A thick layer of snow has accumulated on the ground, and animals that have spent the winter are hiding 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.
While busy adults are busy with their own lives, business in winter seems to be a little busier than usual.
The police ninjas in the village are on daily patrol, while some are idle.
Compared with the endless tasks that seem to be completed on weekdays, winter is the off-season.
At the end of the year, it is rare to have time to relax and 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 must 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 during my escort mission?
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.
Therefore, we often encounter seemingly incredible tasks.
From sweeping the streets to clearing sewers, from delivering food to having a chat, 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 working 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, fighting, fighting, and raising children, I can be said to be good at everything, very comprehensive and excellent.
He has no particularly outstanding advantages, nor does he have any particular weakness that stretches his hips. 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 class in Konoha.
Compared to the mainstay Jōnin class, what they lack is just one particularly outstanding ability.
But not weak.
Even jounin, if two of them meet a class of four elite chunin, their heads will be buzzing and they will be ready to die at any time.
Although jounin and ninja are different.
Many of them are veterans who retired from the First World War.
Many people who have the strength of a jounin have not been promoted to jounin.
The position of jounin cannot be explained clearly 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, jounin has always been chosen 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 have died this year." A ninja blew out the 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 Country of Whirlpool?"
Having said that, there is no proof.
There has never been a response from Kirigakure. What else can Konoha do? Can they fight?
"The next mission is to go to the Kingdom of Water, and show some color 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 looked very sober.
But what he said was just 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 escort 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, for this kind of escort mission, if Konoha's side received the escort mission, the other side's mission was mostly to assassinate Konoha's employer, and never got 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 hard on 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 reputation 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.
You are not worried about your reputation collapsing due to mission failure and leaving you with no missions to complete.
Besides, this kind of mission is not impossible to complete. There are many cases of successful assassination without too much entanglement 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 suddenly be kind enough to help his employer do unnecessary things, such as defeating the local bullies and dark forces.
The Five Great Nations Ninja Village is not a shrine.
It is a mercenary organization that works for money.
Normally throughout the year, the five major countries would fight fiercely due to missions abroad, 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 down.
The domestic nobles turned a blind eye to the actions of the five major powers.
Those who hit 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 Kingdom of Ghosts, where the five major kingdoms all have to betray their leader, the miko.
"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 we support them?" another ninja asked.