Chapter 3

That Man, the Hardworking Man (その男、苦労人, Sono otoko, kurōnin) is the 3rd chapter of the Under Ninja manga series.

Characters

 * Kuro Kumogakure
 * Kawado
 * Oono
 * Foreigner

Summary
Kawado calls Kodan High School pretending to be Kuro's mom and wants to speak with someone important. Being drunk, she tells them its "her" and find it bothersome they want Kuro's name. Kuro starts making characters to spell his name "Ku-mo-ga-ku-re", but misspells it as Kumokakure and tells them it doesn't matter if its "ga" or "ka". She then gets confused they want her to go on Saturday, but the school was talking about Kuro and she gives him the phone. On the phone, Kuro confirms that she was drunk and gets instructions from the school. He congratulates Kawado for her performans as the school indeed though they are real family. Starting on Saturday, Kuro realizes he won't even have the weekends free, but Kawado tells him he needs to listen more carefully as the transferring test for English, Japanese and math was on Saturday.

Kuro goes to Oono's apartment to take some beer as promise reward for Kawado acting as his mother. She wonders why his apartment is connected with Oono's, but Kuro explains it was like that when he moved in. Kawado asks Kuro about his mom, and Kuro explains she dumped him to his father after birth, but he misunderstood her as that he needs to name him Kuro. Kuro then mentions another play on words about his school friend Hibi Kisaki and how he died from lighting, which makes Kawado laugh. Kuro tells her this was supposed to be a sad story, but after learning he is 17, Kawado starts to laugh even more. They continue drinking and having fun and drink all the beer. When Kawado falls asleep, Kuro takes her to her apartment.

Kuro then sees Oono returning and hides under the floor. Oono who wanted to drink beer tonight, quickly goes to Kuro's apartment annoyed that Kuro had drank all of his beer, but he can't find him.