Konoha: The thirty-year-old Uchiha is not motivated.

Bang bang bang~
A dull knocking sound rang in Uchiha Gin's ears, interrupting his pleasantries with Uzumaki Mito. Peeking through the gaps in the yellow tape, he saw a familiar golden head.

jingle!

Minato entered with a look of delight. Right in front of Gin Uchiha, he rummaged through his bulging bag and pulled out an elegant envelope.
"Grandpa Yin, there are two urgent letters from you!"

"Didn't you finish your tasks for today?"

Gin Uchiha casually accepted two envelopes that still carried a faint fragrance, and looked curiously at Minato, who had transformed into a postman.
"I'm helping my dad out. He doesn't have time to do these odd jobs, so I have to do them."

Minato shook his head helplessly. As he spoke, he secretly glanced at the red-haired beauty at the table with Uchiha Gin. Her azure eyes darted around, seemingly brewing some outrageous lewd rumor.

"Don't make wild guesses, this is your grandma."

Gin glared at Minato with annoyance, then impatiently pulled out a few bills from his bag, shoved them at him, and shooed the gossipy brat away.
"Get to work, or your dad will spank you if you don't finish your task."

Minato pursed his lips, reluctantly tightened his grip on the satchel containing the letters, and turned back to continue his work as a postman.
Ding bell~
Stepping out of the store, Minato locked onto his next delivery target based on the address. His eyes sharpened instantly, and with a powerful leap, he launched himself forward like an arrow.
He had only run a dozen meters when a lively red figure came bounding out of a shop on the side of the street. Caught off guard, Minato's eyes narrowed, his dynamic vision working at its peak, and he successfully dodged the figure that suddenly blocked his way by the smallest of margins.
"what!"

"sorry!"

Minato, who was moving at high speed, heard the belated scream behind him, apologized without turning around, and then transformed into a golden flash and disappeared at the end of the street.
"You rude jerk! Give me back my ice cream!"

Although unharmed, Kushina was quite frightened. She looked down at the ice cream cone stuck in the ground, her round face filled with annoyance.
"What happened, Kushina?"

At that moment, Nono, who had just finished paying at the store, looked at the red-haired girl gritting her teeth with a puzzled expression.
"A very rude guy almost bumped into me just now."

She crouched down, tenderly fiddling with the ice cream that had been dripping for more than three seconds, and pouted indignantly.

"As long as everyone's alright, you can have this."

After checking that Kushina was unharmed, Nonou immediately breathed a sigh of relief and generously handed her the ice cream.

"Uh, but what about Nonou-neechan, don't you have one?"

Kushina frowned slightly, looking somewhat hesitant.

"This wasn't bought for me, it's for Uncle Yin."

Nonou smiled and shook her head. The reason she bought an extra strawberry ice cream was because she knew Uchiha Gin also liked it.

"thanks for treatment!"

Upon hearing that the ice cream was made by Uchiha Gin, Kushina immediately felt all the pressure disappear and even thought that this one was sweeter than the one that had just fallen to the ground.

inside the store,

"Another letter from that big Lei girl?"

Mito Uzumaki raised an eyebrow at Gin Uchiha, who was opening a letter, with a mocking expression.
"Ah."

With nothing to hide, Uchiha Gin was very frank. He opened and carefully read Fubuki's letter right in front of her.
"Uh"

As his gaze swept over the neatly written characters, Uchiha Gin's expression gradually became strange.
"I didn't expect them to act so quickly; the rebellious Hozuki Sakugetsu has already been brought to justice."

"I told you not to worry. Kirigakure is now under the control of the Karatachi sisters. Hozuki is nothing to cause any trouble."

Uchiha Gin nodded in agreement, but his gaze inadvertently drifted to the envelope and he noticed there was another note inside.
"what?"

He picked up the note with a puzzled look; it only had a string of small words on it.
【Baka! Baka! Baka! Baka!】

Judging from the handwriting, it was Fubuki's, but compared to the delicate handwriting in her previous descriptions of the suppression of the rebellion, the handwriting on this note was slightly more aggressive.
"what does this mean?"

Uchiha Gin was completely baffled by this encrypted information.

"what happened?"

Mito curiously leaned over, her fair neck gleaming with an alluring sheen.
"It's nothing, maybe she put it in the wrong place when she packed the letter?"

After showing Mito a string of coded, abusive characters, Gin Uchiha shook his head and guessed.

"Impossible. Goji Blossom is known for her meticulousness. Did you say something you shouldn't have when you wrote that letter to her?"

It's said that women understand women best, and Mito Uzumaki's sixth sense told her that the appearance of this note was definitely not an accident.
"No, not only did I not say anything suggestive, I also gave her a big gift~"

Uchiha Gin immediately shook his head violently.

"Big gift?"

"Yes, she wrote to me before asking if I could also make her a prop to transform into a tailed beast girl."

"What kind of prop is it?"

"She specifically instructed me to make a transformation device that could surpass her sister's, so I added some special ingredients to allow her to use the power of the tailed beast to a greater extent after transforming."

At this point, Uchiha Gin paused, his gaze falling on the note in his hand covered in scribbled "Baka!" Judging from the strength of the pen, Fubuki must have maintained a red-hot state while writing.
"It's just that there's a small price to pay."

"What price?"

Mito vaguely sensed that something was amiss, but couldn't quite put her finger on it.

With a serious expression, Gin Uchiha stroked his chin and explained in a solemn tone,
"Well, how should I put it? You know that the power of the Tailed Beasts can affect one's mind. Although that transformation item allows her to use the purer power of the Tailed Beasts, it will also amplify the negative emotions she has suppressed to some extent. Of course, it will only make her a little more frank, and it won't cause any mental trauma."

"Is this really all the side effects?"

"Absolutely true!"

Seeing Uchiha Gin's confident gaze, Mito finally dispelled her doubts.

"Perhaps the wrong 'goji jujube snow' was put in?"

"This letter... is it from Tornado? She actually writes to me."

Shifting his gaze to the second unopened letter, Uchiha Gin stared at the crookedly written signature, his doubts reaching their peak.
"Well, you've actually started eating Sister Donburi!"

"Watch out or I'll sue you for defamation. I wouldn't even take that kind of flat-chested airport if it were given to me for free."

Uchiha Gin rolled his eyes, casually opened Tatsumaki's letter, only to find there was no letter inside, just a photograph.
"What the hell?"

Filled with curiosity, he pulled out the photo. Under the dim lighting of the store, the contents of the photo gradually became clear, and Uchiha Gin's expression gradually changed from bewilderment to utter confusion.
This content.
That's so exciting!

"what?"

Why aren't you saying anything? Let me see!

Mito, intrigued by Gin Uchiha's strange expression, immediately leaned closer. Her beautiful, questioning eyes froze the moment she saw the contents of the photo.
"."

A few seconds later, Mito silently sat back down, her cold gaze fixed on Uchiha Gin as if he were a piece of trash.
"You...you let me explain!"

With a reluctant look, Uchiha Gin pulled his gaze away from the photo, his expression turning serious. "Hentai."

Mito didn't give him a chance to explain; the disdain in her eyes was palpable.

"This is the transformation device you made? You still seem to prefer this kind of thing, Mr. Pervert~"

"No... I didn't design the transformed form!"

Uchiha Gin glanced down at the photo again, and tearfully protested that he was definitely not a masochist!

The photo is taken at Tornado's private training ground. Tornado, photographed by Biye, appears in the lower left corner of the photo, but the subject of her photograph is not herself, but another woman who looks nine-tenths like Fubuki.

The reason it's rated as a nine out of ten is because the other person's expression is clearly very different from the somewhat cautious and naive girl that Uchiha Gin remembers.
Wearing an extremely sexy dark-themed magical girl outfit, her already exaggerated figure received an epic boost from the power of the tailed beast, with six gray-black cross-shaped marks adorning the area below her eyelids.
His face, full of wicked charm, wore a sadistic, seductive smile. He brandished a slender whip in his hand, seemingly preparing for battle.

There are words on the back.

Mito's sudden reminder pulled Uchiha Gin back to reality. He quickly flipped through the photos and, sure enough, saw a message in childish handwriting.

[Hahaha, bald guy, thank you for the prop. Fubuki is so happy after transforming! ~()]

"Snapped!"

Uchiha Gin slapped his forehead suddenly.
The note in the letter was indeed prepared for him. Fubuki wasn't happy at all; she was more eager to devour him alive.

"What else do you have to say?"

"I have nothing more to say."

Faced with Mito Masayoshi's questioning, Uchiha Gin lowered his head in utter defeat.

The transformed forms of the Tailed Beast Girls are manifestations of the subconscious desires of the person undergoing the transformation. For example, Tatsumaki's enhanced lightning strike after her transformation is because she has an obsession with her figure.

Fubuki's situation is similar, except that her subconscious seems a bit off. After being activated by the transformation item, it was further enhanced by the epic power of the tailed beast, resulting in her transformed form being overly exaggerated.

"Humph!"

Seeing that Uchiha Gin was showing remorse, Mito gave a light snort and decided to let him off the hook for the day, deciding to deal with the punishment later that night.
"Dingling~"

"We're back!"

Just then, Kushina, carrying ice cream, pushed open the door and entered. Uchiha Gin, quick as a flash, stuffed the 18+ photo into his pocket to prevent it from corrupting the child.

"Have you finished playing, Cuihua? Where's Nonou?"

"Don't call me by that name!"

Kushina took a vicious bite of the ice cream that originally belonged to Uchiha Gin, then pointed angrily at the French windows.

"Nonou-neechan is outside."

Following the direction pointed, Uchiha Gin and his companion looked and saw Nonou talking to a worker who had come to replace a window on the street.

Noticing Uchiha Gin's gaze, Nono smiled and gave him an OK sign, indicating that she could handle the cleanup of the French windows.
"She is such a responsible child, but with such a personality, it would be difficult for her to survive in a cruel environment. She is too kind."

Mito nodded thoughtfully, a faint trace of worry flashing in her eyes.

"Don't underestimate Nono, she's not as weak as you think."

Uchiha Gin, however, offered a dissenting opinion: "On the contrary, it is precisely this kind of personality that makes her heart even stronger."

Only when people have a heart that protects can they become stronger.

The reason he valued Nono was because even though she was an orphan in a chaotic world, she still maintained a kind heart towards the weak, a quality that is rare and precious anywhere.

However, just as Uchiha Gin was lavishly praising Nonou, the person in question, standing outside the window, was discussing glass prices with a glass installer, his face full of mercenary shrewdness.
"One hundred thousand taels, no more than that."

"Miss, even with 100,000 taels, I can't even get the goods in!"

The worker installing the glass was also the owner of the glass shop. Facing Nono's large sword, he shook his head with a bitter expression.
"What's the lowest price you can offer? Give me a sincere price."

"Three hundred thousand taels, that really can't be any lower. I still have several children to raise."

"Alright, three hundred thousand it is."

Based on the market prices she had inquired about along the way, and finding the price reasonable, Nonoyu thought for a moment, then nodded slightly.
"Okay! I'll start changing right away."

"But you'll have to write me an invoice for one million later."

"what?"

With the replacement glass in place, Uchiha Gin and the others were finally able to leave. They hadn't gone far when Nonou chased after them, holding a still-wet invoice.
"Uncle Yin, um... could you reimburse me for this?"

"Let me see... why is this glass so expensive?"

Looking at the huge sum of one million, Uchiha Gin blinked in confusion.
"Oh dear, you don't know, the Land of Wind has recently placed a large order for glass products, so the price of glass has naturally skyrocketed."

Hearing this somewhat reasonable explanation, Uchiha Gin secretly rolled his eyes in his mind. How could he not know what kind of goods the Land of Wind was importing?
"Okay, here you go."

But he still took out a wad of large-denomination bills from his bag and handed them over, thoughtfully instructing him,

"Don't spend it recklessly!"

"Don't worry, I'll give all the money to the nanny!"

Overjoyed to receive the large sum of money, Nono was completely oblivious to the trap in Uchiha Gin's words. By the time she realized what was happening, she was met with a pair of dead fish eyes filled with mischief.
"Sorry, I misspoke. I'll pay the boss."

Fearing that Uchiha Gin would reprimand her, Nono grabbed the money and ran away as fast as she could. Clearly, this wasn't her first offense; her practiced movements made Mito giggle.
"I really misjudged him before; he's such an interesting kid."

"Isn't this a way of surviving?"

Uchiha Gin gently shook his head. There was a reason why Nono was so greedy; being an orphan herself, she was still secretly supporting the orphanage that had once helped her.
If she relied solely on the income from missions, she could barely make ends meet. It's no wonder that Nono, who had just been promoted to Chunin, wanted to join Root, which offered the best benefits.

Looking up at the setting sun, Uchiha Gin turned to Mito behind him and asked,

"It's getting late, you should make preparations tonight."

"Kushina, I've marked your uncle's chakra for you. You can go find him yourself, right?"

Miku lived in the teachers' apartment building a hundred meters away; they could see the entrance from where they stood. Mito even pointed out to Kushina the excessively strong chakra of her uncle.

"No problem! They can do it!"

Watching the confident Kushina disappear into the teachers' apartment building, Mito averted her gaze, a certain emotion welling up in her eyes, almost tearing out.

"Alright, Ah Yin, now that the burden is gone, it's time we got down to business, right?" (End of Chapter)