be difficult to complete the task of killing Kazuya Echizen under Kakashi's protection.