At the end of December, winter comes.

Snowflakes were falling in the sky in Konoha, and ice formed on the water of the river.

After completing the last task of the year, Liuli stayed at home.

If nothing special happens, this situation will probably last until mid-January of the following year before I will consider taking on the task.

Opening the door, you can see that there is also a thick layer of snow on the ground in the courtyard outside.

Shiraishi sat opposite Liuli, with a table placed between them.

After Shadow Dancer put the tea and cakes on the table, she stepped aside without saying a word, secretly staring at the two of them from time to time with curious eyes.

For her who is less than half a year old, sometimes she really feels that the relationship between human beings is too complicated.

Take her family as an example. When she observed other people, she found that they were just a father and a mother.

There is indeed only one father, but there are two mothers.

Moreover, her brother, General Tu, had a very strange body. She often used the shadow blade to take off its head and observe it, trying to find out why it was always alive and kicking.

But after observing for a long time, I couldn't find any mechanism inside.

There is no difference between the outside and the inside of its body. They are all made of soft soil. Other than that, there doesn't seem to be any special substance.

Not only is the body shape different from normal humans, but even the words coming out of his mouth are gibbering, making it impossible for people to understand the meaning and even normal communication is impossible.

These things are indeed difficult for her, who is less than half a year old, to understand.

"I heard something about Kakashi in the village recently. He seems to have had conflicts with many teams."

Liuli picked up the teacup and took a sip of hot tea.

"Isn't this a matter of course? Ignoring the safety of his companions and only focusing on the task to be completed will definitely make his companions in the team dissatisfied and exclude him."

Shiraishi shrugged his shoulders and said.

"Sometimes, I really can't understand what the people at the top are thinking. They themselves are also to blame for Kakashi becoming like this."

Liuli snorted coldly.

In her opinion, Kakashi's idea was indeed a bit extreme.

But what pushed Kakashi to this point, if you think about it carefully, wasn't it the inaction of those high-level officials that caused it?

"In order to maintain the balance of forces in the village, our Hokage-sama cannot take the initiative to assume these responsibilities. Therefore, the existence of Roots becomes meaningful."

Shiraishi looked at the snowflakes flying in the air in the yard and falling towards the ground. While admiring the beautiful snow scene, he said this with a smile.

In order to better manage Konoha, as the Hokage, he must maintain his glorious and righteous side at many times and become a model and role model in the eyes of all Konoha ninjas and villagers.

However, it is impossible for such a huge tree to be completely free of filth. Where there is light, darkness will inevitably breed.

Therefore, with a glorious and righteous Hokage, someone must bear the opposite of light - darkness, so that the interests and order of the village can be better maintained.

As a result, the root organization, which was responsible for all the darkness and sins of Konoha, was successfully born at the right time with the unanimous promotion of the senior officials.

As soon as this organization was born, it enjoyed the worst reputation and did the dirtiest work. Its leader, Danzo Shimura, was a ninja known as the "Dark Shinobi".

It's because he has a cruel and ruthless behavior and will do whatever it takes to achieve his goals.

Such an extremely dangerous person has a group of ninjas with the same extreme ideas under his command. He has handled countless dirty deeds secretly over the years. The name "Ninja of Darkness" is worthy of its name.

To be honest, for this reason alone, Shiraishi still admires the political vision of the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen.

From a strategic point of view, there is no major fault with this arrangement.

But the problem is that the series of measures taken by the Third Hokage can be regarded as a typical failure——

Too much indulgence in the growth of the roots, insufficient restraint of the roots when necessary, and lack of strong tactics to control this huge darkness are all problems.

The senior officials at the root who made major mistakes were unable to immediately impose any practical punishment, and at the same time they were unable to appease the subordinates who had been harmed by their interests. This directly led to a serious lack of distinction between their personal affairs and the official affairs of the village, and the loss of credibility.

Therefore, the balance can be maintained based on the premise of indulging the roots. This strategy will not only bring no benefits to Konoha, but in many cases will continue to consume the vitality inside Konoha, causing Konoha's future to fall into a state of reverse growth.

Embarrassing situation.

Once a war breaks out in the ninja world, Konoha will probably have a very difficult time and may even be in danger of being destroyed.

As for whether a great hero will appear in Konoha to turn the tide, Shiraishi cannot predict.

Things like this in the future are really unpredictable.

Shiraishi himself is obviously not very interested in this kind of thing.

At that time, he had already left Konoha. Whether Konoha will be destroyed or ushered in a new life, we can just wait and see.

"By the way, you can take this thing. I have already made it. It really took a lot of time."

Shiraishi remembered something at this moment, took out two black metal rings from his pocket, and placed them in front of Liuli.

"This is?"

"It's similar to the chakra limiter you used to train the genin in your team. But the difference is that this is a specially enhanced chakra limiter that only jounin can adapt to."

Shiraishi reminded this sentence emphatically.

Even if a genin and chuunin wear a chakra limiter of this level, their lives will not be in danger, but they can't expect to successfully perform ninjutsu, taijutsu, and genjutsu.

These three types of fighting methods must rely on the circulation of chakra in the body to achieve release.

Especially for taijutsu, the faster the chakra flows in the body, the stronger the power of the taijutsu. On the contrary, the slower the chakra flows, it will be difficult for the taijutsu to exert its due capabilities.

Liuli put one of the black metal rings on her left hand.

On the surface, there were no changes in his body, but only Liuli knew that although the chakra flow speed in his body was not at a standstill, it was still not much faster than the crawling speed of a turtle.

Based on this terrible state where the chakra flow speed is severely restricted, it is by no means an easy task to train the chakra flow speed in the body to be the same as normal.

Afterwards, Liuli looked at the second metal ring, wondering what would happen if she wore the second one.

One of them has already made the chakra flow in her body so slow. After wearing the second one, it may really make the chakra in her body fall into a 'static' state.

Shiraishi seemed to see through Liuli's thoughts, took a sip of tea, and said slowly: "It's better to stick to the step by step. Even for you, wearing a chakra limiter now is the limit. After you are familiar with the first one, you can wear it again.

It’s not too late to train for the second chakra limiter. You have to rest in the village anyway. With your ability, it shouldn’t be difficult to completely overcome the first chakra limiter within a month.”

"A month? Does it take that long?"

Liuli doesn't quite agree with the time period of a month.

She expected to complete this training in about half a month.

"This is a conservative estimate, because the more powerful a ninja's chakra is, the more chakra he needs to control, and the more difficult it is to overcome the limiter."

Shiraishi explained a little bit.

"Then I'll go try it out now. How about it? Do you want to come together?"

Liuli stood up from her seat and sent an invitation to Shiraishi to go to the training ground to test how much strength she could retain in the restricted state at the moment.

"I'll forget it, I still have work to do later."

Shiraishi shook his head and refused.

"You are really getting lazy. If this continues, I'm really worried that your strength will deteriorate. Last time, your physical skills were already a lot rusty."

Liuli frowned, a little dissatisfied with Baishi's current lazy attitude towards training.

"It doesn't matter. Don't worry. Shadow Dancer can protect me."

Shiraishi said with a smile.

Although he is proficient in the changes in chakra properties of many attributes, it is all for his own research.

Specializing in practicing various escape techniques and becoming proficient in them will distract one's energy, which is a bit outweighing the gains.

Because whether they are the local generals or the shadow dancers, they are all "parts" of themselves. Strictly speaking, they are also manifestations of their own strength.

Shiraishi believes that this is his own unique way to become stronger.

Since your own strength is insufficient, just create a 'clone' that can adapt to any environment and fight the enemy.

As long as this power is in your own hands, that's all.

Seeing that Shiraishi was still unmoved, Liuli snorted lightly and went to the training ground alone.

Watching Liuli leave, Shiraishi just continued to drink the hot tea in his hand and admire the snowy scenery outside.

"Okay, let's get back to work."

After Bai Shi finished speaking, he slowly stood up.

The moment his body stood up, the shadow dancer turned into a black shadow and moved like lightning on the floor, actively blending into the shadow of the white stone and disappearing.

As Shiraishi's only personal bodyguard at the moment, Shadow Dancer follows Shiraishi inseparably most of the time, protecting the life of Shiraishi, the creator.

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Konoha 42nd year, February.

At this time, the Ninja School will be on vacation for about ten days, so there is no need to go to school.

In late last month, not long after the New Year Festival, Liuli had resumed his functions as a jounin and went to the Hokage Building to accept the mission.
To be continued...