Chapter 55:
Asakawa Naoki didn't expect that he seemed to have a talent for talking.
Looking at the two people who were seriously studying ninjutsu, Asakawa Naoki ate two more soldiers' grain pills and began practicing the basic Qi training.
Asakawa Naoki was so good at eating that Rope Tree and Masamura Oki were not surprised, and they devoted themselves to practicing the Wind Style Breakthrough.
Not only Asakawa Naoki's team, but also members of the other two teams present realized the gap in strength after the battle before dawn.
Obviously, everyone had just graduated from the Ninja School, and even Asakawa Naoki and the other three graduated early and were younger than the rest.
At this moment, Jiraiya happened to be there, and they could practice with all their strength. Whether refining chakra or learning ninjutsu scrolls given by the teacher, they were all studying hard.
On top of the carriage in the middle, Uzumaki Kushina opened a red scroll in her hand.
"It's time to learn the sealing technique."
When Kushina was in Ninja School, Uzumaki Mito, Kushina's great-grandmother, didn't let her learn ninjutsu before graduation to lay a solid foundation first.
Now that she graduated early, although Kushina had a very solid foundation in physical skills, throwing skills, and three-body skills, and even her chakra volume was far higher than her peers, ninjutsu remained her biggest shortcoming.
In the battle at dawn, when she saw Uchiha Mikoto using the Great Fireball Technique to help Asakawa Naoki suppress the wandering ninja, she couldn't help but feel a little envious.
"As long as I learn these sealing techniques, I can also help Naoki!" Kushina Uzumaki said firmly in her heart.
And Jiraiya, sitting in front, looked at these children practicing hard and felt a little emotional. These children were the hope of Konoha's future.
Along the way with Jiraiya, this escort mission finally restored the difficulty of the C-level mission.
Asakawa Naoki and his companions didn't experience many setbacks and successfully arrived at the frontline of the Land of Fire, bordering the Land of Rain.
Compared with Konoha, conditions at the frontline were as simple as possible, with almost no buildings, mostly large temporary tents.
Fortunately, the frontline still had all ninja necessities: mission clubs for handing over missions, ninja tool shops, and many restaurants and entertainment shops.
Understandably, although ninjas were not nobles, the remuneration for missions was quite high, and their spending power strong.
In an environment where people died almost daily, the pressure on ninjas was very high. Even ordinary entertainment shops made money from these stressed ninjas.
The frontline managers naturally turned a blind eye to entertainment shops that relieved ninja stress.
However, if the war escalated and the frontline collapsed, those businessmen could only leave to fate.
After submitting the escort mission and the body of the Konoha rebel Moriki Kenichi, two more B-level missions were added to everyone's records, and Jiraiya gave 400,000 ryo bounty to Asakawa Naoki and others.
"Ordinary ninjas who take apprentices on missions usually take nearly half the bounty," Jiraiya said with a smile:
"But I hardly contributed to this mission, so I'll give all the bounty to you!"
"I'll go find Orochimaru and Tsunade first. You're free today, remember to set up your tents at night."
"Thank you, teacher!" everyone said happily.
The 400,000 ryo given for two B-level missions may not be much to big family ninjas like Naoki, Uzumaki Kushina, and Uchiha Mikoto, but to the other civilian ninjas, it was a huge sum.
In fact, even to Uchiha Mikoto and Uzumaki Kushina, this money was unusual.
This was the first pot of gold they earned by their own ability!
"How should it be divided?" Naoki asked.
It definitely couldn't be divided equally. If everyone eats from the same pot, who will work hard to improve their strength?
Even in a three-person team, task bounty is basically distributed according to effort and injury.
Moreover, if distributed equally, even if Asakawa Naoki and Uchiha Mikoto who contributed most had no objection, the others might feel unworthy.
"Distribute according to work," Namikaze Minato suggested.
"Agree," everyone said in unison.
"First, in the two tasks, the two who contributed the most are Asakawa Naoki and Uchiha Mikoto. Each will receive 100,000 ryo, and the other seven will each receive 28,500 ryo. How about that?" Namikaze Minato said.
"Okay!"
"No objection!"
"..."
Everyone was naturally happy with this distribution method. All agreed. The Konoha rebel was almost killed by Asakawa Naoki and Uchiha Mikoto together. Those ronin who used villagers as shields were also killed by the two with shuriken.
It could be said that the two contributed the most in the two missions. If counted carefully, 100,000 ryo was even less.
As for the others, Namikaze Minato and Uzumaki Kushina's shuriken shots were more accurate and contributed more, but there was no need to divide it so finely. The bounty of nearly 30,000 ryo was enough to excite these young ninjas who just graduated for a long time.
"Rope Tree, this is the money for the Bingliang Pill." Asakawa Naoki took out 10,000 ryo from the 100,000 ryo and gave it to Rope Tree.
After arriving at the frontline, Asakawa Naoki went to the Bingliang Pill specialty store to inquire about prices.
Depending on appearance and taste, Bingliang Pill prices varied. Ordinary Bingliang Pills were about dozens of ryo each.
The soldier pills that Tsunade prepared for Naoki were naturally the best in appearance and taste, and cost nearly 100 ryoper pill.
The pack of soldier pills Naoki gave him contained more than 100 pills, about 10,000 ryo.
"Asakawa, I already said you don't have to be polite." Rope Tree said helplessly:
"I wasn't going to eat that stuff anyway."
"You'd better keep it," Naoki said with a smile, then looked at the others, "Do you still have time to visit the shops on the frontline?"
"Well, let's go together." Uzumaki Kushina looked at Naoki with some anticipation.
As they just arrived, others naturally wouldn't miss the chance to get familiar with the frontline, and they all agreed.
The group wandered around and found that although the place was simple, it was small but complete.
Maybe because people could really make money here, facilities were simple but they had all the entertainment Konoha had.
The pressure on ninjas on the frontline was a bit too much, so most entertainment involved gambling — games people of Naoki's age couldn't touch.
However, they did find an acquaintance here.
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