The Dog-Cat Dispute (11)

Gray Ridge didn't keep them waiting long.

When it came out of the wooden house, it was carrying a roll of animal hide with a leather rope tied in the middle.

Gray Ridge placed the animal hide on the ground, held one end down with its front paws, bit the leather rope, and gently pulled.

The animal hide rolled out on its own, stretching from Shin-chan's feet all the way to the other end of the open space.

The scroll was covered with patterns and text.

Shin-chan squatted down, rested his hands on his knees, and stared at the words for a long time.

"This," he said very seriously, "Looks like a tadpole."

He then pointed to the one next to him.

The symbol was bent into a circle, with two forks at the top.

"This is a butt."

Uchiha Toru covered his forehead with his hand, unsure of what to say for a moment.

Gray Ridge used its front claws to touch the first symbol on the scroll, and then slowly moved its claws down along the line of winding characters.

"The Dog Clan has passed down this art from generation to generation since their ancestor made a pact with the mountains."

Shin-chan leaned closer, looking at the symbols under Gray Ridge's claws that he couldn't understand a single word of.

"This contains the complete training method for the Gigantification Technique," Gray Ridge said. "From the most basic Chakra circulation to the final Dynamax form, every step is recorded here."

The claw tip of Gray Ridge moves to the next line.

"Chakra originates from the center of the body and ascends simultaneously along three paths..."

Uchiha Toru's gaze slowly swept over the symbols.

The claws of the Gray Ridge continued to move downwards.

"Continue upwards along the spine until you reach the top of your head..."

Gray Ridge stopped and glanced at Shiro.

Shiro sat crouching beside the scroll, its tail resting quietly on the ground, its eyes following Gray Ridge's claws.

It didn't recognize any of those symbols, but it listened very carefully to every word Gray Ridge pronounced.

Gray Ridge continued, "Chakra is released outwards simultaneously, forming a..."

Shin-chan squatted on the ground, his eyes darting around, and finally reached out and poked Uchiha Toru's arm.

"Xiao Che, did you understand?"

Uchiha Toru shook his head. The arrangement of the patterns on the animal hide was somewhat similar to the Ninjutsu scrolls he had seen before, but it also seemed a little different.

Shin-chan couldn't squat any longer, so he plopped down on the ground, crossed his legs, put his hands on his knees, and Closed eyes.

There was silence for about three seconds.

Hmm...

His face turned bright red.

Three seconds later, Shin-chan opened his eyes, looked down at his hands, and then at his feet.

Nothing has gotten bigger.

"That won't work at all."

Gray Ridge stopped explaining and glanced at Shin-chan.

Shin-chan was lying flat on his back, limbs outstretched, looking at the clouds in the sky.

"All that Chakra running around is so difficult. I'd rather just stay a normal kid." He turned to look at Shiro beside him. "Shiro, don't forget our promise, okay? When we grow up, we'll go find a pretty big sister together."

"Woof." Shiro barked, as if in response.

"Humans simply can't learn it." Gray Ridge raised his head. "Even among the Dog Clan, only royalty can master it."

"Why can't the other Doggy learn this?" Shin-chan asked, propping himself up from the ground with curiosity.

"That's innate; only royal Chakra can unleash secret techniques."

Uchiha Toru on the scroll. "Only those who master it are royalty, right?"

Gray Ridge's claws remained stationary on the pattern in the center of the animal hide.

"If there's a dog that isn't of royal blood, but has extraordinary talent, and it can learn something," Uchiha Toru asked, "Then if it learns it, is it royalty?"

Gray Ridge's tail lightly swept across the ground. Without answering, it simply lowered its head again, its claws continuing to trace the lines on the animal hide.

"The second stage of the Gigantification Technique is the use of Chakra..."

Shin-chan listened for a while longer.

Gray Ridge's claws moved across the animal hide, and the words he uttered grew longer and longer.

What about "Chakra descending along the second path to the extremities," and what about "the resonance frequencies of external and internal Chakra must be consistent" Chakra?

Shin-chan's eyes started darting around.

"Xiao Che."

"Um."

"I give up." Shin-chan said with his eyes closed, his tone as calm as if he were announcing he wouldn't eat green peppers today.

The explanation of Gray Ridge is still ongoing.

"The key to the third stage lies in the form control when Chakra is released outwards."

Uchiha Toru's gaze remained fixed on the animal hide.

He went through the direction of those lines in his mind, trying to understand them according to the order in which Gray Ridge read them out.

Chakra originates from the center of the body, ascends in three paths, converges at the shoulders, and then...

Then the subsequent logic doesn't hold.

Uchiha Toru stared at it for a while longer, then looked away from the animal hide and let out a soft breath.

I'm giving up too.

Shiro remained squatting beside the animal hide.

From the moment we started explaining Gray Ridge until now, its posture has hardly changed, its eyes following the movement of Gray Ridge's claws.

It didn't recognize any of those crooked symbols, nor could it understand the words Gray Ridge uttered, such as "Chakra resonance" or "form solidification."

Gray Ridge lowered his head, his claws touching the last pattern on the animal skin, and finished reading the last paragraph.

"----The above is the complete method for Gigantification Technique."

Gray Ridge raised its head.

Shin-chan's breathing became even and long, with a glistening substance hanging from the corner of his mouth.

Uchiha Toru leaned against the wall with his eyes closed, it was unclear whether he was resting or actually asleep.

Only Shiro sat there and nodded.

Gray Ridge rolled up the animal hide again, tied it with a leather rope, then walked over to Shin-chan and touched the back of Shin-chan's hand with his nose.

Shin-chan suddenly sat up, his eyes not even fully open, and his hand was already wiping his mouth.

"I'm awake, I'm awake."

After speaking, he looked around and finally fixed his gaze on Gray Ridge.

"It's time to sign the contract."

Gray Ridge spread out a scroll in front of Shin-chan.

"Write your name here in your blood." Gray Ridge's claws touched the blank space at the end of the scroll. "Your Highness wrote it in blood beside it."

Shin-chan sat up, put his finger in his mouth and bit it. "Ouch."

"Write quickly," Gray Ridge urged.

Shin-chan placed his finger on the scroll and began to write his name.

Shiro lowered its head and stretched out its front paws.

Uchiha Toru hesitated for a moment, then took out Kunai and gently scratched it on Shiro's foot.

After seeing the blood seeping out, Shiro gently stepped on the scroll next to Shin-chan's name.

Two smears of blood slowly seeped onto the scroll, their edges touching.

The text on the scroll lit up.

Shin-chan- chan looked down at his fingers, then at Shiro's feet. "Is it done?"

"Alright," Gray Ridge said.

Shin-chan reaches out his hand to Shiro.

Shiro placed its front paws in his palm.

It was as if something connected them, something invisible and intangible, yet both of them could feel it.