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Fujii, the jōnin teaching the class, walked into the classroom, yet Uchiha Shinsuke still had not shown up.

Did that make him shut himself away?

What a fragile heart.

His two lackeys had come, though. They sat in the farthest corner, trying to make themselves as inconspicuous as possible.

Hayato smiled at them, a friendly smile meant to tell them not to be afraid. In his eyes, they mattered far less than insects, so he would not take them to heart. Instead, the two of them trembled in terror, nearly bursting into tears as they hugged their heads.

Hayato shook his head with an amused smile, then ignored them and focused on the lesson, diligently taking notes.

The Ninja Academy had been founded by Tobirama Senju, and its development had been somewhat bumpy.

The first class had consisted of only thirty-eight students, all of them clan-born ninja. There had not been a single civilian.

More than ten years after the academy was established, it expanded its facilities for the first time.

It took nearly twenty years before it admitted female students for the first time.

By now, the school buildings had been expanded twice, the student body had grown beyond two hundred, and civilian students outnumbered those from ninja clans.

In theory, the Ninja Academy taught knowledge in three areas: fundamentals, practice, and combat.

In practice, it approached them from four aspects: history, experience, training, and field practice. The specific teaching methods varied from teacher to teacher. In this class, Fujii mainly spoke about his experiences in the Second Shinobi World War. It sounded suspiciously like bragging, but there was no proof.

Teachers at the Ninja Academy were generally chūnin or special jōnin. As the village's elite force, jōnin would not become teachers unless they were personally interested or injured