"Every dead last, watch closely!"
Hyuga Sho shouted.
He showed no fear even as everyone surrounded him.
"Effort can determine our own lower limit!"
At that moment,
Hyuga Sho's words reached Might Guy, Uchiha Obito, and the other poor students... and even spread throughout the entire campus.
Then,
Hyuga Sho viciously thrust a palm forward.
Just when everyone thought the move was completely unremarkable,
the palm that struck a body went bang!
It sent the Academy Student rushing at the front flying.
As he was sent flying backwards, he crashed into the others.
That single blow made seven or eight children fall backward onto the ground together.
Hyuga Sho making a move
was like lighting a powder keg.
The entire scene descended into chaos.
Whether they were lower-year students
or upper-year students,
the students who believed themselves stronger than the Dead Lasts all rushed forward at once.
Only Might Guy and the others remained behind, staring blankly at the scene.
Some were displeased by Hyuga Sho's earlier speech.
Others wanted to join the commotion and vent the darkness in their hearts.
Yet Hyuga Sho stood like a mountain rising from a plain.
No matter how they attacked, they could not shake him in the slightest.
With the "Hardening Jutsu,"
Hyuga Sho simply stood there.
He took everyone else's punches and kicks head-on.
An Academy Student raised his fist
and swung it at Hyuga Sho's head.
Hyuga Sho directly grabbed his fist and viciously twisted it, making him scream as he fell to the ground.
Another person attacked from behind.
A Leaf Whirlwind swept directly toward Hyuga Sho's lower back.
Hyuga Sho shifted sideways, trapped his right leg beneath his armpit, then spun around—
turning him into a weapon and whirling him about.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The swinging body made a full 360-degree turn, sending an unknown number of people flying.
The Academy Student being used as a weapon rolled his eyes back, foamed at the mouth, and passed out.
Finally,
Hyuga Sho threw him into the crowd, knocking down an unknown number of people again.
"Hmph... this Hyuga Sho really does have something wrong with his head. What an idiot."
Kakashi stared at Hyuga Sho fighting everyone alone.
He shook his head, his face full of disdain.
"I really thought he was clever."
Kakashi was annoyed by his misjudgment.
For half a year,
he had repeatedly observed and speculated.
He had considered the possibility that Hyuga Sho might be a clever person.
But in the end, he discovered...
this Hyuga Sho really was no good.
"Heh, members of the Sarutobi Clan have joined in too. Just like Asuma, the Sarutobi Clan generally has brute strength. For Hyuga Sho to defeat them—"
Kakashi did not finish speaking.
Because
the Sarutobi Clan boy he had described as immensely strong was knocked flat by a single punch from Hyuga Sho.
"Members of the Uchiha Clan are here too. Even a dead last as bad as Obito ranks in the middle to upper range of the class. Let alone them—they're who knows how many times stronger than Uchiha Obito?"
The next moment,
the Uchiha boy Kakashi had thought highly of was kicked in the head by Hyuga Sho and instantly collapsed, unable to rise again.
Kakashi: "..."
As Hyuga Sho continued to make a move,
Academy Students fell one after another, whether they were children from ordinary families
or heirs to family names passed down through a single line.
Even those belonging to Konoha's powerful noble clans
were all taken down by Hyuga Sho.
With the Hyuga Clan's Byakugan,
even though he lacked its x-ray vision,
it did not hinder Hyuga Sho from using the Byakugan's "insight" to its fullest extent.
Every Rigid Fist taijutsu was exposed in Hyuga Sho's eyes.
It would have been another matter if there had been Hyuga Clan members among his opponents who knew the Gentle Fist.
Hyuga Sho might not have been able to see through their force generation.
The key was
that no one from the Hyuga Clan came forward to help fight.
Although Hyuga Sho usually did not speak much with others, the Hyuga Clan's "Branch Family Members" had not fallen to the point of harming one another.
After all,
they all bore the Caged Bird Seal on their foreheads.
Branch Family Members... did not have it easy.
The moment someone moved or lifted a foot,
Hyuga Sho already knew what they were going to do.
Thus,
Hyuga Sho countered every move, each strike packed with tremendous strength.
He struck back while
using the "Hardening Jutsu" to withstand their attacks head-on, even rebounding their blows back at them.
So many people had rushed at him,
yet not one of them could make Hyuga Sho fall even once.
"This Hyuga Sho...!"
Kakashi's eyes widened slightly in surprise.
"Can effort really reach such a level?"
Kakashi worked very hard.
Especially since his father was Konoha's White Fang - Sakumo Hatake, renowned throughout the Shinobi World, feared even by ninjas of other nations.
But even with an elite education from childhood,
Hatake Kakashi's effort... remained at the level of an ordinary person.
It was absolutely impossible for him to be like Hyuga Sho,
training all day as if he were running on autopilot.
Never discouraged, never complaining.
The moment he opened his eyes, he trained.
The moment he closed his eyes, he slept.
He thought of every possible way to improve his strength.
He was a merciless Training Machine beyond anyone's imagination.
"So this is... Hyuga Sho's effort..."
Nearby,
Hyuga Mami's eyes sparkled.
It was as though her worldview had been overturned, and she had come to know Hyuga Sho all over again.
"Maybe I can too..."
Hyuga Mami recalled the genjutsu she had learned before.
She could practice the Gentle Fist while practicing other skills,
just like Hyuga Sho.
Doka Degree 14.7%... 14.8%... 14.9%...
His movements flowed like water.
Watching the constantly changing numbers before his eyes, Hyuga Sho fought more fiercely with every passing moment.
This was another part of his plan to defeat Kakashi.
He would use this opportunity
to provoke the Academy Students of the entire Ninja Academy
and defeat them one by one.
That way, he could increase his Doka Degree.
Although none of them were opponents for Kakashi or Hyuga Mami
and could not provide much experience,
small gains added up.
Hyuga Sho felt himself growing stronger bit by bit.
The blood in his heart... began to boil.
In just a few minutes,
dozens of people lay sprawled across the ground at his feet, their groans unceasing.
The so-called "Minnow Killer"
was proven by Hyuga Sho himself.
Although the remaining people still surrounded Hyuga Sho, the encirclement had clearly widened considerably.
For a moment, no one dared to step forward.
This string of fierce battles
left not only top students like Asuma and Yūhi Kurenai utterly astonished,
but also Might Guy, Uchiha Obito,
and the Dead Lasts from other classes and grades, shocked beyond belief.
"Hyuga Sho... actually defeated the honor students..."
"Not only that, even the geniuses in those classes were taken down..."
"Effort... I want to work as hard as Hyuga Sho too!!!"
Hyuga Sho's actions inspired them.
An indescribable surge of passion and emotion rose within their hearts.
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