Chapter 32 Conjecture about early graduation

"This is so unusual. Rice actually sells for 25 taels per catty. Fortunately, the price of vegetables has not increased too much, otherwise we would really have to reduce our food expenses."

During the summer vacation, Minato, who had grown taller, was carrying two bags of rice and said with some distress. Tatsuma beside him also nodded when he heard this. There were many people around who were hoarding food with them.

Because rice merchants suddenly announced that due to rising logistics costs, grain and rice prices will be adjusted from time to time and irregularly in the next period of time. And judging from the trend, it is estimated that it will not fall back in the short term, and may even continue to rise.

As for vegetables, meat, poultry and eggs, although there has been a certain price increase, it is not as exaggerated as rice and noodles. This is probably because these items are supplied in and around Konoha Village.

Tatsuma sighed and said, "Jiraiya-sama and the others only came back once last year. Maybe it's not so peaceful outside the village anymore."

Hearing this, Minato, who had had a vague premonition since two years ago, suddenly asked: "Tatsuma, do you think there will be another war? Just like the war more than ten years ago."

What Minato was referring to was the war that later became known as the First Ninja War. Tatsuma did not have the iconic smile on his face today, but nodded seriously and said:

"The war will come, or in fact, there has been no peace in the ninja world since the last war. Sooner or later, a second war will break out throughout the entire ninja world, and there may be a third or even more.

Every war is actually just a continuation of the last war. Looking at the situation now, the friction between villages and countries should have intensified a lot. Maybe in a while, war will really come.

"

Although Tatsuma knew that there would be a Second Ninja War and a Third Ninja War, when he decided to become a ninja, he was "determined" to participate.

But now that the war is getting closer, Tatsuma is very anxious, because he has not experienced war personally, and his ability to accept war is even lower than Minato.

Seeing the solemn look on Tatsuma's face, Minato shook his head and said, "Maybe we are just overthinking it? We have never even been out of the village, so how can we know what the ninja world is like?

Maybe Jiraiya-sama and the others will come back soon and bring good news that the war will not break out?"

Minato said, even he didn't believe it. Tatsuma didn't refute Minato, he just shrugged and said: "By the way, if the price of meat, poultry and eggs continues to increase, we may go fishing and pick wild vegetables."

The small subsidy given by the village might have been enough in the past, but now that prices have soared, their big purchase today even used part of their savings.

"I heard that there are several training grounds with many animals in them. Maybe we can go and have a look."

Minato made a suggestion at this time, but Tatsuma shook his head and said: "Anything that can be put into the training ground is beneficial to ninja training. To put it bluntly, they are dangerous animals.

Putting aside whether they can hunt successfully, many of these animals are omnivorous, carnivorous or even scavengers, and are generally not suitable for consumption."

"Why?"

Minato was a little curious after hearing Tatsuma's statement. Tatsuma thought for a moment and explained in as concise words as possible: "The purer and single species of nutrients ingested, the more suitable it is for us humans to eat.

For example, cattle and sheep that feed on plant roughage are very suitable for us to eat, as well as more simple foods such as vegetables and fruits."

Minato nodded in understanding. Tatsuma didn't tell him about the biological chain. He would never eat the meat of those animals with high risk unless he had no choice.

After walking for a while, they reached a fork in the road and parted ways. Minato suddenly asked: "Tatsuma-kun, if the war really breaks out and the village needs us, will you choose to graduate early?"

Hearing Minato's question, Tatsuma asked in surprise: "Do you want to graduate early?"

After asking, Tatsuma also frowned. According to the original work, Minato didn't graduate from the ninja school until he was ten years old. Could it be that after he took Minato to train in advance and allowed Minato to realize his talent in advance, he had more ideas?

Minato nodded and said: "Heura-sensei also said before that our strength actually far exceeds the ninja school graduation standards, we can graduate at any time, and we are not far from the chunin requirements.

Don’t say you didn’t hear it, Mr. Heura is actually persuading us to graduate early, and even hinted that the Hokage will find us a good leader Jonin.”

Tatsuma didn't answer right away. After the final test before the holiday, Sarutobi Aura came to talk to the two of them, but Tatsuma just covered it up with a smile.

Minato saw that Tatsuma had no intention of picking up the teacher's topic, and he would not discredit his friend, so he pretended not to understand anything.

But now that this was a private conversation between the two, Minato had no need to hide it, and Tatsuma's silence was not because he was afraid of graduation, but because he was thinking about it.

If neither he nor Minato graduates, then he can still use this gentle and safe method to take advantage of Minato and increase his upper limit of talent.

But if Minato decides to graduate early and Tatsuma stays alone in the ninja school, then the speed at which his upper limit increases will suddenly slow down. After all, no one in the class can match Minato's fat sheep attributes.

There are many talented people in the class. Ino Shikacho, Inuzuka Claw, Uchiha Tianfeng, Hinata Sento and a certain insect user are all very talented. There is even Kushina who may not be inferior in potential.

Yu Minato's jinchuriki candidate is.

However, it is much more difficult to extract wool from these people. Shikaku is only interested in playing shogi, and he will directly refuse other games. Dingza is a good food, and Haiichi Tatsuma doesn't understand Haiichi at all.

What games are you interested in?

As for Uchiha and Hinata, although he had no conflicts with these two people in two years, their relationship was not very good, especially Uchiha Tianfeng, who had been defeated four times in a row.

I don't know if Sarutobi Awaura was intentional or not, but in the four semesters of actual combat assessments, Tatsuma defeated Uchiha Tenfeng four times, and Minato defeated Hyuga Sento four times, and they all won.

After losing the first two times, Uchiha Amikaze could still say that he would definitely win next time, but now he has stopped talking and even walked around when he saw Tatsuma.

Hinata Sento is about the same. Besides, these two people will return to their clan after class, so if you want to practice more, you can't find them. It's obviously unrealistic to find these two people to harvest wool.

The relationship between Inuzukazu and Inuzuka is too shallow, and they have basically no communication, let alone Aburame Shimi, and Tatsuma most of the time will not think that there is such a classmate in the class, the sense of existence is too low, and the interests are completely different.

Kushina seems to be keeping a low profile lately, living a solitary life and not being seen at all except during class time.

Therefore, after Minato graduated, Tatsuma had no reason to stay in school, and graduating early was not without its benefits. After all, the two people who graduated early at the same time were likely to be assigned to the same team.

It doesn't matter even if they are not assigned to the same team. According to Chenma's exploration of the system this year, if a match involves force, the match will start by default even if the match is not forced after praise.

After becoming a ninja, you will definitely encounter enemies during missions, maybe not as frequently as you do now, but it is still a good choice without having to think carefully to create a match.

However, Tatsuma looked at Minato and said, "Excluding me, isn't there anyone in the class you miss?"

After the words came out, the expressions of both of them became strange. After all, what Tatsuma said always seemed strange, but the two quickly looked away, and Minato began to think seriously.

Is there someone he misses? Indeed, there is.
Chapter completed!