"Uchiha Ling! You! I want you to train me! Please say yes!"
Shiranui Genma looked stubborn, but his voice was full of pleading.
Uchiha Ling asked, "What do you want to train for? The teachers have already taught us how to train as ninja. Some people just put in more effort than others."
He knew nothing about special training. He had only tried a few things at random with Ebisu.
"I want to learn how to resist the Sexy Technique!"
"Oh! That? Easy. Come with me!" Uchiha Ling suddenly stopped. "Wait! How did you know I could resist the Sexy Technique?"
"I saw the looks you and Ebisu exchanged. I'm not wrong. There's definitely something going on between you two!"
"Looks like Ebisu really got to you. You've been paying that much attention to him."
Uchiha Ling led Shiranui Genma to his and Ebisu's secret base, deep in the dense woods beside a training ground.
Uchiha Ling crawled beneath a bush and rustled around, searching for something.
Soon, Shiranui Genma saw Uchiha Ling hide a book behind his back and approach with an air of mystery.
"Genma, there's only one way to resist the Sexy Technique: Desensitization Training!"
"Desensitization Training? What kind of training is that?"
Uchiha Ling pulled out the picture book he had hidden behind his back:
"Ebisu went through more than three hundred picture books, tore out the best pages, and bound them into this collection.
This book is the essence of Ebisu's Sexy Technique! He developed the technique using these pictures.
If you can look through the whole book without reacting, your mind as still as water, the Sexy Technique won't affect you in the future, either.
Go on. Study it."
Shiranui Genma took the book and glanced down at its cover.
Blood immediately flowed from his nose again.
The cover girl was curvy, scantily clad, and full-figured. Shiranui Genma had never seen anything like her at his age.
With Konoha's terrible birth rate, I'll have to be the one to improve it, Uchiha Ling thought.
The kids in our class are the elite of this generation in Konoha, and most of them won't have children later on.
If none of you have kids, how is Konoha supposed to grow?
I'm doing this for Konoha. My Will of Fire burns bright.
From now on, call me the "Master of Enlightenment"!
Uchiha Ling left Shiranui Genma to it and used the Body Flicker Technique to return to the training ground, where he waited for Kurenai Yuhi.
Kurenai Yuhi blushed as soon as she saw Uchiha Ling.
"Ling, you saw the technique Ebisu used today, didn't you? That was too much! He turned into a woman with no clothes on!"
"It was a bit much."
If anything, it was too weak, Uchiha Ling thought.
If I did it, it would work much better than Ebisu's version.
Kurenai Yuhi added, "Ling, you're not like that, are you?"
"Of course not. Ebisu's skill is nothing impressive."
After sparring with Kurenai, she continued training on her own while Uchiha Ling considered another problem.
When he had arrived in this world, the original body's Chakra Amount had been around 0.2 Kā.
He had drawn 0.1 Kā of Chakra Amount from the Defense-Breaking System three times since then, bringing his total to around 0.5 Kā.
In other words, his own Chakra Amount had barely grown.
Was the original body really that untalented?
Kakashi had already had 0.5 Kā last year. Since becoming a Genin and going to the battlefield, his Chakra Amount had surely grown even higher.
Drawing Chakra Amount from the system was efficient, but he needed to pay attention to his natural growth, too.
Chakra was a combination of physical and mental energy. A ninja's Chakra Amount depended on how much of each they possessed.
Physical energy could be increased through Taijutsu training. The stronger the body, the more physical energy it held.
But he had no idea how to increase mental energy.
From what he had seen in the original story, ninja were remarkably fragile mentally. When something went wrong, they could easily develop psychological problems.
Was there another way to increase my Chakra Amount?
Whenever the system increased his Chakra Amount, he felt his physique improve along with it.
The gains from the system had hidden how slowly he was improving on his own.
Had his body improved too quickly for his training to keep up? Had he failed to develop it fully?
After some thought, Uchiha Ling decided to try training harder.
When the two of them finished and left the training ground, Shiranui Genma emerged from the woods.
He thought he had wiped away all the blood, but a streak still marked the side of his nose.
"Kurenai, Shiranui Genma's acting sneaky. Let's not hang out with him."
"Okay. We won't."
When Shiranui Genma saw the disgust in Kurenai's eyes, his heart sank. The girls must have been repulsed by the spectacle he had made of himself when Ebisu used the Sexy Technique.
Even Uchiha Ling was distancing himself. It was devastating.
The next morning.
Might Guy and Akimichi Takashi ran ahead, exchanging occasional glances. Neither understood why Uchiha Ling was so slow.
Akimichi Takashi could now keep up with Might Guy for one lap around Konoha, though he fell behind on the second.
Today, Uchiha Ling could not even keep up for the first lap.
It was as if his legs had gone weak.
Behind them, Uchiha Ling was drenched in sweat. He had been a little too confident.
That morning, he had strapped ten kilograms of weights around his waist and five kilograms to each calf. He had not expected them to slow him down so much.
Even so, he had to train harder. He needed to master his body.
Akimichi Takashi finished ten laps. Might Guy had lapped him several times, but Uchiha Ling had not lapped him once, leaving him in an excellent mood.
"Uchiha Ling, why are your legs so weak? My brother kept saying his legs were weak for days after he got married. Want me to ask him how he fixed it?"
Uchiha Ling panted. "Don't bother. Your brother just needed to sleep in a separate bed. My problem's different."
"Sleep in a separate bed? Why?"
"Go home and ask your brother."
During sparring class that day, everyone noticed that Uchiha Ling's movements had slowed.
Even at that speed, Akimichi Takashi could not touch the hem of Uchiha Ling's clothes. Uchiha Ling sent him chasing across the grounds like a dog.
Yamano glanced at the clods of earth crushed beneath Uchiha Ling's feet. That kid's really pushing himself. He's even started training with weights.
Starting weight training too young can stunt your growth. But look at how tall and thin he is. His classmates already call him Skinny Pole. It probably won't matter much.
The Third is only 1.6 meters tall. Did that stop him from becoming Konoha's strongest Hokage?
After two months of hard training, Uchiha Ling suddenly felt a change one day.
He had broken through his plateau. His Chakra Amount had increased!
It had risen from 0.5 Kā to 0.6 Kā. He had earned that through his own hard work, not received it from the system.
The days passed, and at last, the end of term arrived.
No matter how much Yamano looked down on it, he had to admit that Ebisu had an extraordinary talent for the Transformation Technique.
In the final sparring assessment, the first match was Uchiha Ling against Akimichi Takashi.
Looking at Akimichi Takashi, Uchiha Ling thought, Time to reel him in.
For the happiness of the rest of my life—and my lower half—Multi-Size Technique, here I come!
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