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Chapter 24: Cultivating good relationships is the right thing to do.
Inside a residence in the Konoha residential area.
Night enveloped the entire room, and all was quiet except for the ticking of the wall clock.
After an unknown amount of time, a faint sigh suddenly broke the silence: "Alas..."
Nohara Rin sat in front of the dressing table, water droplets from her hair sliding down the curve of her swan-like neck, wetting the pajamas she had just put on.
But she paid no attention, simply resting her chin on her hand and gazing out the window. The moonlight was beautiful tonight, but she had no heart to appreciate it.
She still vividly remembers everything that happened that day in Naka no Kawaki.
Looking at the hazy night outside the window, Nohara Rin sighed softly.
If we do nothing, I'm afraid we'll forget about it sooner or later.
Just like the adults say, time heals all wounds.
but......
She just can't do it.
In the past few days, whenever she had a moment of free time, Uchiha Ike's face would automatically appear in her mind.
Those reddened eyes and forced indifference made him look like a wounded hedgehog.
Whenever she thinks back, Nohara Rin feels a sharp pain in her heart, realizing that she has deeply hurt him.
That's just the kind of person she is. She can't allow herself to hurt other people's feelings, yet she can live a life of peace of mind.
Something has to be done.
Compensation must be provided.
Otherwise, she would never be able to forgive herself.
"Go apologize..."
Nohara Rin muttered to herself, a hint of determination gradually appearing in her brown eyes.
She made up her mind; she would go and apologize to Uchiha Ike tomorrow.
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Uchiha clan.
Watching Obito, who had been coaxed into a pout, leave, Uchiha Ike turned and headed in the direction indicated by the moonlight.
No one stopped him along the way, so he quickly made it home.
Twenty minutes later.
After a quick wash, Uchiha Ike went into the bedroom and sat down at his desk.
While drying his wet hair with a towel, Uchiha Ike skillfully activated the system to check his personal panel.
[Name: Uchiha Ike]
Age: 14
Chakra: 700 (+1000) (Chunin Standard: 1000)
[Skills: Three Body Technique, Immobilization Technique, Body Flicker Technique, Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique, Fire Release: Phoenix Flower Technique, Leaf Hollow Rise, Leaf Whirlwind, Healing Palm Technique, Super Strength, Mayfly Technique]
【Characteristics: Uchiha bloodline (double tomoe); Medical ninjutsu talent (Rin Nohara version); Fire Release ninjutsu talent (Fugaku Uchiha version); Space-Time ninjutsu talent (Obito Uchiha version)】
[Additional damage increase: 85%]
[Bonus Defense: 38%]
Points earned: 180
Uchiha Ike grew increasingly satisfied as he looked at the panel, nodding approvingly.
While at the izakaya, he activated his double-tomoe Sharingan, deducting a full 100 points.
But because of the series of events tonight, his points wallet not only didn't go dry, but instead swelled up again, even more so than before.
First Tsunade, then Obito and Tobi...
Uchiha Ike sighed with delight, realizing that cultivating good relationships was indeed the right thing to do; these people were his lucky stars.
"So, where do you spend your points...?"
Looking at the 180 points in his account, Uchiha Ike was a little conflicted; he had never fought a battle with such a high score before.
After a moment of contemplation, he fixed his gaze on the amount of chakra that was only at the Chunin level.
Because he hasn't been training much lately, his chakra level hasn't increased much.
Although the awakening of the double-tomoe Sharingan significantly boosted his ocular power, more than tripling it, however...
Compared to the ever-increasing abilities of others, the amount of chakra possessed by a Chunin is ultimately too outstanding.
The kind that's recessed.
This is obviously not acceptable, because in ninja battles, the amount of chakra often plays a significant role.
Imagine Kakashi Hatake, burdened by the power of his right eye, if he weren't burdened by chakra reserves, he could basically do whatever he wanted in the era before the Fourth Shinobi World War, before the numerical inflation.
"It's time to improve. Knowing a lot of ninjutsu is useless if you don't have enough chakra..."
After saying that, Uchiha Ike clicked into the points shop and easily found the 'Chakra Boost' item in the special items, which costs 20 points each time.
So, how many times should it be upgraded?
Looking at the points in his account, Uchiha Ike was somewhat troubled.
Let's just round it up...
Uchiha Ike's obsessive-compulsive disorder is acting up.
After upgrading 1, 2, or 3 times, the remaining points don't look very good. However, if you upgrade 4 times, you'll have 100 points left, which looks much better than the other numbers.
However, just as Uchiha Ike was preparing to unleash four chakra boosts in one go...
Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed that there were some new items on the shelves of special goods that hadn't been there before.
Uchiha Ike blinked, glanced at it sideways, and his hand, which was about to click the confirm button, froze in mid-air.
[Wood Release Ninjutsu Talent: A bloodline limit synthesized from Earth and Water chakra.]
[Cost: 100 points]
【Thousand Hands Bloodline: The Bloodline of the Thousand Hands Clan】
[Cost: 100 points]
Golden Legend!
Uchiha Ike took a deep breath, his eyes flashing.
Although the system's description of the two items was very rough, having read the original work, he naturally knew the value of the Wood Release talent and the Thousand Hands bloodline.
Wood Release is the unique bloodline limit of Hashirama Senju, who is known as the God of Shinobi.
In the early days of establishing the ninja village, Hashirama Senju won over the entire ninja world with his Thousand-Armed Buddha and his ideals of peace.
As for the Senju bloodline, the Senju clan was able to stand against the Uchiha, a powerful clan in the ninja world, for a thousand years, so their bloodline is naturally no less than that of the Uchiha.
Which one should I choose?
Uchiha Ike's gaze darted back and forth between the two, clearly conflicted.
After a long internal struggle, he finally reached out to the Thousand Hands bloodline.
While Wood Release is powerful, we must not forget that there are also differences in its application.
While the same Wood Release technique could be a nuclear deterrent for the First Hokage, in Yamato's hands it became a divine earth and wood technique for building three-bedroom apartments.
Ultimately, different ninjas have different levels of chakra, so even if they use the same ninjutsu, the effects they achieve will naturally be different.
Uchiha Ike's primary problem right now is the contradiction between the ever-increasing number of ninjutsu and the insufficient development of his chakra reserves.
The bloodline of the Senju clan can solve this problem.
Uchiha Ike has never seen anyone with the Senju bloodline run out of chakra during a fight.
[Confirmed purchase of 100 points to acquire the Thousand Hands Bloodline?]
【confirm】
[Ding! Initiating installation of Thousand Hands Bloodline...]
As the system flashed, the increasing chakra flowed into Uchiha Ike's abdomen like warm currents, then flowed out from his abdomen and over his skin like tiny hands gently massaging his stiff body.
Feeling this comfort, Uchiha Ike slowly closed his eyes.