In Douluo, Choosing Hokage!
"I'm finally level ten!"
At Nuoding Academy, another graduation season had arrived.
In Dorm Seven.
Ye Qiu sat cross-legged on his bed. He opened his eyes in delight and looked at his hands.
The moment he opened his eyes,
a mechanical voice abruptly rang out in his mind.
[Ding-!] [Congratulations, host, on breaking through to level ten. Please choose one of the following three rewards!]
"..."
Ye Qiu smiled, not the least bit surprised by the system's voice.
On the very day he awakened his Martial Soul,
he had bound himself to the Hokage Selection System.
At the time,
he had still been dejected over awakening a Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul with level-one Innate Soul Power.
Then, the very next second, the system's voice rang out.
A beginner's gift pack was issued straight away, asking him to choose one of three Body Martial Souls: the Ketsuryūgan, the Byakugan, or the Sharingan.
Of course, Ye Qiu chose the Sharingan without hesitation.
But he had never expected
the system to give him a Martial Soul without any Innate Soul Power.
After transforming his eyes into One-Tomoe Sharingan, it had simply vanished without a trace.
Fortunately,
every time Ye Qiu broke through another ten levels, he could trigger a system reward again.
The Martial Soul the system gave him was indeed of good quality, too.
Now, six years after awakening his Martial Soul,
he had finally cultivated to level ten just as he was about to graduate.
His One-Tomoe Sharingan had also evolved into the Mitsudomoe when he broke through to Soul Scholar level nine.
Everything was looking up!
Ye Qiu thought no more about it and returned to the present. He eagerly looked at the selection panel before him, and his black eyes immediately lit up!
The panel displayed three options in plain sight:
[Soul Skill · Dual Kamui: A Space Dōjutsu unique to Obito Uchiha of the Hokage world. Comes with its own alternate dimension and excels at both offense and defense!] [Soul Bone Skill · Flying Thunder God: A Space-Time Ninjutsu created by the Second Hokage and developed to prominence by the Fourth Hokage of the Hokage world. Crosses a thousand miles in an instant, beyond the ken of gods and ghosts!] [Self-Created Soul Skill · Reaper Death Seal: A Sealing Jutsu from the Uzumaki Clan of the Hokage world. It summons the god of death with a soul as a sacrifice, a forbidden technique that takes both the user and the enemy down together!]
Ye Qiu looked at the system panel and could not help laughing.
Did he even need to choose?
There was no need to consider a forbidden technique like the Reaper Death Seal, of course.
As for Flying Thunder God and Dual Kamui, both could be used for travel, but Flying Thunder God's consumption depended on the distance and the target's mass.
Dual Kamui, on the other hand, only required him to consider mass.
No matter how far he traveled,
with the Kamui Dimension as a relay point, it consumed far less than Flying Thunder God.
Then there was actual combat.
The Flying Thunder God Technique was powerful and cool, but the threshold for using it in actual combat was extremely high.
One moment of inattention, one slow reaction, and everything could go wrong.
It was far less reliable than Dual Kamui.
Besides, Ye Qiu's strength was limited right now. Staying alive was what mattered most!
Ye Qiu quickly made his choice.
[Ding-!] [Congratulations, host, on obtaining the Soul Skill · Dual Kamui!] [The Soul Skill reward will be issued in the form of a Soul Ring. The Soul Ring has begun to condense. Estimated time required: six shichen. The Soul Ring's age will increase as the host's strength improves!] [Please wait patiently, host, and remember to claim it!]
He still had to wait six shichen?
The system's voice faded.
Ye Qiu raised a hand and touched the corner of his eye, his face full of eager anticipation.
With Dual Kamui,
who in this world could hold him back, and who could kill him?!
"Ye Xiaoqiu!"
Suddenly,
a young woman's sharp cry rang out.
Ye Qiu frowned slightly and looked over.
A pair of large, round crimson eyes met his,
and even the fine fuzz on her face was clearly visible.
Xiao Wu had her hands on her hips as she bent down close to Ye Qiu. Glaring at him, she said irritably, "What are you grinning like an idiot for? Do you think you can become the boss of Dorm Seven once we leave?"
Ye Qiu looked at the charming girl before him. His smile faded, and he said indifferently, "I told you, I don't care about being the boss of Dorm Seven."
"Tch, what a load of bragging!"
Xiao Wu straightened up with her hands on her hips, and the scorpion braid behind her head swayed with her.
"You flat-out refuse to call me Sister Xiao Wu, and you say you don't care? When it comes down to it, you're just not strong enough or capable enough!"
"It'd be one thing if you were just incapable, but you're also like a stone in a latrine-stinking and hard..."
"All I did was take your quilt, didn't I?"
"I think you're asking for a beating!"
Xiao Wu curled her lips in disdain.
Everyone in Dorm Seven, even everyone in Nuoding Academy, acknowledged her as Sister Xiao Wu!
Yet here was this one exception.
Naturally, she took every chance she got to put Ye Qiu down.
Just then,
another voice suddenly spoke up.
"Xiao Wu, did you forget? Ye Qiu is in the same year as us. He's graduating and leaving Nuoding Academy this year too."
Tang San was packing his luggage at his bed as he kindly reminded Xiao Wu.
"Ah! That's right!"
Xiao Wu slapped her forehead as realization dawned.
"I took my quilt from him back then. I can't believe it's been so long already."
As soon as she finished speaking,
Xiao Wu looked at Ye Qiu with gloating delight and giggled. "That's such a shame. Ye Xiaoqiu can't become the boss of Dorm Seven after all~ Haha!"
"..."
Ye Qiu listened silently, the corners of his mouth lifting slightly in amusement.
She made it sound so casual!
All she did was take his quilt?
What was with this attitude of treating the bullying of the weak as nothing more than childish roughhousing?!
Could it be
that they too had inherited the village's will to bully?
Sometimes Ye Qiu even wondered
why he had not awakened a system like a hypnosis app. Wasn't that the classic cheat for getting revenge on a nasty girl?
Otherwise, he would have long since made this little brat stick out her ass, twist her waist, and sing "Conquest."
Tang San too!
He would surely regret becoming Xiao Wu's accomplice, even her partner in crime, wouldn't he?
Kneeling on the ground,
his eyes bloodshot and panting like an ox,
he would beg Ye Qiu to be gentler, not to be so rough with Xiao Wu.
A faint smile on his face, Ye Qiu silently looked at Tang San, the dark, skinny boy who appeared harmless to man and beast.
Six years!
Six whole years!
From the moment Xiao Wu snatched his quilt, leaving him to suffer in the cold, and Tang San aided and abetted her, he had not stopped thinking about revenge for a single moment!
Ye Qiu knew perfectly well
that the bullying that had gone on for years
was no mere roughhousing between children!
Xiao Wu was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in human form, and Tang San was a visitor from another world's Tang Sect...
Of those out in the world, not one was normal!
Even he himself had once been a pure, innocent college boy.
Who could have imagined that in the twenty-first century, there were still people practicing ancient alchemy and dreaming of becoming immortal cultivators?
Worse still, they had actually dared to ask people to test their pills!
And they had used cheap college students!
What Ye Qiu had expected even less was that, in a sense, that dumbass had actually succeeded.
The moment Ye Qiu opened his eyes, he found he had been sent to Douluo Continent!
He did not know whether the counselor, who had been lured over by the pretext of a kidney-tonifying, virility-boosting remedy, had called the police in time after seeing him being coaxed to sleep, rounding up those heartless dumbasses in one fell swoop.
Fortunately,
he had no attachments over there, or he would have died of misery in the womb.
More importantly, his circumstances now were not bad either. Though he still had neither father nor mother, he had a gentle and virtuous fiancée.
Besides, he also had a system.
His fiancée's face flashed through Ye Qiu's mind, and his thoughts returned to the present in an instant. Looking at the fuming Xiao Wu before him, he still wore a smile... but in his heart, he sneered again and again.
If he wanted revenge on them,
even without a hypnosis app, his Sharingan would be enough.
Perhaps in the future he could even obtain something like a Summoning Contract through the Hokage Selection System. Turning this rabbit into a contracted beast then would not be bad either!
Just summoning her
would be a critical hit to Tang San.
Ye Qiu smiled,
unable to help looking forward a little to the expressions on Xiao Wu and the others' faces when that time came.
"Hey!!!"
Seeing Ye Qiu's smile, Xiao Wu knitted her brows.
"You bastard, why do you have that irritating look on your face again? You're so annoying!"
Tang San raised his head at the sound and glanced at Ye Qiu, who, as usual, looked like a dead pig unafraid of scalding water. He shook his head, accustomed to it.
He had once thought Ye Qiu was biding his time,
but six years had passed, and Ye Qiu had shown no sign of striking back from beginning to end.
Tang San had therefore come to look down on him somewhat.
"All right, Xiao Wu, stop setting yourself up for disappointment. Hurry up and pack instead. Once the holiday is over, we'll go report to Shrek Academy."