[Naruto] Survival Records of the Warring States Period

You lowered your head and looked at the small plate of wild vegetables in front of you, feeling sour in your stomach from hunger.

This is your dinner tonight.

Looking up again, the two younger brothers and sisters next to you who had already licked the plates clean were staring longingly at the two or three wild vegetable leaves on your plate. Seeing this, you were silent for a moment.

You took a deep breath, stuffed the leaves on the plate into your mouth and swallowed them in front of the two diced radishes.

Three months, it’s been three months since you entered the Warring States Period where anything you wanted didn’t matter.

In the past two months, you still disliked the same things you ate every day, either dried salted fish or radish soup, rice was a luxury product, and meat...meat was forbidden.

You thought your life was bad enough, but last month the tax collector levied taxes and raided your home, and you regretted that you didn't have time to cherish the life you had in the first two months.

Your family is ordinary civilians living in the castle town of the Fire Country daimyo's castle. This quality of life is at least better than half of the people in the country.

"Oh." You sighed.

"Alas..." The two children next to you also sighed sadly.

"..." Opposite you, the cheap father and cheap mother of this body looked at each other, and then sighed dejectedly, "Oh."

What's the use of sighing? Sighing can't fill the stomach.

"...I'll go into the mountains tomorrow!" Your cheap dad put down the same clean plate, glanced from you to your second-ranked brother and third-ranked sister, and gritted his teeth before deciding.

In addition to picking wild vegetables, going up the mountain is all about hunting.

The meaning of going up the mountain here is naturally to go up the mountain to hunt in violation of the meat ban.

The family is almost out of ammunition and food. It stands to reason that it is natural to have no choice but to go up the mountain to find food, but it is not the prohibition that makes people hesitate to go up the mountain -

Your cheap lady glanced out the window nervously, lowered her voice and said, "No! Are you crazy!"

"A few days ago, I heard that there were ninjas fighting nearby. Once they entered the mountain, they couldn't come out!"

Your five-year-old brother, Taro, stared down at his empty bowl and muttered, "I wish I were a ninja. I want to eat meat."

"I want to eat too." Your four-year-old sister A Cai was so hungry that tears welled up in her eyes.

Under the meat ban, ninjas can eat meat because they are the main force in the war.

Yes, in this world, the ones who bear the heavy responsibility of war are not the samurai well-known in your original world, but the ninjas.

This is the world in the Ninja manga that you followed for ten years to the finale.

The sudden taxation last month was also due to the war between the Land of Fire and the Land of Earth, and the daimyo raised supplies and hired ninjas to join the war.

If peasants are not drafted into the war, they will naturally be subject to more exploitation and oppression, as will other classes.

The mere fact that the nobles opened their mouths easily meant that the ninjas would fight in the front and suffer heavy casualties, and the civilians in the rear would also have to suffer from hunger.

There is no worse time for you than this time.

You don't understand, even if you travel through time, it doesn't matter if you don't travel to Konoha Village where the protagonist is, why would you directly travel to the Warring States Period decades earlier?

Is this reasonable?

Even if we need to pull up the time bar, why can't we pull it back to Boruto?

You listen to your parents arguing about whether you can go up the mountain, your mind is buzzing with their voices, and you don't understand why they still have the energy to argue.

"You have to find a way to make money."

As you murmured, you asked Taro to put away the dishes and wash them. You were so hungry that you even said something you would never say before traveling through time: "If this continues, it doesn't matter whether you can eat meat or not, rats will eat it too." show you."

"But I haven't seen a mouse in the house for a long time."

Taro swallowed quietly when he heard the second half of your sentence.

You glared at him fiercely and threatened, "How dare you touch a mouse? You'll get sick."

Taro:......

Didn’t you first talk about eating rats?

……

As ordinary townspeople, the impact of the war on you is actually far less than that on the villages further outside the town.

Your family is considered to be one of the worse off among the town people, and there is no ancestral shop that can be maintained. A family of five lived in a rented longhouse. My father ran errands as a waiter in a small shop, and my mother took on some manual work to earn some odd things.

Normally, you are often in a state of not being hungry to death, but not having enough to eat. You call this state of normalized hunger.

During the war in the past, it was said that my father would have his salary cut, but at least the whole family got through the hard times.

But this time he was fired directly, and the family lost a stable source of income.

It's probably because the Daimyo of the Land of Fire wants to do something big this time. The tax collection is much harsher than before, and the pressure on the shops in the town is greater than before, so your cheap dad's workplace has to decide to lay off employees.

You can understand the difficulty of the other party - provided that the laid off employee is not from your family.

What’s even more frightening is that your rent for the next month has not yet been paid.

During the war, it would be absolutely difficult for your family of five to leave the castle town and return home without any money.

The problem your family faces now is that no matter who it is, someone in the family must find a stable job as soon as possible.

So, what job opportunities are there in the castle town?

At night, you covered yourself with a quilt and looked at the dark beams of the house in the darkness. Your stomach was throbbing with spasmodic pains. In your ears, you could hear the tossing and turning sounds from your parents and the other two. The sound of a child breathing softly after falling asleep.

No matter what, it can't be like the house at the back of the street, where the hostess is reduced to a prostitute, right?

You close your eyes, and what you see in front of you is the image of the hostess passing by your house during the day with ingredients in her arms. The neighbors around her are whispering. The woman’s face is clearly smiling, but her eyes are like dry wells, and there is deathly silence. .

Is this really the world of shounen comics?

It's all too terrible.

"If this is a dream, please let me wake up." You pray softly, in the dark, to whom you don't know.