Journey of Desires

 Today it turns out that the hot spring country has incredibly delicious meat dishes. Still, there's a reason we chose this place as the first point in our exploration of the ninja world.- Hey, Ban! Can you share, please?

It's not my fault the local chefs' dried meat is so good... Hmm! No way, it's my sister's fault, especially since she didn't share last time in the same situation.

- No, you decided to take just a little bit and ate it all after 2 minutes, your mistake and you have to pay for it.

- You're mean, brother. I'm gonna take offense and not use the dream spell.Oh, that's not good. I mean, that's pure blackmail, and how did she even think to use a trick like that on me???- You know, I've lost my appetite.

Why don't you finish the portions you bought? I can't do it by myself.- Heh-heh.)

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From the upcoming book on ninja world countries, "Beautiful Cities and What's Interesting About Them.""In the capital of the hot spring country, there is one extremely lovely hotel called the Tanuki Abode.

When we first checked into this hotel, we had no particular expectations for either the quality of the rooms or the quality of the service. We were very pleasantly surprised by the main feature of this establishment, all rooms here are located with access to the patio, which has a thing that I never expected to see in such a place! Hammocks! Extremely cool and comfortable thing, in this hotel in the evening we not only sat in their room but also rested on hammocks playing shogi with other people who rented rooms.

Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Brother is right, I was extremely interested, I just LOVE board games in all their manifestations, never once regretted that we decided to choose this hotel!!! Shogi by the way were in several variations, the usual ones played by those who do not have the slightest skills in the use of energy, and chakro shogi, an incredibly interesting thing as it can be played remotely from several meters, controlling the figures with the help of commands on chakro receivers. You just need to put energy into the right receiver and the shogi figure will go to the place you want it to go. Later I asked the owner who invented such entertainment? He told a rather interesting story about how his father was a Kumogakure genin in his youth, who was later injured and tried to make money on inventions, but as a result, the chakro shogi and the rest of his inventions turned out to be somewhat useful for improving chakra control, but still the result was not worth the effort and he was forced to leave Kumo, as a result he settled in the land of hot springs and has now handed the business over to his son and is now spending his retirement relaxing and occasionally making new sets of chakra shogi."

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The very same hotel, Tanuki Abode, late at night, when the clock would have already shown the time close to midnight, if there was one. Third room for 2 people, the one to the right of the patio entrance on the first floor.

- We've been in hot spring country for a week now, I think we've had enough rest. How would you like to move on tomorrow?

These words were spoken by a blue-haired man about 25 years old, his scarlet eyes darted from the window through which he was watching the patio of the hotel to the girl who was sitting on the next bed.

- Well, I guess you're right, so where do we go from here?The girl looked like a twin of the man who had spoken earlier, the same blue hair and red eyes, but with a tinge of brown. Her hair was braided into two wheat-like spikelets hanging down the sides of her head. The man had rather short hair with a backcomb, so to speak, in the style of Vergil.

- Let's go to the land of rice paddies and then to the hidden leaf, and from that to the hidden rain. Next I think it's best to go into the hidden sand and out of that into the hidden rock.

Earlier, when they first arrived in the new world and studied the map of the area, they planned to go first to the land of metal, or to the land of clouds, Ban loves blades, and where else to take them as not in the countries of swordsmen. Sister has no preference in this situation, she just doesn't care. The only place they decided to go is the land of the whirlpool, but they decided to leave the most interesting part for the end.

- Mmm, okay! In the land of fields, you choose the hotel again, after all, this time and the last 3 times you took the best options.

- No problem, then let's do that third night spell tonight and go to sleep. Night spells are very convenient and diverse section of Mental Magic, with the help of it you can both lay the most horrible nightmares bringing a person to the brink of a nervous breakdown, and the most pleasant dreams giving bliss and peace.

Also from the rather curious possibilities, with the help of this magic a person can experience sleep paralysis, a rather interesting experience, especially if it has never before felt.- Mental Magic: Section 1, "Sleep well."- Thank you.

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 - Good morning, I see the spell worked perfectly as usual? Once again, the first thing I hear when I wake up is my favorite sister's voice, which is a pleasant situation.

- Mmmmm, you can't praise yourself, no one can, right?- What do you mean nobody? I mean, you're here, so you're not gonna deny me the pleasure of boosting my self-esteem, are you?Deja vu again, how many thousands of times we've had this dialog can't be counted. Well, I don't mind repeating it a few million more times, such phrases have become a tradition between me and my sister. I hope I'll always wake up to the voice of someone dear to me.

- I was curious, how many times did we repeat this dialog? A couple tens of thousands of times anyway, right?- Well, if to count, this tradition has appeared when we have only got in purgatory, and we spoke similarly approximately couple times a week, that is 8 times in a month and 96 in a year. That's about 94,000 times.- You know? That was a rhetorical question.

- I know.***A little while later.A tanned muscular man stood in front of us with a polite smile. The man was the owner of the inn and the son of the author of chakro shogi. He looked a little annoyed but satisfied, but what the hell? He's the son of the author of this game, and he's never been able to beat Kylia. My sister loves board games for a reason, in our 3 hundred years of survival I had completely stopped winning. If I remember correctly at the moment our score is 865,001 to 230,123, naturally in her favor.

- Kid, don't be offended that you couldn't beat your aunt in the game, you'll grow up and learn, no big deal).

- What kind of kid am I? I'm 3... Never mind, have a good trip, I hope nothing bad happens to you.

- See you later!Well, here we go from this cozy town to the exit. For some reason, just now I'm thinking maybe I shouldn't have gone to the land of rice paddies after all.- Hmm, look, if my memory serves me correctly. And then I heard a phrase that changed my thoughts in a more positive direction.

- In the country of rice fields there is a town Kirihyoro, they say there lives a former samurai from the country of iron. I heard from an innkeeper who came from that town three days ago.- Oh! Great! But what reason do you have to look for information so I won't change my mind about going to the Land of Fields?

- Apples!-

Apples?

- Of course! From what I understand, they're a very unpopular product in this world, only to be found in the land of rice paddies, as they're planted around the edges of the fields to form a beautiful... design, so to speak. Or in large cities like the capital of the Fire Nation or the great Shinobi villages, but the prices are exorbitant.

Apples are incredibly tasty and healthy. Kylia fell in love with them because it was the first normal food after so long in that horrible dimension. Purgatory was an invaluable experience, but neither she nor I want to go back.

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By the evening of the same day we were near the border of the land of rice fields and the land of sound. It is possible to fly over or teleport to the other side, but we are still curious about how the border guards work in this world.

- It's kind of, uh. unpresentable? I don't know what to call this shack. When I saw it, I thought how can there be something like this on the border between countries? The border guard's hut was literally 5 by 8 meters with a terrible exterior. At least the windows are intact.

- I bet you 200 ryo that no one will be here at all and we wasted an extra half hour creating an alibi for our arrival.

- No, knowing you, you've already checked and there's really no one here, let's go for the quick option. "Shift!"

Ban instantly disappeared from the field for nothing, I felt that he was already a dozen kilometers away from me, apparently very upset that wasted so much time, we need to catch up.

- "Shift!"

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From the upcoming book on Ninja World Countries, "Beautiful Cities and What's Interesting About Them"

"When we got to Kirihyoro, the first thing we saw was some pretty beautiful scenery. The city is surrounded by rice paddies, and the way it looks epitomizes everything you can imagine when you hear the phrase "Land of Rice Paddies". Well, I don't know what else to say. Oh, brother. Okay, I'll tell you about this town! Ban as soon as we entered the town wanted to find a former samurai from the land of iron, we decided to split up and I went looking for a place to buy more apples in bulk. I prepared sealing scrolls for about 25x25 meters. The search for apples was pretty quick, and much cheaper than I expected. But now it's not important and I want to tell you about the interesting things that I noticed during these 2 days in Kirihyoro.

The city is built in a rather interesting and beautiful shape, from a bird's eye view it looks like a cart wheel, where the streets are the spokes of the wheel, and the houses are empty space, the city is almost perfectly round, and of the interesting places there are a couple of restaurants in the center of the city. "Ichioda-san" restaurant which I remembered most of all, in it as not surprisingly very tasty cooked rice dishes, but here mustard in such an institution I did not expect to meet at all, of course it cost for a fairly small portion as 8 portions without it, but still was surprised. I also think it is worth mentioning the eatery "Moto Moto Moto", it has very tasty pastries, and especially buns. And the hotel where we stayed, "Jade Rest". Although there are no unusual features in it, but it is perfectly clean and excellent living conditions. One of the cleanest, best quality and cozy hotels we have ever been to!"