the return

the group of 5 had finally met with the mysterious helper of serara and discovered that he was a friend to shiroe and naotsugu, given that it was close to nightfall they decided to sleep in the city, but the other major reason was that ren and yuuji were supposed to meet the kage of this city,

this leads us to the present situation,

in the secret headquarters of the shinobi under the city center, we can see three men sitting around a table,

"it has been some time since i last saw you ren," said Goku to which ren smiled slightly,

"yeah, i was busy with real life, it is not easy to run a multi-national company at the age of 22 while also playing games, i had to choose one between the two so i made my choice," he said to which Goku laughed, the three people were actually friends in real life, ren and yuuji grew up together while Goku had met them in high school, and the funny thing that no one knew was that ren and yuuji used their real names for their avatars, just like Asuna, so they did feel a little bit guilty at making fun of her but they definitely did not regret it, after all, the lively girl's reactions were too good to pass up,

"so, how is the situation," ren asked seriously to which Goku replied,

"After we removed that guild from the equation, we were able to stabilize the city, i am also making preparations so that something like this does not happen again, also i got information from the world council that the prison scrolls are ready, in a few hours time they will put it in the system shared inventory so that everyone could have it, this will definitely help us deal with those rouge shinobi we caught earlier, as for the adventurers, i don't know what to do with them" he said to which ren nodded, he then said,

the naruto VR game was unique in many ways, in the game, every player had an inventory with a lot of storage capacity, but the game also had another feature called the system shared inventory,

once an object is placed in the said inventory, any number of players could retrieve said object indefinitely, however, there was also a restriction such that reward items and unique items could not be stored in this inventory,

"i also got information from the big apple server in new york that a way to prepare real food with flavor had been discovered but the guild which discovered it is charging ridiculous prices for it, our kage in the area reports that a civil war is imminent if things continue like that," he said, yuuji then said,

"i got information from the kage in Delhi server, India, that they have successfully created a working prototype airship using Uzumaki seals along with the magic of the adventurers, they say that the prototype can carry up to a thousand people and can fly at speeds of 400 m/ph, they also completed prototype cars and motorbikes which they will soon share to the kages throughout the world, once the economy has stabilized, they will start selling these to shinobi under the kage rank along with the adventurers, however they have said that these technologies are to be forbidden for the people of the land, if someone does spread them, then he will be forever banned from buying anything with them, i tried to ask them the reason but they would not say anything" he said to the astonished kages,

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the next day,

the group of 5, now seven was getting ready to leave for Akihabara,

ren and yuuji had said goodbye to their friend and fellow kage, and walked towards the group, although the caution that nyanta had, in the beginning, had faded he was still getting the feeling that they were hiding something,

soon during their journey, they stopped in a forest to eat and discovered that nyanta could make real food, this made the journey even more enjoyable,

soon they had already traveled quite far,

it was on the fourth day that they faced a problem, rain clouds were gathering in the air,

if ren wanted to, the thunderbird could easily disperse the clouds, but he knew that he should not do that because he could see a farming village up ahead that was populated by the people of the land, if he drove away the clouds, then maybe, the field would not have enough water and would end with farmers having low yield, so he decided against it,

the group decided to take shelter in the village until the rain passes,

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"Hello? is anyone there??" naotsugu shouted at the entrance of the big house in the village,

"oh? adventurers?? now that is a rare sight, welcome to the village of Arb" said an old man as he walked towards the group,

"my name is Fedor, I'm the village's ombudsman" he introduced himself,

"heh, you have a name?" naotsugu mumbled to which the shinobi shook their heads at the ignorance,

soon they were guided to the barn where Fedor said that they could use it as they please, soon as they were talking two kids showed up called Mischa and Evan, they were Fedor's grandchildren, they talked about how Fedor had difficulty at the time of their birth when he was called over by his grandchildren, when he was some distance away, naotsugu said,

"so even NPC not part of an event have that kind of a backstory? the more i talk to them the more they feel as if they were, humans," he said to which shiroe replied,

"They are humans, they have names, family, feelings, memories, we adventurers have strong bodies and can revive no matter how many times we are killed, in this world, doesn't that make us the abnormal ones?, and the shinobi is even more of an abnormality as the residents of this world do not even recognize them at all, they should not even be in this world in the first place," he said to which naotsugu, ren, and yuuji nodded, he then continued,

"they live as one with the land, that's how they came to be known as 'people of the land'" ren and yuuji smirked and said,

"it seems that you have finally recognized the truth eh? shiroe" ren said to which he showed a startled expression,

"You mean...." "yes, we shinobi have long since known that they were not just simple NPC, that is why Goku had decided to take things into his own hands to wipe out that adventurers guild in susukino, because we know that they are now human and that we cannot just simply trample over them because they are weaker then us using an excuse that they are NPC" he said,

soon their conversation continued throughout which, shiroe,naotsugu, and Akatsuki were very impressed at what the shinobi ha revealed, they were amazed that the shinobi had already established a global governing body while they were still struggling with the aftermath of the catastrophe,

later, serara along with nyanta made cookies which the people of the land enjoyed very much, soon the group bid farewell to the village and traveled back to Akihabara