[Come on, don't treat Naruko like she isn't a girl, okay?]
[Honestly, Naruko looked really good in that school swimsuit...]
The next day, Sparkle took Sasuke and Naruto straight to the hot springs.
Sparkle herself did not change, but Sasuke had already put on swimming trunks. As for Naruto, Sparkle had prepared a women's Japanese school swimsuit for him... commonly known as a school swimsuit.
Honestly, it did not look out of place in this world. There were swimsuits far more outrageous than that here.
"Water-walking means attaching Chakra to the soles of your feet, then using it to stand on the water."
Wearing zori, Sparkle stood atop the hot spring.
"Hehe, this isn't so hard..."
Naruto stood on the water and, for a moment, did not fall in.
But he seemed to get carried away, and with a splash, he fell into the hot spring, soaking his hair and clothes.
Another wave of danmaku flooded in.
"The water in the hot spring is still. Once you get used to it, I'll take you to the rapids outside. You can show off then." Sparkle stepped down from the water. "Water-walking is different from tree-climbing. Tree-climbing requires adhesion, while water-walking requires Chakra to create tension."
Compared to the previous episode, most of the stage's editing focused on Naruto falling into the water.
Apparently, the stage knew how to maximize an anime's strengths.
By the end, Naruto and Sasuke could finally barely stand on the water.
For a slice-of-life episode, Sparkle's gains were enormous.
When it finally ended, Sparkle's popularity shot straight past 20,000 points. Adding the popularity generated by the comments afterward, Sparkle's reward points rose again to 25,000 points.
She could afford another Four-Star Purple Quality Character Card now.
Episode Seven Broadcast Complete Negotiations with the production team have been completed. Please select two of the following as your compensation. 1. Skill Card Single Draw Coupon (Purple). Guarantees a random skill of Four-Star Purple Quality or above, with a small chance of a random Five-Star Gold Quality skill. 2. Holy Light Blackout (Ninja Path exclusive). Four-Star. During the broadcast of the Ninja Path anime, you may use Holy Light Blackout to obscure part of the screen. 3. Local Synthesis Platform (Ninja Path exclusive). Four-Star. Can fuse external abilities or items with abilities or items native to the filming set, localizing them. The selected native skills and items must be personally mastered or owned by the actor. This platform is limited to native items and abilities from the Ninja Path anime.
Who the hell put together this holy knight setup?!
The moment Sparkle saw Holy Light Blackout, she laughed.
"Too bad it's anime-exclusive."
Otherwise, this skill would actually be pretty useful sometimes.
And although Sparkle did not mind revealing a little, she had no intention of showing everyone everything.
A little was still alluring, like a pipa half-hidden behind the face.
Everything? That would just be tasteless, utterly unrefined.
The difference between vulgarity and elegance was only that slight.
"If it weren't restricted, I could choose it. It would also work if it affected the other people in the filming set."
If it worked on other people, it would basically be Bringer-of-Darkness Technique combined with Solar Flare.
Unfortunately, it did not have that capability.
"Choosing two out of three basically means eliminating one ability. Sorry, Holy Light."
Sparkle chose the guaranteed purple Skill Card draw. Take a gamble, turn a bicycle into a motorcycle. With a guaranteed purple card, there was even a chance of getting gold.
As for the third option, it could ensure that the random skill she drew would not be too useless, making it easier to turn into her own combat power.
"Come on, a miracle from a single draw!"
One extra chapter for every 50 blades. If it can stay on the click rankings for 48 hours, I'll add 10 extra chapters.
Sparkle: I Have a Bold Idea
After the newbie gift pack, the last card Sparkle had drawn was Mai Shiranui's Character Card.
Now that she had finally gotten another Skill Card, Sparkle became interested.
Come on, a miracle from a single draw!
Within Sparkle's consciousness, a purple flash streaked past.
Then, Sparkle saw a Skill Card flash through her mind.
Skill Card Spirit Summoning Technique Rarity: Four-Star A technique that uses one's own body or another person's body as a vessel, allowing the deceased's physical body or soul to descend upon that vessel. The technique requires Cursed Energy and can only be used by a Cursed Spirit User. To summon the deceased, the deceased's body or related components are required as a medium. Physical information and soul information may be summoned separately or simultaneously. The card disappears after use.
"This skill..."
Wasn't this a technique from Jujutsu Kaisen?
It was the technique a villain had used to summon Toji Fushiguro, only to lose control and get killed instead.
But that did not mean the technique was bad. On the contrary, it proved that this technique could perfectly recreate the power of the deceased.
It was basically Jujutsu Kaisen's version of Impure World Reincarnation.
Of course, there were differences between the two.
"It needs Cursed Energy."
Many techniques in Jujutsu Kaisen required Cursed Energy to use, so they did not fit very well with her side.
It was the kind of skill that was completely unusable without being "localized."
"If it weren't for that synthesis platform, I really couldn't use it. Come to think of it, the rewards the stage gives always seem to help me."
If she had not received two rewards, she would not have been able to obtain the synthesis platform, and the skill would have been unusable.
Her luck was pretty good.
In truth, all three forms of compensation would help Sparkle.
"A native skill, and one that I possess... ah, there really is one."
Sparkle had initially looked down somewhat on Impure World Reincarnation before Orochimaru's modifications.
But with the mindset of not leaving empty-handed, Sparkle had copied down this forbidden technique from the Scroll of Sealing anyway.
Since she was going to synthesize them, fusing two somewhat similar skills was naturally the best option.
If Spirit Summoning Technique worked well, she could pull off some interesting tricks in the Land of Waves.
Impure World Reincarnation itself was not actually that difficult. Sparkle could learn it after studying it for a while, so it counted as one of her skills.
Sparkle opened the stage's synthesis platform interface.
She placed Spirit Summoning Technique inside, then placed Impure World Reincarnation on the other side.
Within Sparkle's consciousness, an Uzumaki emerged. It gradually fused the two energies together, and something indescribable began to churn within it.
Ninjutsu—Spirit Summoning Technique has been synthesized. Ninjutsu—Spirit Summoning Technique The soul of the deceased may be summoned from the Pure Land into the living world using the deceased's body or a medium. Deceased souls that reject the summons will return to the Pure Land. The deceased's body tissue or Chakra is required as a medium to summon the deceased's soul into another person's body. During the duration, the vessel will transform into the deceased's body. Spirit summoning is divided into Restricted Spirit Summoning and Perfect Spirit Summoning. The maximum strength of Restricted Spirit Summoning is equal to that of the vessel. Perfect Spirit Summoning can recreate the deceased's power at their peak, but if the vessel's power is too strong, interference may occur, causing the summoned strength to rise or fall. During the duration, the spirit summoning vessel will continuously consume the vessel's Chakra. Once the Chakra is exhausted, the soul will be forcibly sent back. Souls not in the Pure Land cannot be summoned. Weak and unconscious souls cannot be summoned. Souls in special states cannot be summoned.
"...What?"
Rather than Spirit Summoning Technique or Impure World Reincarnation, this ninjutsu seemed more like a conditional, time-limited version of Reanimation Jutsu?
"The vessel's conditions determine the duration of the summon?"
"A limited-time trial version of Reanimation Jutsu? Ah, not really. This is more like getting someone else to fight for you? Or perhaps... divine possession?"
Now that she thought about it...
It really did resemble getting someone else to fight for her.
Asking one's ancestor to fight on one's behalf?
For example, if Tsunade asked her grandfather, Hashirama Senju, to fight for her, then Hashirama Senju would definitely be willing to help if he saw his granddaughter in danger.
"It's called Spirit Summoning Technique, but it feels more like an Age of Gods Hokage version. I just wonder whether Ashura and Indra can be summoned."
If she used Naruto and Sasuke as mediums, could she summon Ashura and Indra or something?
But the Skill Card had also said that only souls in the Pure Land could be summoned. It was hard to say what exactly had happened to those two, and there was also a chance they would refuse.
"I'll learn it."
After she learned it, the purple card began to shatter, turning into specks of purple light. That purple light entered her mind from the stage's system interface.
"Rat... Boar... Tiger... That's a long sequence of hand seals."
Spirit Summoning Technique required preparation. She first had to draw a formation, then form hand seals.
The duration of Spirit Summoning Technique was related to how much Chakra the summoned soul used.
The more Chakra the summoned spirit used, the shorter the duration would be. It might even drain the vessel's life force. Even without using Chakra, the vessel's Chakra would continue to be consumed. That was also related to the vessel's Chakra control and Chakra reserves.
"I see..."
Sparkle roughly understood.
But where could she find Chakra or a deceased person's body tissue to perform a spirit summoning right now?
"There really seems to be one."
Naruto Uzumaki.
Inside Naruto Uzumaki's body was the Chakra of the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, as well as the Chakra of his mother, Kushina Uzumaki.
The Fourth Hokage could not be summoned. Minato Namikaze's soul was not in the Pure Land; it was in the Reaper's stomach.
But Kushina's soul... seemed summonable.
Well, well, well. This really could work.
"If Kushina saw Naruto's current situation, would she find it strange?"
Although there were no conspiracy theories in the real world, Naruto's situation really was not all that good.
"Decided."
After learning about the Land of Waves' situation, Sparkle had already come up with a plan.
But Spirit Summoning Technique was such an interesting bit of fun that it would be too much of a waste not to use it.
It was like having a button right in front of her. If she did not press it... no matter how she thought about it, it would feel uncomfortable.
"The Land of Waves plan needs to be revised."
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