Chapter 16

"You can pair it with Nutritional Potions and Body-Tempering Potions, gradually increase the time spent tempering your body, and further improve your physique and vitality."

"That will also help speed up your soul's recovery."

"Also, you can continue practicing that Meditation Method of yours. It'll help as well."

"That's about it. You don't need to stay here all the time anymore."

After spending these days together, Xunjing and the others had not deliberately hidden much from her, so Dr. Kureha had long known that Uchiha Chisato disappeared for a while every day, leaving behind something similar to a clone.

Dr. Kureha had practiced medicine in the Pirate World for decades and had seen countless tricks. The disguises of the two before her were full of holes in her eyes.

Not to mention that her Observation Haki had long reached its peak. A petty trick like a Shadow Clone could not fool her senses at all.

Uchiha Chisato had already brought her Observation Haki to the beginner level, so she naturally knew about this flaw. She and Xunjing simply could not be bothered to conceal it. At most, Dr. Kureha would assume that they disappeared each day to travel using spatial movement.

Xunjing secretly glanced at the system panel—over the past ten-odd days, his exchanges with Dr. Kureha about medicine had raised their favorability to 64 points. This relationship could be considered one that transcended generations.

"Thank you for taking care of us during this time." Uchiha Chisato nodded to Dr. Kureha. "I won't be staying here most of the time from now on, so I'll have to trouble you to keep an eye on Xunjing."

His recovery had been fairly smooth, but it would still take at least another ten-odd days for him to fully heal.

"Don't be so polite." Dr. Kureha waved her hand. "The kid and I are learning from each other. Neither of us owes the other anything."

She would not flatter herself. After their exchanges these past few days, she had already discovered that although Xunjing was young, his understanding of traditional medicine was already quite solid. He was someone worth discussing medicine with.

What surprised her even more was the boy's rate of growth. In just ten days, Xunjing had not only made tremendous progress in traditional medicine, his specialty, but had also learned quite a bit of her own medical techniques. Even Dr. Kureha could not help marveling at such talent.

A monster.

She wanted to see when this boy would completely surpass her in medicine.

Xunjing glanced at the system—Medical Arts: 9314/10000, Proficient.

He was only one step away from the Minor Accomplishment Realm. In a few more days, he would probably break through completely.

By his judgment, Dr. Kureha's medical skill would not exceed the Minor Accomplishment Realm either. Even so, it was already a top-tier standard of medicine in the Pirate World. He truly wondered what Major Accomplishment medical arts would look like, especially a Major Accomplishment Realm that combined the essence of two worlds.

He was getting ahead of himself.

After Uchiha Chisato finished explaining things to Dr. Kureha, she pulled Xunjing back into the room. With a casual gesture, she set up a soundproof barrier and lowered her voice. "From now on, Mom can only spare time to come see you once a day. If you miss me, come back to the Ninja World or the Space-Time Gate space anytime."

"No problem." Xunjing nodded. "You don't need to worry about me here."

"But—" he changed the subject, "it's time to start reforming the clan as well. We should begin with the Uchiha Police Force and the Clan Academy."

On the Police Force side, select a group of elites, form a separate elite unit, and designate a training ground specifically for intensive training.

Arrange regular sparring sessions, ideological education classes, and the like.

Increase their benefits and completely free them from those messy village patrol assignments.

If the village lacked patrol personnel, openly recruit civilian ninja or people from other clans to fill the gaps.

Throw all the dirty, exhausting work that was bound to offend people onto civilian ninja or ninja from outside clans.

From now on, the Uchiha Police Department only needed to act as the referee.

Also, establish a public judicial department within the Police Department specifically to handle disputes between villagers.

Let them appear in court and confront each other themselves. We would no longer intervene directly.

That would greatly reduce the villagers' misunderstandings and hostility toward us.

Right, ordinary civil disputes, especially trivial matters, had to be separated from cases involving village security or human lives and handled by two different departments.

Let those in the clan with good tempers and friendly faces handle ordinary disputes.

Or recruit people from the village who were interested in this sort of work. Give them the title of squad captain, and there would be no shortage of people willing to take it on.

For every case, make the proceedings as fair, impartial, and open as possible.

We should also erect a large public notice board outside the Police Department.

Post the information of every closed case that did not involve village secrets, with a one-week public notice period.

Let those unreasonable troublemakers and evildoers experience the taste of social death.

In short, the goal was to dump all that offending garbage elsewhere.

At the same time, we could concentrate our elite forces and strengthen the clan's power. What do you think?

We could not let things continue to rot like this.

Otherwise, the Uchiha's reputation in the village would never recover.

That was not a situation Xunjing wanted to see.

In the future, he would control all of Konoha, perhaps even the entire Ninja World.

Only then could he maximize the talent effect of the Space-Time Gate.

As for simply throwing away the Police Department?

Leaving aside whether the Third Generation and the others would agree,

even if they were willing, we could not do that.

That would be utterly foolish.

The Police Department held considerable power.

It had the authority to arrest, patrol, judge, detain... a whole host of judicial powers.

Used properly, it could even restrain the Hokage in turn.

The prerequisite was to completely cast off all the burdens that made people resent it.

After listening, Uchiha Chisato's eyes lit up. She stared at her son and asked, "You've been thinking about these ideas for a long time, haven't you?"

Her son had already given her far too many surprises.

Uchiha Chisato had also been thinking about the Police Force.

Over the years, she and several clan higher-ups had not failed to consider changing the villagers' view of the Police Force, but they had never found a breakthrough.

After hearing Xunjing's words now, her mind suddenly cleared.

"You're right. Those rotten matters should never have wasted the time of elite Uchiha. Arguing back and forth with ordinary people lowers our standing, and we don't gain anything from it."

"Let civilian ninja or people from other clans handle those matters."

"The Uchiha only need to make the final decision and act as referees. It saves effort while establishing authority."

"Then create an elite Police Force. It can provide real combat training while also keeping the Third Generation's people in check."

"We'll do as you said."

"What about the Clan Academy? Do you have ideas for that too?"

Chisato stared at her son, her eyes full of anticipation.

In her view, her son being able to think of such things had to be because of the Sage Inheritance, combined with his natural intelligence.

"Yes."

Xunjing nodded, his tone steady.

"The Clan Academy practically doesn't exist right now. I suggest setting up several classes: a preschool enlightenment class, after-school tutoring classes for Ninja Academy students, a Genin enhancement class, a Chunin enhancement class, and a Jonin exchange class."

"The preschool class should teach moral education, Ninja World history, Uchiha clan history, as well as Basic Body Technique and kunai and shuriken throwing."

He paused, then added,

"In short, clan members of every level need to get moving. If we keep raising them this loosely, their strength won't improve, and the Uchiha name will sooner or later be ruined in our hands."

"I, the young clan head, am working this hard. Do they have the nerve to lie around?"

He had no intention of indulging anyone.

"I'll go through all the clan's existing taijutsu, training methods, and experience, then organize them into a more scientific Basic Body Technique training method for the preschool and after-school classes."

"The preschool class also needs medicinal baths. I plan to improve the clan's medicinal bath formula and give the children a solid foundation."

"Also, we can provide a small amount of Sea Kings meat."

"But we can't spread word of that for now. Over the next few days, I'll research how to turn Sea Kings meat into special Military Rations Pills, called Nutrient Pills."

"Mom, you need to give me a copy of the clan's existing Military Rations Pills formulas and materials."

He paid particular attention to the ideological classes.

For that part, he planned to draw on memories from his previous life and combine them with the Ninja World's current situation to compile a moral education textbook.

First, he would brainwash the Uchiha children and straighten out their values.