After a day of classes and training, Jiangchuan Tangerine dragged his weary body back home. It wasn't until he sat at the entrance and looked at the reflection of his eight or nine-year-old self in the mirror that he put away the false smile on his face. With a helpless sigh, he lamented, "It turns out that imitating someone else's life is such a tiring endeavor."

"Lan Zai, go ahead and put away the ninja tools first; I'll come to prepare dinner later."

"ㄟ(。_。)呱~"

The little frog looked at Jiangchuan Tangerine with slight concern, extending its small hand to gently pat the boy's calf. Finally, it picked up the ninja tools bag and hopped toward the tool shed.

Jiangchuan Tangerine gazed at his reflection, lost in thought. Some of the more perceptive classmates and teachers had noticed his recent changes, but fortunately, most people in Kirigakure were quite indifferent and didn’t care much about others’ affairs. Jiangchuan Tangerine’s original name had long ceased to be important. He wasn't a native of this world; just a month ago, he was an ordinary person working a nine-to-five job. After nearly being hit by a large truck twice and feeling that he might be out of luck, he took a long leave to rest at home.

However, upon waking up one day, he found that he had crossed over into the world of ninjas and become a nine-year-old war orphan from Kirigakure. Fortunately, after his crossing, he inherited all the memories of the original host. As a half-anime fan, he wasn’t completely unfamiliar with the series "Naruto"; at the very least, he had watched the plot in its entirety and had a general understanding of its development. Jiangchuan Tangerine naturally knew what kind of place the ninja world was.

Since the end of the Warring States period and the establishment of the ninja village system, which was originally intended for peaceful development and mutual checks, the actual situation hadn’t changed much. The ninja world experienced major wars every few years, and localized conflicts and killings among ninjas due to missions never ceased. Not to mention, there were a few power-hungry individuals with poor judgment who desired to exterminate clans, slaughter villages, and destroy the world. Even the village of Konoha, where the original protagonist Naruto Uzumaki resided, was not peaceful either. They claimed to have established the village to prevent children from entering the battlefield, yet every time war broke out, numerous teenagers and even younger children were sent to the front lines to fight.

But Jiangchuan Tangerine had it worse; at least Konoha had a facade of peace and unity. Kirigakure was too lazy to even maintain such hypocrisy, and the implementation of the Blood Mist Policy had made the atmosphere of the whole village increasingly cruel and cold-blooded. However, all of this was just a potential danger.

Currently, the most pressing issue for Jiangchuan Tangerine was the graduation exam from the ninja school. All students at the Kirigakure Ninja School had to kill a fellow student during the graduation exam to become official ninjas, a cruel exam with a death rate of at least 50%. Jiangchuan Tangerine’s graduation exam was only four months away. As a transmigrator aware of the plot, the pressure on him was much greater than that of ordinary students. Because he inherited the memories of the original host upon his crossing, he immediately discovered that he had a classmate named Zabuza Momochi. Jiangchuan Tangerine knew very well that this guy had killed all his fellow students during the graduation exam in the original Naruto series, which forced Kirigakure to cancel such a cruel exam. This meant that if Jiangchuan Tangerine could not defeat Zabuza, his passing rate for this exam would be zero.

As an ordinary person who had crossed over from a peaceful world, Jiangchuan Tangerine just wanted to live a stable and comfortable life. At the very least, he wanted to survive until the era of Boruto. By then, the ninja world would have technology like video game consoles and networks, allowing him to peacefully become a recluse. Fortunately, as an ordinary transmigrator, Jiangchuan Tangerine came with a golden finger called the "Omni Pokémon Lottery System."

"I really can't face this system name..." Jiangchuan Tangerine covered his face and sighed. Having been here for over a month, he had already grasped the basic functions of the system. The system currently had three modules: [Lottery], [Tasks], and [Achievements]. Both tasks and achievements could earn gold coins, but unfortunately, these coins did not have a physical form and could only be used for lottery draws within the system; there wasn’t even a system shop.

Currently, the task list only featured daily tasks. Regardless of whether they were completed, four tasks refreshed daily at midnight, with each task worth 10 gold coins. Completing them all would yield an additional 20 gold coins. After more than a month of completing tasks, Jiangchuan Tangerine knew that the daily tasks were simple, such as [Throwing shuriken 200 times], [Answering a classroom question once], and [Helping the widow next door buy soy sauce]. Recently, his classmates often spotted him training alone after school, driven not only by his urgency about the future but also sometimes simply to complete daily tasks.

Aside from daily tasks, he was still unclear about how other tasks were triggered. Jiangchuan Tangerine guessed that it might involve taking on village tasks after becoming a ninja, perhaps leading to new task types. Next was the [Achievements] module. The benefit of daily tasks was their stability, but he estimated that due to his short time in the ninja world, he had triggered various [Achievements] over the past month. The only achievement of the "newbie gift pack" type, [New to the Ninja World], granted him 300 gold coins. Other achievements, like today’s achievement for beating up a child, only awarded a pitiful 5-10 gold coins, but the variety of achievements was abundant.

There were achievements like tasting 10 different dishes, conversing with 100 people, and even yesterday, he triggered an achievement called [Sorry, I'm on the road of life...] for being late to school for the first time. However, since the triggering conditions for all achievements were unknown, after some trial and error at the beginning and finding that active exploration was too inefficient, Jiangchuan Tangerine decided to passively trigger them instead.

Lastly, the most important part was the [Lottery] interface. According to the introduction available by clicking on [?] in the lottery interface, each 160 gold coins could be exchanged for a lottery opportunity, with a guaranteed purple item for a ten-draw, and a guaranteed gold item after accumulating 90 draws in the same pool, resetting the count after obtaining a gold item. The specific rewards for gold and purple items depended on what was available in the drawn UP pool. Although it was called the Omni Pokémon Lottery, there were currently only three lottery pools.

One was a temporarily unknown pool, which Jiangchuan Tangerine hadn’t figured out how to unlock yet. The second was a standard attribute UP pool, containing a mishmash of items ranging from techniques like [Explosion] to nonsensical items like [Coins on Meowth's Head]. The last one was a beginner's limited UP pool, which could only be drawn 20 times. Since the beginner UP pool offered a discount for ten draws, Jiangchuan Tangerine decisively conducted a ten-draw with the 1280 gold coins he had saved over half a month ago. The result included [Summoning Technique * Unique] (Gold item * Unique: Master the summoning technique and randomly summon a Pokémon as the host, with growth potential and full initial affinity). Although this sounded impressive, it was just a Froakie that hadn’t even reached level 5, and the other rewards seemed somewhat lackluster.

The blue items [Healing Ointment] and [PP Restorer] could be said to still have some use. However, perhaps due to localization, the retrieved items turned [Healing Ointment] into a cream and [PP Restorer] directly into special soldier rations. Jiangchuan Tangerine tested a small portion and could only say they were slightly better than the medicine sold in the village pharmacy, but the improvement was limited. The rest were just items like [Fearow's Feather], [Yellow Pine Cone], [Grilled Fruit], [Orange Mail], [Small Mushroom], [Scrap Iron], and [Marbles], which were all inexplicable white items without any descriptions.

Fortunately, there was still Froakie, a Pokémon from another world, who was a completely trustworthy companion. Even though its fighting power was still weak, it provided Jiangchuan Tangerine with a lot of psychological comfort. Thus, he named Froakie "Jiangchuan Lan," hoping that even when it evolved into a Greninja, this name would always be with it. He wanted it to be his partner, growing together and not merely a ninja beast or Pokémon. Of course, out of a slight sense of embarrassment, Jiangchuan Tangerine often called it "Lan Zai."

After this period of effort, plus receiving rewards for the achievement of beating up a child and daily task rewards, he finally accumulated 1305 gold coins again. Jiangchuan Tangerine glanced at the number of gold coins on the system panel and then looked at Lan Zai, who had finished putting away the ninja tools and was looking at him with a worried expression. "Let's eat first; we've waited all day, so there's no need to rush now."

Since he had arrived in this perilous ninja world, Jiangchuan Tangerine consciously began to make himself as calm as possible in whatever he did. People who were too impulsive and reckless did not live long in the ninja world. Anyway, he would definitely be able to draw today, so waiting patiently for a while wouldn't matter. Jiangchuan Tangerine forced himself to regain his composure.

He got up, changed his shoes, cooked, and had dinner with Lan Zai, completing everything in an orderly manner as usual. Looking at the time, it was 10:00 PM. After washing his hands and face and calming his mood, Jiangchuan Tangerine opened the system panel. "Lan Zai, come pray with me!"

Although being a ninja required calmly facing everything, since a transmigration like this had happened, seeking divine blessings wasn’t something to be embarrassed about, right? "May the gods bless me, Tai Shang Lao Jun, Buddha Sakyamuni, Arceus..."

"(⊙▽⊙？)呱~"