Chapter 961

Young Yuanzi was very satisfied; she greatly valued this "leader" quality in Xiaomeng, the ability to make decisions no one questioned and have others carry them out without hesitation — that was truly rare.

One could easily imagine that in the future, this girl would surely grow into someone like Konoha's Nara Shikaku, and any shinobi village needed such talent. Now Young Yuanzi had a much clearer understanding of the concept of "top student" for Tsukuyomi Xiaomeng, the youngest of the Misses.

In the Shinobi World, strength could never be judged by a person's appearance — Young Yuanzi herself was a perfect example — so she wasn't the least bit surprised to accept this. Because there existed a talent like Xiaomeng, Young Yuanzi looked forward even more to what surprises the remaining five children might bring her.

First was the child who looked the most mature in the group, wearing a traditional-style kyudo outfit, but with the hem cut short all around, a pair of straight long legs fully exposed, giving off a strangely risqué feeling.

Especially since she was also carrying a longbow on her back — something no one in the Renzhe Society used nowadays — the eye was drawn to her at once. Young Yuanzi watched with great interest as this girl, who had been standing quietly off to the side while the other children surrounded Young Yuanzi with looks of worship.

"My name is Fujikawa Ko… no, it should be Fujikawa Linnaizi. I am a slave Lady Xinjianai bought back from the Land of Earth two years ago. I am thirteen this year. According to Lady Xinjianai's instructions, I am now roughly my lord's toy."

"No, that's not it, my lord Young Yuanzi!" After Fujikawa Linnaizi solemnly delivered her shocking statement, Tsukuyomi Xiaomeng, who had only just caught up, flushed bright red and immediately objected. Although she herself was stretching on tiptoe, trying to cover the "toy's" mouth with her hand, the surrounding others all looked like she was right on the money — yes, that's exactly it, please go on.

Young Yuanzi figured the truth probably wasn't far off either. She merely tilted her head slightly and broke free from Xiaomeng's silencing hand. After that, though, Fujikawa Linnaizi returned from her self-exposé to a relatively normal self-introduction.

"I have no particular talent. Apart from existing as a toy, the only thing I can show off is a little bit of family-inherited Dao. Please don't have any more expectations of me, my lord Young Yuanzi."

Well… if one ignored her strange self-conception as a 'toy,' it was a passably normal self-introduction. As for what made Fujikawa Linnaizi special in this world where shinobi ruled, Young Yuanzi felt she'd have to wait for the second stage of the Chunin Exam to find out.

"My name is Zhao Afu, everyone calls me Afu. Like Xiaomeng, I come from the Land of Water. I was born to be beaten! One more thing I need to make clear — don't be fooled by my appearance, I'm a boy."

As for the matter of "drawing a girl but insisting it's a boy," Young Yuanzi had a vague impression of it in her distant, hazy memories. But when such a cute boy actually appeared before her, naturally dressed in women's clothes, completely without self-awareness.

Honestly, it still packed a bit of a punch. Next, Afu explained her abilities in detail, giving Young Yuanzi a more accurate understanding of her talent for being beaten.

It turned out that just as the Senju clan and the Uzumaki clan were born with terrifying vitality, Afu possessed a body-strengthening type Kekkei Genkai — terrifying regeneration and environmental adaptability. In fact, even Afu herself couldn't clearly explain.......

Where this suspected masochistic ability came from. After all, without exception, everyone in her family was ordinary. No one believed the reason she had given — that she had picked up a peach by the roadside that gave off an urge to devour it, and unable to resist the temptation, ate it, and then turned into her current self.

Being stabbed clean through and still bouncing around, the wound healing in an instant, and when hit by the same attack again, clearly feeling targeted resistance develop. Young Yuanzi didn't buy it either — could eating a little peach really grant such a terrifying ability? If she hacked at Afu a few more times with North Wind, would this cute boy even become immune to Long Zhili?

"Ahem, my name is Jiliang Miye, from the Land of Fire. I heard many stories about my lord Young Yuanzi from Lord Orochimaru. Now that I've come here and seen my lord Young Yuanzi in person, I'm even more certain — I am probably the only one who properly wears the originally designed Moon-nin outfit without any modifications."

After Afu, the child who spoke up made Young Yuanzi's eyes light up again. You have to understand, in her perception, she should never overlook any individual's presence around her. Yet it was only after Jiliang Miye opened her mouth and spoke to her that she became aware of the other's existence. Young Yuanzi patted this one — clearly a child of Orochimaru and Xinjianai..

"My lord Young Yuanzi's hands are so beautiful, far prettier than mine."

It wasn't that she had completely ignored the other, but a subconscious "weak presence." Could her advantage lie here? From Miye's self-introduction, Young Yuanzi discovered that her taijutsu, ninjutsu, and every other aspect were well-balanced — an all-rounder type shinobi.