Ryujin Jakka

After seeing that, Hyuga Shin hurriedly stepped forward, interrupting Ueno Juri just as he was about to lose his temper.

"I'll give it a try too." Hyuga Shin took out a kunai and spun it around his fingers twice.

"Wow, it's Shin! He's definitely better than Uchiha Ken and Senju Nawaki."

"That's right. A handsome guy like Shin has to be way better than those two ugly losers."

The girls in the class gushed among themselves, hearts practically in their eyes. As they praised Hyuga Shin, they also put down Uchiha Ken and Nawaki.

Uchiha Ken and Nawaki turned green with envy when they heard that. They admitted they weren't as handsome as Hyuga Shin, but how did that make them ugly losers? They weren't ugly, either.

"Hmph! He's trash from the Hyuga Clan who doesn't even have the Byakugan, and you're all fawning over him," Uchiha Ken said jealously.

"What? How dare you insult my crush? Girls, let's beat him up!"

Ueno Juri hurried over and stopped the girls from going berserk, muttering to himself, "Girls these days are so precocious. Why didn't I get this kind of treatment when I was their age?"

As a single man in his twenties, Ueno Juri envied Hyuga Shin to no end.

Faced with this scene, Hyuga Shin felt immensely pleased with himself. In his past life, he'd been a loser. Sure, he was handsome, but being handsome didn't put food on the table.

He'd even been relentlessly targeted by his dumbass former boss because of his looks.

He spun the kunai twice more, then sent it flying. Even Ueno Juri, a Chunin, saw only a blur.

Boom!

The wooden target shattered, but the kunai Hyuga Shin had thrown kept flying until it embedded itself in a wall in the distance.

"This..."

Ueno Juri felt his throat go dry. If that kunai had been thrown at him, he wasn't sure he could have reacted in time.

He couldn't put that kind of force and speed into words. He stared at Hyuga Shin as though he were a monster.

"Shin is incredible," Mikoto murmured.

"I knew my crush was the best! I want to have his babies!"

"Get lost! Shin's mine!"

"This has to be fake!" Senju Nawaki exclaimed, his expression exaggerated. Truthfully, he hadn't thought Hyuga Shin was all that strong.

But after seeing that kunai throw, he knew it could kill him instantly... It was practically like a piercing ninjutsu.

Under everyone's stunned gazes, Hyuga Shin returned to his place with an air of calm indifference. Inside, however, he was thoroughly enjoying the sensation of captivating the whole room. It was clear that Hyuga Shin was something of a show-off at heart.

Uchiha Ken felt as if an invisible slap had struck him across the face, leaving it burning.

"Ahem! Since one of your classmates has already demonstrated, but most of you probably still don't know how, I'll explain it to you."

Ueno Juri brought the class back on track. He was here to teach students, not watch children from prestigious clans, born with silver spoons in their mouths, show off.

After an afternoon of kunai practice, Ueno Juri dismissed the class.

After saying goodbye to Mikoto and the others he knew well, Hyuga Shin didn't go home with the rest of the Hyuga family. He chose to head back on his own.

"The Ninja Academy is so boring. When are we going to learn anything useful?" Hyuga Shin muttered listlessly.

What Hyuga Shin really wanted to learn at the Ninja Academy was the seemingly useless theory, not the basic stuff.

When it came to the basics, Hyuga Shin had a firmer grasp than anyone. What he lacked was theoretical knowledge and real combat experience.

Back home, Hyuga Shin loosened up his fingers and began practicing Hand Seals. He could now form five seals in a single second.

Counting his more than twenty years in his previous life and his current age, Hyuga Shin had lived for nearly thirty years—and had been single for nearly thirty years, too. That kind of hand speed wasn't an exaggeration at all.

After practicing his Hand Seals, Hyuga Shin took a shower, dispelled his Shadow Clone, then collapsed onto his bed, exhausted.

"I feel like my spiritual energy has increased quite a bit, too!"

After each bout of mental exhaustion, Hyuga Shin could feel his spiritual energy grow stronger.

After resting for a while, Hyuga Shin entered the System Space.

"System, could you give me one free draw? I wouldn't mind some exchange points, either. Give me whatever you think is fair," Hyuga Shin called shamelessly.

The system ignored Hyuga Shin.

"Hey!" After sighing, Hyuga Shin asked curiously, "The system should have to obey the law of conservation of energy, right? You don't make me do anything, so how do you give me rewards?"

[The host is not yet capable of understanding the system's existence. This system does not obey the law of conservation of energy. Do not try to measure the system with science.]

"Uh! It really doesn't obey the law of conservation of energy." Hyuga Shin scratched his head, unable to figure out how the system worked.

He simply gave up. He couldn't even make sense of ninjutsu, let alone the system.

"System, you finally showed up. How about giving me a little something?" Hyuga Shin said, shamelessly ingratiating himself.

You had to have thick skin to get by. People who were too thin-skinned couldn't get anywhere. That was a lesson Hyuga Shin had learned before he transmigrated.

Even after a long time, the system didn't say anything. Hyuga Shin didn't mind. If the system actually gave him something, he'd be the one surprised.

[The system has granted you three free draws and 100,000 exchange points. Please check your balance.]

"Holy crap! Am I hearing things?" Hyuga Shin said in disbelief.

Hyuga Shin felt as if he'd just won several million in the lottery. A huge windfall had suddenly dropped into his lap.

If someone else had thrown that windfall at him, he might have wondered if it was poisoned. But if the system had given it to him, Hyuga Shin wouldn't have doubted it for a second.

Everything he had came from the system. Hyuga Shin would never forget that. He knew exactly what he'd be like without it. For that reason alone, he trusted the system completely.

"I didn't expect asking for it to actually work. This system really is a good one."

"Come to think of it, the system has never introduced itself. I don't even know what kind of system it is."

Hyuga Shin had asked before, but the system had never told him.

"Anyway, thank you, system. You're absolutely the best. If I could give you a like, I'd give you ten thousand." As he thanked it, he showered the system with praise.

If he managed to make the system happy and it gave him a whole bunch more rewards, wouldn't that be even better? In any case, there was no harm in buttering up the system.

Chapter 24: Ryujin Jakka

After praising the system for a while, Hyuga Shin opened the draw screen and prepared to use his draws.

Hyuga Shin always used his draws as soon as he got them. There was no point in saving draws the way you could save exchange points.