Chidori Blade and Chidori Stream

"I only told them the facts they wanted to know. Did they really have to get that excited?"

Tony wore an utterly baffled expression as he straightened his slightly disheveled clothes.

He had originally just wanted to show off properly and let the world know that he was the Iron Man mentioned in the newspaper headlines.

The facts proved that he had severely underestimated the reporters' "enthusiasm."

If Rhode and the security guards had not escorted him, he would not have been able to leave the lobby and return to his office. The overly enthusiastic reporters would have trapped him in the lobby, leaving him unable to take a single step.

Pepper and Rhode immediately rolled their eyes at him.

"A billionaire playboy known throughout the United States turned out to be Iron Man in high-tech armor."

"If they were not excited at all, it would only mean they were terrible at their jobs."

Roy did not roll his eyes at Tony. He spoke unhurriedly.

Pepper and Rhode had not expected Tony to do this, but Roy had predicted it long ago.

Or rather, it would have been surprising if Tony had obediently read the statement prepared by S.H.I.E.L.D.

"I still think they got a little too excited."

Tony continued.

He knew that publicly revealing himself as Iron Man would bring a lot of trouble.

But he did not care at all.

"Enough about that. The press conference is over now, so it's time for you to pay me."

Roy looked at Tony and said.

"You think I'm going to skip out on the bill?"

Tony asked with a frown.

"Of course you won't. But China has an old saying."

"Paper wealth is ultimately empty; only money in your pocket is real!"

"It means that only when the money is in your own pocket can you truly rest easy."

Roy said calmly.

Of course, he would not tell Tony that until he received the payment, the commission would not truly count as complete, and he would be unable to claim the System's commission reward.

Tony stared at him for a moment, then turned to Pepper and gestured to her.

Without any hesitation, Pepper immediately picked up the briefcase nearby and took out a fountain pen and checkbook.

Taking the pen and checkbook, Tony wrote another check for 30.5 million dollars and handed it to Roy.

As he returned the pen and checkbook to Pepper, he said to Roy, "In just over a month, you've made 61 million dollars off me. And that doesn't even include what you earned shorting Stark Industries stock."

"From that perspective, you've raised the income ceiling for private detectives by quite a lot."

Roy glanced at the amount on the check and said with a smile, "Just making a little hard-earned money. It's nothing compared to a big capitalist like you."

After saying that, he put the check into the System Space.

At the same time, a system notification about the completed commission appeared in his vision.

[Commission: Serve as Tony Stark's secret bodyguard]

[Commission Status: Completed]

[Commission Reward: Lightning Release: Chidori (Delivered)]

As the system notification appeared, all the information about Lightning Release: Chidori materialized in his mind out of thin air.

After closing the notification panel, he continued, "If you have any commissions in the future, remember to come find me in Manhattan."

"Since you're a regular customer, I'll give you a discounted rate."

Tony looked at him with a smug expression and quickly replied, "If you run into trouble you can't handle in the future, you can come find me in Los Angeles too."

Roy smiled but said nothing, decisively activating the Flying Thunder God Technique.

The next second, he vanished from Tony and the others' sight, returning from Tony's office to the living room of his Upper East Side villa in Manhattan.

After returning to the villa's living room, Roy immediately raised his hands and formed the Ox, Hare, and Monkey hand seals.

The System had given him the talent of Hand-Seal-less Techniques.

But considering that this was the first time in his life he had used Chidori, he still formed the seals to make it feel more ceremonial.

Not only had he specifically formed the seals, he had also deliberately shouted Chidori's name.

"Lightning Release: Chidori!"

A high-intensity electric current formed from Lightning Release chakra gathered in his right palm, producing a sound like a thousand birds chirping at once.

Roy nodded in satisfaction as he looked at his right hand, which resembled a blade of lightning.

In the Naruto databooks, Chidori and Lightning Cutter were categorized as two separate ninjutsu.

Chidori was an A-rank Lightning Release ninjutsu.

Lightning Cutter, on the other hand, was an S-rank Lightning Release ninjutsu.

In terms of difficulty, Lightning Cutter was harder to learn.

But in terms of nature and power, there was no essential difference between the two techniques, and both used the Ox, Hare, and Monkey hand seals.

After admiring his right hand, wrapped in high-intensity current and releasing silvery-white lightning, Roy stopped using Chidori and checked the chakra consumption.

At present, excluding the One-Tail's tailed beast chakra, he had a total of twelve cards of chakra.

Judging from the consumption when he had just used Chidori, one card of chakra was enough to use Chidori four times, exactly as Kakashi had said when teaching Sasuke Chidori.

That meant that without using tailed beast chakra, he could use Chidori up to forty-eight times a day.

After confirming Chidori's consumption, Roy took the Kusanagi Sword from the System Space.

More precisely, it was the straight-bladed Kusanagi Sword used by Sasuke.

Like Gaara's gourd and the Akatsuki's Red Cloud Robe, this Kusanagi Sword was also a commission reward given by the System, an authentic item from the Naruto World.

With a casual flourish of the sword, he began trying to use Chidori through the Kusanagi Sword and develop Kusanagi Sword: Chidori Blade.

Although he had never received a formal ninja education, whenever he obtained ninjutsu, Genjutsu, or taijutsu as a System reward, he also acquired the corresponding knowledge.

Besides Chidori Blade, he planned to develop the other Chidori-derived ninjutsu Sasuke had created, such as Chidori Stream, Chidori Sharp Spear, and Chidori Senbon.

Not only that, he also had no intention of passing up techniques Kakashi had developed based on Lightning Cutter, such as Double Lightning Shock and Lightning Beast Fang.

Since he had to develop them himself anyway, developing a few more would not hurt.

Time slowly passed.

In just over two hours, Roy successfully developed Chidori Blade.

The principle behind Chidori Blade was simple.

He infused the blade with Lightning Release chakra, enhancing its lethality and giving the Kusanagi Sword an effect similar to Chidori.

Put simply, it changed Chidori from something cast with his hand into something cast through the Kusanagi Sword.

The Kusanagi Sword had already been extremely sharp.

After activating Chidori Blade, its sharpness rose to another level, allowing it to cut through even steel with ease.

Furthermore, anyone struck by Chidori Blade would be paralyzed all over by the high-intensity current and unable to move freely.

After successfully developing Chidori Blade, Roy opened the attribute panel and looked at the ninjutsu section.

Chidori was displayed in the ninjutsu section.

However, the newly developed Chidori Blade, like Flying Thunder God: Second Step and Flying Thunder God Slash, was not displayed.

Was it really because his proficiency was not high enough?

After musing to himself, Roy put the Kusanagi Sword back into the System Space and prepared to develop Chidori Stream in one go as well.

If Chidori Blade was Chidori cast through the Kusanagi Sword, then Chidori Stream covered the entire body with Chidori, achieving both offense and defense.

The high-intensity current generated by Chidori Stream could not only be used to defend and paralyze enemies, but could also be channeled into the ground to launch area attacks.

With the experience of developing Chidori Blade, developing Chidori Stream went smoothly.

In less than an hour, Roy successfully developed Chidori Stream.

After experiencing what it felt like to have Chidori cover his entire body through Chidori Stream, he ended this round of ninjutsu development with complete satisfaction.