The Protagonist System - 303 Growing Pains

... off to another posting. I barely had to poke the woman's mind to get all the details, because she was so happy about the situation. Hiruzen Sarutobi himself had cautioned her against being so blatant with the abuse and let her keep her position as the matron of the orphanage.

I mentally sighed at the old man going the Albus Dumbledore route to give me a horrible home life as a child, so he could 'rescue' me later by giving me a crappy apartment as he fed me the idea to become a ninja an ...