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  "Akiko, are you alright?"

  After leaving the Hokage Tower, Kai asked Akiko with .

  Akiko shook her head at Kai, then looked at Minato.

  "Thank you, Minato. If it weren't for you, I would have been captured." Akiko looked at Minato gratefully, her cheeks flushed.

  "Don't mention it. We're teammates." Minato smiled back.

  Kai scowled. He had helped rescue Akiko too. Why was she only thanking Minato?

  Shin, Kushina, and Mikoto walked behind them. Shin couldn't help but chuckle.

  Kai, hearing Shin's chuckle, turned around angrily.

  "What are you looking at? Want to fight?" Kushina threatened, raising her fist.

  Her threat wasn't very ving, but Kai was intimidated heless.

  Kushina had taught him a lesson before; he didn't want a repeat, especially not in front of the girl he liked.

  Shin and his team parted ways with Minato's team. Shin sehe two Anbu agents following Minato and the others.

  Good. No one was following him. He didn't want to be monitored.

  Back at the Senju pound, Shin and the girls returo Tsunade's courtyard, while Nawaki went to his own residence.

  "It's te. Let's take a bath a some rest," Shin said.

  He went to his room, while Kushina and Mikoto went to theirs.

  Shin y oami mat, but he couldn't sleep.

  'I'll chat with the System and ask some questions.'

  He called out to the System in his mind.

  "System, are you there?"

  "Always at your service, Master."

  "System, how are missions assigned?" Shin asked.

  When he infiltrated Kirigakure and stole the Forbidden Scroll, he had expected the System to issue a mission, but nothing happened.

  "System missions are random. The difficulty and rewards are also random."

  Shin was disappointed. He preferred patterns to randomness.

  "System, Replication Cards copy anything?"

  "Only Divine Replication Cards copy anything. on and Advanced cards have limitations."

  " you copy a person?"

  "Yes. The required card level depends on the person's strength. Kage-level or above requires a Divine Replication Card. With a Divine card, even a world be copied. All things be copied."

  Shin was surprised. The differeween Advanced and Divine cards was vast.

  "What level of card would I o yself?" Shin asked curiously.

  "Due to your perfect Sage Body, you would require a Divine Replication Card."

  Shin nodded. He was just curious; he wouldn't actually copy himself. Everyone wao be unique.

  "System, I think there should be more card levels."

  He felt the gap between Advanced and Divine cards was te.

  "You anticipate a System upgrade, Master. After the upgrade, there might be new card levels between Advanced and Divine."

  "So the System be upgraded? When will that happen?"

  "I do not know, Master."

  Shin sighed. The System owerful, but it cked Replication Cards.

  He currently had two cards left: one on and one Advanced.

  He couldn't use the Advanced card carelessly. He po use the on card to copy either ocur power or physical abilities.

  As he chatted with the System, he drifted off to sleep.

  The m, after refining Chakra for a while, he heard a kno his door.

  "Shin, why are you so zy today?"

  Kushiered, and Shin stopped his Chakra refining.

  Unlike martial arts training, Chakra refining couldn't be disrupted.

  "Kushina, why did you barge in like that? What if I wasn't dressed?" Shin said, exasperated.

  "So what? I've seen it all before." Kushina blushed slightly, then shrugged.

  She had indeed seehing when they were younger. But that was then. Now, even though they weren't that old, they were practically adults by Shinobi standards.

  "I haven't been to your room in a while."

  Kushina pounced on Shin, tag him to the tatami mat.

  Knoock

  "What are you two doing?"

  Mikoto stood at the door, knog gently.

  Kushina jumped up, flustered, as if she had been caught doing something wrong.

  Then she realized she hadn't done anything wrong.

  "If you don't e out for breakfast soon, it'll get cold," Mikoto said calmly.

  Shin didn't sense anything unusual ione, but Kushi a hint of danger.

  They went out for breakfast. Afterwards, Shio the small training ground in the courtyard.

  He tio experiment with Ice Release. It had so much potential, as did every element, as long as the user could realize it.

  Developing Jutsu wasn't easy. Only geniuses could do it, and the process was tedious.

  But Shin could hahe tedium. Taijutsu training was even more monotonous and tiring, yet he had persevered for years.

  Kushina and Mikoto were also training diligently. They wao be able to help Shin.

  During the Kirigakure i, they had been helpless, forced to wait anxiously for Shin's return. They would rather face danger with him than worry about him.

  They were currently sparring.

  "Mikoto, you're attag so fiercely!" Kushina dodged a sudden Fireball Jutsu and pouted.

  "You're not holding back either. I won't go easy on you."

  "I'm always serious in a fight."

  Mikoto smiled. She recalled the se she had withat m, of Kushina poung on Shin, atacks intensified.

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