Chapter 82 — From Here On, Decency Is for Strangers

The starter mission Wang Xu assigned to Kakashi was not especially difficult; its main purpose was to make the man break through the barrier in his heart.

Kakashi Hatake had talent and aptitude in abundance—but the one thing he lacked was precisely the most important thing of all for becoming a true powerhouse...

Motivation!

Even Saitama, who needed only three years to become an absolute powerhouse, had a driving force of his own: to be a hero for fun.

Naruto wanted to become Hokage, Luffy wanted to be Pirate King, but Ichigo Kurosaki—protagonist of the third of the big three shōnen manga—had neither ideals nor drive, forever being dragged passively into one incident after another. That was why, despite every cheat and power-up piled on him, he still ended up doing the worst of the lot.

People like Ichigo Kurosaki and Kakashi Hatake, once they fell into Wang Xu's hands, were bound to be seriously taken in hand and trained.

Wang Xu would teach them to love the world, to embrace their dreams, and to strive for them.

But before that, they first had to get used to their new identity as "Reincarnators."

It didn't matter if they had no motivation—Wang Xu could grant Reincarnators motivation.

At a flicker of his thought, the current development progress of the Main God Space appeared before his eyes in visualized data.

[Resource Points: ]

[Reincarnators: 11/20]

[Reincarnation Space: None]

[Connected Worlds: None]

After the Chūnin Exams, because Team 7's overall score happened to land exactly at fifth place and just barely cleared Wang Huai'an's test, Tenten had also been fortunate enough to become a Reincarnator ahead of schedule; she was currently hard at work carrying out the starter missions automatically calculated by the auxiliary program.

"Looks like the aftershocks of the greatest Chūnin Exams in history haven't died down yet."

"Pressure from powerful enemies, the spread of inner power, the popularization of game helmets... all of these are sources of resource points."

Wang Xu discovered that in just this short while, the resource point stock had already broken past three hundred thousand.

The short-term goal was already sixty percent complete.

"Obito, on his side, should have started moving by now too..."

Wang Xu's gaze flickered, a smile playing at the corner of his lips.

The Chūnin Exams, the art exhibition—these were only a small part of the chain of schemes.

The missions of every Reincarnator were secretly linked to one another.

Every bit of groundwork would ultimately become the sickle in Wang Xu's hand for harvesting the ninja world.

...

To put on the art expo, Gaara had gone to enormous pains.

Manipulating his sand clones, he had paid a visit to practically every fellow Reincarnator he could find.

He had also read Hinata Hyūga's manga book from cover to cover.

It had been amusing enough while reading, but the thought of cosplaying the gender-bent version of himself inside it was truly more than he could stomach.

At this very moment, his sand clone was waiting for Naruto Uzumaki in the ground-floor reception hall of the Konoha Research Division.

Perhaps it was the three years of tempering in *Breaking the Heavens* that had made Gaara's mind quicker and more flexible.

He had a bold idea.

Perhaps Naruto Uzumaki alone could carry the entire art expo!

Multi Shadow Clone Transformation was not merely the equivalent of the Harem Technique.

During his bored waiting, Gaara casually pulled a novel from the "Great Tome Sage's Bookshelf."

Hinata had shown him the pleasure of reading for leisure—just the thing to while away the dull hours.

Like Young Master Sasuke, Gaara had rather poor reading habits. When reading a book, he liked to skip straight through; only when he hit something interesting would he start from the beginning and read it bit by bit.

He flipped straight to page thirty-six:

[Long Aotian, realizing he was no longer on Earth, suddenly burst into wild laughter.]

[Back on Earth, he had a harem of three thousand beauties and nothing left to pursue. But in this moment, Long Aotian once again possessed a dream—a dream he absolutely had to fulfill!]

["As a transmigrator, if I don't collect Nami, Robin, Enma Ai, Rose, Hiko, Ryōhō, Chixin, Leina, Kotonoha Nishisono, Katsura Kotonoha, Mia Campbell, Ino, Temari, Hinata, Sakura, Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, Ai Haibara, Chiaki Nanami, Tomoyo Daidōji, Index, Sora Takanashi, Hitagi Senjōgahara, Shana, Rin Tōsaka, Artoria, Haruhi Suzumiya, Reimu Hakurei, Marisa Kirisame, Yukari Yakumo, and Asuna—then am I even a man!"]

Reading this, Gaara could not help but snark: "Thirty names in one breath without even pausing to breathe?"

Shaking his head, Gaara turned two more pages.

[The instant he firmed up his conviction, a space-time wormhole formed around Long Aotian.]

[He was carried by some unknown power to another plane—a plane called the "Way of the Second Son."]

Gaara was dumbstruck, completely unable to make sense of what those three words "Way of the Second Son" could possibly mean strung together.

How on earth was the plot of this trashy book even unfolding?

He had just shoved *The Chronicle of Long Aotian* back onto the shelf and was about to look for another interesting book when he suddenly noticed a ninja wearing a Konoha forehead protector had already come up beside him.

A blue mask and forehead protector covered most of the face, leaving only a single eye exposed.

The Copy Ninja, Kakashi Hatake!

Kakashi's tone was strange, his expression like that of a man who had been constipated for days: "Excuse me, have you seen Naruto Uzumaki? Are you waiting for him?"

Hearing this, Gaara nearly blurted out a triple denial on the spot.

He drew a deep breath and said in a complicated tone: "No, and I don't know where he is either. Though he might be in Orochimaru's lab serving as an assistant."

"Oh."

The two fell silent, the conversation dead.

Kakashi's eyes went vacant as he stared at the mission panel before him, despair gradually creeping into his heart.

[Reincarnator 011, your starter mission is as follows.]

[Mission Objective: Make at least one hundred males fall for your charms (means unrestricted, including but not limited to: makeup, Transformation Technique).]

[Mission Reward: Reward points and Fate Gems calculated and issued in real time based on mission results.]

[Mission Penalty: None. (One-time starter mission immunity)]

Kakashi could simply ignore this mission, watch it fail before his eyes, and suffer no loss whatsoever.

But he was unwilling to do that.

Rin had been gone far too long.

Every minute and every second of being alive was a torment to Kakashi.

Especially once he learned that so long as he was willing to put in the effort to carry out missions, he would have a chance to truly bring her back—the guilt only grew fiercer.

Kakashi's Sharingan eye was constantly draining chakra, a constant reminder to him.

For the sake of a comrade's life, things like decency could just be thrown away.

He believed that even his father, the White Fang of the Leaf, faced with such a situation, would make a choice similar to his.

Kakashi had come here today precisely to seek Naruto's guidance.

To become a young woman brimming with charm was no simple matter—the Transformation Technique alone would not be enough.

Form, movement, aura...

Every part of it required specialized study.

Naruto, wrapped head to toe in bandages and looking thoroughly woebegone, stepped out of the elevator and happened to spot the two who had been waiting so long: "You two looking for me?"

"You first, I'm in no hurry," Gaara said, all courtesy.

Beneath his mask, the corner of Kakashi's mouth twitched: "No, you go first."

As the two argued back and forth, a mechanical chime sounded simultaneously in the minds of all three Reincarnators present.