“Hey, there’s no need to be nervous,” Shou said, putting a hand on the boy’s shoulder. “If you really are a ninja, you could probably kill me a thousand different ways before I even had time to think about it. So try to look on the bright side before you go around saying things like you’re ‘just ordinary’.”
He thought about the offer for a while, mentally scrolling through all of the places mentioned. “Hm… well, what place do you like the best?” he asked.
”He slightly shrugged, because the truth was that he somehow confined himself in the walls of paperwork and errands for other high-ranking shinobis than going out on missions. Although he rarely does involve himself in missions, fighting was never his forte and the first time he killed a guy was enough for him to send into a spiral of depression. But he doesn’t say anything to him because he didn’t want to look pitiful to the stranger.
”Honestly, I’d like to stay in my room…“ But he sounded very weird saying that to him, so he shook his head looking flustered, and suggested something else. "B-but, because y-you’re a writer, a-and you probably needed a place of s-silence, I suggest you go a little outside the village. Beyond a river, t-there’s an open field with a few trees a-and if you climb up one of the hills, y-you can see the a portion of a village. I-I can show y-you the way, i-if you want…”
