Chapter 48: The True Way to Use the "Lazy System"!

Chapter 48: The True Way to Use the "Lazy System"!

Waking up in the morning, embracing the sun.

Nara Keisuke felt inexplicably refreshed all over, as if, during a lazy afternoon, he had found a hollow in a soft sofa that perfectly matched his body shape, and every muscle in his body achieved a state of great relaxation and satisfaction.

"Strength +24? When did this message come in?"

It was only then that Nara Keisuke belatedly discovered the message on the panel. "And my [Strength] stat went up a whole major rank!"

Looking at the message on the panel, Keisuke reviewed the cause and effect. After discovering the wonderful synergy between the three techniques—[Shadow Doppelganger Technique], [Flat Shadow Technique], and [Sage Clan Guidance Technique]—during his daily routine, apart from eating, drinking, and sleeping, Keisuke had basically maintained a fully automatic mode of "spirit entrusted to the shadow doppelganger, main body lies flat and AFK-trains."

"So, this was the result of stumbling into it by chance?"

Ever since discovering the two panel functions of "eating can increase Stamina" and "studying can increase Wisdom," Keisuke had been searching for ways to increase his other stats, but unfortunately, he had never gotten the hang of it. He hadn't expected to receive such a "great gift" the moment he woke up today.

He had finally found a way to increase his [Strength] stat! However...

"Within one natural day, do not perform any other strenuous exercise besides satisfying one's own physiological needs."

Nara Keisuke looked at the panel information, feeling completely speechless.

"You've really outdone yourself, 'Lazy System'!"

Eating, getting a consolation prize, conserving energy. Nara Keisuke finally understood why this system was called the "Lazy System"!

"But in that case, how am I supposed to increase my [Speed] stat?"

"By having the Nara slacker not move at all?"

"By lying completely flat on the spot?"

Keisuke briefly familiarized himself with his explosively increased [Strength] stat, then separated out a few more [Shadow Doppelgangers].

"You, go buy breakfast."

"You, go carve the wood."

"You, go practice the Rasengan."

Considering his own limits, Keisuke only separated out three doppelgangers, then his main body went to wash up. After the doppelganger responsible for buying breakfast returned, Keisuke sent him off to practice the [Rasengan] as well.

After breakfast, the daily prompt popped up on the panel.

[Eating... Your [Stamina] stat has increased to a certain degree...]

[Stamina: C-]

"Maintaining a normal eating habit, plus supplementing with Military Ration Pills, my [Stamina] stat is expected to reach B-rank in about a month."

Keisuke glanced at the panel message, then closed it directly and threw himself wholeheartedly into the creation of the [Nature Masks].

After half a morning had passed, Keisuke had successfully created two new masks. The SSS-rank miscellaneous item [Branch of the Divine Tree] that he had purchased last night was also completely used up.

"Earth, Wind, and Fire. I now have three B-rank [Nature Masks], corresponding to the three B-rank ninjutsu: [Earth Release: Earth Spear], [Wind Release: Pressure Damage], and [Fire Release: Searing Migraine]."

"I'll carry the Earth-nature [Nature Mask] with me, and keep the Wind and Fire-nature ones for emergencies."

Nara Keisuke thought to himself, "I currently haven't mastered any Water Release ninjutsu, nor can I mold water-nature chakra, so naturally, I can't create a Water-nature [Nature Mask]... I can deal with that later. According to my own elemental affinities, I could create a Yin-nature mask, but the [Shadow Doppelganger] is already made of Yin Release energy, so making a Yin-nature mask would be of little use."

Keisuke created a new [Shadow Doppelganger] and arranged for it to tidy up the training room, while he himself went to the living room. He picked up the bottle of silvervine drink he had bought last night from the entrance, and also found the incense stick Lady Cat had given him from his ninja tool pouch.

Keisuke walked to the window, pushed it open, and lit the incense. Plumes of smoke drifted out the window, turning into invisible scent molecules that floated in the Konoha air.

He returned to the living room and waited for about five minutes. Just as the incense was about to burn out, the sound of a cat's meow came from outside the window.

"It's a strange guest, meow~"

A small cat with light yellow fur and pointed ears jumped onto the windowsill from outside, observing Keisuke. It wore a cloth garment similar to a ninja's on its upper body, and a small "忍" (shinobi) character was drawn on its forehead.

"Little brother, you've lit the cat incense. Is there any service you require, meow?"

So ninja cats also have a peculiar verbal tic when they talk...

Nara Keisuke looked at the ninja cat with some curiosity, while pushing the drink in his hand towards it. "A silvervine drink. Cats quite like this type of beverage. I thought a ninja cat might like it too?"

"Meow! You're too kind, meow!"

The ninja cat leaped from the windowsill, flashing into the living room with incredible lightness. It hugged the bottle of silvervine drink and rolled around on the table, looking overjoyed. "Little brother, you're so generous, meow! As expected of a ninja from the Nara clan, meow!"

Keisuke was initially puzzled as to how this ninja cat knew his identity. But then he recalled the scene when he first met Lady Cat—and Inuzuka Tsume. It was probably the cat's sensitive sense of smell...

The ninja cat skillfully opened the bottle cap, held the bottle with its two small paws, and its little pink tongue continuously dipped into the bottle's mouth, lapping up the drink inside. A human-like look of satisfaction appeared on the cat's face.

Keisuke didn't interrupt, quietly enjoying the sight of the ninja cat drinking.

"It's been a long time since I've had such a satisfying drink, meow!" Before long, the ninja cat had finished the entire bottle. "Little brother, there aren't many polite ninja like you left, meow. For the sake of this bottle of silvervine drink... Summoning Technique!"

The ninja cat raised its right paw and lightly pressed it on Keisuke's table. With a puff of smoke, a scroll appeared beneath its paw. "This is our product catalog scroll. Please have a look, meow." The cat pushed the scroll in front of Keisuke.

"Pardon me, Mr. Cat—"

"Just call me Denka, meow!"

"Alright, Denka." Keisuke complied smoothly. He held the product scroll but didn't open it immediately. Instead, he first gave a brief self-introduction and then asked, "I'd like to ask beforehand, does Lady Cat do custom ninja tools?"

"Of course, meow!" Denka nodded. "Does little brother Keisuke want to order a custom tool, meow? If so, it's best for you to go see Lady Cat in person, meow."

"Then I'll have to trouble you to take me to see her, Denka."

Taking the chakra metal scroll and the money scroll that the clan head had given him, Keisuke followed behind Denka, passing through Konoha Village and arriving at a ruin in the southeast direction outside the village.

'The complete opposite direction from Kikyo Castle. That river we just passed... was it the Naka River?'

Keisuke and Denka passed through the city ruins and soon arrived in front of a dilapidated building. An empty district.

"This is it, meow!" Denka signaled for Keisuke to pay attention. "The terrain inside might be a bit complicated. Don't get lost, meow."

Keisuke nodded in understanding.

The man and cat moved quickly through the building with its intricate and complex terrain. Almost every corridor here looked exactly the same, making it very easy for someone to get lost. But under Denka's lead, Keisuke smoothly passed through these corridors and arrived in a spacious room.

The walls of the room were lined with all sorts of scrolls and ninja tools. In the very center stood a somewhat out-of-place giant tent. Keisuke followed Denka into the tent.

In the center of the dark-curtained space was a huge, soft white bed. In front of the bed was a soft, round, plush carpet. Piles of cats and books were stacked in every corner of the tent.

But the most eye-catching thing was Lady Cat, surrounded by numerous cats, a long, slender wooden pipe held between her fingers, puffing out clouds of smoke.

Lady Cat's scarlet lips brushed past the pale gold filter, leaving a thin layer of moist mist upon it. As the curling white smoke escaped from between her lips, the pair of purple cat ears hidden in her magnificent, wavy golden hair pricked up quietly.

"Isn't this the little brother from the Nara family I met at Tsume's place the other day?" Lady Cat put down her pipe, her crystal-like purple pupils looking towards Keisuke. "What is it? Have you finally decided to do business with me?"

Keisuke was just about to state his purpose when a voice, mixed with shock and anger, interrupted him.

"How is it you!"

Keisuke followed the voice and only then realized he had overlooked another person standing in the tent.

"You are..." Keisuke frowned, looking at the red eyes not far away. "Uchiha Inabi?"

"It is I!" Scarlet swirled in Uchiha Inabi's eyes, and he subconsciously reached for the hilt of the short sword at his waist. "How do you know about this place, you bastard! This is my Uchiha clan's weapon shop."

Before Keisuke could answer, another voice sounded, this time from Lady Cat. "Little Inabi!" Lady Cat's expression turned cold, her cat-like eyes narrowing slightly, a chilling authority flowing from them. "Although my relationship with your Uchiha clan is deep, this is my and the ninja cats' territory!"

"My deepest apologies! Lady Cat!" Uchiha Inabi's face flushed red. He lowered his right hand, about to bow in apology.

"Get out!" Lady Cat was unwilling to listen to any more of his nonsense and directly ordered him to leave.

Uchiha Inabi's blood rushed to his head, but in the end, he didn't dare to disobey her. He just shot a vicious glare at Nara Keisuke and strode out of the tent.

"Alright, the annoying kid has left." Lady Cat took a light puff from her pipe, exhaling another cloud of white smoke. "Little brother from the Nara family, we can talk business now."

(End of Chapter)

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