Tremble, Uchiha Shin!

The Uchiha Clan Head's home.

After the meeting ended, Chiken returned home and immediately roared, "Brat, get out here!"

"Old man, I'm busy."

"Get out here, now!"

"If you've got the guts, come in."

Shin was in his room, flipping through the Uchiha Clan's recorded secret ninjutsu with his left hand while quickly writing something on paper with his right.

"What are you doing, brat? You made me come over myself." Chiken's tone was still unfriendly as he entered the room.

Working with both hands, Shin replied without looking back, "I'm busy. I'll be done soon."

Chiken was puzzled.

He stepped forward and discovered that Shin's right hand was recording things he could not understand.

As for the clan's secret scroll in his left hand, Chiken recognized it at a glance.

He immediately flew into a rage. "Brat, what's with that scroll in your hand? Did you steal it?"

"Who would steal it? I just told the elders I wanted to borrow it for a look, and they gave it to me."

"Borrow it? Brat, do you think you haven't stolen enough before? The elders are old men. They only gave it to you because they couldn't withstand your nonsense!"

"Isn't that basically the same thing?" Shin set down the scroll in his hand.

Then he picked up a blank scroll and continued writing furiously.

"How is that the same thing? You little—" Chiken caught sight of what Shin was writing and could not help growing curious. "What is this?"

"This? It's an improved ninjutsu. Didn't the clan members like the improved Great Fireball Technique last time...?"

"I had some free time today, so I borrowed the scrolls to see if I could improve a few more."

"Fire Release: Great Dragon Fire Technique. After optimization, its power doubles with the same amount of Chakra? Brat, is what you wrote real?"

Chiken found it hard to believe. Even the previous Great Fireball Technique had not received such a large increase in power.

"This time, I optimized it based on the clan members' physical data templates. The results will definitely be better than the version made specifically for me."

After the clan members learned Shin's previously improved Great Fireball Technique, they discovered that its power was not as great as when he used it himself.

Only after careful research did he realize it was because he had not optimized it according to other people's Chakra circulation routes.

If he wanted to protect the Uchiha Clan, he definitely could not rely on himself alone.

Only by strengthening the clan members could they better face the threats of the future.

"Then keep going. Make sure you rest. Don't wear yourself out." Chiken stopped disturbing Shin and quietly left the room.

"The old man's all bark and no bite." Faced with the sudden concern, Shin still instinctively made a snide remark.

Yet the smile on his face revealed that his true feelings were not like that at all.

After leaving the room, Chiken wore a gratified smile.

"This brat finally did something good. I'll ask him about the Third Hokage another day."

Shin's factory.

Orochimaru stared blankly at the scroll in his hand.

"This isn't scientific!"

"Just using Chakra-generated thrust can make such a huge lump of iron fly?"

"And this—can some kind of chip made from such tiny diodes really perform calculations and simulations?"

"This is completely unscientific!"

At that moment, Orochimaru truly began to question his life.

If the ideas within the scroll could truly be realized, then the worldview he had built over more than a decade would probably shatter into pieces.

The scroll was filled with things like aerodynamics and the Periodic Table, all of which gave him a splitting headache.

If Shin had not mysteriously handed him a scroll that day—

And said something about the truth existing within it, Orochimaru would probably be outside the village right now, carrying out a high-difficulty S-rank mission.

"But how could missions compare to research? If this stuff can really be realized, forget changing the ninja world—even changing ninjas' perceptions would be easy..."

After studying it for several days, Orochimaru finally managed to sort out a few clues.

He truly wanted to shout that the truth of the world existed here.

But his sound scientific literacy still made him decide to verify the contents of the scroll first before considering such declarations.

"Becoming a consultant here really wasn't a loss at all..."

That was right. Orochimaru had already cobbled together prototype microwave ovens and refrigerators.

Over the past few months, he had searched nearly the entire ninja world before finding materials that could effectively isolate Chakra interference.

For a scientific madman, even if the materials existed only on the sun, he would find every possible way to fly there and collect them.

This was not an exaggeration. Every great researcher possessed this sort of relentless, root-digging personality.

"What would happen if I mixed the materials in certain proportions?"

"If only that kid Shin were here. His calculating ability was far more powerful than the chips he designed..."

Orochimaru was pondering how to drag Shin over as free labor.

Somewhere in the forests outside Konoha.

A brown-haired boy was searching everywhere for huge boulders.

"Found you!" The boy ran toward a massive boulder in the distance.

"Nawaki's Super Strength Fist!"

"Bang!!!"

After an angry roar, the enormous boulder shattered into pieces and scattered across the forest floor.

That was right. The boy was Nawaki.

He looked at the right hand that had just smashed the boulder. Nothing could be seen on the surface, but inside it lay a huge amount of Chakra accumulated over the past few months.

Nawaki's Super Strength Fist had been one of Tsunade's ideas. She was merely testing its effects on him first.

As for the name of the move, there was no need to complain about it. He was a chuunibyou teenager, after all.

"My sister had me smash these things so I could concentrate Chakra at one point, right? I can feel it—my right hand seems to have endless strength!"

Nawaki clenched his fist, somewhat moved by Tsunade's intentions.

But the next second, he regretted it.

"There are lots of ways to concentrate Chakra, though. Why do I have to smash things with my hand? Can't I control my Chakra myself and gather it in my hand?"

Only then did Nawaki realize that he had indeed been tricked.

He was now certain that he had become Tsunade's guinea pig.

But he still did not dare resist his sister.

Looking at the results, it was not as though he had gained nothing.

He had smashed most of the Senju Clan's tree stumps and boulders, which was why he had come to this godforsaken place.

"How strong is that guy now...?"

"I heard he became friends with the little princess of the Hyuga Clan. A guy like him actually made a friend? He must have forced her!"

Nawaki's mind was filled with envy, jealousy, and hatred.

Naturally, he was even more displeased with a certain someone.

And in his eyes, it had to be that great villain Uchiha Shin who had violently coerced the class beauty, little Nao, into becoming his friend.

As for the newspaper's claim that the friendship between the Uchiha and Hyuga would last forever, he did not believe a single word of it.

He had already weathered too many storms. Even if it were true, he would refuse to believe it.

"Tremble, Uchiha Shin... Nawaki is back!"

Nawaki stood in the empty forest and loudly announced his return.

Who knew what waves he would stir up in peaceful Konoha once more?