Upon hearing Danzo's words, Hiruzen Sarutobi's expression visibly darkened.
The sealing order he had just issued was known to Danzo the very next moment. What did this mean? It meant Danzo had extended his reach into the Anbu.
Danzo also realized this problem. Just as he was about to explain, he heard Hiruzen Sarutobi say to the Anbu protecting him, "Go investigate who left just now. If anyone did, deal with them. I don't want this to happen again."
"Understood, Hokage-sama. We'll get right to it."
The Anbu protecting Hiruzen Sarutobi immediately went to investigate who had left.
Hearing that the Anbu were going to deal with the person who had just tipped him off, Danzo became anxious and immediately shouted at Hiruzen Sarutobi, "Are you really going to do this? I sent people here to protect you. Are you trying to provoke me with this action?"
"Provoke?" Hiruzen Sarutobi shook his head, then said in a cold tone, "Provocation is the weak condemning the strong. This is a warning to you. If you dare to lay hands on Mitsusuke or my Anbu, I guarantee you'll regret it. This is the last time."
"If there's a next time, Konoha will no longer have the Root unit. What Root can do, the Anbu can also do. I gave you authority to assist me, not to monitor me. You've crossed the line this time."
Danzo knew that he had been a bit too hasty today, but he didn't expect his old comrade's reaction to be so strong: "Hmph! You'll regret this."
After Danzo left, Hiruzen Sarutobi called Kakashi in: "Arrange for the Anbu to monitor the Uchiha and Danzo. I want to know everything about them, the more detailed, the better."
Although a verbal reconciliation had been reached with the Uchiha, it was impossible to have no precautions at all.
Hiruzen Sarutobi was already considering how to arrange for Mitsusuke. After what just happened, he decided to let Mitsusuke stay in the academy for now! As long as it didn't delay his training.
At the Konoha Academy, Mitsusuke checked the students' mastery of the Substitution Jutsu. Overall, things were developing in a good direction.
Most of them could now extract Chakra, it was just a matter of speed!
As before, Mitsusuke told those who could skillfully extract Chakra to continue climbing trees, those who couldn't to continue training, and those who had learned the Substitution Jutsu to go running.
Previously, only Sasuke had learned the Substitution Jutsu, but today Shino Aburame also learned it, so there were now two people running.
After arranging all this, Mitsusuke was slacking off as usual. He had just found a loophole in the system.
That is, between twelve and one o'clock, whatever he did, it wouldn't affect his slacking off.
So Mitsusuke lectured during this time, and arranged training the same way.
In Iruka's eyes, Mitsusuke was demonstrating good teaching, otherwise why would he lecture during the students' break?
In the academy office, Mitsusuke leisurely smoked a cigarette, occasionally glancing at the training ground, while communicating with the system in his mind...
"System, are you there?"
[I am here. May I help you, Host?]
"System, I'm puzzled about something right now. Can you give me an answer?"
[Please tell me, Host. As long as it's within my scope of authority, I can answer you.]
"It's nothing major, I just want to ask you, where do your system rewards come from? Also, why do transmigrators all have cheat abilities? Is your help to transmigrators really free? As someone from Zhonghuajia, I don't believe in things falling from the sky."
...
Perhaps Mitsusuke's questions were profound, as the system remained silent for a full minute.
[Host, you have quite a few questions. I will answer them one by one.]
"Alright, however you want to explain it, I'm just curious."
[Let's start with the origin of our system! Otherwise, the later questions cannot be answered. Our system is condensed from the wishes of Blue Star humans. In this era where entertainment projects are prevalent, many people have various dreams.]
[When there are many dreams, a power of wishes forms, and our system appears. At this time, we randomly select a soul to entrust, and after their accidental death, we bring them into our origin place.]
[Before I formed, many people wanted to transmigrate to the Naruto world with Kizaru's abilities. This is the so-called origin place.]
[As for the missions, these were stipulated before we formed, and they are all imagined by Blue Star humans. We have no right to modify them.]
[Now, let's talk about the next question: whether the system is free. This is actually the same as the rewards. Our rewards are our own origin. Once you complete all missions, all of our origin will be absorbed by you, and the system will disappear.]
[Each of our systems serves only one Host. Once the Host completes all missions, we no longer have a reason to exist.]
[Therefore, please don't worry that the system will set a trap for you. Even if we wanted to, we couldn't. System rules do not allow us to do so. Once we have such a thought, we will immediately lose consciousness, and the Host will also lose their Cheat Ability.]
Hearing the system's explanation, Mitsusuke felt much more at ease. He was truly afraid that one day the system would take over his body, especially after he had a family.
"By the way, System, you said my mission rewards are your origin energy. After I absorb all of you, will my strength surpass the Ōtsutsuki Clan?"
"I remember those aliens are coming soon. It would be meaningless if I couldn't even defeat them then."
[Host, this question is not within my authority. However, I can tell you that once you absorb all of my origin, you will become the strongest on this timeline, and the Ōtsutsuki will not be your match.]
Although the system's words were a bit vague, they still put Mitsusuke at ease.
Just then, Mitsusuke heard Iruka's voice: "Teacher Mitsusuke, it's almost the end of the month. Should we assess the students' strength? I used to assess them once a month. Now that you're the Ninjutsu teacher, I'd like to hear your opinion on this matter."
Turning his head, Mitsusuke saw Iruka looking at him. Without hesitation, he said, "Then let's do an assessment! You can tell the students about it. I won't get involved; watching a bunch of kids fight isn't very interesting."
"Okay, I'll go tell them in a bit. The assessment will be after school today."
After Iruka left, Mitsusuke stood up. He planned to go see Shisui. Shisui's class had a few very good students.
Namely, Tenten, Neji, and Rock Lee, who would become the Konoha Twelve Genin in the future.