Gen Takano slept for a full day and two nights straight.
When he opened his eyes again, he felt his stomach was empty, and his spirit had finally recovered.
Afterward, he looked at his extremely disheveled appearance in the mirror, a sight that he barely recognized as himself for a moment.
Although Gen Takano was not a clean freak, he could not tolerate his current state. After spending considerable time cleaning himself up, he looked at his still-pale face in the mirror and smiled.
This paleness likely wouldn't disappear. For the sake of his research and practicing Ninjutsu, he had consumed many military rations pills and constantly drained his own Chakra.
As is well known, Chakra is the combination of physical and spiritual energy. His physical energy had been depleted too severely, and the recovery speed could no longer keep up, resulting in such a pale complexion.
It was foreseeable that if he continued down this path, he would undoubtedly be short-lived.
However, ever since he acquired the Kiyomi Technique, his path had already changed!
Gen Takano pushed open the door and firmly took a step toward a brand new life.
After satisfying his hunger, he began making his subsequent arrangements.
First, since he was unsure when Uchiha Obito's beloved, Rin Nohara, would be captured by the Kirigakure, he had to start surveillance immediately. Using crows would be sufficient for this purpose.
As for the rest of his plans, they would require a bit of time.
The next day, Gen Takano went to the Hokage mission board and accepted a relatively complex solo mission.
After walking past the village's Barrier with the mission scroll, Gen Takano looked at the scroll and the task written on it; he had no intention of actually completing it.
The actual issuer of this mission was none other than himself; he was merely using the task as a legitimate excuse to leave Konoha Village.
After confirming that no one was following him, Gen Takano bit his finger, formed hand signs, and pressed his hands to the ground.
"Summoning Technique!"
However, this Summoning Technique seemed to be faulty, and no Ninjabeast was summoned.
This was, of course, intentional by Gen Takano. By using far less Chakra than was required to summon a Ninjabeast, the attempt was virtually guaranteed to fail, but the target of the summoning would still sense the attempt.
Just like Uchiha Madara forcibly attempting to summon the Nine-Tails inside Uzumaki Naruto; even if unsuccessful, the target would still feel it.
After Gen Takano completed the Summoning Technique, inside a slightly dim Experimental Base, a crow blinked. This was the Ninjabeast Gen Takano had summoned. It flapped its wings, flew up, and, following Gen Takano's instructions, unrolled a massive scroll.
Engraved upon it was clearly the formula for the Summoning Technique.
The next moment, Gen Takano outside Konoha Village vanished in a puff of white smoke, replaced by Gen Takano appearing inside the Experimental Base!
Inside the Experimental Base, Gen Takano looked at the various corpses preserved in the cultivation tanks. Then, he let his gaze settle on the final row of bodies.