After a while, the water-carrying mission was completed.

"One more mission!"

"Ah?"

Hamano was surprised, but when he saw Jiraiya's eyes, he immediately assigned another D-level mission.

This time, it was chopping firewood.

However.

It didn't take long either.

"One more."

Half a month later.

"Third Hokage, this really isn’t working! You should ask him to stop. If he continues like this, he won’t even have enough D-level missions!"

Hamano Tatsu couldn't take it anymore and went upstairs to complain to the Third Hokage.

There was no other choice.

It wasn't that he wasn’t giving out missions, but more than half of the village's D-level missions had already been completed by Jiraiya's team in the past half month.

At this rate, the village’s D-level missions would likely be finished in a few days.

What would happen to the other teams and ordinary Genin then?

Would their income be cut off?

This was indeed a major problem.

Sarutobi Hiruzen rubbed his head, thinking for a moment.

Jiraiya's team's strength was indeed top-notch.

There was no need to mention the captain.

Among the team members, there was Kakashi, already a Chunin, Yuhi Kurenai, skilled in genjutsu, and Ryomine Kyohiko...

C-level missions were not difficult for them.

"Next, let him take on C-level missions."

"Yes."

Hamano Tatsu breathed a sigh of relief.

C-level mission...

It wasn't that he was unwilling to give it, but the situation was unclear.

Although the nations had stopped fighting, there was not complete peace, and there were still some minor frictions between them.

Not to mention.

There were also many wandering warriors and bandits after the war.

Carrying out C-level missions now was far more dangerous than during peacetime.

Hamano Tatsu was only responsible for issuing tasks and didn’t have the right to decide the rules for the new team accepting missions.

The Third Hokage nodded, so there was no need for further discussion.

[As Hokage, you actively do practical things for the village, and your contributions are widely recognized by everyone.]

[Reward: Water Style: Water Wave increases by 1 level.]

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In the morning, Kyohiko was confused as he waited at the Hokage building for everyone to gather.

What’s going on?

Where did this reward come from?

He had been busy with D-level missions lately and actually received a reward out of nowhere.

He glanced at his panel.

【Name: Yoshimine Kyohiko】

[Age: 7 years old]

【Skills】:Transformation Technique (mastered), Clone Technique (mastered), Substitution Technique (mastered), Instantaneous Movement Technique (mastered), Water Style: Water Wave (mastered), Water Style: Water Wall (proficient)

In the past half month, Kyohiko had mainly practiced physical skills and two water-style ninjutsu, but all of them had only been improved to the proficient level.

Now, Water Style: Water Wave had directly reached mastery.

A lot of knowledge about Water Waves emerged in his mind, some of which was about how to control Water Style Ninjutsu and use Water Style Chakra better. Water Waves are very basic and don't involve enhanced property changes.

However.

"Mastery" level techniques can greatly reduce the chakra required to perform the technique.

Theoretically, the same amount of chakra can emit 30% more water than before.

Not only that, many water-style ninjutsu techniques are similar.

Especially Water Wave and Water Wall.

The ordinary versions don't have profound nature changes. As long as you master the basic nature changes and can extract water chakra, you can easily release it. This is true for both.

Some of the knowledge that comes with "mastering" Water Wave can be used for Water Wall techniques.

Kyohiko was secretly happy.

This improvement was huge!

Although ninjutsu wouldn't be very useful in the later Gundam War, at this moment, he needed to think more about the Third Ninja World War.

At the level of ordinary ninjas, water-style ninjutsu is quite useful.

"Kyohiko-kun."

From behind, a soft female voice grew louder.

Kyohiko turned around—

Kakashi and Yuhi Kurenai were running toward him, one in front and one behind.

The three of them gathered together.

"Arrived so early?" Yuhi Kurenai panted.

"Not long, I passed by while jogging and waited here," Kyohiko replied.

Kakashi looked hesitant and was about to speak, but when he glanced at the question in the corner of his eye, he swallowed the words that almost came out.

"Hahaha, everyone is here early!" Jiraiya arrived.

He held two sets of popsicles in his hand, broke them open, and gave one to each person.

"Let’s go, and start today’s mission. If we earn enough points sooner, we can take on the more difficult C-level missions sooner."

Jiraiya had had enough of D-rank missions.

For an ordinary ninja team, a D-level mission might help with teamwork and ability development, but for their team... forget it.

As a Chunin, Kakashi understood all the principles, but it was hard to undo the knot in his heart, and Jiraiya had no good solution for it.

This kid was the least worrying.

What Kurenai lacks is only ability, but if she wants to be a team leader, she’s still far from it.

For them, only by doing C-level missions and above, and actually fighting wandering samurai, thieves, or even ninjas, can they truly learn something that’s enough to improve themselves. Since they’re not allowed to take C-level missions, they’ll just do all the D-level missions.

Jiraiya was furious.

Entering the hall, he went straight to Hamano Rite.

"Come here..."

"Jiraiya-sama, Hokage-sama said that you can accept C-rank missions."

Hamano reported immediately.

Jiraiya smiled and said, "Sure, no need to do D-rank missions anymore?"

"No need, you’ve done enough D-level tasks, please check out the C-level tasks."

Hamano Tatsu smiled bitterly and took the new task board.

Kyohiko glanced at it.

It seems the previous rewards came from this.

Then he looked at the task board.

Most of the tasks were mercenary jobs like escorting caravans.

Escort Direction...

Usually, they were to chaotic places like the Land of Rivers and the Land of Waves. Going to ninja countries like the Land of Earth probably couldn’t be counted as C-level missions.

"That’s it."

Jiraiya pointed to one line——

Go to Tance Street to protect the creditor and collect the debt.

"As for this task, where is the client?"

"This mission was just posted yesterday. You just need to go to the Blue and White Pavilion on Tance Street and find a man named Matsuyama Koji."

Hamano replied.

He hesitated for a moment and said, "However, the reward offered by the other party is almost at the level of a B-level task. I suspect it won’t be easy to collect the debt."

"It doesn’t matter. As long as the money is in place, I know how to get to Tance Street," Jiraiya waved his hand, a smile on his face.

Kyohiko found it strange.

Tance Street wasn’t a good place.

If a ninja went to such a place, he was most likely breaking the three ninja prohibitions.

It was hard not to suspect—

His own teacher, he accepted the task while pretending to be there, he just wanted to have some fun.

He couldn’t help but curse.

Kakashi and Yuhi Kurenai looked calm, and it was unclear whether they didn’t know anything about Tance Street or simply didn’t care.

In short, Jiraiya happily accepted the task.

However.

When they walked out of the mission hall, a figure blocked their way.

"Jiraiya-sama, Hokage-sama, please come up."

Anbu ninja.

Jiraiya sighed, nodded, gave a greeting to Kyohiko and the others, and went upstairs.

"Kyohiko, Kakashi!"

As she was waiting, she heard a shout from inside. Kurenai’s expression was slightly complicated.

This strange flower again!