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"Ahh What a strange way Parker disappeared...... Hey, hey, don't look at me with those wary eyes!!"

Emilia remembered what Parker had said to her before leaving, and couldn't help but lean closer to Uchiha Kaede, looking at Nanazuki vigilantly:

"You, don't try to do anything against me, don't look at me like this, but I'm still a magician! It's still easy to make you disappear with a snap!"

"Crack? Is it really just a snap!? Ahh!!hhhhh This world is really dangerous for me, a time-traveler summoned by an unknown beautiful girl!!"

Frightened by the girl's dangerous speech, she took two steps back, held her head in her hands and shouted.

"Hmm...... May I interject!? As for 486, don't worry about him, after all, a gangster trio who can't even do three-legged cat kung fu can knock him down, so as far as his current performance is concerned, well...... A safe cute thing.

Oh~ Look at your expression, it seems that you don't know the meaning of this word, so let me ......."

"Wait, wait, what kind of gangster trio who can't even know a three-legged cat can take me down!! It's just that Uncle Ben didn't take them seriously, and if Uncle Ben used the golden finger, they would be just tiny creatures to me!!"

Uchiha Kaede patted Nanatsuki Ang's shoulder and smiled, the especially fatal voice stung his self-confidence, and he slapped Uchiha Kaede's hand on him with an expression like a fried cat, and said that everything was Shi Chen's fault...... The fault of the world, to complain about the treatment of their own traversers......

"Oh~~ That's-your golden finger!?"

Uchiha Kaede, who tilted his head and complained, pinched the flaw in Azuki's words.

The space seemed to freeze here, and Aang's expression froze as if it had been pressed on the switch......

Hearing this, Emilia sent out the final blow to Atsuki:

"Goldfinger? I don't know if Aung has that kind of thing, but I'm grateful that you can help me, even though Aung can't read the text so he accidentally strayed into the women's bathroom, and he doesn't know the map of the royal capital, so he wandered around for hours."

In a trance, Emilia and Uchiha Kaede seemed to see that Atsuki Ang's whole person was pierced through the heart by an arrow and turned gray and white......

Kaede Uchiha rubbed his forehead, hiding his exhaustion deep inside.

"How?"

Emilia: "Huh?"

Uchiha Kaede, who raised his brows, "What information did you get from the micro-elves? How could it take so long!?"

Emilia, who turned her head to face Uchiha Kaede, heard his question, blushed and lowered her head:

"Well, then, that's because of the contract! Indenture! I have to talk to the elves every day, and this is one of the conditions of the contract!

As for the information—they've seen the blonde girl, so it's safe to assume that the prisoner has entered here!"

Kaede Uchiha raised an eyebrow and walked inside.

"Let's go, then!"

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Houses with ruined money, moldy air, this is a slum.

Numb looks, messy hair, tattered clothes, that's the status quo of the inhabitants here.

"So, that, I'm sorry, do you know a girl with blonde hair, tiger teeth, and red eyes? Wait, please wait......

Emilia sighed, the inhabitants of the slum had been unfriendly to her since she entered the slum - she was interrupted before she could ask them a question.

However, Subaru is extremely popular here, and from time to time someone takes the initiative to greet him, as for the reason......

It was, of course, his dirty, unwashed, otherworldly gray tracksuit...... But even when he was welcomed, he still couldn't ask for anything, so he couldn't turn over.

Uchiha Kaede helplessly supported his forehead, pulled out the sword on his waist, and raised it to the sky,

"Forget it, let me do it! After all—it's not good to keep wasting time!"

With a sudden swing, there was a whistling sound in the air, and the tip of the sword that had been leveled stopped in front of Caiyueang's eyes.

The scarlet eyes showed an aura that hadn't been seen in years.

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The girl raised her right hand and fanned it towards Kaede Uchiha with all her might, her palm running across his cheek.

Smack-

The slanted face left a red mark.

Uchiha Kaede looked at the girl who bowed her head and was silent there,

Dressed in white, with a black waterfall hanging down from the waist, slightly raised breasts, immature cheeks, and deep pupils, even in such an environment, it still exudes attractive charm.

"Why?"

The cold voice sounded, and there was no emotion in it, just doubts about the girl's approach.

At the feet of the two of them lay a corpse, the back of which had a scar that cut through the body, and even now it was still slowly bubbling outward, but it was not a blow that took his life:

- There was a deep crack in the neck, a neat and smooth facet that nearly cut off his head from his body.

The existence that had cut these two scars was held in the hands of Uchiha Kaede, and blood kept dripping from the blade.

- Da - da - da The dreary air, the gray sky, and the white lightning that streaked across the sky from time to time illuminated the cheeks of the silent two.

The girl suddenly raised her head to look at the boy who was slightly taller than herself, and even now he was impressed by the emotion in those eyes

- As if there is no end to the disappointment.

She spoke softly, a silvery sound echoing through the darkness.

"Is life so fragile in your eyes?"

"Yes!"

Without any hesitation, a cold voice came.

At this time, less than a year after the end of the Third Shinobi World War, Uchiha Kaede still did not withdraw from the senses of the battlefield.

At a glance, the dense corpses littered on the ground like garbage, mutilated like loose dolls, heads barely hanging on their bodies, bodies with their arms torn off, charred and scented flesh, all as if they had only happened yesterday!

The experience on the battlefield made him, who was originally a killer, feel even more insignificant in life.

Ninjas, under the instructions of their own ninja village shadows, participated in the war for the so-called interests, and became an existence that was constantly harvested like a mustard.

For the sake of their own interests, the people on the human side can make the so-called subordinates pay for their own lives and constantly squeeze the value of their existence - this is no different from the world before Uchiha Kaede crossed over, and he has become just the owner of the collar around his neck!

Now—the girl is holding out her hand to the collar.

The girl walked up to Uchiha Kaede, and from the girl's eyes, Uchiha Kaede's appearance could be clearly imprinted - eyes that seemed to be able to ignore all life, cold cheeks.

"Is life so fragile in your eyes?"

The girl asked, but it was still the same question, but with an inexplicable feeling.

Uchiha Kaede stared at himself that appeared in the girl's deep eyes—

He suddenly appeared as a companion in the past, the hot-blooded fool plus the Uchiha Obito at the tail of the crane, the listless Kakashi Hachiki, the kind and attentive Harano Rin, the sunny and handsome yellow glittering wave Feng Shuimen, shouting Long live the youth of Maitkai......

The middle ninja exam that he once participated in, from time to time he approached Rin Obito on the grounds of training together, and Kakashi, who unreservedly instructed him in his sword technique, all of this made Uchiha Kaede's heart ripple,

But - as soon as the picture turned, the guidance who was crossed by the enemy on the battlefield of World War III, after the mission failed, took the initiative to ask to cover the retreating teammates.

- Everything is still so fragile.

I closed my eyes, removed the feeling in my heart, and gave the same answer after earning it again-

"Yes!"

The girl leaked a smile, it was a smile that was different from the previous one, and the look on her white cheeks seemed to dispel all the uneasiness in the house,

She asked the question again, with a strong emotion not felt on the previous two occasions

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"Is life so fragile in your eyes?"

But this time she didn't wait for Kaede Uchiha's answer, but

—stood on tiptoe, raised his forehead, and his lips pressed toward the boy's cheek.

Feeling the touch of my cheeks, the slightest throbbing appeared in the bottom of my heart.

"Na, na, na, don't sleep anymore, come and see my newly learned ninjutsu, hey, it's ninjutsu, ninjutsu! Ninjutsu!"

Uchiha Kaede, who was lying on the grass, was woken up by the silver bell-like voice of the girl above, won his eyes, glanced at her, and turned over to continue sleeping, but was shaken up by the girl.

"Oh!"

Helplessly sitting up, he replied listlessly.

"What's that attitude? I want you to say it again, it's serious, it's serious! Seriously!"

The girl walked up to him and pointed at him condescendingly.

"Hmm! Good work!"

He stood up, covered his mouth, yawned, and turned to walk back. It's still an extremely perfunctory answer.

"You—you're going to lose me like this, do you hear me, you're going to lose me! Hey, don't ignore me, I'm serious!"

The girl pouted and looked at Kaede Uchiha, who was gradually walking away, and suddenly her eyes rolled and chased after him.

"Ah, help! Help me! Help!"

The boy who heard the girl's call for help turned around and saw that the girl was being chased by a huge python, but Uchiha Kaede didn't move, he remembered the girl's off-line character and her words just now - ninjutsu! Ninjutsu! And the strange feeling from the body chakra understood that it was an illusion, but he didn't know when he was hinted at by her.

Seeing the girl approaching him, he raised his right hand and slashed down.

- Bang!

"It hurts! Pain, pain, pain! It hurts!! Ahh What are you doing? Wouldn't you help when you see a beautiful girl in danger?"

The girl who was cut by Kaede Uchiha squatted down with her head covered, her eyes glistening with tears.

The girl who stood up again looked into the eyes of Uchiha Kaede and asked him with a serious attitude that did not conform to her off-line character in the past:

"—if, I mean, if I'm in danger, will you come to my rescue?"

He was silent for a moment, then looked at the sky:

"I'll only kill!"

Remembering his past, he looked at the girl who turned her back to her with a red face and said:

"I'll only kill!"

The girl who heard the unexpected answer turned around in surprise, she closed her eyes and took a deep breath of air,

Then: "If we fail this mission, I will unfortunately die, and please live with my own heart."

After all—what can you do if you can only kill!?"