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

"Ok?"

Feeling the strange man's licking gaze, Reimu Hakurei felt a chill under her armpits. She quickly released her grip on the exorcism wand, crossed her arms, and distanced herself from the stranger.

"who are you?"

"I'm."

Looking at the hidden food, Uchiha Gin shook his head regretfully, then struck what he thought was a cool pose, preparing to give a grand self-introduction.

"Never mind, that's not important. Please settle the bill for what you just paid."

However, the red and white shrine maiden opposite him suddenly frowned, raised her hand and forcefully shoved back the long-winded introduction that was stuck in his throat. At the same time, a mercenary look that Uchiha Gin was very familiar with appeared on her fair face.
"what?"

"Don't you have to pay to see this priestess's sacred parts?"

Seeing Uchiha Gin's bewildered expression, Hakurei Reimu crossed her arms confidently.

"Of course, this is considered an offering. If people come to the shrine, how can you not give them money?"

"Uh"

Does this red and white shrine maiden have no morals?
"how much is it?"

Uchiha Gin scratched his head. "Your shrine doesn't even have a price list. How is he supposed to know how much to tip?"

"Oh?"

Hearing this, Reimu Hakurei raised an eyebrow in surprise. She hadn't expected Gin Uchiha to be so agreeable; such worshippers were rare these days. She immediately stroked her chin and began to ponder.
100 taels?
She had some leftover pastries at home that she could use as a reward for giving him money, but seeing that this guy seemed to have some means, she felt it was a loss to only give him 100 taels.

500 taels?
The bag of rice we collected earlier should have already been opened by Maitreya. Why don't we let this guy have some rice with soy sauce?
"Hmph~ Five hundred."

"Is this a yakuza group?"

Seeing the five slender fingers raised by the priestess before him, Uchiha Gin's face darkened.
What does it mean to ask for five million so casually? Does he really think his gold bricks fell from the sky?
"Hmph, you stingy little thing."

Five hundred taels is indeed a bit excessive, but you shouldn't slander the shrine you worked so hard to build in front of her.

"Then you can decide what to give."

Reimu Hakurei pouted, turned her face away, and stretched out her small hand towards Gin Uchiha.

She was already prepared to accept the money. She would ask Maitreya to go outside and pull some weeds, and make a cup of tea for this stingy curly-haired jerk as a return gift!

Uchiha Gin didn't rush to reach for his wallet. Instead, he examined the complex array at the center of the shrine with great interest. From a professional's perspective, this array possessed extremely strong sealing properties.
According to Tsunade's previous description, a large amount of life energy inexplicably grew within Masahiko Uzumaki's son. The red and white shrine maiden's method of sealing him for treatment was indeed a very professional approach.
Thinking of Miroku outside, looking pitiful and as if he hadn't eaten enough, even the most compassionate person like Uchiha Gin couldn't help but feel a pang of pity.

Sigh. Let's just consider it a form of poverty alleviation.

So, disregarding his past grudge against Reimu Hakurei for demanding a huge sum of money, he casually took a gold bar from his bag and placed it on her delicate white hand.
"I'll give you this much since you're not a scammer, but remember, don't try to ask for too much next time."

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"what!?"

Reimu Hakurei, who was expecting to receive a hundred-coin, suddenly felt a heaviness in her hand. The unfamiliar weight made her turn her face back, but the next second, she was blinded by the dazzling light emanating from the money.

"Gold, gold, gold, gold and purple?"

In disbelief, she rubbed her dazed eyes hard, her words becoming stammered.
"Well, this piece is worth about 1 million taels, which is less than the 5 million taels you asked for."

Uchiha Gin nodded slightly, looking at the red and white shrine maiden's violent reaction, his dead fish eyes filled with doubt. Isn't this quite different from your goal? Why are you so surprised?
"100w!"

Reimu Hakurei, trembling, changed to holding the gold in both hands, her voice almost distorted with surprise.

"Crack!"

"Huh? You don't want your teeth anymore?"

Seeing the red and white shrine maiden stuffing a corner of the gold brick into her mouth, Uchiha Gin quickly spoke up to stop her, speechless. He hadn't expected anyone to actually use this method to inspect the goods.

"It's the real deal! It's genuine gold and purple!"

Holding the gold brick with teeth marks in her hands, Reimu Hakurei, who had been gnawing on tree bark for a week, shed two lines of clear tears.

"Sir, please slap me."

She was afraid that all of this was just a beautiful dream she had had after she fainted from hunger.

"Uh, forget it. Hitting someone is too rude."

"I beg you!"

Faced with the pleading expression of the red and white shrine maiden, Uchiha Gin scratched his head awkwardly, after all, all he knew how to do was beat women in bed.
"How about this, let's try a different approach."

Having exhausted all other options, he had to change his approach and try other methods to fulfill the Red and White Shrine Maiden's requests.

"Uh, what method?"

"Raise both hands above your head."

Unable to distinguish between reality and dreams, Reimu Hakurei did as she was told without hesitation, quickly raising her small hands holding the gold bricks high.
"Hehe~ Thanks for the treat!"

Seeing the other person's wide-open armpit, Uchiha Gin, a seasoned gourmand, wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth, narrowed his eyes, and reached towards the other person's smooth, fair armpit.

The tickling play is in progress.
"Cuckoo~"

To avoid the gold bricks falling from above, Reimu could only endure standing still, letting Gin Uchiha do as he pleased.
The strange feeling came and went quickly. Watching Uchiha Gin withdraw his hand, Reimu Hakurei, still feeling unsatisfied, felt a pang of disappointment.
"Hmm, it seems I wasn't dreaming after all."

After gently rubbing her legs together a few times, Reimu Hakurei lowered her raised hands.

But for some reason, the gold brick in her hand no longer held the same allure. Instead, she was more intrigued by the strange man who had suddenly intruded into her exorcism ritual.

The other party gave me such a large sum of money, what should I give as a return gift?
As she took stock of her shrine's assets, Reimu Hakurei scratched her head in a troubled manner. It seemed that the most valuable thing she had left was her housekeeping expert, Miroku.
"I do not yet know your honorable name, my name is Hakurei Reimu, and I am the head of this shrine."

Carefully placing the gold bar into her patched-up wallet, Reimu Hakurei straightened her expression, knelt on the ground, and began a very formal self-introduction.
"Uchiha Gin".

Uchiha Gin calmly lowered his fingers and nodded slightly in response.

"This Mr. Uchiha"

"Just call me Gintoki."

He still prefers to be called that by others.

"Alright, Gintoki, we can talk about the return gift later. May I ask how you broke through my barrier, and why you've come here?"

Reimu Hakurei, being a straightforward person, immediately changed her tune. Then, looking at the languid-looking Gin Uchiha, she asked the question that had been lingering in her mind.
The sealing barrier she set up outside was extremely complex; only someone with a higher level of sealing technique than her could break it. The Uchiha Gin before her didn't seem like a seasoned scholar who had mastered sealing techniques. How could he possibly break in without damaging the barrier?
"is it hard?"

When the conversation touched on his area of ​​expertise, Uchiha Gin chuckled and raised his right hand. To Reimu Hakurei's astonishment, five eerie blue flames appeared on his fingers.
"This is."

"Unseal the magic seal."

"I see." She nodded in sudden understanding. Although she had never heard of the technique of unsealing seals before, Reimu Hakurei, being a professional, immediately grasped its intricacies.

Uchiha Gin's five fingers each contain one of the five elements: wind, thunder, earth, fire, and water. Furthermore, a Yin-Yang Orb faintly appears in his palm, meaning he possesses all seven elements.
Whether the sealing formulas are even or odd, they can all be indiscriminately erased by this giant hand; it can be called…
[Sealed Assassin]

As she thoughtfully watched the dissipating blue flames on Uchiha Gin's hand, a strange glint flashed in Reimu Hakurei's pale red eyes.
If this person, perhaps...
"As for why I came here..."

Turning his head to look at the red-haired baby sleeping soundly in the center of the formation, Uchiha Gin, unaware of what Hakurei Reimu was thinking, suddenly frowned.

The scent on this child
Why do you have this out-of-town vibe?
"You're here to see this child?"

Coming to her senses, Reimu Hakurei stood up and walked to Gin Uchiha, her face full of curiosity.
"That's right, I've been asked to come and treat this child's strange illness."

Uchiha Gin nodded, but his tightly furrowed brows showed no sign of relaxing.
"You can also tell that the power within him doesn't belong to him?"

Noticing the serious expression on Uchiha Gin's face, Hakurei Reimu asked,

"Did you notice anything amiss?"

"I can only vaguely sense that there is a mysterious power within this child, which is slowly transforming his body."

After hearing Reimu Hakurei's assessment, Gin Uchiha didn't reply. He appeared in front of the sleeping Nagato in a flash, his dark, lifeless eyes sweeping over the baby's tender body before gleaming with a deep, eerie blue.
Roll your eyes, open!

From the perspective of the mutated Byakugan, Nagato's young body surged with an astonishingly rich life force, mixed with a strangely colored energy.

Uchiha Gin's gaze followed the source of this energy and finally landed on Nagato's clenched fist.

He crouched down, gently opened the baby's soft little hand, and Uchiha's silver azure pupils instantly contracted.
这 是
Is there anything wrong with this birthmark?

Reimu Hakurei, who had somehow ended up squatting next to Gin Uchiha, tilted her head, adorned with a red butterfly hair ornament, and curiously examined the tiny, almost imperceptible black mole on Nagato's palm.

"It's nothing, I was just looking around."

Lowering Nagato's small hand, Uchiha Gin shook his head, a hint of seriousness appearing in his azure eyes.

Nagato's strange illness was caused by this birthmark, and within this birthmark, he sensed the aura of an Otsutsuki named Jigen.

"I never knew your eyes could change color!"

Reimu Hakurei, standing to the side, stared intently at the Uchiha's mutated, gleaming silver Byakugan, clicking her tongue in amazement.
"Oh? From what you're saying, you'll change too?"

"Hum~"

Staring at Uchiha Gin's curious gaze, Hakurei Reimu, hands on her hips, proudly puffed out her chest—a chest destined to starve her children—and her pale red eyes gradually glowed with a purple halo.
Although Reimu Hakurei is a runaway shrine maiden, as the inheritor of the shrine maiden's power, this power has long been rooted in her blood. Even without returning to receive baptism, she can still use a portion of the shrine maiden's abilities.

"These eyes contain the power that has been passed down for thousands of years in our Land of Demons; they can foresee the future."

Staring with her beautiful purple eyes, she explained while casting a smug look at the curious Uchiha Gin in front of her.

Before she could finish speaking, a heartbreaking scene unfolded before her eyes: Uchiha Gin, dressed in an old combat suit, lay face up, dying painfully amidst the complex gazes of several red-eyed ninjas.
"what!!!"

A terrified scream erupted instantly, nearly tearing the already dilapidated roof off.

"Hey, keep your voice down, what if you wake the child?"

Uchiha Gin, whose eardrums had nearly shattered, covered Nagato's small ears with both hands, looking at Hakurei Reimu, whose face had suddenly turned deathly pale, with a face full of pain.
"You...you...are you a human or a ghost?"

"what?"

Watching Hakurei Reimu slowly retreat, Uchiha Gin was full of question marks. He was a grown man standing here, while Shio-jing Shrimp went to see a doctor, right?

"Impossible! Prophecies never go wrong. How could you still be alive?"

Reimu Hakurei's eyes widened, and she shook her head in disbelief.
"You should have died long ago!"

"Ok?"

Upon hearing this, Uchiha Gin frowned slightly, a look of realization flashing in his eyes.
He remembered: the priestesses of the Land of Demons possessed a special ability to foresee a person's death. Reimu Hakurei had probably seen something through that ability.
"What do you mean by death? I'm standing here perfectly fine. Don't believe in any prophecies. Trusting in science is the only way to make progress."

With a light laugh and a shake of his head, Uchiha Gin picked up the fast-sleeping Nagato and said to Hakurei Reimu, whose little face was scrunched up like a chrysanthemum,

"You're just a ninja, what makes you think I'm talking about science?"

Upon hearing this, Reimu Hakurei, whose eyes had returned to normal, pursed her lips, a faint look of relief appearing on her relaxed face.

Since the reality that Uchiha Gin is alive does exist, it means that her prophetic abilities have deviated from their true nature like never before.

This further demonstrates that the shrine maiden's prophecy is not absolute, and that the shrine maiden's destiny can be broken!
"I am a ninja who believes in the religion of science."

Uchiha Gin shrugged, his tone casual, but a deep, thoughtful look lingered in his eyes for a long time.
Why would the Otsutsuki who captured Hashirama from the bottom of the prison leave a mark on this child that resembles that of a clone?
Inside Amegakure Village,

“Kid, you’ve already led us around this street nine times.”

The four cloned Tree Spirits, who had been following Tsunade for most of the day, stopped. A cold, questioning voice came from beneath Number Four's black hood.
"Uh, really? The street layout in Amegakure is similar. You must be mistaken, ninja grandpa~"

Tsunade turned around stiffly, feigning an innocent look, trying to dispel Number Four's suspicions.
"Cunning humans."

At that moment, Number One stepped forward, and a chilling aura emanated from the black shadow of his hood, sending a shiver down Tsunade's spine.

"Number Four, we don't have much time left. Let's just extract the information we need from her brain!"

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"What are you hesitating about? The 'tool' that the master has carefully selected cannot be lost."

Seeing the silent Number Four, Number One frowned. "Since you're not saying anything, I'll take that as a yes."
"You cunning little devil, pray you don't turn into an idiot."

"What are you going to do?"

Tsunade feigned panic and took a few steps back, her eyes filled with "fear" as she looked at Number One. At the same time, she secretly gathered strength in her fists behind her back, preparing to break through the encirclement.
"Number One, you're not the captain yet."

At this moment, Number Four, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke. Upon hearing this, Number One paused in his outstretched hand.
"Are you really going to do this for a human brat?"

"Shut up, I'm more eager to finish the mission than you are."

Having thoroughly intimidated Number One who had questioned him, Number Four turned and stood in front of Tsunade, looking down at the human cub who had unsettled him.
"Kid, relax, nothing will happen to you."

For some reason, Tsunade detected a subtle hint of doting and kindness in his tone.

After speaking, Number Four extended his large hand, and a ghostly blue light appeared. Tsunade's eyes narrowed upon seeing this, alarm bells rang in her mind, and her fists, which had been gathering strength for a long time, suddenly clenched.

“Whoosh!~”

Just as Tsunade was about to unleash her powerful punch, she heard a whooshing sound behind her. The next second, an indigo-blue energy blast, trailing a flame, struck Number Four precisely in the face, knocking off his hood.
"ah?!!"

Upon seeing the true nature of her opponent, Tsunade froze on the spot, her bewildered eyes filled with astonishment, and the monstrous strength she had been gathering in her fists instantly dissipated.

Number Four ignored Tsunade's excessive surprise, expressionlessly dispelling the memory-searching technique in his hand, yet his warm hand still descended.

"Run, kid, run as far as you can!" (End of Chapter)