Teaching a Technique

Kamiya Keiyun was excited, and he could not wait to study this technique in greater depth!

"But I still have to go to school!" Kamiya Keiyun looked at the Ninja Academy before him and felt a little miserable. He clearly knew that attending school was a waste of time, yet he could not skip it.

I wonder if I can cut class?

Kamiya Keiyun looked over at Pineapple Head. If that guy dared to skip class, Kamiya Keiyun would dare to follow his example!

Unfortunately, that kid only knew how to sleep.

"So, if you skip classes at the Ninja Academy, will you be punished?" Kamiya Keiyun thought it over. Although he was immensely tempted, he ultimately gave up on the idea.

After all, he still needed to maintain the image of someone who went to school every day, making it easier to establish an alibi.

A small lack of patience could ruin great plans. Ninjutsu was nice, but the future mattered more!

Besides, practicing after getting home would be the same.

Kamiya Keiyun calmed himself. After all, class was not entirely without benefit. He relied on that little bit of class time to cultivate his Bright Virtue Method!

He closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, it was already noon dismissal.

His internal clock had always been accurate.

After lunch, he continued cultivating.

His goal was to cultivate the Bright Virtue Method until its control surpassed, or at least matched, Hand Seals.

Although Hand Seals looked cool, looking cool would not put food on the table.

He still remembered his battle with Hatake Sakumo. Hatake Sakumo had not formed any seals then. Electricity had simply burst from his body, and then he charged straight in.

So Hand Seals might be moves only children used. True experts did not form seals!

When Umino Iruka came to teach, he saw it and merely glanced over.

At first, he had sighed over it, but after seeing it so often, he had grown used to it and simply continued teaching.

If he had Wang Anshi's literary talent, perhaps he would have written an essay called On Keiyun's Ruin, but he was merely a chunin teacher with an elementary school education.

After school, Kamiya Keiyun immediately went home. The next two days were rest days, so he would have plenty of time to refine his new technique.

"Ruri?" Before Kamiya Keiyun even reached home, he saw Ruri lying on top of the wall, basking in the sun.

"Meow?" When Ruri saw Kamiya Keiyun, she leaped straight into his arms.

Although Ruri could speak, she still remembered Kamiya Keiyun's instructions not to reveal that trait outside.

After entering the house, Kamiya Keiyun asked, "Where's my sister?"

"She went shopping with friends!" Ruri said.

"Fine, then." Kamiya Keiyun nodded in understanding.

The ninja world—well, not just the ninja world.

In any case, relationships between people in this world were complicated. Most people seemed to need this thing called friends. If you did not have any, you would be isolated and might even be bullied.

Sanyō had been a miko in the village before, with no friends. Although no one dared bully her, there had been no shortage of people gossiping behind her back.

When Kamiya Keiyun was little, he could not speak Japanese, so he had often been bullied by a bunch of little brats. Fortunately, his iq was normal. After beating them a few times, he earned those little punks' respect.

Now that he was in Konoha and no longer had the identity of a shrine heir, he should have made some friends. But he had grown used to being a shut-in in his previous life, especially since the pandemic had greatly strengthened his shut-in abilities. He had practically reached the thirtieth level of shut-in power.

After coming to Konoha, he rarely went out. Other children barely even saw Kamiya Keiyun, so even if they wanted to bully him, they could not find him.

Kamiya Sanyō was different. She could not stay cooped up at home. To avoid being bullied, she could only integrate into some social circle.

"How's your Transformation Technique coming along?" Kamiya Keiyun asked.

"My Chakra reserves are too low. Even going all out, I can only transform into a forty-centimeter-tall version of you. I'm still far from one meter, meow!" Ruri replied.

"I see." Kamiya Keiyun nodded. "Then I'll teach you the key points of the Transformation Technique a few more times. If you gain a deeper grasp of it, maybe you'll manage it. You Tanuki are also known as the Hundred-Transformations Divine Tanuki! Logically speaking, you should be able to transform into anything!"

"Really?" Ruri immediately became serious!

"Of course," Kamiya Keiyun said. "The entire ninja world knows that!"

"So our Tanuki clan is famous too!" Ruri sighed in admiration. Yesterday, when she heard Kamiya Keiyun say that the rat clan had many famous figures, she had felt as though they had lost to rats.

Turns out our Tanuki are strong too!

With that thought, her mind immediately felt more balanced.

"Alright, hurry up and explain! I'll listen carefully. I'll study hard and restore the reputation of our Tanuki clan!" Ruri said excitedly.

Kamiya Keiyun smiled. In truth, the Hundred-Transformations Tanuki referred not to tabby cats, but to raccoon dogs.

But who cared? Ruri did not know, and in the ninja world, where taxonomy was underdeveloped, many people probably could not tell the difference between raccoon dogs and Tanuki anyway.

"By the way, where's Hei Bei?" Kamiya Keiyun asked.

"Oh, he's still sleeping," Ruri said.

"Food's ready!" Kamiya Keiyun shouted.

"Where, where?!" Hei Bei sprang up in an instant, turned around, and saw Kamiya Keiyun standing there empty-handed.

"Ah..." Hei Bei's mouth twitched. He wanted to curse, but he did not dare.

"Tell me what you did last night," Kamiya Keiyun said. "Were you digging the whole time? Did you dig two and a half meters deep in eight hours?"

"Ah, you can't say I'm slow! I dig holes really fast. I finished digging two and a half meters quickly, but moving the dirt was slow! My paws are only this big, so I had to move the dirt into the yard bit by bit..." Hei Bei hurriedly protested.

"As expected." Kamiya Keiyun nodded. That had been his guess as well. Chakra strengthened the body considerably. It could let him, a child, leap five meters high, so there was no reason a rat skilled at digging would excavate only three cubic meters of dirt in one night.

"Come down with me. I developed a ninjutsu, and I'll teach it to you. Use this technique to dig!" Kamiya Keiyun said.

"But I haven't eaten yet. I didn't even eat lunch!" Hei Bei said.

"Look, what's this?" Kamiya Keiyun reached behind his back and somehow produced a rice ball!

"Whoa!" Hei Bei excitedly leaped into Kamiya Keiyun's hands, grabbed the rice ball, and began gnawing on it.

"I really need to find a way to make money." Kamiya Keiyun sighed. He had saved that rice ball from his lunch.

There was money at home, but Kamiya Keiyun had no suitable reason to ask for it, nor did he want to. After all, the more he ate, the more he owed.

Kamiya Keiyun named the new ninjutsu: Mud to Stone Technique.

Learning this technique required dirt, and Kamiya Keiyun also wanted to test its limits, so indoors was naturally unsuitable.

Arriving before the pile of dirt Hei Bei had dug out, Kamiya Keiyun first raised his hands, then formed seals!

Chakra flowed through his hands and into the dirt pile before him. Kamiya Keiyun discovered that, just as when casting the Clone Technique, he could designate the technique's area of effect.

He marked out a cylindrical area. Then the ninjutsu took effect. The volume of dirt within that area rapidly shrank, going from a diameter of one meter to fifteen centimeters, while its height dropped from nearly one meter to fifteen centimeters.

The vacant space turned into a dark brown cylindrical stone!

"Whoa!" Hei Bei stared at the scene in shock. So this was... ninjutsu?

He knew that Ruri and Kamiya Sanyō were learning ninjutsu, but the Transformation Technique and Clone Technique had seemed like nothing special.

After all, it was an unfamiliar field to Hei Bei, and he did not know how difficult they were.

But he was a civil engineering major, so he had some authority in civil engineering. Such a large area would take at least an hour to dig out by hand!

Yet now, a single ninjutsu had done it!

"This ninjutsu can designate an area and compress it. In other words, you won't need to dig with your claws anymore. Just use the technique to mark out an area, and you can turn the dirt in that area directly into stone!" Kamiya Keiyun said. "I'll teach you the seals. Learn them first, then I'll study it some more and see whether I can change the final shape of the stone."

"Uh, Hand Seals?" Hei Bei extended his paws. Rats' thumbs had also degenerated, leaving only four fingers. How was he supposed to form seals?

"Just form them however you can. Leave the rest to fate!"