Naruto: I, Shikotsumyaku, Byakugan Princess

Chapter 35 Metkai

The waning moon was bright and clear, its light stretched into thin threads that pierced through the mesh of the gauze window and scattered on the stone platform like shattered jade.

Dining table in the living room.

Under the incandescent light, Matt Kai held the bottom of his bowl, gazing thoughtfully at the girl sitting upright across the table.

The girl is about 1.3 meters tall and looks to be about 6 or 7 years old.

A large white cloak covered her slender body and most of her legs, while her long, silver-gray hair was casually draped over her shoulders, reflecting a faint metallic matte luster under the light.

His face was covered with a black cloth strip.

The strips of cloth were thick and the edges were not neat, like shreds torn from some clothes, completely covering the girl's eyes, cheeks, nose, and bridge of the nose.

A day of grueling training has come to an end.

On his way home upside down, he saw a pitiful blind girl sitting alone by the roadside, hugging her body, so he took her home.

That's probably what happened.

"Give."

"Thank you."

Hui Li naturally accepted the ramen and bowl and chopsticks handed to her by Matt Kai, politely thanked him, and moved freely. The eye mask on her face seemed to be just decoration.

suck~
He picked up a mouthful of noodles with his chopsticks and elegantly put it into his mouth almost silently, while in contrast, Matt Kai made a snoring sound like a boar rooting for food.

Turrulurrulu!
Matt Kai held the bowl, tilted his head back, and poured the ramen and broth into his mouth, making a sound like a tractor harvesting wheat. He then turned around and ran to the kitchen to fill a large bowl and continued slurping!

I jogged ten laps around the leaf in the morning, did 1000 single-finger handstand push-ups per finger in the morning, and did high-intensity anaerobic weightlifting in the afternoon.

He was really hungry.

Suck!

Hui Li gracefully finished her ramen, then got up to go to the kitchen to get more rice. Her eating speed was not much slower than Might Guy's.

"Lulu—Grey Glass, you... hiccup! Can you see?"

Matt Kai burped, his body twitching, and looked at Gray Glass, who moved freely. His small eyes, under his round, reflective watermelon head, were full of surprise.

He had assumed the girl was a blind, helpless orphan who could only beg on the street, but now it seemed things weren't quite as he had imagined.

Upon hearing Might Guy's question, Gray Glass's lifeless gray eyes, hidden beneath the blindfold, shifted slightly.

A 360-degree view unfolds seamlessly, and all the surrounding objects become semi-transparent, revealing their hidden structures and outlines.

The refrigerator contained milk and fruit that were about to expire; the bedroom had a wallet full of coins with only a few bills; a secret scroll was hidden under the bed; a comic book with a sexy woman on the cover; and even Might Guy was standing in front of him.

From the inside out, the muscle texture, bones, internal organs, and even the slowly flowing chakra in the meridians are all clearly visible without any concealment.

"Blind."

Hui Li tilted her head and pointed to her eyes, which were covered by a black cloth, her voice clear and her tone calm.

"Uh, I'm sorry!"

Mentioning someone else's injury is impolite, so Might Guy quickly apologized and stopped dwelling on Gray's unusual speed.

"It's okay, thank you for making me ramen, it was delicious."

Being praised for his cooking skills for the first time, A-Kai touched his watermelon head, his mouth almost stretched to his ears, but he still pretended to be calm: "It was just something I made, little sister, eat up, don't be shy."

Little did he know that his performance had been seen through by Bai Yan even through the blindfold.

Turrulurrulu!
Amidst laughter and conversation, Matt Kai downed another large bowl of food.

Every taijutsu-type ninja is a hidden glutton.

And Gray Glass... Corpse Bone Pulse + White Eyes.

Speaking of her two types of mutated bloodline limits, they are both genuine physical killers.

The two are combined, leaving aside the Eight Gates Formation.

She even dared to say that she would become the grandfather of all taijutsu-type ninjas in the future.

Oh no! It should be her biological grandmother.

The chopsticks tapped the bottom of the bowl with a crisp sound, and the ramen in the gray glass bowl was completely gone.

"I'll do it!" Without hesitation, the eldest grandson, Matt Kai, grabbed a large bowl in each hand and dashed into the kitchen...

Dinner time passed quickly.

Matt Kai hadn't expected Grey to have such a big appetite, so he hadn't made that much ramen. After they each finished two large bowls, only a little oily broth remained in the pot.

"Um...there's nothing in the pot..."

Matt Kai, returning from the kitchen with an empty gray bowl filled with noodle soup, saw the pitiful and helpless blind girl who had just been homeless on the street. He squatted down and casually opened her dirty beige package...

Click!

Matt Kai accidentally broke the rice bowl full of soup, spilling soup all over the floor, but he had no time to care.

In the package:
The largest denomination banknotes of the Land of Fire, a vibrant green, were bundled together in a thick stack of yellow kraft paper.

It was even thicker than the bricks he used to pave the floor when he was a genin and had to take on brick-laying jobs from Konoha villagers because he had no money for food.

The exact amount of these thick "money bricks" was unknown; they were piled up in the package like waste paper, while what he thought were old clothes were folded neatly and sandwiched between the "money bricks."

Doesn't this clothing reek of money?

Matt Kai, who had never seen so much money in his life, silently complained to himself.

"Here!"

Gray took out a stack of 'money bricks' from the bag. The money was so thick that he couldn't hold it with one hand, so he had to use both hands to hold it. He turned around and handed it to the dazed Matt Kai.

"This...is for me?"

"Oh! There's food and lodging included."

"I...I don't need this much..."

"Consider the rest as my gratitude for taking you in."

"This……"

Perhaps because of poverty, Matt Kai's naturally loud voice became soft and gentle.

Looking at Hui Li, who was standing in the middle of the room, waving banknotes with an air of wealth and power, I suddenly felt like I was the beggar who had been picked up from the roadside.

That’s not right!
Accommodation fee? I didn't say you could stay at my house.
But... after weighing the heavy 'brick' in his hand, Matt Kai swallowed his thoughts silently. His tired body, exhausted from training, automatically channeled its strength to help him clean up the dishes and sweep the soup off the floor.

Looking at Matt Kai's hesitant expression, he seemed to want to say something but couldn't.

Having experienced throwing money at people for the first time, Hui Li secretly sighed in her heart: No matter how the world changes, some things are universal.

Leaving the dock where the 'Hell' was moored.

She went back to confront Okuriyu Fumiko.

He knew there was something wrong with the ship.

Long before Hairi approached him, Orochimaru and Zabuza had both obtained some money from him, and the tickets for the Hope also came from him.

Sure enough, before everyone runs away, they always choose to pull off one big heist first.

Everyone's thinking is pretty much the same.

At last.

Gray Glass plundered the cash flow of nearby casinos.

The cash in the package was only a drop in the ocean; the rest was deposited in an anonymous account in the Land of Fire. Due to the large amount involved, the annual interest was a considerable sum.

“Akai”.

The two had already exchanged names, and Hui Li simply called him by the name she was familiar with from her previous life.

"what happened?"

Akai knelt on the ground, wiping the noodle soup off the floor with a rag, and turned to ask Huili when he heard her call.

Do you have a girlfriend?

"what?"

(End of this chapter)