Chapter 263 Great Writer

"Is this the ending?"

The witch Shion looked at the messy manuscript in front of her, feeling lost.

She closed the book, and seemed to be swept into an inexplicable emotion.

Perhaps it was the loneliness and helplessness of her youth, or the unspeakable uneasiness.

She was a witch, a witch destined to die.

Sealing monsters was her only duty.

It was also her destiny.

She thought she would die in the process of sealing monsters like her mother.

Reluctant?

Hate?

More or less, some.

But here, she could not express her true thoughts and emotions.

Because she was a witch.

A witch of the ghost country who could seal monsters.

A witch was sacred because she had the power to seal monsters.

A witch was holy because she would not have any intersection with mortals.

A witch was lonely.

The only person who could communicate with her was the previous witch who had died.

She knew her fate clearly, but she was still lost in the journey of life, like a lonely wanderer.

Wandering in the world.

Until she accidentally opened this book, a book that should not appear in the hands of a witch.

It is called "Listen to the Wind Sing".

This is a novel that is about the love between young men and women on the surface, but is actually full of loneliness and confusion.

Eighteen days.

There are a total of forty sections in the novel, and only eighteen days are important, and only these eighteen days are described.

During these eighteen days, "Rat" and I drank and talked, talked freely, met a girl without a little finger, recalled an unhappy childhood, thought of three different girlfriends, and radio and records

These fragmented, seemingly the most ordinary, even insignificant little things, constitute the entire summer.

In the end, it came to an abrupt end as he was about to return to Konoha.

Is it a pity?

No, it is an intriguing loneliness.

"Time flies, we are wandering in time, from the birth of the universe to the death. So we don't care about life or death, it's just the wind."

Yes, it's just the wind

Shion looked up, and in a trance, she seemed to feel a breeze on her face.

The story came to an abrupt end, and she returned to reality.

But it seemed as if she was still in the book.

Taste loneliness.

Lonely, but not lonely, see through, but still love.

Shion smiled.

She decided.

She was going to go out and see the wind.

"Miko, the person you are looking for has been found."

Zhuo walked steadily to the screen and knelt on one knee.

"Where is he?"

Shion was a little happy.

"The Land of Fire, the other side also said that if it is captured alive, the person can be sent over in a few days."

Shion's smile became more and more charming.

I didn't expect that I could find the person by just spending a few silver taels.

And she was originally thinking about whether to break the rules and personally invite the author to come over for a gathering, but she didn't expect that she could find the person by just spending a few silver taels.

The Fire Nation is indeed the richest of the five great nations, and this national treasure-level literary master has the confidence to spread the news.

"Ah! Ah!"

Luke sneezed several times in a row.

Which bastard is talking about me?

He put away the manuscript paper and swept his mental power over.

There were no suspicious people except the ninjas on night patrol.

Luke touched his chin.

Since his pen name was exposed by some bastard, the village would send some ninjas from time to time.

Of course, it's not for surveillance.

It's for protection.

This world has developed quite differently in terms of technology, culture, and economy.

You can say it's missing arms and legs, or you can say it has entered modern society.

There are obviously electrical appliances such as televisions, air conditioners, refrigerators, and even vending machines. Konoha also has a movie theater that showed intimate paradise.

Ninjas also wear radios and headphones when fighting.

The overall living standard feels like the 70s and 80s.

But the development of gunpowder weapons and internal combustion engines is extremely slow.

The electric age has arrived, but you tell me that they may not even have an internal combustion engine?

But not necessarily.

The movie version of Snow Country shows that they have trains, but they are not yet popular.

But what a small country has, none of the five major countries have.

It was not until Boruto that some key rail transportation was established.

This is not the most difficult thing.

What is really difficult is the speed of technological development.

Boruto is only a dozen years later, but all the technology has emerged at once.

This speed of development makes Snake cry.

I remember it was not like this before.

The weird technology tree, coupled with the amazing ninjas, has produced an even more bizarre island culture.

Maybe it is because of the continuous ninja wars, the cultural soil of the five major countries is so scarce that there is no literary literacy.

Most of the books circulating on the market are various third-rate soft and erotic novels, as well as various ghost story magazines.

For example, the erotic novel "Intimate Paradise" cannot even make the old driver untie his belt in the real world.

In the world of Naruto, it is a best-selling book.

Moreover, the audience is not just the lower-class people.

Among the businessmen, there are also many people who have a special liking for this book.

You can't say that their taste is bad, it's just that they really haven't eaten good food.

At least the nobles can still rely on the literary classics passed down in the family to cultivate and cultivate their sentiments.

But the literary accomplishments learned are also extremely limited.

After all, most of these classics are flashy and unrealistic.

The technology that lacks arms and legs has provided the necessary technologies in printing, papermaking and other aspects.

However, due to the lack of a literary environment to cultivate authors, most ordinary people are literate but have not read any good books.

As for ninjas with extraordinary abilities.

Their situation is even worse.

Ninjas whose average life span is less than forty don't have time to read two books. It would be good if they can understand the textbooks of the ninja school.

Especially during war times, many ninjas were sent to the battlefield before they even graduated from ninja school.

Using half-baked basic ninjutsu, he ended his life at the speed of light like a consumable.

In the end, the only contribution was to further lower the average lifespan of ninjas.

What a miserable bunch!

No wonder Kakashi kept making out with Heaven all day long.

For ninjas who have come down from the battlefield, perhaps only these pornographic and violent readings can stimulate their frozen hearts.

Let the ninjas still realize that they are alive in peacetime.

However, after Luke came.

But that’s not the case anymore.

In the eyes of the rulers, ninjas are tools.

Although this is an unpleasant thing to say, many powerful ninjas also try to whitewash themselves with the so-called "Ninja Way".

But in fact, they still haven't deviated from this concept.

Ninja = tool.

Even the vast majority of ninjas believe this view is right from the bottom of their hearts.

However, they agree.

Although the brain agrees, the body does not!

Not to mention a man made of iron, even a man made of chakra metal cannot survive the "tool" life for more than ten years, day after day, year after year.

Every day when you open your eyes, you are performing tasks, finding people, killing people, and completing tasks.

Over time, normal people will become mentally ill.

Not to mention that most ninjas are far more sensitive and delicate than ordinary people.

Extraordinary power and never-ending tasks made the ninja's nerves very tense.

Many ninjas retreated from the front line, or were half-disabled, and spent their days not thinking about progress, living in a state of intoxication.

Or he is unable to adapt to normal life and finally chooses to return to the world of ninjas.

They are always out of tune with ordinary people.

This sense of difference from ordinary people, combined with the sensitive and stressful heart of ninjas, can easily lead some ninjas to go astray.

Originally, ninjas were aliens. If they took the wrong path, the consequences would be disastrous.

Obito who charges for "love", Payne who hopes for world peace, and the weasel who makes everyone happy.

Each one is a weirdo among weirdos.

Throw it into Gotham, and the clowns will clap and say "good boy", "good boy" when they see it!

However, for Luke, the more psychopaths there are in the Naruto world, the better.

Especially the kind of psychopath who thinks deeply about life and doubts the world!

It's best to lie to this kind of person.

A cliched Will of Fire, or a casual Big Mouth Escape Technique, can fool this group of people into confusion, and they don't know what their last name is.

The batches of literary books now exported by Luke are basically discussions on spirit, life, and society.

Although after localization and reprinting, it is inevitable that some literary style has been lost.

But if it is just used to let these wild boars taste "fine chaff", it can be said to be more than enough.

Now, many people should have received his gifts.

Luke spread out the paper.

Although he can write it automatically using magic, he still prefers to do it himself.

If nothing else, handwritten manuscripts are more valuable.

At the same time, several masked ninjas hiding in the shadows remained silent.

They were a ninja team sent by the Sandaime Hokage to protect Luke.

This person is known by the Fire Nation as "the savior of the literary world", "the light of Konoha", "the great writer who attracts the attention of the world" and a series of unexplained titles.

Although they didn't quite understand why the Fire Country Daimyo was holding the book with tears in his eyes.

However, they know one thing.

Don’t let anyone interfere with the master’s creation!

This is an S-class mission assigned by their respected Sandaime Hokage.

"No abnormalities in area A."

"Same as above for Area B."

"C"

The subordinate's response came through the headset.

The ninja wearing the cat mask nodded slightly.

"Confirm that there are no abnormalities in all directions, and wait for the shift change."

After saying that, her figure disappeared instantly.

Lord Sandaime is still waiting for her report.

Ever since this great writer appeared in the village, the atmosphere up and down has become a lot weirder.

Especially the Sandaime Hokage.

One of his nicknames is "Doctor Ninjutsu".

Although erudition in ninjutsu has little to do with erudition in literature.

But it also shows that the Third Hokage is essentially a cultural person.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to fool an entire village with a set of clichés about the will of fire.

Cultural people always have a close affinity with cultural people.

The Sandaime Hokage often understands more perspectives and meanings from Luke's books.

If it had been normal, he would have classified these books as banned books and burned them all.

But now books have entered the eyes of great names and nobles from all over the world.

Their admiration for Luke was no longer something that could be stopped by a mere Hokage.

The Third Hokage not only could not stop Luke from publishing books, but also had to find ways to protect this living ancestor.

It was because the Daimyo of other countries were also eyeing him covetously.

They claimed that if the Daimyo of the Fire Country did not value Luke, a literary giant, they would be happy to give Luke a mansion so that he could come to a new country to write with peace of mind.

This poaching was even on the face of the Daimyo of the Fire Country!

The Daimyo of the Fire Country was so angry at that time that he didn't eat for a day.

The strength of the five major countries is not much different, and it is basically a state of balance where you can't destroy me and I can't destroy you.

And if they really want to fight, it will be the group of ninja villages below that will send troops.

These idle Daimyo came out to fight for a victory in face.

What they want is a spiritual pleasure.

In layman's terms, they are just full and have nothing to do.

They can only find something else to enrich their spiritual world.

Luke's literary works perfectly fill the spiritual world of the daimyo and the nobles.

The daimyo of the Land of Fire liked it more and more.

He liked it, so he naturally had to find a few old friends to show off.

After reading it, the old friends were also amazed.

There is such a great talent in this world.

They went back one by one and tried their best to find the person who wrote the book.

Of course, it was definitely not them who came to check.

After all, the daimyo only knew how to lie down and enjoy life, and this kind of dirty work should naturally be handled by the people below.

And the nobles below, like a chain infection, read one by one and were addicted to drugs.

They were crazy to find someone.

Finally, the task was handed over layer by layer and transferred to each ninja village.

As an intelligence agency and a semi-military agency, the ninja village naturally took on this kind of thing.

With their ability, they quickly stripped off one of Luke's vests.

Although part of the reason was that Luke had too many vests, which made people notice it for a while.

However, just a vest has already made the Fire Country Daimyo furious.

According to his idea:

I just found the "treasure", you didn't even keep an eye on it, and leaked all the information to me? !

Can such a Konoha really be a qualified intelligence agency and a force agency!

The Daimyo's questioning left the Third Hokage speechless.

Sarutobi Hiruzen never thought that he would be accused by the Daimyo in his life because he didn't take a good look at the information of an ordinary villager in his own village.

But it's too late to say anything now.

He can only quickly mobilize the team and send people to secretly protect Luke.

Although the information has been leaked.

But as long as the person is still there, isn't it okay?

It has to be said that in the Naruto world, the relationship between the big country and the ninja village is extremely abstract.

It is obvious that it is the ninja village that possesses extraordinary power, but it is the Daimyo of each country that occupies the dominant position.

Even the Kage of each village can actually be regarded as the subordinates of the Daimyo in essence.

Although this strange relationship has become more and more subtle, the Sandaime still doesn't want to make some decisions that go against the class.

At least such a decision cannot happen when he is in office.

However, only ordinary people can imagine such a one-country-one-village system.

If it were a Chinese, I'm afraid he would immediately shout "Kings, princes, generals, are there any species?" and burn the daimyo into a charcoal-roasted suckling pig with a fire escape.

Overall, the current daimyo system is beneficial to Luke.

There is one thing that exceeded Luke's expectations.

He originally wanted to use mono no aware literature to lure ninjas and force them to "correct their worldviews."

As a result, before the ninjas took the bait, the daimyo and nobles of various countries fell into the trap first.

Luke thought that he had never sent a book to the daimyo.

So, who sent this book?

Luke was very confused. (End of this chapter)