Exploiting Elementary Schoolers' "Weakness": Early Manga Profit Dividends

The next day at school.

Kushina's little butt was still slightly swollen from the spanking, and she threw a small tantrum. Liuyun coaxed her for quite a while, but she still refused to calm down.

It was not until she saw a bald figure enter the classroom that Kushina finally burst into laughter and reluctantly forgave Liuyun for his offense.

After Sato's hair had been shaved off by a kunai, completely shaving his head bald was the only possible remedy.

Kushina pointed at his shiny bald head and mercilessly mocked him, making Sato cry in anger several times...

After that incident, the elementary schoolers in the class no longer dared to provoke Liuyun, that little brat. Perhaps they were not afraid of being beaten, nor were they afraid of being scolded...

But if their hair got shaved off like Sato's, it might feel worse than death...

After all, no one wanted to be laughed at by others. What elementary schoolers feared most was being pointed at and judged by their classmates.

"Looks like these little brats have weaknesses too!"

Watching that group of well-behaved elementary schoolers, Liuyun could not help revealing a satisfied smile.

Of course, there was no way Sato would settle down. Right now, he had no "weakness" left. No one else dared provoke that little brat, but Sato... he still dared!

Unless his hair grew back, there was no hope of him calming down...

During Ideology Education Class, Liuyun half-closed his eyes and rested his hands on his thighs. His mind sank into his lower abdomen as he extracted Chakra as though no one else were there.

He had no interest in listening to any bullshit about the spirit of sacrifice. All he wanted now was Chakra.

This idiot...

Kushina, sitting beside him, had been completely ignored. Even when she tossed little paper balls at him, he would not respond...

A month of peaceful days passed in the blink of an eye.

As soon as night fell that day, Toriyama Akira came to visit Liuyun in person.

The first run of the Dragon Ball manga had debuted in the Naruto world and received rave reviews at manga bookstores throughout Konoha Village, selling like wildfire.

"Little Liuyun, this is your share of the manga's early profits. The total is one hundred thousand ryo..." Toriyama Akira said, pushing a thick stack of banknotes and a profit statement toward Liuyun.

Asuka, seated beside Liuyun, stared at so much money with a face full of shock. Even now, she had not quite processed what was happening.

Liuyun ran his fingers across the banknotes, his expression revealing neither joy nor anger.

In Asuka's eyes, her son looked exactly like a little adult at that moment!

"Don't think it's too little yet. The manga is currently only being sold in Konoha Village and the surrounding villages. The publishing house is working day and night to speed up printing. Once it goes on sale throughout the country and even in other nations, your dividends will naturally be countless times greater than this..."

Toriyama Akira continued with a smile. Dragon Ball's explosive popularity had not surprised him in the least, because the story itself was incredibly interesting.

As long as Liuyun continued creating it without dropping it, making a fortune from this manga was only a matter of time.

"I understand. Thank you for making the trip, Uncle Toriyama Akira. This is the continuation of the plot that I organized recently, along with character portraits of several important figures..."

Liuyun took a manuscript and several character portraits out of a long box.

The character portraits of Son Goku, Master Roshi, Krillin, and the others in Dragon Ball had all been "created" by him personally.

It could be said that there was very little that truly required Toriyama Akira to use his brain, so he earned this money quite comfortably.

"Wonderful! With this manuscript of yours, the next issue of the manga is taken care of!"

Toriyama Akira was overjoyed. This manuscript was like a reassurance pill; he could once again unleash his skills and continue drawing the story!

After carefully reading through the later plot, Toriyama Akira was grinning from ear to ear.

The Dragon Ball story was becoming more and more exciting. Though Liuyun's writing was not very good, he had at least roughly laid out both the broad and detailed outlines. Drawing the manga based on it would not be a problem.

In less important areas, Toriyama Akira would make minor adjustments to the manga. So long as the general settings did not go wrong, Liuyun allowed him to add some of his own little ideas.

For example, the female characters...

A vaguely visible glimpse of two little dots, a faint little patch of grass, and so on.

Young people in the Shinobi World loved this sort of thing. Jiraiya had not even written Make-Out Paradise yet...

After seeing Toriyama Akira off, Liuyun handed fifty thousand ryo in banknotes to Asuka.

"For me???"

Asuka stood there in a daze, holding the money.

This was worth several months of her salary. How had her son gotten so much money?

"Yeah. Mom won't have to work so hard from now on. I can support you..." Liuyun said with a smile.

"Ah! Son, how... how did you get so much money?" Asuka's face was filled with shock.

Liuyun told her everything from beginning to end.

"Oh my god! You can actually write stories? And you even took the initiative to approach Toriyama Akira about working together to create a manga???"

Asuka understood her son less and less...

Her son was practically a genius!

Why had he become like this? It seemed that ever since he had taken off his headband, his mind had become different!

Could it be that covering his head before had affected the spread of his intelligence?

Asuka could not figure out the reason, so she began letting her imagination run wild again...

She happily accepted the money, then took a newly released copy of the Dragon Ball manga from Liuyun and cheerfully began reading it.

Originally, Liuyun had not wanted to give her the manga because it contained some "spicy bits" Toriyama Akira had added... But if he did not give it to her, this woman would definitely go to the bookstore and buy one from Toriyama Akira herself...

Helpless, he could only warn her in advance, dump all the blame onto Toriyama Akira, and show Asuka the original manuscript. Only then did he clear himself of suspicion of being a perverted, lustful freak.

"Listen, son. Working with Toriyama Akira is fine, but don't let him lead you astray... That guy's mind is full of filthy thoughts. He turned a perfectly good story into a dirty little manga!"

Asuka held the manga in her hand and lectured him indignantly.

"..."

"Did you hear me?"

Seeing her son remain silent, Asuka tapped him on the head with the manga.

"Ah... I got it!"

Liuyun quickly agreed while clutching his head.

"You should also read less of this kind of manga in the future... It isn't good for young people's physical and mental health."

"Mm-hmm, I'll listen to Mom..."

Liuyun put on an obedient expression, and Asuka smiled in satisfaction at the sight.

The day after receiving the money, Liuyun went to the Ninja Tool Shop and bought a large pile of training equipment, including ninja swords, kunai, shuriken, sandbags, wooden dummies, training posts, and more.

He spent money like water, but he did not feel the slightest heartache. Money no longer meant much to him; power was what he pursued.

Taking an expensive Chakra test paper from his pocket, Liuyun injected his Chakra into it.

He wanted to see his Chakra nature and use it to determine the direction of his future ninjutsu training.