Chapter 409: Plucking Leg Hair
Masahiko originally thought he would 'live again' for 123 years in his dream, but he didn't expect that just as he reached 60 years old, he would die halfway...
An unbearable sense of hunger woke him up from his dream.
There were still quite a few ingredients left in the dimension from when he prepared to go to the moon. Masahiko's eyes gleamed green; not caring whether they were cooked or not, he stuffed everything into his mouth. Anyway, if he got indigestion, he would just eat the Fat Cat to clean his stomach...
After filling his stomach, he finally had time to gather his thoughts.
"It seems... I haven't been dreaming for just a day or two, but at least a month or two, otherwise my physique wouldn't have brought me to the brink of starvation."
"Then the outside world..."
Masahiko concentrated his senses, and after a moment, breathed a slight sigh of relief. The jutsu formulas he left on the Fat Cat and Sara hadn't been activated, which meant nothing had happened and everything was fine...
"Yawn~" Masahiko yawned, feeling quite mentally exhausted, and frowned as he looked at the attribute panel.
Yin Attribute LV10 (10000000/10000000) (Metamorphosing)
"Metamorphosing... I have to finish the dream? That means I'll have to wake up from hunger once or twice more, damn it..." Murmuring lightly, Masahiko flashed out of the dimension.
Since he was awake, he would dream later and first go out to see Princess-kun.
Kushina's house, in front of a specially made crib.
Masahiko waved his hands back and forth. The two smaller-sized Soccer Truth-Seeking Orbs had transformed into Wind and Fire Wheels, circling the crib, while Princess-kun giggled and reached out for them.
"Oh~ Oh! Oh!" Masahiko made meaningless baby-coaxing sounds with his mouth. "Has it been two months since I last left? One day is one year... is it?"
"Yes, two months. Great-grandfather, where did you go?"
"Went to sleep... Yawn~" Masahiko yawned again, and then... his big white teeth revealed by his open mouth scared Princess-kun into crying.
"Oops!" Masahiko quickly retracted the Wind and Fire Wheels and leaned his face in: "Don't be afraid, baby, Great Ancestor doesn't eat babies..."
Kushina smiled and picked up Princess-kun: "How old is she? How could she possibly understand."
"She is already four months old. Great Ancestor could understand when he was two months old." As a transmigrator, Masahiko could understand simple Japanese at two months old; he was proud of it...
"You can't even remember things at two months old." Kushina didn't take it seriously.
"How could I not remember? Great Ancestor's memory is excellent; I've remembered things since the moment I was born." With his deep-level memories activated, every minute and second of his first sixty years had been imprinted in his heart.
The crying Princess-kun gradually quieted down in her mother Kushina's arms and fell into a deep sleep, making Masahiko's drowsiness grow even deeper.
"Speaking of which, since I can be woken up by hunger, it means I'm not sleeping completely without sensation; I should be able to be woken up." Masahiko murmured, "Kushina, I'm going to take a nap. Wake me up at dinnertime."
That night.
"Naruto, go call Great-grandfather to eat!"
"Oh!" Naruto agreed, walked into the bedroom, and shouted: "Great Ancestor! Get up and eat!"
"Great Ancestor?" Naruto went forward and pushed Masahiko. "He's sleeping so soundly..."
After repeated pushing, Masahiko still didn't wake up. Naruto hesitated for a moment, the corners of his mouth curling up in a mischievous smile: "Great Ancestor, you can't blame me for this!"
Kushina and Minato were still waiting for them in the dining room to eat. Naruto's eyes twitched slightly as he pulled up the right leg of Masahiko's trousers.
"So much hair, so ugly. No wonder he refuses to take off his clothes when sleeping..." Naruto murmured softly. His right thumb and index finger pinched a leg hair, and he plucked!
"Eh? It's that tough?"
Half a minute later...
Kushina pushed the door open with a look of confusion, only to see Naruto having rolled up the right leg of Masahiko's trousers high up, struggling as he leaned his face closer...
"Naruto! What are you doing?!"
Startled by the voice, Naruto quickly raised his head, placing his index finger to his lips: "Shh... Great Ancestor is sleeping very soundly. No matter how much I push him, he won't wake up."
Kushina lightly clenched her fist: "Then you leaning your mouth closer, are you trying to... kiss Great-grandfather awake?"
Naruto quickly shook his head: "How is that possible! I just wanted to pluck one of Great Ancestor's leg hairs, but I couldn't pull it out no matter what, so I wanted to try biting it with my teeth... Mother, come over and take a look, it's really incredibly tough."
"Oh?" Kushina revealed a hint of curiosity. She approached Masahiko and pinched a leg hair with two fingers: "Hmm?"
As expected, she couldn't pull it out.
Naruto breathed a sigh of relief. Not being able to pluck even a single strand of Great Ancestor's leg hair made him feel extremely embarrassed, to the point he almost took a bite out of it... Now finding out his mother couldn't pluck it either, his heart instantly felt much more balanced.
But Kushina wasn't convinced. The force in her hand grew greater and greater, until her face turned red and she draped herself in a layer of Nine-Tails chakra...
"Snap~" The leg hair broke off in response.
"Mmm..." Masahiko groaned softly.
Startled, Kushina guiltily pocketed the leg hair and then pulled down the right leg of Masahiko's trousers.
"Great-grandfather, time to eat."
"So fast, I only slept for 'half a year'." Masahiko spoke vaguely as he sat up: "Why is Naruto here too? Was I sleeping so soundly that he couldn't wake me up?"
Kushina and Naruto exchanged glances: "Not soundly, not soundly at all, very easy to wake up!"
Masahiko scratched his hair, feeling that these two were acting a bit off, but quickly pushed it to the back of his mind: "As long as it wasn't too soundly, let's go eat."
In the following days, Masahiko started a lifestyle of eating his fill and sleeping, and eating when he woke up, at Kushina's house. It wasn't until early November of Konoha Year 56 that his Yin attribute finally finished its metamorphosis.
There were many benefits to the memories in his brain fully awakening. Just those memories of training and fighting alone enhanced Masahiko's soft power significantly, and the other memories helped him 'figure out' quite a few things.
But there was one thing he couldn't figure out.
"Why did the Yin attribute's metamorphosis make the hair on my right leg sparse? But my left leg didn't change?"
This question troubled him for quite a while, so much so that even the newly obtained spiritual space was temporarily thrown to the back of his mind.
"Right, the space!" Masahiko struck his left palm with his right fist, having a flash of inspiration: "The spiritual space is located within the Opening Gate of the Eight Inner Gates, positioned in the right brain. With the right brain developed, naturally, the right leg loses hair!"
"This should have the same effect as 'being so smart that you go bald'. That's right, that's exactly it. My thoughts are very clear; as expected, maxing out the Yin attribute has made me smarter!"
Masahiko was slightly delighted. He pulled up both of his trouser legs high, but his expression became awkward again.
"If I want the left leg to lose hair too, I have to develop the left brain, which means... the Gate of Healing. Which space is that?" Masahiko pondered for a moment, then suddenly realized: "Why go through all that trouble? If it's asymmetrical, I just have to shave it! I am truly too smart!"
Wind attribute chakra spun between his fingers. No razor was as easy to use as this. Masahiko's two legs quickly became 'smooth and clean as jade'.
Right at that moment, the door was suddenly pushed open, and Kushina walked in quietly.
"What... are you doing?"
Kushina was startled: "Ah! Great-grandfather, you woke up on your own. I came to call you for lunch!"
"To call me for lunch, do you need to be so quiet? Are you trying to trick me?"
"No, no, how could I dare? Eh, your legs..."
"What's wrong? Oh, I shaved my leg hair; it was a bit uneven." Masahiko pulled his trouser legs down.
Kushina breathed a sigh of relief: "It's good that it's shaved..."
"Hmm?"
"Ah... I mean your legs, they are really white!"
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