I'll Teach You!

Hyuga Seisen smiled and responded to them one by one, his smile gentle and natural.

"Ah! Seisen-kun smiled at us!"

The girls immediately let out a small cheer.

Even after the two had walked far away, they could still faintly hear the lively laughter drifting over from behind them.

Hyuga Ryosuke looked at Hyuga Seisen with some envy.

How was he so popular with girls?

The two walked on for a while.

"Hello, Seisen-kun." Two clear, pleasant female voices rang out beside them again.

Two girls whose figures had already begun to fill out stood smiling by the roadside, their gazes fixed on Hyuga Seisen.

"Hello, Yui, Nanako."

The envy on Hyuga Ryosuke's face began turning into jealousy, until his expression became completely warped.

Once they had gone some distance, he could not help asking, "How do you manage to remember none of what we learn in class, yet remember every girl's name?"

"Maybe beautiful things always leave a deep impression..." Hyuga Seisen said wistfully.

Actually, he found it a little strange too. In the memories left behind by the original owner of this body, everything related to girls was especially clear.

"Didn't you say last time that if I couldn't pay back those thirty thousand ryo, you'd introduce me to a wife?"

Hyuga Ryosuke suddenly changed the subject.

"Yeah."

Hyuga Seisen was a little puzzled. "Why bring that up all of a sudden?"

Hyuga Ryosuke took a deep breath and slowly let out a few words.

"I want to get married..."

"You beast!"

Hyuga Seisen stared at him in shock. "You're only twelve! What are you getting married for?"

"I... I matured early, okay?!" Hyuga Ryosuke craned his neck defiantly.

Seeing Hyuga Seisen stare at him without saying a word, he could only come clean.

"Fine. I like that Nanako from just now. Introduce her to me."

He blinked, wearing an expression that said, You know what I mean.

Hyuga Seisen sighed in relief upon hearing that. "Is that even something you need to ask..."

He waved a hand grandly, about to make a confident promise, when his gaze inadvertently swept over Ryosuke's massive frame again. He swallowed the rest of his words.

"I'll definitely repay those thirty thousand ryo," he suddenly changed his tune, his tone incomparably firm.

"Don't!" The fat boy despaired.

But Hyuga Seisen shook his head resolutely.

He had suddenly realized that even if he introduced them, their conditions could not be too far apart.

Seeing that Hyuga Seisen would not budge, Hyuga Ryosuke had no choice but to change tactics.

He leaned closer and asked in a mysterious whisper, "You're so popular with girls. Do you have some exclusive trick?"

The fat boy's face was filled with a thirst for knowledge.

"What trick?"

"How to win girls over?"

"You want to learn? I'll teach you!" Hyuga Seisen raised a brow.

"I do. Hurry up and tell me!"

"Help me with something in a few days!"

"No problem!" The fat boy pounded his chest until it thumped.

"You agreed that easily?"

"Stop talking nonsense and tell me already!"

Hyuga Seisen stroked his chin, carefully recalling how the original owner of this body had interacted with girls.

The fat boy looked expectant, his eyes shining as he began imagining the wonderful future where, after receiving the true teachings, he would be surrounded by beautiful girls.

"First." Hyuga Seisen entered teaching mode. "When girls look your way, you must give them a smile."

"Look my way? What if they don't look my way?"

"They will. The key is the smile." Hyuga Seisen emphasized.

"A smile?"

"That's right. This smile needs to be sunny and warm."

As he spoke, Hyuga Seisen personally demonstrated one.

Hyuga Ryosuke watched him and felt there was nothing particularly special about it. He smiled like that all the time too.

Still, he muttered those key words to himself: "Sunny, warm... and a smile."

Recalling how Seisen had merely smiled like that earlier and made those girls cheer with delight, his eyes grew brighter and brighter.

It vaguely felt as though...

He had already grasped a hint of the secret!

Hyuga Ryosuke took a moment to process it, then nodded thoughtfully.

He followed up, "And then?"

"And then? Then they'll enthusiastically swarm over to you."

Hyuga Seisen wore an expression that said, Isn't that obvious?

"That's it?" The expectation on the fat boy's face instantly froze.

"That's it. I've always done it this way, and it never fails."

Hyuga Seisen looked as though it were only natural.

As he searched through the original owner's memories, there really was only that one step.

Hyuga Ryosuke's face fell at once, and he gave Hyuga Seisen an eye-roll.

He had been looking forward to it for so long, and this was it?

He had been too naive to expect a stat monster to have any special techniques.

This guy probably did not need to do anything at all. Girls would come flocking to him on their own.

At that moment, all he felt was boundless envy, jealousy, and resentment.

Still, heaven was fair. Though it had opened a window for Seisen, it had also welded his door shut.

It had been three years already, yet he had not even fully mastered the most basic Three-Body Technique. Ryosuke himself had graduated two years ago, while this guy was still repeating grades at the academy.

For the rest of the journey, Hyuga Ryosuke was so thoroughly beaten down that he nearly went numb.

He painfully realized that the window heaven had opened for Seisen might not be an ordinary window at all, but a gigantic floor-to-ceiling window three or four stories high.

It was not until a girl with rare ruby-like eyes greeted them and left that Hyuga Ryosuke seemed to come back to life and finally asked, "Hey, you and Yuhi Kurenai... did you two have a falling-out?"

"Huh?" Hyuga Seisen looked completely baffled.

"I was about to tactfully leave, but you just greeted her."

"Didn't I just greet everyone?"

"How is that the same thing?"

The fat boy's numb expression finally became animated, carrying a hint of excitement at the prospect of drama.

"You two used to be really close."

"What? Your confession failed, so now you're planning to act like strangers?"

He bumped Seisen with his elbow and laughed mischievously. "So our handsome guy has a day when he gets rejected too..."

A failed confession?

What kind of cliche was that?

Hyuga Seisen searched through his memories for quite a while before digging up this memory left by the original owner from some forgotten corner.

It seemed he really had confessed to Yuhi Kurenai, only to be gently rejected because she said she was not ready to consider romance yet.

In the end, she had rejected him by saying she did not want to date for the time being.

He shook his head without commenting.

He had no mood to care about children's romantic games right now. The Third Shinobi World War was coming soon.

Once manpower became scarce, the higher-ups would not care whether someone was dead last. They would approve everyone's graduation and send them off as cannon fodder.

On the battlefield, especially during the Third Shinobi World War, where Konoha would be fighting one against four, it would basically be a meat grinder.

Genin and chunin lives would be worth less than grass.

Before being sent to the battlefield, he had to reach at least jonin level to have even a little ability to protect himself.

"Other people confess after graduating. You haven't even graduated yet—how could your confession not fail?" The fat boy continued chattering away beside him.

"Shut up!"