Chapter 27: Suspicion

The Next Morning, Haru sat at the edge of his Bed as processed all the information he had gotten from the Clones. In fact he hadn't been able to sleep properly because of the memory of having his head cut off by the temple priest.

Every action they had taken were playing in his head but that wasn't the main source of his problem, His problem came because of the 2 Quests he had received. One was an attachment to his Main Quest and the other one was just not supposed to happen.

He opened his Quest Log once more to confirm it like he had been doing all Night.

{Ding!!... Main Quest updated: Find the Clue to the Next Memory fragment. Infiltrate Malonók and Get The Key!

Grade: C--->A

Reward : 1 free upgrade for present jutsus, Memory Fragment, ????}

{Quest Two: Invitation

You have been invited by Jnog to meet his Lord and as the Champion of Pride you are to honor this invitation as promised within 72 hours.

Clear Condition: Defeat your enemies or Survive

Grade: A

Reward would be decided based on your performance. 72:00:00 Hours Accept

Yes or No? }

Reading it again made his sweat bullets as he knew the gravity of a Grade A Quest wouldn't be something to scoff at.

[Haa...] Haru sighed softly while he Brushed his hand through his hair before staring out the window.

[The only Good thing out of all this is that I can now have the Sharingan on all the time and I have a massive pool of System Points] He casually stated as he performed some morning stretches.

Presently, He has about 532000 System points so he Began to go through what he could Buy.

The first thing he thought of was to Upgrade his Obito Sharingan to Eternal and Add Itachi's to it.

{*you have upgraded your Mangekyo to the Eternal Mangekyo for a 100000 System Points. Curse Has been lifted. 432000 System points remaining.}

{*You have purchased Itachi's Mangekyo Sharingan for the Price Of 15000 system points. 417000 remaining}

{you have Upgraded Itachi's Mangekyo Sharingan for the Price of 150000 System Points. 266000 System points remaining.}

Ding!

{Reminder: Would you like to upgrade the System Now?

*Yes or *No}

With raised eyebrows, He recollected his thoughts.

"Apparently I had asked system to set this reminder should I have enough points to perform this Action"

[what level of Upgrade can My body presently take? ] He quickly asked as he could barely hold back his excitement despite not knowing what the upgrade might do.

{Level 3 System for 60000 system points}

[Do it ] Haru said, while He does remember the system mentioning that he would receive a gift for each upgrade, it had stated that it didn't know what features would be unlocked.

{Deducting 60000 system points and proceeding with Hibernation process. }

{Calculations have been completed... System will now shut Down( 24: 59: 21)}

Haru sighed as he looked at the transparent screen in front of him before scratching his head, [That's just great...I've been sighing like an old man this days]

He then left his room in Itachi's form once again and head to the Hall for breakfast. When he got to the Stair case, He Bumped into a Paladin on his way down as he was mentally making calculations of how to deal with his new Quests. Unfortunately, As he was about to apologise subconsciously, the Paladin who seemed to be having a rough day began spewing colorful words that were unbecoming of a man of his profession.

Haru was bewildered as he thought "Brother, did I kill your mother? am I the cause of your problems? why are you taking it out on me?"

But the Paladin carried on as his mouth went on like running water [Was your head kicked by a donkey? do you even understand the words that's coming out of my mouth??! what's with that look on your face?! Hey... Hey! where are you going, I'm not done with you! I'm pretty sure your Mom had that same face when I ... ]

As Haru began walking away from this Fool as a crowd was forming up, The paladin mentioned his Mother and the smiling face of his Mother showed up in his mind, He paused his steps and a Dangerous Killing intent subconsciously came out of his Body which caused the Paladin to choke on his remaining words.

[Yare.. Yare... You really have Godly taunting skills don't you] Although he said this in a half joking manner, His glowing red eyes said otherwise." I've just gotten tsukoyomi, I was wondering where to test it and you submitted yourself to me".

Haru was about to act but soon felt the who situation felt like a set up and he quickly scanned around for the man's partners. "indeed, They were Spying on the situation".

He spotted them watching quietly by the pillars and some were behind the door not too far from the scene.

"Why would they do this?" He thought and quickly pushed it to the back of his mind, The paladin's taunting expression was nowhere to be seen as he now sported a serious one.

He quickly pulled back the killing intent and lightly laughed while approaching the Man

[Hahaha I never knew you paladins had such talents...] He appeared to be having a casual chat with a friend but he looked into the Man's eyes and muttered <Tsuk...>.

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Last night... Wild Boar

In One the rented out rooms, The paladins were complaining about them not being able to find the Child they were asked to find. They sent the kids that seemed to have talent with light elements to the Capital and returned the rest to their family.

So technically they had a Long day, But the Captain Kris Was silently sitting on the window as he watched the Night street.

Recently there has been rumors about a Demon Roaming within the city at night. although he doubts the possibility of a Demon in this parts but as one of his beliefs being that "there is no smoke without fire", he decided to use his skill "eyes of heaven" to scan the Town.

At first everything was going fine until he noticed a silhouette jumping on rooftops and seemed to be chasing after something.

This got Kris curious, so he jumped off the window and gave Chase.

[Captain!]

[Captain!]

[Captain! ...Gogogogo...something probably happened ]

Immediately the Paladins ran out after him.

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Kris's POV

As I approached the silhouette, I soon noticed the attire of this person, He had a black robe beautified with red clouds around it. This matched the description of the Great mage in his scouts report, the Man with the wandless casting.

"Could this be an organization of some sort or is the Mage not even dead in the first place" As I processed through the several information I have so far, I soon saw what he was chasing.

It was a scrawny looking Man that was riddled with wounds and tattered clothes, His face was covered in Mud and he was practically crying.

[Please...I beg of you, Don't kill me! ] He pleaded with a pitiful voice. but the Robe Man man just just silently approached him. Seeing this scene, Forced me to frown...

"As a servant of Alchrod!, I can't ignore this!" With this thought I stood up to warn this Man.

[HEY! ]

When he turned to look at me, I saw the red colored eyes that seemed to peer into ones soul. But immediately as he turned, he disappeared with a cloud of smoke being what he left behind.

[By Our Father! ] I exclaimed and quickly used my eyes of Heaven to scan the Town for his Energy signature only to see it briefly at the Wild Boar before it seemed to have gone out of existence immediately.

"I don't understand...what sorcery is this?!" I exclaimed in my mind as a frown was apparent on my face. the Other party didn't even bother to thank me and seemed to have sneaked away during my moment of confusion.

Not long after My men Arrived...

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PRESENTLY...

[Tsuk...]

[Donald!...Are you picking fights again?! ] Kris cut in the conversation.

Haru looked at the Approaching Man with suspicion as he calmly took a step back. This was the same Paladin leader that had been staring at him the other day.

Short dirty Brown hair, Droopy eyes and a friendly but not so friendly smile plastered across his face.

[Hello...The name's Kris, I'm sorry about my friend over here, He's from the country side and just joined our course recently] Kris hurriedly introduced himself while stretching out his hand for a handshake.

With a placid look, Haru went into full Itachi persona and his Sharingan was no where to be seen.

He simply looked at the Hand for a few seconds before returning the handshake with a curt reply

[I see] while giving a cursory glance at the still petrified Donald.

"I guess my pressure is no too much for a Class 4 warrior" He thought before returning his gaze to Kris and gave the latter a small Nod before heading out.

[Wait!...you haven't told me your Name! ] Kris demanded but Haru replied with a simple [Itachi] without pausing his steps.

[A strange Name] Kris muttered as he watched the Back of The mysterious fellow. But a mysterious smile played on his lips.