The world of Naruto was far from peaceful!
In his more than twenty years of life, he had experienced both the Second Great Ninja War and the Third Great Ninja War. Although he had survived, it could only be attributed to luck.
In such wars, ordinary Genin were cannon fodder, and Chunin were slightly stronger cannon fodder. As for Special Jonin?
That was just a fancier name for Jonin; in reality, their strength was that of elite Chunin, and elite Chunin were… elite cannon fodder?
Gen Takano wasn't afraid of death; he just didn't want to die so inexplicably and meaninglessly.
In fact, he himself didn't know how he had arrived in this world. One moment he closed his eyes, the next he opened them, and he was a member of Konoha with memories of his previous life, without having suffered severe injuries from a truck.
Thinking about it now, perhaps the function of the truck wasn't just to inflict severe injuries, but also a way to distribute systems?
Gen Takano shook his head. It was useless to dwell on these things now. If the system hadn't arrived by this point, it probably never would. At most, he could hold a glimmer of hope that the system would appear when the protagonist emerged or the plot began.
Did he have any outstanding qualities? Yes, he did.
That was his incredibly precise control over Chakra, but no matter how strong his control, it couldn't compensate for his very low Chakra reserves.
Even now, his Chakra reserves were only that of an ordinary Chunin. That's right, at twenty-seven years old, his Chakra reserves only reached the level of an ordinary Chunin, and they might even decrease with age… which was… quite absurd.
If it weren't for his decent talent in Ninjutsu, he might not have even gotten the Special Jonin identity!
Thinking of this, Gen Takano felt a bit depressed. It was bad enough that he wasn't given a system, but not even enough talent was really a bit too much.
However, fortunately, every cloud has a silver lining; at least his memories could serve as his golden finger.
For instance, now, a Ninjutsu he had been eyeing—the Kiyomi Technique—finally had an acquisition channel.
Gen Takano had been watching the Jonin named Hiruko for a long time. The reason he hadn't acted before wasn't that there was no opportunity, but because he wasn't sure if the other party's Kiyomi Technique had been successfully developed.
And this point in time was when the other party coveted Kakashi Hatake's Sharingan, even secretly moving to cast a puppet jutsu on Kakashi Hatake. At this point, it could basically be determined that his Kiyomi Technique was already complete, or mostly complete.
Subsequently, the other party would be exposed during the experiment and chased by the Sannin, leading him to leave Konoha to collect complete corpses with Bloodline Limit. From his memories, this should be happening around this time.
And during this period, Hiruko would also cast a puppet jutsu on Kakashi Hatake. He just needed to quietly wait for the other party to leave that Experimental Base.
Gen Takano took a deep breath, and his hand, not holding chopsticks, quietly formed a hand seal.
"Summoning Jutsu – Clairvoyance Technique."
The next moment, his gaze seemed to pierce through the Ichiraku Ramen shop, arriving above the very secluded Experimental Base.
On a large tree next to this Experimental Base, a crow was currently preening its black feathers with its beak while watching the movements below with its red eyes.
The crow was Gen Takano's Summoned Beast. Originally, they were just ordinary crows, but later, Gen Takano carefully nurtured them with Chakra, and they barely awakened their intelligence to become his Summoned Beast.
"Still no movement?"
Looking at the Experimental Base through the crow's eyes, Gen Takano wasn't surprised. Not to mention whether the news had reached Hiruko, it wasn't suitable for the other party to act in broad daylight.
After observing Hiruko's Experimental Base for a while longer, Gen Takano also released the Clairvoyance Technique.
Now, he just had to wait for his Summoned Beast to notify him. Unfortunately, his Summoned Beast was originally just an ordinary crow and couldn't perform the anti-summoning of those inherited Summoned Beasts, but it could still use Chakra to notify him within a certain range.
After a moment of thought, Gen Takano had other crows gather around, scattering them around the Experimental Base, just observing from a distance.
After doing all this, Gen Takano held the large bowl of Ichiraku Ramen, drank the remaining soup, and sighed.
As expected of the ramen that the protagonist never got tired of, the taste was indeed first-class.
"Owner, check, please."