I'll Teach You!

Hyuga Qingchuan smiled and responded to each of them, his smile gentle and natural.

"Ah! Qingchuan is smiling at us!"

The girls immediately let out a small cheer.

Even after the two had walked far away, they could still vaguely hear the lively laughter coming from behind them.

Hyuga Ryosuke looked at Hyuga Qingchuan with some envy.

How was he so popular with girls?

The two walked on for a while.

"Hello, Qingchuan." Two clear, pleasant female voices came from beside them again.

Two smiling girls, their figures already beginning to mature, stood by the roadside with their eyes fixed on Hyuga Qingchuan.

"Hello, Yui, Nanako."

The envy on Hyuga Ryosuke's face began to turn into jealousy, until it became completely unrecognizable.

After they had walked some distance away, he could not help asking,

"How do you manage to remember every girl's name when you can't remember a single thing from class?"

"Maybe beautiful things just tend to leave a deep impression..." Hyuga Qingchuan said wistfully.

Actually, he was a little puzzled too. In the memories left behind by the original owner of this body, everything involving girls was always 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 Qingchuan found it strange. "Why bring that up all of a sudden?"

Hyuga Ryosuke took a deep breath and slowly exhaled a few words.

"I want to get married..."

"You animal!"

Hyuga Qingchuan stared at him in shock. "You're only twelve! What do you mean, get married?"

"I... I just matured early, okay?" Hyuga Ryosuke said, craning his neck stubbornly.

When Hyuga Qingchuan only stared at him without speaking, he had no choice but to confess honestly.

"Fine. I've got my eye on that Nanako from earlier. Introduce her to me."

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

Hyuga Qingchuan sighed in relief. "Is that all...?"

He waved a hand grandly and was just about to make a guarantee when his gaze inadvertently swept over Ryosuke's massive frame again. He forcibly swallowed the rest of his words.

"I can definitely pay back those thirty thousand ryo." He abruptly changed his tune, his tone incomparably firm.

"Don't!" the fat boy cried in despair.

But Hyuga Qingchuan shook his head resolutely.

He suddenly realized that even if he made an introduction, the two sides could not be too wildly mismatched.

Seeing that Hyuga Qingchuan would not budge, Hyuga Ryosuke had no choice but to change strategies.

He leaned closer and whispered mysteriously, "You're so popular with girls. Do you have some secret trick?"

The fat boy's face was full of thirst for knowledge.

"What trick?"

"How to win girls over?"

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

"I do. Hurry up and tell me!"

"Help me with something in a few days!"

"No problem!" The fat boy thumped his chest with a loud bang.

"You agreed that easily?"

"Quit talking nonsense and tell me!"

Hyuga Qingchuan stroked his chin, carefully recalling the original owner's interactions with girls.

The fat boy watched expectantly, his eyes shining. He had already begun imagining the wonderful future where, after receiving the true teachings, he would be surrounded by girls on both sides.

"First." Hyuga Qingchuan switched into teaching mode. "Whenever you see a girl looking your way, make sure to give her a smile."

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

"They will. The important part is the smile." Hyuga Qingchuan emphasized.

"A smile?"

"Right. It has to be sunny and warm."

As he spoke, Hyuga Qingchuan demonstrated one himself.

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

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

Remembering how Qingchuan's smile alone had just made those girls cheer with delight,

his eyes grew brighter and brighter, and he vaguely felt that...

perhaps...

he had already grasped a hint of the secret!

Hyuga Ryosuke pondered it for a moment, then nodded thoughtfully.

Then he pressed on. "And then?"

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

Hyuga Qingchuan 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 works every time."

Hyuga Qingchuan 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, and he rolled his eyes at Hyuga Qingchuan.

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

He had been too naive to expect some kind of technique from a stat monster.

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

At that moment, all that remained in his heart was overwhelming envy, jealousy, and resentment.

Still, heaven was fair. Though it had opened a window for Qingchuan, it had welded the door shut while it was at it.

It had been three years already, yet he still had not fully mastered even 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 walk, Hyuga Ryosuke was so devastated that he nearly went numb.

He painfully realized that the window heaven had opened for Qingchuan might not have been an ordinary window at all, but a massive 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 asked,

"Hey, did you and Yuhi Kurenai... have a falling-out?"

"Huh?" Hyuga Qingchuan looked completely baffled.

"I was already thinking of tactfully leaving, but you just said hello to her."

"Didn't I just say hello to everyone?"

"How can that be the same?"

The fat boy's numb expression finally became animated, carrying a hint of excited gossip.

"You two used to be really close."

"What? Did you decide to treat her like a stranger after your confession failed?"

He bumped Qingchuan with his elbow and laughed gleefully.

"So our handsome guy gets rejected too..."

A failed confession?

What kind of cliché was that?

Hyuga Qingchuan searched through his memories for a long while before digging up this recollection left by the original owner from some forgotten corner.

He did seem to have confessed to Yuhi Kurenai, only for her to gently turn him down because she was not ready to think about romance yet.

In the end, she had rejected him by saying that 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 romance games right now. The Third Shinobi World War was coming soon.

Once manpower ran short, the higher-ups would not care who 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 face one against four—it would basically be a meat grinder.

The lives of Genin and Chunin were worth less than grass.

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

"She graduated before confessing. You haven't even graduated yet, so how could your confession not fail?" the fat boy continued chattering at his side.

"Shut up!"