Little Wallet [Please Vote]

Chapter 48: Little Wallet [Please Vote]

"With Chakra control like yours, you've got the nerve to call yourself a ninja?!!!"

Not long after, Tsunade's furious roar rang out from the courtyard of her mansion.

The one being yelled at was Toneri, his face full of helplessness.

Tsunade wanted to test Toneri's talent, so she casually taught him a small trick for testing and training Chakra control. If he could grasp it quickly, it would prove that he had some talent for Chakra control.

For a Medical Ninja, what they needed most was not a huge amount of Chakra, nor was it tremendous strength, but powerful Chakra control.

After all, when treating injuries or performing surgery, Chakra control determined the precision of the scalpel.

It could be said that a healer who was not good at Chakra control was not a good fighter.

The most basic threshold for becoming a Medical Ninja was Chakra control.

Toneri's ability to climb trees and walk on water might have been adequate for a ninja at his stage, but for a Medical Ninja who held others' lives in their hands, it was far from enough.

Toneri's Chakra control was not outstanding, and Tsunade was someone with extremely high standards. That was why the previous scene had happened.

"Sister Tsunade, I don't think I count as a ninja yet. I haven't graduated..." Toneri said timidly, scratching his head.

Looking at the fist marks and craters in the ground beside him, he had finally witnessed Tsunade's monstrous strength.

At his words, Tsunade's eyes widened, and her right hand appeared before Toneri's forehead with lightning speed.

By the time he noticed, it was already too late, because Tsunade's Flick Flash was ready.

It only required the strength of a single finger...

Bam!!!

Toneri, who had been sitting in the courtyard, vanished from the spot and became a mural plastered against the courtyard wall.

Even then, he wore a completely bewildered expression.

He had clearly been sitting there perfectly fine.

Slowly, he slid down the wall...

Tsunade looked like she hated that he had failed to meet her expectations.

What she had just taught him was quite useful even if he did not study Medical Ninjutsu, simply as a way to train Chakra control.

Tsunade had thought Toneri was a once-in-a-century genius and had placed overly high expectations on him. Naturally, that only led to even greater disappointment.

In truth, Toneri's Chakra control was not that bad. At the very least, for a Ninja Academy student who had yet to graduate, it could not be considered poor.

After all, he possessed a large amount of Chakra, yet he had only been exposed to Chakra for a short time.

"How long are you planning to lie there? Get over here already?!"

After waiting for a while and seeing that Toneri was still sprawled on the ground without moving, Tsunade glared and barked at him.

Did she not know how much force she had used?

He might have been sent flying that far, but it had barely done Toneri any harm.

He was lying there now purely to play dead.

Putting on a show!

At her words, Toneri immediately sprang up from the ground and hurried over to Tsunade.

"Sister Tsunade... go easy on me..."

This was when he needed to make use of his age advantage—his ultimate move, acting cute and begging for mercy!

As for pride, what was that? Could it be eaten?

Tsunade rolled her eyes at him helplessly and began explaining the basic points a Medical Ninja needed to keep in mind.

She had completely forgotten how she had told Orochimaru that if someone lacked talent, she would never teach them even as a favor...

Once again demonstrating the law of "it always tastes good in the end."

Although Toneri's Chakra control was not strong, his ability to understand these things was exceptionally good.

In particular, his divergent thinking and ability to draw inferences from one example finally made Tsunade take him seriously.

What surprised Tsunade even more was that when the topic shifted to handling emergency injuries caused by battle, Toneri seemed like a completely different person.

He spoke of many theories that even she had never heard before.

More importantly, after Tsunade analyzed his seemingly wild ideas from a professional perspective, she discovered that they were actually feasible!

For a time, her opinion of Toneri underwent a complete reversal.

It was true that Medical Ninjas had extremely high requirements for Chakra control, which had even prevented ninety percent of ninjas from becoming Medical Ninjas to a certain extent. But aside from Chakra control, there was actually something even more important.

That was imagination!

That was right—in this era, medicine required imagination!

Of course, imagination could only be useful if one had sufficient knowledge of Medical Ninjutsu.

At this point, Medical Ninjutsu throughout the ninja world was still in its infancy.

With Tsunade's full support, Konoha had gradually begun to place importance on Medical Ninja as a group.

Konoha's victory in the Second Shinobi World War was, to a certain extent, closely tied to the fact that every Konoha squad was required to have a Medical Ninja.

Konoha had the greatest number of Medical Ninja in the entire shinobi world.

But there were far too few top-tier Medical Ninja!

Aside from Tsunade, all of Konoha only had one fairly capable person in Root. Beyond the two of them, there were simply too few elites.

In this battle against the Sand Ninja, they were highly skilled in Puppet Technique and poison. The strongest among them was Sand Ninja Elder Chiyo. Her poisons had practically become nightmares for many Konoha Ninja. If Tsunade had not performed so brilliantly on the spot and deciphered her toxins, this war might not have ended yet.

And what she relied on, aside from her extensive experience, was her wildly imaginative mind.

She saw that quality in Toneri.

She also discovered that Toneri had his own unique methods for treating emergency injuries. Though she did not know who had taught him, those methods had given Tsunade no small amount of inspiration.

Gradually...

Tsunade finally understood what Orochimaru valued in him.

It was that imagination that seemed somewhat out of place in this world—or rather, an ability to understand things that was who knew how many years ahead of this era. From time to time, he could even put forward theories that made Tsunade's eyes light up.

"Fine, I take back what I said. I can't say for certain whether you'll become an outstanding ninja, but if you're willing, I can make you into a top-tier Medical Ninja!" Tsunade looked at Toneri with curiosity filling her eyes.

What kind of environment could have raised such... such a thing?

The medical knowledge and insights pieced together from the future did indeed seem wildly unconventional in this era.

Tsunade suddenly felt a little regretful. She should not have refused so decisively back then. She should have first spent some time getting to know him.

Though this little fellow was a Jinchūriki, he lacked the viciousness typical of one. Instead, he had the air of an optimist, much like her deceased younger brother, Nawaki.

At the thought of Nawaki, Tsunade became sorrowful again.

Bang—

In her foul mood, Tsunade kicked Toneri, who had been studying diligently, straight into the wall once more.

This time, Toneri was truly dumbfounded.

What was going on?

Seeing Toneri's dazed expression, the tears welling in Tsunade's eyes suddenly receded, and she broke into a smile through them. "All right, get lost. Come find me again once you've learned this method and can use it proficiently!"

With that, she turned and walked into the room. She had drunk quite a bit, and was feeling rather sleepy as well.

At the very last moment, Toneri seemed to understand Tsunade's thoughts. Lying on the ground, he grinned and shouted, "Sister Tsunade, if you ever drink again and there's no one to pour for you, I'd be more than happy to help!"

As the saying went, a lackey who couldn't pour drinks wasn't a good wallet!

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At the request of many readers, there may be another update later today. The exact time will be announced in the group, as an extra chapter for the previous recommendation votes!