Ino locked the door, drew the curtains, and only then took out the diary.
Sure enough, a brand-new entry had appeared in the diary.
Takasaki had just written it.
Ino read it carefully. When she first saw her name in the diary, she let out a huge sigh of relief and smiled with delight. "I knew it! Taking a risk to help Takasaki cheat was worth it. He wrote my name in his new diary entry."
But the smile on Ino's face lasted only a few seconds before fading.
"Takasaki really isn't as polite as he looks!"
"When I kindly helped him write a cheat sheet on his palm, he was checking out my figure!"
"He looks refined, polite, and humble, but deep down he's still a pervert!"
Fortunately, the things Takasaki wrote about Ino's figure were all compliments, which made her feel a little better.
After all, every woman, no matter her age, thought she was beautiful.
Even if Ino was still a little girl who hadn't fully grown up yet.
"Does my stomach really look that good?"
Ino looked down at her belly and suddenly felt a little glad.
She'd been in such a hurry to get to school that day that she'd grabbed a random T-shirt from the closet. It had turned out to be one she'd worn a few years ago, and now it was a size too small, leaving her navel exposed.
As it happened, Takasaki thought she looked good dressed like that.
To be honest, under normal circumstances, she would have felt uncomfortable if a boy stared at her exposed navel like that, especially a dead last whom everyone shunned.
But she hadn't expected that Takasaki noticing her like this would lead him to write about her in his diary.
"Maybe from now on, whenever I'm around Takasaki, I should try to wear crop tops?" The thought popped into Ino's head.
Thinking about it was one thing.
Actually doing it was another.
Because whenever she thought of Takasaki's dead-last grades, she instinctively felt a strong aversion to him.
Especially when she saw that he'd even written in his diary that he wanted to get her pregnant.
That was just outrageous.
He made it sound as if she wanted to have his children.
"I'll only have children with someone I love. It'll absolutely never be Takasaki. There's no way I'd ever like a dead last." Ino furrowed her brows, deeply displeased.
[You have been mentioned in Takasaki's diary more than 5 times. Reward: Chakra increased by 10%.]
When Ino saw those words, she froze for a moment. Once she understood, she was overjoyed. "I got a reward!"
The reward was exactly what she'd been hoping for: an increase in her chakra!
Before she could think it over, she suddenly felt a warm current well up inside her.
Her chakra and stamina were now incredibly abundant.
After sensing that her chakra really had increased by 10%, Ino excitedly stomped her feet around the room.
Once she'd calmed down a little, she opened the door and called downstairs, "Dad! Come up here! I've got a surprise for you!"
"What is it?"
Footsteps sounded in the stairwell as Inoichi Yamanaka came upstairs.
Ino was already standing by her bedroom door. Facing the stairwell landing, she formed the hand seals for the Mind Transfer Jutsu and aimed at Inoichi, who had just reached the corner. "Mind Transfer Jutsu!"
Inoichi only chuckled at the sight. "Ino, you don't have enough chakra to use the Mind Transfer Jutsu yet. Just keep training slowly. There's no rush..."
Before he could finish speaking,
his pupils suddenly contracted, and his consciousness instantly faded.
A few minutes later, he came to. As his senses returned, he jerked his head up and looked at Ino. "Ino, you learned it!"
"Yeah, I just learned it."
Ino slumped down beside the door, exhausted, but her eyes shone with joy. "Dad, I finally mastered the Yamanaka Clan's secret technique before graduation. I didn't let you down, hahaha..."
Inoichi chatted with Ino for a while, his eyes full of pride in his daughter. "I'm going to tell everyone in the clan about this, so they'll know how talented my daughter is! Hahaha!"
After chatting for a bit, Inoichi left.
Ino returned to her bedroom and lay down to rest.
Even though successfully using the Mind Transfer Jutsu once had nearly depleted all her chakra, she was still very happy.
The main thing was that she'd finally seen her father, who had always cared for her, feel proud of her.
She could imagine the way the other clan members would look at her with newfound respect once they heard that she'd mastered the Mind Transfer Jutsu.
Just thinking about it made her feel wonderful.
"Takasaki, you big pervert, you've really helped me out!"
She'd risked helping Takasaki cheat, and he'd written her name in his diary. That had earned her a chakra reward, which had allowed her to master the Mind Transfer Jutsu.
All in all, it had been a great deal.
Ino thought back over the things Takasaki had written about her in his diary.
Suddenly, she felt that those offensive remarks weren't quite so infuriating after all.
"So Takasaki likes seeing me in crop tops? Should I wear one every time I'm around him from now on? If he sees me, will he keep writing my name in his future diary entries?"
"But whenever I think about how he compliments my stomach and then wants to get me pregnant, I feel like he's so shameless."
As Ino was thinking this,
she suddenly sensed something.
New content had appeared in the diary!
Ino forgot about complaining about Takasaki and hurriedly took out the diary to check. But it wasn't a new entry. A line had appeared at the bottom of the one she'd just read.
[In this diary entry, Kurenai Yuhi was mentioned the most. Kurenai Yuhi receives an additional reward: Chakra increased by 20%.]
Ino stared at it blankly for a moment, then suddenly realized what it meant. "Teacher Kurenai has a diary too!"
Another bonus reward!
The last time someone received an additional reward in the diary, it had been Hinata. This time it was Teacher Kurenai!
Twenty percent more chakra.
Ino was truly envious.
If she could get that additional reward, she wouldn't be as exhausted as she was now after using the Mind Transfer Jutsu.
"No wonder Teacher Kurenai didn't catch Takasaki when he was reported for cheating several times during today's exam. She did it on purpose."
"She even deliberately coaxed Takasaki into handing in his exam early and going to her private office. She even hugged him, too."
Looking at Kurenai's actions in the diary, Ino could only think one thing.
Teacher Kurenai was really going all out. To get Takasaki to write her name in his diary more often, she'd even coaxed him into going to her private office. She'd apparently even hugged him to comfort him.
Takasaki had written in his diary that Teacher Kurenai was so kind to him because her parents had once shared a bond of life and death with him.
Was that really true?
Ino didn't buy it.
"That's definitely just an excuse for Teacher Kurenai to get close to Takasaki. Everything she's doing for him is meant to get him to write her name in his diary more often."
To be honest, even Ino thought that kind of behavior was shameless. The problem was, it worked!
Teacher Kurenai had successfully received an additional reward.
Ino was truly envious.
And beneath her envy, there was a tiny bit of jealousy.
Once she'd recovered a little of her strength, Ino went to the bathroom to wash off the sweat that had appeared after her chakra was heavily depleted.
She took off her clothes one by one and stood beneath the showerhead, letting the water run over her fair skin. Suddenly, a thought flashed through her mind. "Teacher Kurenai can use her sexy, mature body to tempt Takasaki. Could I do that too?"
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