Snow accumulates thickly on the ground, and animals that spend the winter hide in warm nests.

This winter there is less noise than usual, but the village is as lively as ever.

The children were chasing each other on the snow, throwing snowballs at each other, shouting "take me a kunai", and playing the same ninja game as always.

As the busy adults are busy with their own lives, business in winter seems to be busier than usual.

The police ninjas in the village were on daily patrol, while some were idle.

Compared with the endless tasks that seem to be completed on weekdays, winter is the off-season in comparison.

At the end of the year, it is rare to have time to take a good rest.

The most lively places at this time were gambling stalls and izakayas.

Next is the hot spring street.

If you have a girlfriend, you can go to the cinema for a date or something.

But for most ninjas, drinking a glass of wine in winter is undoubtedly a comfortable thing, which has to be hidden from the tiger at home.

Single guys don't have such worries.

Ninjas wearing green vests gathered together to share and chat about interesting things they learned in their daily lives.

I encountered a suspicious person while patrolling, and after interrogation, I found out it was a misunderstanding.

While defeating and dispersing dangerous beasts, some unlucky rookie genin was accidentally injured.

What happened to my employer when I was performing **** missions?

This year I killed a few bandits again.

There are also things like delivering letters and meals when going out.

The tasks of a ninja are closely related to daily life. As long as you think of it, you can go to the Ninja Village to entrust tasks.

As a result, you often encounter seemingly unbelievable tasks.

From sweeping streets to clearing sewers, from delivering food to chatting, it's all possible.

Therefore, ninjas are not as cool as they look.

As we chatted, the topic gradually became serious.

"The Arai next door seems to be dead."

A veteran said sadly.

There are the most ninjas like him in Konoha.

He has rich experience. He graduated at the age of twelve and has been in the industry for seven or eight years. He has experienced not too many but not too few ninja encounters and has excellent combat qualities.

From repairing water pipes to tightening screws, he can advance, fight, retreat, and raise children. He can be said to be good at everything. He is very well-rounded and excellent.

He has no particularly outstanding advantages, nor any particular weakness. He has become an elite chuunin, and after years of hard work, he can be considered to have a family and a career.

This is the most prominent civilian backbone in Konoha.

Compared with the mainstay Jōnin class, what they lack is just one particularly outstanding ability.

But not weak.

Even if they were jounin, once the two of them met a class of four elite chunin, their heads would be buzzing and they would be ready to die at any moment.

Although jounin and ninja are different.

Many of them were veterans who had retired from the First World War.

Many have the strength of a jounin but have not been promoted to jounin.

The position of jounin cannot be explained in a few words.

The main reason is that the village is poor and cannot afford to raise more Jonin. The plate is only so big and there are not enough mouths to eat.

Therefore, Jonin has always been the best among the best.

To sum up, it is difficult to get along with the chunin who seem to have no sense of presence in the five major villages.

After more than ten years of recuperation, each village has accumulated a number of extremely rich wealth.

"It's not just Arai." Another ninja said: "Yuji next door is also dead."

Both Arai and Yuji are well-known ninjas in this circle.

To put it more modestly, these two guys are not weaker than me. They are evenly matched with me. In a life-and-death battle, I might die.

The village is so big, there are tens of thousands of ninjas, and everyone knows everyone except the newcomers who have just joined.

But these guys are dead, which means I will die too.

"A lot of people died this year." A ninja exhaled smoke and said, "I heard a while ago that a group of genin went on a mission and all died at sea. The jounin who led the team didn't even run away."

"I'm only a teenager. It's so miserable." Another person echoed: "I heard it was Kirigakure's hand."

"Who else could it be if they weren't them? The Kingdom of Whirlpool?"

Having said that, there is no proof of death.

There has never been a response from Kirigakure. What else can Konoha do? Fight?

"The next mission is to go to the Kingdom of Water, and show some shame to those fishermen on the water." A ninja said fiercely: "We in Konoha are not easy to mess with."

Therefore, friction will gradually escalate.

"The recent situation is not right. Everyone, please calm down." A ninja seemed to be still awake.

But all he said was nonsense.

The form is not up to the person.

"The situation is not right, too many people have died." A young man, who looked to be about seventeen or eighteen years old, said: "Compared with the missions in previous years, this year feels particularly dangerous. The last **** mission I received , I felt like the Iwagakure ninja went crazy, and almost died there. In the end, the mission failed and the captain ordered us to go back. What happened recently?"

In previous years, if the Konoha side received a guard mission like this, the other side's mission was mostly to assassinate Konoha's employer and never get too entangled with Konoha's ninjas to avoid losing manpower.

It is not easy to train a ninja. It costs real money. There is no need to work **** such a small problem. An assassination mission only gives a few dollars.

Anyway, the village didn’t suffer much loss.

It’s the best that can be done, but it’s the best that can’t be done!

As a big village, our credibility is guaranteed, and it’s not that we don’t work hard, Konoha is not easy to deal with either.

It is force majeure, and some are excuses to cover up the failure of the mission.

There is no worry about the collapse of reputation caused by failure of the task, and there will be no tasks to do.

Besides, this kind of task is not impossible to complete. There are many cases of successful assassination without getting too entangled with the opponent's ninja.

Therefore, on weekdays, ninjas from various countries leave some leeway in their fights, so that everyone can look good and meet each other easily in the future.

Once the mission fails, retreat and never delay.

Nor will he be kind enough to help his employer do unnecessary things, such as defeating the local bullies and dark forces.

The Five Great Kuni Ninja Villages are not shantang.

It's a mercenary organization that gets paid to do things.

Normally throughout the year, the five major countries would seem to be fighting fiercely due to missions, but few people would die and they would all maintain restraint.

Therefore, only people outside the five major countries are unlucky, and the typical example is the Country of Rain.

The special location makes it a battle zone for several ninjas. It has been affected by ninja wars all year round, resulting in many civilian casualties.

The ninjutsu released does not have eyes.

If you run into it, you can only consider yourself unlucky.

Therefore, most other small countries in the same situation choose to lie flat.

The domestic nobles turned a blind eye to the actions of the five major powers.

Whoever hits you, just don't hit my house.

Another example is the Kingdom of the River. If you can't defeat it, just join in. If you kneel down and lick it, it's over. You can have both sides.

The most special one is the country of ghosts. The five major countries have to betray their leader, the witch, to save face.

"I heard that Iwagakure can no longer support the huge ninja group in the country." A ninja said in a deep voice.

"How many people are there? Can't you feed them?" another ninja asked.