Mask

I reached the village which falls on the route, transformed into an ordinary passerby, and booked a room in the inn for the night. It's not like I would camp in the wilderness when there is a village in my route. As for why transform, Hello I am still 6-year old.

I roamed in the village to better observe another place other than Konoha. If you are not in a ninja village most of the life a person would not even find anything different other than the normal world.

Of course, it is if the villagers never meet ninja. Because the weak have no choice even if they are sacrificed or killed by a ninja during a war or mission.

As I was roaming I was attracted by a mask in the shop. It was perfect for me to hide my identity during missions and not affect my fighting strength. Yes, the mask was to hide identity it was not because it will look cool, certainly.

I bought the mask and of course also temporary dye of black color. It is not reasonable to hide my identity if I show rare white hair.

I bought food from the store. I never cared about the taste of food. I always made my food and rarely ate from outside, but maybe it was due to memories of the earth I was affected or in better words corrupted by their culture.

Now I want to try different dishes, like to use different phrases which were popular there, want to troll people. It spices up my life a little more.

But I know that all these things come later and strength comes first. Maybe it is a curse or blessing but I never let go of a thing that piques my interest.

In the anime Orochimaru was obsessed with immortality and studying all jutsu, so he did everything to make his ambition a reality.

And system intrigued me and I wanted to see that what talents it can provide and how much stronger can I become with it. Thankfully there is no gacha in my system, if I had it maybe all the points would go to it to see what new things I would get.

I continued my journey the next day, of course, how can I not practice while traveling. I even calculate automatically or meditates in my free time to use all the time for practice.

I was different from usual as I have black hair and a black mask adorned beautifully on my face.

I finally reached the main camp of the bandits. It was well chosen, easier to defend if opponent strength does not surpass much.

Still, I didn't attack the base.

First I need to see if the information provided is correct, truth sight gives me an advantage in this.

I would not do the mission if things are not under my control.

I am a ninja, not a hero who will fight with the enemy who I am not confident to beat just to eradicate evil.

In a sense ninja is never a hero.

Furthermore, it will not count as a mission failure, as the information I was provided was incorrect.

Third, if I take scenarios according to earth novels, a person with a system is mostly the protagonist, and there is always a strong opponent he would face, mostly in their first missions.

Well, this reason was just to make myself feel like the protagonist and was pure bullshit.

Observing that all the bandits were present in the base is present and not seeing any abnormality I took out kunai and made a ram seal.

< Body flicker jutsu >

*FWOOSH!*

*SPLITCH*

*SPLITCH*

*SPLITCH*

I instantly killed them with a swipe of kunai against their neck. Maybe if it was a head-on fight it might have taken a little longer.

So much preparation for the simple kill, but ninja should remain cautious to avoid trouble.

When I killed all the people I did not feel discomfort. Maybe due to my psychology or calm mind talent, I did not have any emotional fluctuation while killing.

Maybe some people would be disturbed by the fact if they can be calm in such a situation, but I was satisfied that I have enough resolved to move on the path I decided.

I disposed of their bodies while taking heads as proof and checked the situation in the camp. Nothing much was there other than little robbed money which was not much compared to what I can earn by doing some D rank mission. There was nothing much there to see so I left the base.

After that, I checked the system message while I was going back to the village.

[Ding! congratulations for killing for the first time]

[Rewarding 5 talent jade]

[200 talent points for killing bandits]

I saved my talent jade as my chakra controller will soon reach a max level after I have accumulated enough from missions and I could use it for star chakra and new talent from maxing out the chakra controller.

I reached my destination before the sunset. I was again going to book a room in the same village at night. But when I reached the village I was greeted by an eerie silence, enough to even clearly hear the voice of my steps.

TAP!TAP! TAP!

I saw bloodstains and corpses of civilians covered with blood.

The culprits of the situation were easily found as they were not far from the village gates. A group of 5 people was standing in front of corpses which were piled at the center of a symbol like an upside-down triangle with a circle around it.

They had their both their hand clasped together and kept eyes close like they were praying to god.