Top Student Ryusuke

Top Student Ryusuke

The experiment period was very short and ended quickly.

Because... school had started.

Unlike the school terms in Ryusuke's previous life, the start and end dates in the Naruto world were more similar to those of the island nation from his previous life.

School started in April and ended in March of the following year.

There were also two semesters, with quite a few holidays in between.

Although there was less than a month between the end of term and the start of school,

the experiments during that time had still given Ryusuke his answer.

He could use the method of defeating monsters to obtain equipment to make all of an opponent's talents and abilities drop as light clusters, whether they were innate or acquired later.

And when opponents dropped these things, they did not lose them permanently. It had no effect on them whatsoever.

The most valuable thing Ryusuke had obtained during this time was the Blue Light Cluster Sakura had dropped.

The item inside was Sakura's greatest talent—Chakra Control.

Even after dropping Chakra Control, Sakura had not lost her ability to climb trees with her feet. After learning the Body Flicker Technique, she quickly learned how to walk on water as well.

Of course, that was not the key evidence for Ryusuke's conclusion.

Besides obtaining a Blue Light Cluster from Sakura, Ryusuke had also defeated Hinata, who was the strongest at Taijutsu, during a sparring session and obtained a white light cluster from her.

When he examined the light cluster, Ryusuke was briefly stunned.

He had not expected Hinata to hide her abilities so deeply, just like her future figure.

She had actually already mastered the Transformation Technique, one of the Three Body Techniques.

That was right. The item inside the white light cluster was the Transformation Technique.

Because of this, Ryusuke deliberately asked the three girls whether they knew the Three Body Techniques. Both Sakura and Ino shook their heads.

Forget whether they knew the Three Body Techniques—they did not even possess the training methods for them.

Although both came from ninja families, their parents knew this was the time to build a solid foundation and had not deliberately given them extra instruction.

Ino in particular would probably not be taught her family's ninja techniques by Yamanaka Inoichi until her Yin Release Chakra had reached a passing standard.

Only the honest Hinata nodded and demonstrated the Transformation Technique once.

This not only confirmed Ryusuke's guess, but also showed that Hinata's physical talents surpassed both Ino's and Sakura's.

The Byakugan granted Hinata astonishing spiritual energy. Her enormous appetite and daily Gentle Fist training also gave her far more physical energy than children her age.

Ryusuke was not surprised at all that she already knew the Three Body Techniques.

However, Hinata's display deeply stimulated Ino and Sakura.

They clearly had not expected that Hinata, who was so quiet and low-key at school, was actually so much more outstanding than them.

Fortunately, they had met Ryusuke and come into contact with things normally taught only to genin ahead of time. Otherwise, by the time they graduated, Hinata might have left them far behind.

Ino, who was extremely competitive and unwilling to be surpassed by her "little sister," began pestering her parents for extra instruction every day after returning home.

To reassure them, Ino demonstrated the Body Flicker Technique and told them that she had been training with Ryusuke.

Thus, Ryusuke's name reached Yamanaka Inoichi's ears ahead of time.

He had not expected another civilian genius to emerge in this generation.

Naturally, Ryusuke knew nothing about any of this.

In the year since awakening the game system, Ryusuke had obtained four light clusters in total: one gold, two blue, and one white.

The gold one was Asura's Chakra, the blue ones were the Yin Release attribute and Chakra Control, while the white one was the Transformation Technique.

Judging by the rarity of these abilities, among the three colors of light clusters currently known, gold was the highest grade, followed by blue, with white at the bottom.

As for whether other colors existed, Ryusuke did not know.

But in the future, whenever he saw someone shining with light, he would be able to tell in advance from its color whether he had gotten lucky or not.

April 5th, Konoha Year 55.

This was the first day of school, as well as the promotion ceremony.

Sarutobi Hiruzen, the Third Hokage and the academy principal, personally attended and gave the newly enrolled first-years a speech about the Will of Fire.

It had to be admitted that Sarutobi Hiruzen truly was the only person in Konoha capable of keeping Shimura Danzō firmly in check and making him obey.

It was clearly the same content Ryusuke had heard last year.

Yet after Sarutobi Hiruzen made a few slight changes to it, every student was still fired up.

After the promotion ceremony ended, Ryusuke and the others officially became second-year students.

At the same time, the major exam results were released.

The top students of each grade had been selected.

Ryusuke was one of them.

"Ryusuke, did you check the results on the bulletin board? You became the Top Student! That's amazing, man!"

"Look outside the window! There are so many upperclassmen and first-years. They all came to see you."

"So this is the popularity of a Top Student? Damn it, I'm so jealous."

"Ryusuke-kun is so handsome! I want to join Ryusuke-kun's Support Group!"

"..."

Class One, Second Year. Their new classroom.

The moment Ryusuke entered, he was surrounded by his classmates.

There were even large numbers of female students outside the classroom who had specifically come to sneak a look at Ryusuke, the Top Student.

Some of these girls were older upperclassmen, while others were first-year girls who had just enrolled.

Ryusuke was not the only one receiving such treatment. Hyuga Neji, who had advanced to the third year, was receiving the same attention.

A year older than Ryusuke, Hyuga Neji had already been a prominent figure throughout the academy last year.

After today, Ryusuke's popularity would likely no longer be confined to his class and grade. He would become a prominent figure known throughout the entire academy.

This was not only because of the Top Student title, but also because, like Hyuga Neji, he was simply too handsome.

After finally dealing with his enthusiastic classmates, Ryusuke had just sat down when a small hand patted his shoulder.

Turning around, he saw Ino smiling at him. "How does it feel to be the Top Student?"

"It's alright. Everyone's a lot more enthusiastic than usual."

Ryusuke shrugged, then glanced at Hinata beside Sakura and teased, "Hinata, did you take the initiative to switch seats with Yumiko?"

Before Hinata could answer, Ino rolled her eyes. "Do you think someone with Hinata's personality would have the courage to do something like that? Of course I asked Yumiko to switch seats with Hinata."

Sure enough, Hinata smiled shyly.

The classroom desks seated three students each. Beside Ryusuke sat Nara Shikamaru, and beside Nara Shikamaru sat Choji Akimichi.

Behind them sat Ino, Sakura, and Hinata.

As he watched Ryusuke turn around to chat with the three girls, Nara Shikamaru secretly studied Hinata, who seemed even more ladylike than Sakura. A trace of surprise flashed in his eyes.

Since when did Ryusuke know the young lady of such a powerful clan?

What had happened over this break?

But when he saw that Ryusuke spread his attention evenly instead of talking only to Ino, constantly finding topics to talk about with Sakura and Hinata as well, a trace of disdain flashed in Nara Shikamaru's eyes.

The boat was already crowded with three people, yet Ryusuke still dared to add another. Sooner or later, that guy's boat would sink.

When that happened, Shikamaru wanted to see how Ryusuke would clean up the mess.

The timing of the major exam in the previous chapters was incorrect and has been revised.