บท 97: Chapter 97 Shoveling Snow, Chopping Bamboo

After the start of the New Year's holiday, the weather became colder every day, and it snowed every three days. Many commercial streets in the village are buried by snow, which seriously affects the business. Reluctantly, the merchants can only jointly issue a mission request to the village's Mission Center, and hired a group of Genin who had graduated not long ago to clean the snow on the street.

As for the snow on the streets in residential areas, it is naturally up to the residents to clean up by themselves.

Outside the residential area of Gekkō Clan, two old men, Inoue and Matsushita, used their influence to summon a group of young people to shovel the snow outside.

In the house, Kanpū closed the sliding door to block the noisy and cold air outside, sitting lazily on the warm quilt, and training the Body Revival Technique while refining Chakra.

After more than two months of experience in stimulating subcutaneous tissue cells, Kanpū has been able to stimulate the cells of other organs and tissues at the same time. The only thing that makes Kanpū upset is that there are too many cells inside human's body. There are tens of trillions cells, and his Chakra is limited, so he can't take into account his whole body's cells at the same time, and the training progress is somewhat unsatisfactory.

But fortunately, the more he uses Body Revival Technique, the higher the cell's activation, the more Chakra he would get, and naturally, the faster his training progress will be. As long as Kanpū is patient and stable in his training, whether it is his physical body or Chakra, they will become stronger and stronger.

Click!

At this time, Hayate suddenly pushed open the sliding door and walked in: "Big brother, Aunt Keiko called you!"

"Call me? What's the matter?"

Kanpū opened his eyes, but didn't want to get up. After all, the quilt under the seat had just been warmed up.

"Shovel snow!" Hayate said excitedly, "Grandpa Inoue and Grandpa Matsushita are almost at our door!"

"Alright."

Kanpū sighed, 'Why is it so difficult to train?'

Walking out of the bedroom, Kanpū instantly felt a coolness burrowing in from the gap of the cotton-padded neckline on his neck.

Kanpū tightened the clothes on his body and followed Hayate out.

Keiko rarely rests at home, but she is not idle. At this moment, she was sitting on the sofa in the living room, sewing a scarf. Seeing Kanpū coming out, she said without raising her head: "Kanpū-chan, Hayate, please go outside and help the two Grandpas sweep the snow."

"Understood!"

Hayate shouted and rushed towards the entrance.

Kanpū followed out.

Outside the house, the two retired old men instructed dozens of boys and girls to shovel snow on both sides of the street.

Kanpū glanced around, and saw Tabako and Yūgao.

Yūgao took a small shovel and followed behind Tabako's buttocks, looking left and right and watch the excitement, occasionally shoveling snow, but because her hands were too short, the shovel could not reach the snow, which was too cute.

"Hahaha, Kanpū-chan, Hayate-chan, you guys are finally here."

Seeing the two brothers coming out, Inoue hurriedly ordered two shovels to be distributed to them, "Don't just stand there stupidly and start working."

Kanpū sighed: 'Forget it, just treat it as exercise.'

Thinking of that, he took the shovel and started shoveling the snow.

A few minutes later, Kanpū heard the voice of Hayate chatting with Yūgao from behind.

He turned his head in surprise, and saw Hayate teaching Yūgao how to shovel the snow with a shovel.

Kanpū is not feeling too good when he saw this.

'Gekkō Hayate ah Gekkō Hayate, your big brother painstakingly shoveled the snow in the front, but you're actually hiding behind to flirt with a girl?!'

'Is this what I usually teach you?'

It is unknown if it's destined or not, but Hayate and Yūgao seem to have endless things to say about shoveling snow. They chatter continuously without end, spreading dog food. Kanpū, who is in the front, feels very tired.

When it was noon, everyone finished sweeping the snow on this street to both sides.

"Very well, everyone has done a good job, then, at seven o'clock tomorrow morning, keep it up!" Inoue raised his arms, "Disband!"

Although the street has been swept out, it will snow in the evening and the street will be covered in snow again tomorrow, so this work is probably going to last for a while.

"Hayate, let's go home."

Kanpū gave the shovel to the others. Looking back, he saw Hayate and Yūgao are discussing about building snowmen and playing snowball fights in the afternoon.

After eating dog food all morning, Kanpū is now eager to go home and eat a seaweed and sesame onigiri to clean up the bitterness.

After parting, Kanpū asked Hayate on the way home: "Hayate, did you and that Uzuki Yūgao know each other before?"

Hayate was in high spirits in said: "Big brother, I and Yūgao-chan are meeting for the first time today, but Yūgao-chan is so cute."

"..."

Kanpū sighed, and he didn't want to say anything.

After lunch, Kanpū thought he had time for training, but unfortunately, he was still too naive.

"Kanpū-chan, Hayate."

Keiko ordered as she cleaned up the dishes, "It's New Year soon, can you go pick and bring back some plum blossom branches, pine branches and bamboo?"

"Understood!"

Hayate shouted, jumped with his feet to pick up his short sword, and said, "Big brother, let's go, hurry up!"

'Plum blossoms, pine branches, bamboo… Three friends of the winter?'

Kanpū followed Hayate out of the door with a confused look, and the cold wind was blowing. At this moment, Kanpū couldn't help but softly ask: "Hayate, what are those things used for?"

"Making a gate pine!" Hayate said, "Big brother, we are going to chop bamboo, pick pine branches and plum blossom branches, and then make a gate pine and put it at the door." (T/N: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadomatsu)

Kanpū recalled the memory in his mind. Before the New Year, there was indeed a gate pine made of plum blossom branches, pine branches and bamboos at the door of the house. The meaning is also good, symbolizing longevity, prosperity and steadfastness.

Following Hayate all the way to the north, they soon came to a small bamboo forest, but at this time, many young people were already chopping bamboo here.

Only four or five pieces of bamboo are needed to make a gate pine, so often, one bamboo can be cut down to meet the needs of several families.

"Big brother, let's choose that bamboo!"

Hayate's eyes shined, and he directly picked up the thickest bamboo. He then held his sword that has no sharp edge and charged forward resolutely.

Clang!

With the crisp sound of impact, the little brother was bounced back by the bamboo, and finally dropped down on the snow.

With the impact, the snow on that thick bamboo also dropped from the sky, falling onto Hayate's face.

Kanpū shook his head and laughed, and the rest of the young people who were chopping bamboo also laughed.

"Big brother..."

Hayate returned to Kanpū embarrassedly, and also feeling very uncomfortable.

"Hayate, the sword in your hand didn't have edge, so you can't cut the bamboo."

Kanpū patted Hayate on the shoulder with a smile, and then said, "Leave it to me."

Kanpū took out a dark-colored kunai with sharp edges, which was the birthday present from Shisui.

Gently touching the sharp edge of the kunai, Kanpū calmly walked three or four steps in front of the thickest bamboo, then hooked the small circle at the top of the kunai's handle with his little finger, and then formed a hand seal with his hand.

Body Flicker Technique!

In an instant, the Chakra inside Kanpū's body quickly poured onto his legs. At the same time, Kanpū flicked his little finger, threw the kunai to the palm of his hand, held with his backhand horizontally, and then took a step forward, causing his whole body seemingly turn into a violent wind and instantly disappeared.

Clang!

Accompanied by a crisp sound of clashing, Kanpū's figure appeared behind the thick bamboo in the next instant.

Whoosh whoosh…

The bamboo leaves kept swaying, and the huge bamboo fell straight to the left under everyone's astonished gaze.

"Su, sugoi!" (T/N: The raw is writing it as sugoi, which means amazing.)

"Is he a Shinobi?!"

"So powerful!"

Under the sound of exclamation, Kanpū turned around nonchalantly, and then saw the bamboo that was chopped by the kunai in his hand.

Kanpū still remember that when he celebrated his birthday more than a month ago, he would lose his balance and fall after three steps when using the Body Flicker Technique, but after exercising his body and trained the Body Revival Technique, and based on the summary of his fall experience for than a hundred times, Kanpū has been able to take six steps steadily!

And after more than a month of accumulation, the Chakra inside Kanpū's body has also been able to support Body Flicker Technique for more than 20 steps!

The most important thing is that Kanpū has already foreseen that if he continues to train according to his current trend, his body will be able to completely adapt to the acceleration of Body Flicker Technique in half a year at most, and he will no longer have to worry about falling down!