Chapter 18: The Bookstore Thief

Since the Zhongnin Examination in this era is only an internal assessment of Konoha Village, and no other countries participate, then it must not be very dangerous.

There may be some casualties, but the number of fatalities will be small. His two teammates are not bad, not like someone who will hang up in the middle ninja exam. They can't die, so Chiyo thinks that they can participate in this assessment, and it should be regarded as tempering them.

……

In the bookstore, Chiyo sat on a chair with a novel in her hand and read it with relish.

"He is our God!"

"Since God became the leader, our business has grown extremely quickly, and we have easily taken down the underground black market in the whole country, and then it is time to expand externally."

"The Land of Soup, the Country of Sound, the Country of Taki, the Country of Horses, and the Land of the Moon, almost all of these countries in the gap between the great powers have our figure, and even, our tentacles have reached out to the five major powers."

This is a novel called "Black Market Storm", which tells the story of the protagonist Matsumoto Koizumi's experience of crawling around in the underground black market for nearly twenty years. The whole text uses the popular first-person narration of this era, and the difference is that it does not have the exaggeration and absurdity unique to the novels of this era, but chooses a realistic writing technique.

As a result, the book was almost unattended.

However, Chiyo was very interested in it, and the writing technique was one thing, but the main thing was the black market trading places described in the book.

Because he needs money.

Money doesn't come out for nothing, and as a principled person, the underground black market is his best bet. Money comes fast there, and Chiyo won't be burdened yet.

……

I looked at the clock hanging on the wall, and it was almost noon.

Chiyo got up and walked to the counter to pay the bill, when she saw the shopkeeper muttering something there. He was about to leave after paying, but he didn't expect to be stopped by his boss.

"Chiyo, don't you come to read a lot?"

Chiyo nodded, he was a regular visitor to the place.

The boss looked a little hesitant, as if he wanted to say something but couldn't speak, Chiyo waited for him for a while, only to see him lean down and whisper, "Then Chiyo, have you seen any strange people in that area?" ”

Looking in the direction of the boss's finger, Chiyo realized why he was so entangled just now. That area is an adult book, and to put it bluntly, there are small yellow books there, and for a ten-year-old child, it is obviously a bit inappropriate to ask him this question.

"I don't see it."

Looking at the boss's disappointed expression, Chiyo asked what was going on, after all, the boss was very good, and the chair that Chiyo used to read was also provided by him. If you can, give him a hand.

"Books there often disappear and then pop up in their original locations a few days later. I originally thought that some child took it secretly, and I was squatting in the store a few days ago, but it turned out that no one was caught, but the book still appeared! Do you think it's a ghost, a ghost, a ghost? ”

The boss was already a little trembling at the end, such a big person holding his head, looking very afraid of ghosts, this scene is quite funny.

"Don't worry, it won't be a ghost." Chiyo comforted him. Under the expectant gaze of the boss, he then explained, "No ghost would come out to steal your book, there is a good chance that some ninja did it, and it is an underage ninja. Because I couldn't read it openly, I had to come and read the book secretly. ”

"But I've been staring at it for the past few days, and I haven't seen any ninja kids come to return the book?"

"Ninjas are transfigurative."

Seeing what the boss was going to say, Chiyo gestured to him: "That's it, I'll give you a demonstration." ”

Simply made a seal, he turned into a middle-aged man, and then picked up the book from the counter and shook it in front of the boss's eyes: "Look at it." ”

Chiyo walked away and then walked towards him along the bookshelf facing the boss, and by the time Chiyo walked back to the counter, he had the book in his hand.

"Just by looking at the eyes, boss, can you figure out which shelf I put the book on?"

Shake one’s head.

"That's why ninjas don't just transform, they're also very fast."

Chiyo walked somewhere to the bookshelf and picked up the book he had just put in place. At this time, there were a few people sparsely in the store, and with the idea of trying it out, Chiyo carefully sensed the chakra of these people to see if the thief who stole the book would be among these people.

Coincidentally, he really discovered the anomaly.

The white-haired young man on the far side, when Chiyo looked over, his chakra had obvious fluctuations, and it seemed that he had used the transformation technique. He was also clever, and after spotting Chiyo watching in his direction, he immediately rushed out of the door, moving extremely quickly.

Chiyo felt as if he knew himself, otherwise what was he running so fast for? You must know that Chiyo is still a child on the outside, and there is not the slightest deterrent.

He turned his head to look at the somewhat sluggish boss: "How's it going?" Do you want me to help you get him back? ”

"Well, no, no. I thought it was, uh, it's okay. "The boss is also a face-saving person, since he is sure that it is not a ghost who is doing it, then he has to consider his own face, but he can't make people feel that they are afraid of ghosts. Wiping the sweat from his head, he smiled heartily: "It's okay!" No problem at all. ”

……

Walking down the street, Chiyo remembered who that person might be.

According to his white hair, although the transformation technique can be changed at will, but when there is no requirement, people will mostly choose their own hair color, which is a matter of habit. For example, Chiyo, when he used the transformation technique to buy beer, he used black hair. Another example is Naruto's lustful technique, which uses almost all yellow hair.

Lustful, white-haired, child, and I know Chiyo, there will be no one else except Jiraiya.

As he was walking, Chiyo suddenly stopped.

Then, a puff of smoke suddenly appeared in front of him, and as the smoke dissipated, a figure gradually revealed. He was not tall, with strange shapes on his limbs and a strange tone in his mouth.

With those words of praise to himself, he danced slowly, his head turning from time to time. When it was about to end, he shook his head vigorously and posed: "This, this, this is my uncle!" ”

Chiyo was walking on the main street of Konoha at this time, and although it was not in the center of the road, there were many people around. When the performance was over, the people on the side didn't come up, but they all slowed down and looked at this side.

Chiyo was thick-skinned, but he didn't want to be seen as a monkey by others, so he looked around, pretended not to know, and then passed by Jiraiya very calmly.