With a Smack...

"Is that so?"

As soon as Tsunade finished speaking, Wuye suddenly held his right hand together like a blade. A thin layer of chakra covered it, then shot fiercely from his fingertips before vanishing.

Tsunade stared wide-eyed. "..."

If she were Orochimaru, she would probably be shouting, This isn't scientific!

"That's right!"

Kaguya was greatly invigorated. "I told you he was a genius. How could his comprehension be lacking?"

"Hey, hey, did you teach him beforehand or something? How could he learn it in one go? This is worlds apart from how he was a few days ago. I don't believe it!"

Tsunade rose indignantly. "You two must be working together to fool me!"

Why could she teach him for three days without him learning anything, yet he understood after Kaguya taught him once? Was that reasonable? No, it was not!

Kaguya gave her a disdainful roll of her Byakugan. "Then I'll continue teaching him. Something new."

"The next step is to strike chakra into the acupoints observed through the Byakugan. By making the chakra form a self-contained loop, it cuts off the opponent's chakra flow."

As Kaguya spoke, she hesitated slightly before taking Wuye's hand... She had already held it before; deliberately avoiding it now would seem pretentious. Yes, she had no choice. It definitely was not because she craved that fluttering feeling of being close to him.

"Next, I'll use the Gentle Fist to seal the acupoints in your wrist. Feel it carefully. Don't rush to break through it."

As she spoke, Kaguya formed her right hand into a blade and jabbed Wuye's wrist with a smack, making it sting sharply.

As for why it made a smacking sound, it was not that the sound effect was wrong. That was simply the sound produced by the impact of striking an acupoint. Smack, smack, smack...

"Did you feel it? The chakra rushed in at high speed, breaking through the barrier with force, then circulated within the acupoint and completed the seal." Kaguya released his hand again.

Wuye gathered his chakra and broke through the seal, a faint smile appearing on his lips. "I understand."

"You understand again?!"

Tsunade glared from the side.

Wuye turned to her with a smile. "Teacher, how about letting me try it on you?"

"Try it, then. I don't believe it!"

Tsunade rolled up her sleeves and walked over. "Come on."

Hyuga Wuye unceremoniously grabbed her hand.

It was soft and fleshy, lacking Kaguya's bony delicacy, yet smooth and tender.

He quietly watched Tsunade's expression, only to find that it had not changed at all.

"What?" Tsunade asked in confusion. "Can't do it again all of a sudden?"

"It's nothing."

Wuye shook his head and sighed inwardly... Tsunade felt nothing from touching him. Well, of course. Who would feel anything from holding hands with someone more than a decade younger? That would be perverted!

So how was he supposed to turn Tsunade into a pervert? Urgent!

He formed his right hand into a blade and accurately struck the acupoint on her wrist.

Smack!

Tsunade felt as though she had been fiercely poked. Looking down, she saw a red spot had already appeared on her wrist.

"Alright, Teacher. Feel whether the acupoint has been sealed." Wuye withdrew his hand.

Tsunade circulated her chakra slightly and discovered that she could not send it into the meridians of her hand at all.

"Mm, it's blocked. Sealed tight without the slightest gap. Not even a bit can get through."

Her face was expressionless, but inwardly she was roaring... This is so unscientific! Aaah!

"Now, what else do you have to say?"

Seeing Kaguya's Byakugan before her, then Wuye's Byakugan beside her, Tsunade felt as though she had truly been rolled two pairs of white eyes.

"I still don't believe it. Come on, I'll continue teaching you how to transform medical chakra!"

Tsunade dragged Wuye down to sit, rolled up her sleeves, and said viciously, "This time, I'll teach you hand in hand too. If you still can't learn it, I'll let you taste my Monster Strength Fist!"

Hyuga Wuye: "..."

Half a day later, Tsunade lay weakly on the ground.

"This really... really makes no sense..."

She muttered, "How can something like this exist? A genius at learning Byakugan Gentle Fist, but an idiot at learning everything else. And it doesn't even look like he's pretending..."

"Even if every ninja has different strengths, the gap shouldn't be this huge..."

Wuye sat beside her and spread his hands, equally helpless.

Even though she had taught him hand in hand and created plenty of physical contact, Tsunade had not developed any thoughts about him whatsoever... For now, she was still a woman with a normal view of love.

"Could it be that we overestimated him?"

Tsunade sat bolt upright and looked seriously at Kaguya. "Maybe he only happens to have strong comprehension in this area. And the Gentle Fist is basic combat taijutsu that everyone in your Hyuga Clan can learn. The difficulty is too low, which is why he seems to learn it so quickly?"

"It took me a whole day to fully comprehend the Gentle Fist," Kaguya said, shooting her an unhappy glance. "Then I'll teach him the main family's secret art, the Eight Trigrams Palm. Its difficulty rivals an A-rank ninjutsu. Just wait."

"Come." She reached out and pulled Wuye to his feet. "I'll teach you the Eight Trigrams Palm."

Tsunade stared with complete concentration, determined to see who exactly had the problem.

"The Eight Trigrams Palm is a ninjutsu-taijutsu technique that uses specific footwork to seal many of an enemy's acupoints at extreme speed in a short period of time."

"Based on the number of acupoints sealed, it can be divided into Eight Trigrams Four Palms, Eight Palms, Sixteen Palms, Thirty-Two Palms, Sixty-Four Palms, and One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms."

"The more acupoints you seal, the harder it is for the enemy to break through. They can only surrender helplessly."

Kaguya explained, "But the difficult part is using Eight Trigrams footwork to seize an instant of weakness in the enemy, then beginning with the first palm and completing all the following palm strikes without interruption."

"So first, you need to understand these 128 acupoints, then memorize four acupoint-striking routes."

At this point, Wuye suddenly raised his hand. "Why 128? Didn't Sister just strike 256 palms?"

Kaguya glanced at Tsunade. "Her chakra reserves are far too vast. I simply wasn't confident enough, so I planned to strike another round."

Wuye: "..."

"The four acupoint-striking routes correspond to four different openings. They are..."

Kaguya was halfway through speaking when Tsunade suddenly raised a hand to interrupt her. "Wait. I'll step away for a moment."

Watching her turn and walk dozens of meters away to sit beneath a tree root, the corner of Kaguya's mouth twitched, as if it were about to curl up.

But her lips moved, and in the end she did not smile, leaving Hyuga Wuye, who had been watching her, deeply disappointed.

"During battle, the enemy will inevitably reveal openings in the front, back, left, and right directions. The first acupoint struck is the key. There is one acupoint each on the left shoulder, right shoulder, chest, and back that is best suited to be the first."

As Kaguya spoke, she poked several spots on his body.

"After striking the first acupoint, the follow-up attacks must immediately keep pace at extreme speed, which is why coordinating with Eight Trigrams footwork is so important..."

She found a branch and drew an Eight Trigrams diagram on the ground, then stepped into it to demonstrate.

"Stand at the center of the Eight Trigrams. I'll perform a round on you at the slowest speed. Watch my footwork closely, along with the acupoint-striking routes and order..."

An A-rank ninjutsu was indeed complicated to learn, but for Hyuga Wuye, as long as he watched Kaguya perform it once, he could analyze it completely. Learning it was almost instantaneous.

So the lesson itself was rather dull, but Kaguya's fingers traced across acupoints all over his body, carrying a fragrant breeze past his face.

Her snow-like figure spun and moved around him, like a celestial maiden dancing in flowing robes, making his heart race.

Wuye was about to get drunk...