How Can You Be Even More Arrogant Than Me?

Torikaze scratched his head after hearing that.

"Ah, no, I learned it a long time ago. It's just that everyone may understand Chakra differently, so I wanted to hear more about it."

Of course, Torikaze was not trying to build some ridiculous overachiever persona.

Just as he said, he was simply learning from others' experience.

After all, progress on developing Cloud Release had not been pretty, so he wondered whether hearing other people's understanding might help him a little.

Hearing Torikaze's answer, Uchiha Chiri realized that she had casually jumped to conclusions about someone else.

She felt deeply ashamed. That had been terribly improper of her!

"I'm sorry, Torikaze. I shouldn't have judged you so casually."

Torikaze waved his hand, signaling that it was fine.

"Did the teacher's lesson help you?"

"A little, but not much."

"Then Torikaze, you really are outstanding."

In truth, this was already a lie Torikaze had told so the teacher would not lose his authority in front of the class.

The things the teacher taught were simply too basic and offered no help whatsoever in developing Cloud Release.

Once he confirmed that the teacher's lesson was useless, Torikaze stopped paying such close attention.

He started chatting idly with Uchiha Chiri, and the two quickly became familiar with each other.

Torikaze had not expected this genius Uchiha to lack any arrogance at all. On the contrary, she was extremely humble.

She also did not have the Uchiha Clan's tendency to desperately seek attention.

This gave Torikaze a very favorable impression of her.

As they chatted, the first class ended just like that. Judging by everyone's expressions,

they had more or less understood how to extract Chakra.

Sarutobi Mizuya had informed them in advance that the remaining lesson for the day would be for the students to begin attempting Chakra extraction!

This was something every academy class did. By extracting Chakra, they could distinguish geniuses from ordinary prospects.

The first time someone extracted Chakra usually took around a day.

Children with better talent, however, could successfully extract Chakra within a few hours.

As soon as class ended, Maruboshi Kosuke walked over. "Torikaze, you must have extracted Chakra a long time ago, right?"

"Actually, no. I only extracted Chakra last month."

He asked somewhat doubtfully, "Shouldn't clan children learn about Chakra very early on?"

Torikaze laughed upon hearing that. "My family only has one heir each generation. There was only me, and my parents died in action two years ago."

Maruboshi Kosuke was just about to apologize when Torikaze interrupted him.

He did not care about such things to begin with, and besides, the other boy had not meant it that way. There was naturally no need to apologize.

"Enough about me. How about you? Did you understand everything the teacher taught?"

Maruboshi Kosuke scratched his head and chuckled. "More or less. I understood all the knowledge about extracting Chakra. As for the rest, I can make up for it by reading."

Torikaze nodded at that. All the knowledge was recorded in books, and reading more could never hurt.

At that moment, an ill-timed, arrogant voice rang out.

"As expected of commoners. You can't even learn something this simple. Why not give up early? Why bother becoming ninjas?"

The entire room instantly fell silent. Torikaze did not even need to look up to know.

This had to be the evil Uchiha Clan!

"What did you say?!"

Maruboshi Kosuke slammed the desk and shouted furiously.

"Uchiha Kyo! Don't think I won't beat you up just because you're from the Uchiha Clan! I'm not afraid of you!"

As he spoke, he angrily rolled up his sleeves and strode toward Uchiha Kyo, intending to teach him a lesson.

But the other boy was not afraid at all. Instead, he looked at Maruboshi Kosuke mockingly.

Just as the conflict was about to erupt, Umino Ikkaku and Yuhi Shinku promptly grabbed Maruboshi Kosuke and held him back.

Seeing this, Uchiha Kyo laughed. "Hahaha, see? Even your poor friends know that in Konoha, the Uchiha Clan is not to be provoked!"

Restrained by his two friends, Maruboshi Kosuke had nowhere to vent the anger boiling inside him. "Shinku! Ikkaku! Let me go! I'm going to teach this guy a lesson!"

Watching Maruboshi Kosuke tremble with rage, Uchiha Kyo gave him a disdainful look.

"A mere commoner dares speak to me like that? My Uchiha Clan was instrumental in founding Konoha. What status do you have?"

The moment those words were spoken, every commoner present looked extremely displeased.

They wanted to retort. They wanted to show this arrogant fellow what for!

But unfortunately, the Uchiha Clan was simply too powerful.

No one dared invite such trouble, for it could bring disaster upon their ordinary families.

Only members of a few prominent clans dared step forward and speak a few fair words for the commoners.

In fact, although most clans in Konoha had their own pride,

they had never looked down on commoners as much as the Uchiha Clan did.

This was perhaps why the Uchiha Clan was so unpopular, ultimately meeting the fate of extermination.

"The Uchiha Clan did indeed make tremendous contributions to founding the village, but what does that have to do with you?"

Uchiha Kyo froze upon hearing those words.

Never considered a genius within his clan, he had wanted to establish his authority before the commoners at school. Yet now, it seemed he was the one being lectured.

Uchiha Kyo looked at Torikaze and saw that although his clothes were exquisite,

he did not recognize the clan crest on them. He had never heard of the Windcloud Clan either, so he simply assumed Torikaze was a commoner.

"Oh? And who are you? Do you think wearing a nice set of clothes lets you squeeze into the ranks of the prestigious clans?"

Torikaze was not angry. He only felt that this little brat in front of him was being far too arrogant!

As someone with a system, how could he allow anyone to be more arrogant than him?

"Who I am isn't important. What's important is that you really are arrogant, kid."

"When Konoha was founded, you weren't even a cell yet. Using your clan's name to insult and discriminate against others so openly—are you just looking for a sense of existence?"

"What you're doing won't make anyone respect the Uchiha Clan. You're only tarnishing your clan's name."

Uchiha Kyo's eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets!

What he hated even more was that, for some reason, every single word this brat said stabbed straight into his heart!

And being lectured for so long by a "commoner" was even more unacceptable to Uchiha Kyo!

"What nonsense! The law of this world is that the weak submit to the strong! You commoners were born to be ruled by us! If not for—"

"Shut up, Kyo! You are damaging the clan's honor."

Torikaze had still wanted to verbally spar with this guy for another three hundred rounds.

He had not expected Uchiha Chiri beside him to directly interrupt Uchiha Kyo.

"Lord Chisato, I—"