"Naruto, you should go to school... Isn't the bento ready for you?"

Standing in the kitchen, washing tea sets and dining plates, I was a little surprised. Why did Naruto stay in the living room and stay still? Did this guy forget that if he was caught by Iruka, he would be punished to stand up if he was late?

"...I...I want to wait for my sister to go together..."

Naruto's voice was a bit strange, but I was not in the mood to care: "Naruto, I don't have to go to school. But you are different. Your qualifications are not too good, you must work hard. Didn't you say you still want to be a Hokage? How can you be so lazy now?"

The touch and body temperature from behind me stunned me for a moment, and then I realized that Naruto had come to me at some point and hugged me at some point.

"...what do...it's so disgusting..." After a moment of silence, I spoke first: "Go to school quickly, I still have something to do... I don't have time to let you act spoiled..."

That being said, Naruto and I didn't move. A sob came from behind me, and it was Naruto's voice: "...I'm sorry...Boss, but...I always feel like...I can't go with the boss again..."

“…”

He raised his head slightly and exhaled, and I started washing the tableware on my hands again: "Don't worry, no! I promise that I will be with you in the future and see you become a Hokage, how about it?"

"real?"

"....Um!"

Hearing Naruto pushing open the door and running out, I stopped the movements in my hand, turned around and looked out the window. It seemed that even though he was as slow as Naruto, he was a person who lived with him after all. Did he feel my abnormality?

Pulling up the sleeve of my left arm, the needle eyes on my left arm made a hint of haze in my sea-blue vertical pupils. Yes, I did not stop practicing blood escape, and the various side effects of frequent blood draws these days have begun to appear quickly and mercilessly on me.

From dizziness and nausea to weakness, then palpitations and tinnitus, even the vision began to decline rapidly, and even the control ability of chakra became worse and worse. I can no longer make thorny rice cakes with chakra these days. Pure handmade should taste very bad... It's really pitiful Naruto. Perhaps eating instant noodles is much better than eating the thorny rice cakes I make now.

But, indeed, there is no way to stop... I don’t know what is driving me to not give up on my practice of Blood Escape. Is this the so-called way to the dark?

I smiled with some self-deprecating smile. I dropped the tableware in my hand and walked through the living room into the washing room. Looking at the pale and haggard face in the mirror, the unreality that had been lingering me became stronger again. It was not my previous face, but the cheeks of a girl with six cat beards on her face. At this moment, due to excessive blood loss, the skin on her face had already shown obvious darkness and matteness, and even the blood on her lips was completely lost.

I couldn't help but stretched out my hand toward the mirror, and the person in the mirror also reached out toward this side. The two hands touched each other on the mirror, but I felt the coldness of the mirror rather than the body temperature on each other's fingers. Looking at the mirror quietly, the girl inside also looked at me with her sea-blue vertical pupils. I could even see the same reflection as her on her retina.

"Whirlpool...Leng Yu..." Jade stuttered the name, and I also saw the girl in the mirror speak, but the only voice echoed in my ears was still my own voice.

Sure enough, I am the whirlpool Leng Yu... There will be no mistake...

A smile appeared on the corner of my mouth, and I shook my head and left in front of the mirror. Really, I became a little nervous too. Will excessive ischemia lead to the development of my thinking in a strange way?

No matter what, if I don’t have the limit, I won’t stop. And this limit should be the limit of life. When this limit is broken, it is my death...

It was extremely clear in my heart that I slowly walked out of the apartment. I did not lock the door of the apartment, but just closed it slightly. Naruto's rash ghost seemed to never bring the keys to the house, so I'd better not lock the door. Anyway, no one came here. If this happens, if I'm not here, he wouldn't have to slid the windows...

Walking all the way to my laboratory, I glanced at the recycling bin that was filled with all kinds of human tissues, from head to toe. These rotten organs that have scented up like death in the air are the result of my practice of blood escape these days.

Just yesterday, I had just completed the practice of copying my head. Now the head that was exactly the same as mine is still quietly placed on the workbench. The eyes are also full of sea-blue vertical pupils, but it is covered with the unique darkness of death.

When I walked to the workbench and looked at those eyes, I couldn't help but smile. Could it be that I would become like this lifeless organ?

It's really funny. I didn't expect that I, who claims to be a super genius of Konoha, would have so much energy on Blood Escape. If it were someone else, it would be even more impossible to complete it.

Holding up the head that was exactly the same as mine, I stared into her eyes, and in an instant I had a very ridiculous idea. Could this head in my hand be the real whirlpool Lengyu? And I am just an inexplicable passerby?

I don't know... I don't know what the answer is...

Throwing the head in my hand to the recycling box aside, I listened to the dull sound of the head colliding with a pile of rotten organs, and the long golden hair on it was immediately stained with dirty filth. However, this is nothing more. It is just a lifeless human tissue and cannot give me the answer at all.

And now, I am about to usher in the last level, which is the most important organ in the human body and the organ that consumes the most blood - the heart.

Rolling up the sleeves of my left arm, I clearly heard a sound coming from my ears in an instant, as if it was the whispers of countless people, and like some small sharp smiles. It seems that hearing hallucinations have begun?

Or, am I really reaching my limit?

"Is it... the limit of life?"

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Chapter completed!