Asuma's Choice

"Sarada, there's no helping it. Those are the rules. This decision was made to keep us from giving up halfway through.

It's just really disgusting."

Boruto's expression turned ugly when he heard that.

His usual hamburgers were nowhere to be found, and now he had to eat disgusting things just to fill his stomach. What a pain.

Konoha's rules stated that once someone entered the second level of the Taijutsu Training System, they had to take responsibility for their own choices.

Only then could they achieve the best training results.

They just hadn't expected the environment to be this harsh.

"Don't be afraid. I found some small animals. They should taste pretty good. I'll catch them."

At that moment, Hyuga Tonbo, standing across from them, smiled at them.

His Byakugan flared wide open. Chakra gathered in both hands as he slammed them onto the swamp's surface.

Countless streams of chakra burrowed into the swamp.

The swamp churned.

Chakra slammed through its depths.

"Come on, Hyuga Tonbo, don't force yourself. How could you use ninjutsu in a place like this? It won't work, right?"

Boruto spoke when he saw this.

Even he had far less control over his chakra in this space. Even if the Byakugan could see something beneath the surface, it would still be difficult.

After all, he was Konoha's prodigy.

Hyuga Tonbo laughed. "Hey, don't forget. You may be a prodigy, but I'm not bad either. And I'm from the Hyuga clan, a man who inherited the Byakugan Kekkei Genkai and the Hyuga Family's Gentle Fist."

Splash!

Whoosh!

A toad and a centipede were dragged out from the depths of the swamp.

They were not ordinary toads or ordinary centipedes.

They were ugly.

Much uglier than those living in the Shinobi World.

They even looked somewhat twisted.

Their