Jean-Claude Van Damme's Leg

Of course, the specific types of prizes in the half-star and one-star pools were only a guess. It might not be accurate, considering how few samples there were.

He would have to draw more than ten times from each pool before he could reach a definitive conclusion.

After all, you couldn't say you favored Nordic style just because you bought a Jack & Jones item, or that you liked Japanese style just because you bought a pair of Uniqlo socks. When you got right down to it, your salary simply hadn't been high enough to afford anything else.

After some careful consideration, Uchiha Mai decided to start with a half-star draw and give the damned system one last point of trust.

She opened the familiar prize pool and spent 100 Style Points. After the pool spun for a while, the reward appeared. There were no gimmicks or suspense.

[Jean-Claude Van Damme's Roundhouse Kick · Half-Star

As the name suggested, it allowed the host to quickly master Jean-Claude Van Damme's roundhouse kick. After studying it in depth, he could master more of Jean-Claude Van Damme's leg techniques.]

Huh...

When you were sleepy, someone sent you a pillow. Uchiha Mai was very satisfied with this half-star reward. It was exactly the sort of thing he could use right now.

Uchiha Mai had heard of Jean-Claude Van Damme. He had been a famous Hollywood action star in the late twentieth century, at one point as renowned as Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Moreover, unlike typical Western action stars, Jean-Claude Van Damme wasn't all dead muscle. He actually had real skills!

In the 1970s and 1980s, Hong Kong cinema was in its golden age. The most famous films were martial arts and action movies, and the most famous martial arts stars were Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, and Jet Li.

Jean-Claude Van Damme had been frail as a child. By chance, he came into contact with Hong Kong martial arts films and fell in love with kung fu movies and Bruce Lee.

Starting at the age of ten, Jean-Claude Van Damme studied Karate, Taekwondo, Muay Thai, and other combat arts. He participated in various competitions and achieved an impressive record of forty-eight wins and four losses.

After reaching adulthood, he transitioned into an action actor and became hugely popular for a time. He was called Hollywood's number-one leg star. His legwork was not only highly entertaining to watch but also extremely effective in actual combat.

Jean-Claude Van Damme excelled at leg techniques, and Might Guy excelled at leg techniques too.

Jean-Claude Van Damme's idol was Bruce Lee, and it went without saying that Might Guy's inspiration was Bruce Lee as well. Anyone with eyes could see it.

It all lined up!

As for questions like whether Jean-Claude Van Damme's various leg techniques were too flashy in actual combat, or whether the roundhouse kick was less practical than kickboxing...

This was the Ninja World!

After happily accepting the skill, Uchiha Mai finished dinner and fell into a deep sleep. The next day, he went to the Ninja Academy as usual and pondered Jean-Claude Van Damme's leg techniques during free activity.

Asuma, who had been punched into a concussion, finally recovered and was discharged from the hospital. As soon as he returned to the Ninja Academy, he wanted to bring his underlings and get his revenge.

He saw Uchiha Mai finish playing his ocarina and dancing, then find a small tree and begin frantically practicing high kicks. After several loud kicks, the skin on his lower leg was torn open, and the small tree was kicked in half.

Uchiha Mai casually found a roll of bandages and some medicine, wrapped his leg, then switched to another tree and continued practicing. The loud kicks were still high kicks.

The fearless kingpin of the Ninja Academy swallowed hard and stopped in spite of himself. Is he really that ruthless? Brother, even if you won't consider your own leg, you should at least think about Konoha's greenery.

Someone who was this ruthless to himself would be even more ruthless to others. If he went up to him again, he might well get kicked into paralysis a second time.

Not only would he become the laughingstock of the Ninja Academy, but he might also spend the rest of his life crippled.

Asuma secretly made up his mind. From now on, he would avoid Uchiha Mai whenever possible. After graduating from the Ninja Academy, he would ideally find an opportunity to leave Konoha.

He had heard that the Uchiha were all arrogant and vindictive. If Uchiha Mai launched a sneak attack and kicked him, it would all be over.

"Big bro, why'd you stop? Didn't you say we were going to gang up and beat that kid up?" one of the underlings asked in confusion, poking Asuma in the small of the back.

In Konoha, it was quite common for a group of children to bully another child. It was called a righteous group beating.

"Bang!"

Asuma, the Ninja Academy's number-one delinquent, turned around and slapped his underling on the head. He scolded, "Beat him up, beat him up, beat him up! All you know is fighting and bullying your classmates.

We're all people of Konoha, inheritors of the Will of Fire. We need to be united and friendly.

You've been following me for so long. How come you haven't learned a thing?"

The underling scratched his head. Weren't you the one who said we should deal with him? Why are you blaming me now?

"What about Big Sis-in-Law...?" another underling asked timidly.

Big Sis-in-Law referred to Yuhi Kurenai. Though Asuma and the others were young, their school gang truly had everything a proper organization needed.

It had the right feel.

As it happened, little Yuhi Kurenai approached Uchiha Mai at that moment with a towel and a cup of brown-sugar water, then shyly showed her concern for her idol.

Seeing this scene, the emotional blow Asuma suffered was even heavier than the one Naruto experienced in Shippuden when he saw Sakura caring for Uchiha Sasuke.

After all, Sakura had never liked Naruto, while little Yuhi Kurenai and Asuma had once shared a childhood bond.

Once something you had possessed was lost, you couldn't pretend you had never possessed it.

Asuma stood to the side, foolishly watching the two of them chat and laugh, as though he were an outsider.

"Bang!"

Asuma slammed his fist into the tree beside him. The force was so great that the rough bark scraped the skin off the backs of his fingers, drawing bright red blood.

Sunlight spilled across the lush, verdant canopy. Mottled light and shadow fell over Asuma, making him look utterly desolate.

Asuma gritted his teeth. "Let's just consider this her practicing her technique.

How many people could experience their first stirrings of love and immediately meet the one truly suited to them? How many were born knowing how to love, knowing how to tolerate and understand?

Without experiencing a few failed relationships, learning from them, and broadening your life experience, how could you understand the weight of the words 'having loved'?

That pretty boy Uchiha Mai is obviously a heartless cad. He doesn't like Kurenai at all.

Only after Kurenai has experienced more and seen Uchiha Mai's cold-blooded ruthlessness will she understand how important someone who truly loves her is. Only then will she truly cherish my feelings for her.

When that time comes, it will be the perfect opportunity for me to be with the truly mature Kurenai."

Asuma rattled on, reciting lines he had read in some third-rate romance novel. While convincing his underlings, he also convinced himself.

The underlings suddenly understood, and their admiration for their kingpin deepened. As expected of the Hokage's son and the Ninja Academy's kingpin—his level of insight was truly high!

Uchiha Mai knew nothing about Asuma's mental journey as he convinced himself. Otherwise, he would have understood immediately: wasn't this the classic speech of a simp moving himself while waiting to pick up the scraps?

Of course, Uchiha Mai wasn't interested in little Yuhi Kurenai either. A true man can appreciate breasts. Anything below a 36E doesn't even register with Uchiha Mai.

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