Konoha: The young son-in-law of the Hyuga family

The atmosphere in the training ground slowly calmed down.

The old cat stood in front of Ryosuke fearfully and restlessly.

The successive surprises brought him an uncontrollable joy.

Thinking about his smugness in the battle just now, he felt a little scared again.

And Ryosuke heard the uneasiness in his words, was slightly taken aback, and temporarily withdrew from thinking about the devil fruit ability,

Only then did he notice the change in the old cat's demeanor, and after a little thought he understood it.

Ryosuke can probably guess what the old cat is thinking, because this expression is obvious.

As a cat, the old cat may have lived a long time, but as a "newborn" human being, he is still relatively young.

"There are some things we need to make clear."

Ryosuke looked at him calmly, "Honestly speaking, maybe because you were smarter than ordinary cats before that, although I was willing to let you live in our house, but in fact... I didn't regard you as a family member." I treat you as a pet cat that you can play with occasionally."

Although he is very good at talking to people and talking nonsense when he sees people,

If you play tricks on people, you can easily make people lose their way, and even help count the money when they are sold.

But at this moment, for such a "newborn" human being, he didn't intend to open his mouth to fool, but expressed his inner thoughts very straightforwardly, "That fruit is really very important to me and Hinata at present. precious."

"But it's not that precious, because compared to the fruit itself, I value how the ability contained in this fruit is produced, how to make an ordinary person have powerful abilities, so as long as you cooperate with me to test, I am Nothing will be done to you."

Facing Ryosuke's confession, the panic on Lao Mao's face subsided a little.

But with his hands behind his back, he was still a little nervous.

"What's more, doing some cruel things to you is of no benefit to me, and I don't need to arouse your hatred." Ryosuke continued, "This kind of fruit should not be the only one in this world."

"I believe that I will find other fruits in the future, so you don't have to worry about it, or worry or fear."

The words are very straightforward, but the more straightforward they are, the more sincere they are, but they are relatively ugly.

The old cat didn't interrupt or ask some questions.

On the contrary, following Ryosuke's words, he became calmer and calmer.

After a long silence, he seemed to be thinking about something.

Inexplicably, the practice field fell into silence again,

The old cat didn't speak, and Ryosuke was not in a hurry.

Time passed slowly, and the breeze rustled the leaves.

For a long time,

The old cat with the head of a cat in front of him raised his head, looked at him seriously, and asked an unexpected question, "Then how can I become your family...or a partner?"

"Be... my family?"

A strange color flashed in Ryosuke's eyes,

He thought that the old cat would ask questions about some details, and even propose to make an agreement with him, but he never expected that the old cat would focus on... family?

"Maybe...can we sit down and talk first?"

During the short period of quiet thinking, the old cat's eyes gradually returned to the normality of the past, the normality of being a cat.

"Perhaps regardless of the species, as long as you are in your twilight years, you will always feel a little sad and lonely. In fact, I wanted to talk to you a long time ago, but I have no way to communicate because I don't know human language."

"The restoration of youth, the extension of life expectancy, and the significant improvement in strength, these things have brought me such a great impact that the previous me was a little... a little bit irrational."

"But now it's much better after calming down, but compared to those things, would you like to spend some time listening to my old cat nagging about some extremely boring past?"

Inexplicably, there was a bit of pleading in his tone.

"Let's go, sit under the tree over there."

Ryosuke didn't refuse either.

It can be seen that this matter seems to be very important to the old cat.

When he came to a big tree, he leaned against the tree and sat down,

The dense branches and leaves will block the scorching sun near noon,

It is very cool under the shade of trees, especially in this relatively claustrophobic forest where few people come and go.

"Although our ages are not much different in a sense, other old cats should have some grandchildren when they reach my age."

After sitting down, feeling the tranquility in the dense forest, the old cat felt as if he had temporarily forgotten the power of this body, and returned to the time when he was still a cat, "But unfortunately... I didn't have this in my heart when I was young, and I felt it when I was old. I was lonely, but it was too late to recover."

Like a memory, the old cat recounted the past.

"As long as I can remember, as a wild cat, I have been wandering outside, and I don't have a fixed place to live."

"But it's okay, because I was a wild cat from the beginning, and I have a bunch of brothers and sisters in the same situation wandering with me, so I'm not lonely."

"At that time, we were in the wild, often fighting wild animals in the mountains and forests, and going out to look for food."

"And when I get old, my brothers and sisters die one by one because of the pain left by the fight, or at the end of their lives, and there are fewer and fewer cats that can accompany me."

"With weak power and declining physical function, I can only come to Konoha to live a life of meager existence."

After briefly passing through his muddled first half of his life, the old cat began to talk about his previous second half of his life, "Hey, you may not believe it, but after coming to this Konoha, I have gained a lot of weight compared to when I was in the wild."

He laughed at himself, "Although I occasionally get injured because of the provocations of some cats in the village, those domestic cats in the village can't compare to a wild cat like me with rich predation experience."

"As long as I don't provoke those ninja cats, I can win most of the time."

"And through the food that was given, stolen, or robbed from humans, I get far more per meal than we got in a fight in the wild, so sometimes I also think , Why did we work so hard to survive before?"

the first half of life,

Based on the beast's bestiality and predatory instinct, it survives in the dangerous wilderness with its brothers and sisters, and fights with various beasts.

"The days of worrying about the next meal all the time, because I entered Konoha and slowly went away. After I calmed down, I began to learn to think. Maybe it was then that I had some... Wisdom that a cat shouldn't have."

And in the second half of its life, after losing its family, it came to this Konoha,

In various dangerous situations, he learned to restrain the animal nature of wild beasts, and began to feel humanity and wisdom in the process of contacting humans.

"The more things you see, the more you know, the more you think, the more you think and fantasize."

The old cat raised his palm and squeezed it slowly, feeling the power emerging from his body.

"The closer I get to death, the more I fear death, so I want to live."

"When you healed me in the courtyard that day, the chakra injected into my body made me feel a little bit of vitality, so since then, I have often come to your house, and I really want to continue to live."

"Later I found that I couldn't control the existence of Chakra at all. I couldn't break away from the cat clan's life span like those ninja cats. This made me very sad, so that I seldom opened my mouth and rarely left this house. Look elsewhere."

As if he had returned to his twilight self again, all kinds of thoughts echoed in his mind again, and the old cat's voice became a little low, "I'm about to die, what's the point of doing those unnecessary things?"

"I want to give up, but I don't want to give up, but I have to give up..."

He spoke quietly, and Ryosuke listened quietly.

Time passed little by little,

Only the rustling sound of the wind blowing the leaves and Ryosuke accompanied and listened to the thoughts and actions of this old cat whose life was dying.

Compared with the first half of his life as a beast, the second half of the old cat's life was obviously much richer.

There are a lot of nagging thoughts and experiences, even thoughts that pop up at the moment.

Before he took the fruit, the old cat announced his own death in an extremely complicated tone, "The story of being a cat ends here."

"No cat will remember, no one will remember. Even until the moment of my death, I didn't understand what I had experienced in this life, and why I existed. I was so confused that I had no direction or purpose."

His mood is extremely complicated, especially when recalling everything in the past, there will always be a kind of depressive emotion emerging unconsciously.

"It seems to be suffering from depression." Ryosuke frowned, "But you don't have to be so pessimistic, you have already gained a new life, haven't you? You still have a long life in this life, and you can always find what you want to do .”

For his comfort, the old cat quickly replied: "In fact, I have found it, the short-term goal."

"Be... my family?"

Ryosuke repeated what the old cat said just now.

"Yes, I want to be your family." The old cat nodded, "Strictly speaking, you gave me this life. Even if you want to take it back, I have no possibility of refusing it regardless of ability or reason. .”

"But I still want to try to live. I haven't lived enough. I still want to see more and more things. I want to find a goal that I can devote myself to, just like your persistence in cultivation. Same."

After following him for a long time, this old cat knows his main direction, Liang Jie is not surprised.

What surprised him was the words behind the old cat.

"Perhaps... I don't know if you have discovered it yourself."

The old cat raised his head and looked at him with a little fear in his eyes, "Actually, when you face most people, you are communicating with and looking at other people with the same consciousness as looking down from the sky to the earth. "

"It may be that as an animal, you are more sensitive in this regard, so I can often feel the feeling of being out of place with other people from you."

"This feeling is not the aura of the eldest lady who rejects people thousands of miles away, but the aura that can really isolate other people..."

"Breath? Tell me in detail."

Ryosuke frowned, is it the sequelae of the awakened white eyes?

No, not right.

"Sorry, I can't describe it."

But the old cat shook his head, "That feeling can only be felt occasionally. I don't know what kind of emotion it is, but I can feel it, but I can't explain it."

What he said was a little mysterious, but Liang Jie couldn't feel the aura in him that separated people from what he said.

Temporarily letting go of the doubts in his heart, Ryosuke asked again: "But does this have anything to do with you wanting to be my family and partner?"

"Because I found that when you get in touch with your family and some friends, that feeling will quickly dissipate." The old cat explained, "As an animal's instinct tells me, being one of the few can make you lose that breath." Man, I live longer."

Is it so mysterious...

Ryosuke groped his chin in bewilderment.

Perhaps, a long time ago, he was indeed a relatively indifferent, even cold-blooded person, and he knew this himself.

But later, with the contact with his family, Ryosuke felt that he had improved a lot, and when talking with many villagers, he would not feel like living with a mask.

But why in the mouth of the old cat...he seems to have never changed?

"But this kind of thing is not something you can ask for."

Temporarily suppressing the doubts in his heart, Ryosuke looked helplessly at the old cat opposite, "It's not just a matter of talking about you as a family member or a partner. This kind of thing is too deliberate and does not seem sincere."

"But anyway, I made a note, and I tried my best to try to accept you."

Anyway, this kind of thing still needs time to run in.

If it's someone who can match in terms of personality and ability, Ryosuke doesn't mind defining him as a partner...or even a family member.

"Your words are enough."

The old cat breathed a sigh of relief, and stood up impatiently, "I will try my best to cooperate with you in the future, and now... I need to go all out to attack you, right?"

"Let's talk about it in the afternoon."

Taking his mind away from himself, Ryosuke also stood up.

It's already noon before you know it, and it's time to go back for lunch.

From his perception, he could also sense that Hinata and Hanabi on the other side of the practice field had also finished their practice and came towards this side.

Just taking advantage of the waiting time, Ryosuke checked his body inside and out again, but he still didn't feel the aura of isolation from ordinary people that the old cat said.

This inevitably made him a little suspicious.

Is it an imperceptible high-level energy substance like natural energy?

There is no need for the old cat to make up such a thing to fool him, so Ryosuke thinks it is more likely that he has not yet noticed the existence of this breath.

As for why the old cat can feel it, it may be that the authorities are confused by the onlookers, plus the instinct brought by the wildness of animals.

However, there is also a possibility, maybe it's not that I didn't notice the breath that the old cat said, but I'm used to that feeling, so I easily ignored it, just like boiling a frog in warm water.