Yugito Nii and Moriyue only had three days left. During those three days, Moriyue stayed inside the house, tinkering with who knew what, while Yugito Nii dutifully took on the role of mentor.
Under her guidance, Kaede had successfully mastered a new ability: she could control certain insects. Its effects were similar to the Secret Jutsu used by Shino and the Aburame Clan, but Kaede was clearly on a higher level. After all, she used the pressure of the Empress of the Seven-Tails' Insects to directly command the insects.
Shino and the others had to feed insects with their own bodies and form contracts with them before they could control them. Their methods were completely different.
Kazeki had also learned quite a few practical ninjutsu during this time, though she had not learned them from Yugito Nii. She studied Medical Ninjutsu under the little nurse instead. After all, everyone had their specialty. Yugito Nii was a pure combat ninja, so having her teach Medical Ninjutsu was indeed rather unsuitable.
As for Ando, he was enthusiastically training under Darui. After all, Darui had always been his idol. Even in his daily behavior, Ando consciously or unconsciously tried to imitate him. Now that he had the chance to receive Darui's guidance, how could he possibly let it slip away?
"Looks like they should make considerable progress during this time. By the time we return, they should truly be able to live up to the title of Chunin."
For some reason, Yugito Nii always relaxed quite a bit whenever she was alone with Moriyue, and her tone was much more casual than usual.
Moriyue nodded, tidied up his somewhat messy hair from the past few days, then checked his backpack once more without even raising his head.
"Mm. There's no need to mention