Tsunade's anger had mostly subsided, and she couldn't be bothered to deal with this messy pile of feathers anymore.
The next day, Tsunade took Shizune, the little pig Tonton, Jiraiya who had been beaten into a pighead, a still-traumatized Naruto, and Miki Yūya, who had just woken up from unconsciousness with his head still a bit dazed, as the group leisurely set off on the road back.
The journey was ridiculously quiet.
Jiraiya was beaten black and blue, his face swollen like a leavened steamed bun, and his whole body still aching from the residual snake venom.
Yet along the way, he still grabbed Naruto for special training, intending to take advantage of the travel to completely teach the Rasengan to Naruto. This time, because of psychological issues, Naruto had learned the Rasengan too slowly and still hadn't mastered it.
On the forest path, Jiraiya endured the excruciating pain on his face and earnestly raised a hand to demonstrate.
"Watch closely, Naruto! The core of the Rasengan is no hand seals, pure chakra control!"
"Compress the chakra in the palm of your hand, rotate at high speed, and achieve ultimate balance and ultimate outburst!"
He demonstrated the actions and explained the details over and over again, with standard movements, meticulous explanations, and maximum patience.
Yet Naruto squatted in place, blindly rubbing his hands back and forth as the chakra in his palms drifted wildly, unable to squeeze out even a shred of spherical outline for the longest time, growing more impatient and sweating profusely with every failed attempt.
After dozens of repetitions, it was still a complete mess.
In the end, he could only take out a water balloon to practice, but he still didn't have a single clue.
Jiraiya unhurriedly instructed from the side, offering pointers from time to time.
Miki Yūya, who had been leaning nearby the whole time and forced to listen to the lecture, watched with utter disgust and couldn't help but start blasting right then and there.
"I am seriously done for! Does a guy like you, Naruto, even bring a brain when you go out?"
"Such a simple thing, and you've been taught over and over for so long. Do you still not understand a single bit?"
"A Shinobi World ceiling-level teacher is teaching you hands-on personally! If it were anyone else, they would have drawn inferences from one instance and mastered it thoroughly long ago!"
"I just listened with my ears and watched the demonstration twice, and I completely understand it through and through!"
"No wonder Kishimoto has to rig the game for you! Everyone's cheating, but you useless piece of trash can't even figure out how to use a cheat!!"
Ding! Conqueror's Haki +3
Miki Yūya's voice wasn't small, and he was thoroughly righteous about it.
Miki Yūya himself had a system, but what about Naruto? He had the Nine-Tails inside his body, was the reincarnation of Asura, and had a top-tier teacher like Jiraiya.
Placed in a xianxia novel, wasn't that just a protagonist with cheats?
Both of them were cheating, yet Naruto couldn't even figure out his cheat.
Miki Yūya's words made Naruto's face instantly flush red, leaving him feeling so embarrassed and at a loss that he was somewhat bewildered.
"Who is Kishimoto? Wasn't it Teacher Jiraiya who taught me?"
"Never mind that. Anyway, with such a good teacher like Jiraiya, if you can't learn it, then that's your own problem. Do you just have a pig's brain stuffed between your ears?"
Jiraiya, who had been depressed just moments before, was instantly amused, laughing out loud beneath his pig-head face and turning to tease Naruto.
"Hahahaha! Look at Miki Yūya, Naruto!"
"Look at him! He doesn't even have chakra, yet he understood it just by listening and watching!"
Naruto instantly refused to accept it.
"How is that possible!"
"Miki Yūya doesn't even have chakra! How could he possibly learn the Rasengan without chakra? It's completely unrealistic!"
The moment his voice fell, Miki Yūya retorted with full confidence.
"Me not having chakra doesn't affect my understanding of the principles!"
"You're just trash. If you're trash, practice more and stop making excuses!"
Ding! Conqueror's Haki +3
Right as Naruto was left speechless and full of grievance from being roasted, Tsunade, who was walking slowly to the side, chimed in with overflowing disgust.
"Alright, Yūya, stop getting too full of yourself."
"Out of everyone here, you're the only one who can't even refine the most basic chakra."
"The biggest piece of trash here is you, brat."
If it were anyone else, they would have cowered long ago after being spoken to like that by Tsunade.
Yet Miki Yūya panicked not a bit, puffing out his chest and righteously refuting.
"What am I showing off about? The principle of the Rasengan is simply ridiculously simple!"
"Isn't the sole threshold of thisjutsu purely exquisite chakra control!"
"Besides, the Rasengan doesn't need hand seals!"
"The core pursuit of a jutsu that doesn't need hand seals is inherently instant cast, no preparation, and point-blank burst!"
"The principle is super straightforward!"
"Take the originally chaotic chakra drifting everywhere, forcibly compress and regulate it, and make the irregularly flowing chakra form a stable rotational balance!"
"After stabilizing and taking form, directly crash into the target with close-quarters taijutsu for output!"
"Skipping all hand-seal pre-casting, it's specially used for close-combat surprise attacks and instantly breaking moves!"
Miki Yūya spoke without hesitation, clear in logic and hitting the core in every sentence, explaining the essence, design concept, and practical application of the Rasengan with crystal clarity.
Jiraiya, standing in place, froze instantly, his smile stiffening on his face as he stared at Miki Yūya in absolute shock.
He was truly startled.
He had taught Naruto for half a day, repeating basic operations over and over, yet Naruto only knew how to memorize mechanically and blindly mash chakra.
As a result, an ordinary villager with zero chakra who had never learned ninjutsu had seen through the core design logic of the Rasengan at a single glance.
Although Miki Yūya's character was low, entirely unlike Minato, this talent made Jiraiya see the shadow of Minato in Miki Yūya.
"This kid... is simply a born ninjutsu genius!"
"He completely saw through the essence of the Rasengan!!"
Miki Yūya felt quite comfortable hearing that, raising a hand to pat Jiraiya on the shoulder as he praised him with a straight face.
"That's only natural, though it also takes a kidney-deficient immortal like you to teach him well."
"After all, you, Jiraiya, are the top-tier outstanding teacher in the Shinobi World, with thorough explanations and clear logic. It's just that the student is holding you back too much."
The two looked at each other and burst into loud laughter, leaving Naruto off to the side with toes curling in embarrassment.
After laughing, Jiraiya's eyes lit up as he looked at Miki Yūya and earnestly proposed:
"Yūya! You have such great talent!"
"How about simply becoming a ninja? I will personally guide your training, and your future will definitely be limitless!"
As soon as those words came out, the smile on Miki Yūya's face vanished instantly, his expression flipping on the spot as he opened his mouth and went on a wild rant.
"Can you please stop trying to ruin me?!"
"I was just praising you for knowing how to teach, and you turn right around and want to trap me?!"
"Be a ninja? Whoever loves being one can be one! I'm certainly not doing it!"
"Why on earth should I risk my life for Konoha and give my all for the village?"
"If I become a ninja, I'll be going on missions every day, fighting tooth and nail, only to be pointed at, cursed at, and made a scapegoat by villagers just like me!"
"I might even end up as teammates and companions with pig-headed teammates like Naruto and a bunch of mentally abnormal weirdos in the village!"
"I'd have to be crazy to want to be a ninja!"
"I'll honestly and obediently be a Konoha villager, eat well and drink well, without risking my life or bearing responsibilities. Whoever wants to join the rat race can go do it!"
Hearing that, Naruto refused to accept it and hurriedly retorted.
"But once you become a ninja and your strength increases, Yūya, you'll be able to protect yourself!"
"And you won't get beaten up at random by Lady Tsunade anymore!"
Right as he finished speaking, Tsunade raised her hand and delivered a punch to the top of Naruto's head, neither too heavy nor too light.
"Bam!"
Naruto clutched his head and wailed in pain.
Tsunade said coldly:
"I hit him purely because this brat has low-grade character and a mouth full of foul words. It has nothing to do with whether he needs protection or not."
Miki Yūya immediately picked up the thread right beside her, righteous and with flawless logic:
"Why should I protect myself?"
"I am a proper Konoha villager!"
"If something happens to me, if I get injured or encounter danger within Konoha's borders!"
"That just proves that you Konoha ninjas are trash!"
Changing the subject abruptly, Miki Yūya continued:
"Besides, if you really made me a ninja, I'd learn from Sasuke!"
"I'd be the first to turn around and run!"
"Sasuke isn't that kind of person!!"
Naruto retorted.
"Oh? Then when Sasuke's Uchiha Clan was exterminated, Sasuke didn't run. Sasuke is so amazing, Sasuke is so strong!!"
Ding! Conqueror's Haki +5
Ding! Conqueror's Haki +6
Nobody could handle Miki Yūya's sarcasm.
Jiraiya looked at Tsunade. It seemed that for Miki Yūya, the most pressing matter was indeed not becoming a ninja, but rather needing to elevate his personal moral character a bit.
Although Miki Yūya wasn't a bad person, that mouth of his really was something else.
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