The Ninja Academy's Incredible Legends (53) The Adult World, Children Still Imagine It Too Simply

Mizuki seemed to sense someone approaching and opened his bleary eyes.

Everyone had some degree of morning grumpiness. Since it was his daughter who had woken him up, Mizuki at least gathered himself and forced a smile as he asked, "Weren't you having a study session? What are you doing here?"

When he slept, Mizuki always kept an isolation barrier around himself. Not even sound could get through, though he had left an opening for a few specific people who could ignore its effects.

"There's something we'd like to trouble you with, Father."

It was rare for his daughter to ask him for something, and Mizuki's mood immediately brightened.

"You don't need to be so polite. As long as it's something Miyuki wants to do, there's no problem at all!"

"Then I'll say it."

Miyuki pushed the somewhat nervous Nagi Gekko forward.

"Could you teach Nagi her schoolwork? If she fails this year's exams, she'll have to repeat a grade."

"I see."

Mizuki nodded.

"Poor academic performance is a little hard to deal with. Making students repeat a grade if they fail their exams was a new policy I strongly advocated for, so it wouldn't be right to change it overnight."

"No, Father. We never thought of asking you to cancel the rule about failing exams and repeating a grade. We just want Nagi to study more efficiently."

"Wouldn't that be even more troublesome than canceling the exams?"

Mizuki scratched his head awkwardly. Whether to hold the exams or not was only a matter of saying the word. It was the first year of the trial run anyway, so finding an excuse to postpone them until next year would be easy.

Teaching children how to study was entirely different. Ordinary step-by-step methods were one thing, but using ninjutsu for it