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At dinner, Tsunade's expression was gloomy. Kushina looked at her, puzzled.
"What's wrong with her?" she whispered to Mikoto.
"Shin said she was 'weak'. She's probably upset," Mikoto whispered back.
"Can you two be any quieter?"
Tsunade glared at them.
Kushina and Mikoto were embarrassed. They had been caught gossiping.
"Ahem, want me to teach you a secret technique?" Shin asked, setting down his rice ball.
"A secret technique? What kind?"
Kushina was intrigued. Secret techniques were usually powerful Jutsu passed down within a clan or village.
The Uzumaki Clan's Sealing Jutsu used to be a secret technique. But after the clan's destruction, some of those Jutsu had spread.
"The Lightning Release Chakra Mode. The Third Raikage's secret technique," Shin said with a grin.
He was going to teach them the Lightning Release Chakra Mode.
Copying Jutsu was different from copying Kekkei Genkai. Although he had copied the Ice Release, he didn't know how to combine Wind and Water Release to create it.
But when he copied the Lightning Release Chakra Mode, all the knowledge of its training and application appeared in his mind.
"You know the Third Raikage's Lightning Release Chakra Mode?"
Tsunade looked at Shin in surprise. Wasn't that the Raikage's signature technique? How did Shin learn it?
"What do you think I was doing when I visited the Raikage? Just having a friendly spar? This is simple stuff. I can learn it in an instant."
Shin boasted. He wouldn't lie to Tsunade, but he wouldn't tell her the truth either. If he said this in front of the Raikage, the Raikage might actually believe him.
"If you learn the Lightning Release Chakra Mode, you might become like the Third Raikage."
"Become like the Raikage? Covered in muscles? No, thank you!" Tsunade refused without hesitation.
Kushina, who had been interested, immediately lost interest.
She couldn't imagine herself covered in muscles. And Shin definitely wouldn't like that.
Mikoto also declined.
Konan just ate her breakfast quietly.
"The Raikage built those muscles through physical training. It has nothing to do with the Lightning Release Chakra Mode," Shin said, surprised by their reaction.
"I'm not learning it. I like the Strength of a Hundred Seal just fine," Tsunade declared.
She didn't care how powerful the Lightning Release Chakra Mode was. She wasn't going to become a muscle woman.
Kushina and Mikoto also expressed their disinterest.
Seeing their reluctance, Shin dropped the subject.
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As Shin arrived on the battlefield, Konoha, which had been relentlessly attacked until now, finally had a chance to breathe.
"I'm so awesome. Just my presence scared those four villages." Shin couldn't help but brag.
"Can you stop with the bragging?" Tsunade rolled her eyes.
"Tsunade, why are you so free? There are a lot of injured Konoha Shinobi. Shouldn't you be treating them?"
Shin asked.
"Can't I take a break?" Tsunade glared at him.
Shin had been on the battlefield for five days. It had rained for three of those days. It was annoying.
"Shouldn't we launch a counterattack? We can't win this war if we're always on the defensive."
"How should I know? I don't attend those meetings," Tsunade said.
"This is so boring."
Shin was bored. In Konoha, there were things to do, but on the battlefield, it was dull.
He wanted to fight, but the enemy wasn't attacking.
"Uzumaki Shin, the Sandaime Hokage has a mission for you."
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Just as Shin was feeling bored, a Shinobi arrived and handed him a mission scroll.
Shin opened the scroll curiously.
Tsunade peered over his shoulder. The mission was to destroy Iwa's supply depot. The scroll even contained the supply route.
"Finally, something to do. I'm getting rusty." Shin jumped up excitedly.
"You're happy about a dangerous mission like this?" Tsunade said, surprised.
Destroying the enemy's supply lines was dangerous. Every village heavily guarded their supplies.
"It's only dangerous for others. Not for me."
Shin said confidently. With his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, who could defeat him?
Madara Uchiha was still alive, but he was barely alive. If he had the audacity to show his face, Shin would finish him off.
"I'm going on a mission. Want to come?" Shin asked Mikoto and Kushina.
"Yes! Of course!"
Kushina grabbed Mikoto's hand and followed Shin.
Shin could easily complete the mission alone, but he had brought Kushina and Mikoto to keep him company.
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"Is the intel accurate? We've been waiting for ages. What if it's wrong?"
Kushina complained. They hadn't encountered the supply transport team yet.
"It doesn't matter if the intel is wrong. We won't be blamed for a mission failure," Shin said calmly, though inwardly, he was annoyed.
If the mission failed, he would find out who provided the faulty intel.
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