Prologue

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The sound of heavy breathing was heard in a dark room. Kan Korimachi was lying on his back on the floor, desperately gasping for the air

"It failed... again", He muttered while gasping for air

Although Kan Korimachi has failed many times, and he is a little bit disappointed in his heart, he still writes down some of his own thoughts in his notebook with great energy.

He has no one to ask anything. So he could only use the trial and error strategy on his own.

Living in this world, being weak is a sin!

If it weren't for the fact that he is a coward, he might have died thousands of times in these wars.

The first time he was very shameful to run. His Uchiha sensei berated him for his cowardliness and made him drop the Genin program.

Kan was not rich. He had no choice but to join the shinobi corps, the army of cannon fodders. At least the salary was good enough.

That was 10 years ago when he was mere 8 years old. He is now 18, surviving in the army made of cannon fodders for an entire decade without any support.

During these 10 years, he saw and did nearly everything. Sometimes, he abandons his comrades to survive. Sometimes, he kills his comrades by himself to increase his survival chances.

Kan Korimachi is a coward but he is the only one in his generation of shinobi corps that survived for full 10 years and 2 wars, despite always going to such missions.

"Where is the problem?" Kan silently touched his chin, "The stimulation depth is not enough? Or is my illusion not working? Or is it because I know all this and subconsciously conclude that the illusion is fake?"

Kan was really depressed. The war is reaching its peak, everyone is going mad, except for the villages that have declared surrender, the remaining villages have also begun to launch their final assaults on each other.

This time can be said to be the most dangerous. Although Kan survived the last war, He never really stand out. Now, it's different, A mere cannon fodder survived in most dangerous missions for an entire decade. It's bound to attract attention.

One has to know that the really talented ones are not sent on these kinds of missions because they could not die uselessly.

They are only sent on the front line when the enemies are exposed and then using their great skills they do a devastating attack on enemies.

While people like Kan have to attack the outline of the enemy and die in the process so that big ones could deal greater damage.

It's a great strategy, Killing thousands of our own to kill ten thousand enemies.

Not to mention, the thousands that we sacrifice are of no significance either. It won't matter if they die.

In this kind of environment, A eight-year-old boy survived for full 10 years. How could it not attract any attention?

"My genjutsu abilities reached a threshold?" Kan thought silently while closing his diary, "Or, have I grown accustomed to my level of genjutsu"

Kan really couldn't figure out these things

"whatever, I will figure it out later. Let's just practice Kenjtusu"

After finishing, Kan sealed the diary in the scroll.

...

Early in the next morning, Kan did some simple training and walked towards the meeting place.

In the age of war, any shinobi is a tool for battle, and even large families like Uchiha and Hyuga must fight to protect the village.

Of course, there are policies on these kinds of things. For example, the members Hyuga clan sent out to fight, are basically the members of the branch family.

The people of the Uchiha clan are not stupid either. They will not send important or talented people out to fight these kinds of battles.

But today, it's different. The war is at its peak. The Senju clan is nearly extinct. Konoha could not play passive with clan leaders anymore.

Everyone except the clan heir is disposable now, Even geniuses.

That was the reason Kan cursed at his luck. For, in front of him stands his new partner. His Last partner was killed by Iwa on the front line.

Uchiha Mikoto, Bingo Codename: The Charcoal... and the freaking princess of Uchiha clan.

Kan cursed and cursed, one has to know that if Mikoto is injured when she is with him. He will have to run from the village or take the burn for her damage. Even then, they will put a bounty on his head.

Not to mention, Uchihas are famous for not being able to work in a team, due to their inherited pride.

From what he knows of her, she is very smart, extremely proud, and very capable, She is also a scheming woman.

Taking a deep breath, Kan calmed down.

"Why are you so late?", When Kan walked to the meeting place, he found that his partner was already there.

Uchiha Mikoto frowned and looked at him, "We are about to go on a mission"

"Mission? I am a shinobi corps member, How come I am doing a mission with Uchiha princess"

"The Battle of Kikyo Mountain took a huge toll, killing ten thousand enemies by sacrificing three thousand, Konoha's strength is severely depleted, and Iwa clearly wanted to take advantage of the fire at this time"

"Still does not explain why you are my partner?"

She glared at him for some time. Before it became clear to him.

Uchihas are not on good terms with the higher-ups. Not to mention, He survived for a long time in really harsh conditions. He is more than capable to become her partner.

"Alright, What is our mission then?" Kan nodded, "Also, are you the lead?"

"It's you", Mikoto seemed to be angry, but she said seriously, "Our task is to cover the Minato's squad and let them complete the task"

Mikoto's words made Kan frowned heavily. This mission is to use them as bait. In his experience, 80% of the bait are suicide missions.

'How come, someone of her status is doing this kind of mission'

"It might be a vague mission but you know why we are sent as decoy right"

She nodded, "This means that the two of us are simply going to die to attract firepower"

"..."

'She has no problem... why?'

Kan cursed again. He didn't think he was capable of rejecting this mission. He does not have a status big enough to reject the mission. Being a deserter during a war is no better than losing his life on the battlefield, or worse.

"How deep are we going? And is Minato's mission confidential?", Kan asked after some thinking

"I don't know anything about their mission either", She replied quickly, "As for the depth, it's unclear as well, what we have to do is to attract the enemy and then take them away from Minato's team"

What a troublesome task!

With so much experience under his belt, Kan still felt that if he is not careful enough, there would be no next day.

"Then, let's go", Both of them dashed out of the gate. He couldn't delay it anymore. they don't have enough time, they had to speed up their process.