Chapter 20: Whenever I'm Short on Money, I Always Think of Her
In the dim, secluded room…
"Am I… really not suited to being a ninja?"
Hyuga Yizu knelt on the floor in a daze, like a small kitten—helpless, weak, pitiful.
At that moment, the door to the room suddenly opened.
"Who is it?"
"Yizu, it's me. I heard everything you and Father said earlier."
The newcomer was Hyuga Yizu's older brother, Hyuga Yizhen. He was a gentle brother—Yizu had never seen him lose his temper. But this time, the expression on Hyuga Yizhen's face was unusually dark and twisted.
"Brother, am I really not suited to being a ninja?"
The moment he saw his brother, Hyuga Yizu couldn't hold back his tears. "Father wants to send me to the Land of Fire. I…"
Seeing his younger brother cry so miserably, Hyuga Yizhen felt a stabbing pain in his heart. He didn't answer Yizu, only clenched his teeth silently to himself.
"Li Jie xuan, you deserve to die!"
At the same time, inside the brightly lit training hall…
Hyuga Bozhen's wife suddenly stepped out from the shadows carrying a tray of tea, her face full of worry. "Bozhen, are you really going to send Yizu to the Land of Fire? To live as a civilian?"
Hearing his wife's words, Hyuga Bozhen couldn't help but sigh. He wrapped an arm around her and pointed to the caged bird seal on his forehead.
"Since Yizu isn't suited to being a ninja, perhaps sending him to the Land of Fire is the right choice. At the very least, he can live a free and easy life…"
That was the freedom the Hyuga clan dreamed of!
In the end, Hyuga Bozhen still favored his youngest son…
The fate of the caged bird—just like Neji Hyuga. Clearly a giant dragon meant to soar across the heavens, yet bound for life by a birdcage!
Great clans, too, had their own sorrows!
Meanwhile, Li Jie xuan—born at the very center of this brewing storm—knew nothing about it, and was sound asleep in a clay jar atop the boiler…
At dawn, when the first ray of light pierced the darkness—
Their precise biological clocks awakened Li Jie xuan and Might Guy at the same time…
"Mmm, another day full of vitality!"
Li Jie xuan climbed out of the clay jar and burst into laughter as he looked at the slowly rising sun.
In just a single day, his attributes had increased quite a bit again!
Character: Li Jie xuan
Wisdom: 6. Essence: 0. Seals: 0. Constitution: 0.6. Ninjutsu: 0. Genjutsu: 0. Speed: 0.6. Strength: 3.
His strength had jumped a full point from two, and his related speed and taijutsu had also improved. All of it was thanks to that miraculous stamina potion. Because of it, Li Jie xuan's training volume had effectively doubled…
The logic of one plus one being greater than two was easy to understand.
"Really good stuff!"
Li Jie xuan hopped out of the jar, his thoughts running wild. If he had ten thousand stamina potions and holed up in a cave to train relentlessly, maybe in just a few years he could master the Eight Gates.
By then, he'd punch the Raikage, stomp the Kazekage—and if he got annoyed enough, he'd drag out the fake-dead Madara Uchiha and give him a good beating.
"Hey, wake up. Don't you still have school today?"
Might Guy helped Li Jie xuan pack his bag and shook his head helplessly. "Also, you've used up all your medicinal bath ingredients. Tomorrow, you'll have to soak together with me again…"
The moment he imagined being completely naked and crammed into a clay jar with Might Guy, that horrifying image yanked Li Jie xuan straight back to reality. Forget stamina potions—even the medicinal baths were becoming unaffordable…
Li Jie xuan took the backpack and forced a bitter smile. "Don't worry about the money for the medicinal baths. I'll figure something out…"
Hearing this, Might Guy didn't say anything more. Carrying his herb basket, he left together with Li Jie xuan—one heading into the mountains to gather medicine, the other going off to school.
But the moment Li Jie xuan stepped out the door, he couldn't help grabbing his head.
It sounded nice when he said it, but he genuinely had no idea where to get money. Go back to gambling with Tsunade? Leaving aside whether he had the heart to keep bullying Tsunade, that guy Senju Tobirama probably wouldn't let him off…
Borrow money from Tsunade?
"…"
Li Jie xuan scratched his head. Why was Tsunade the only person in his mind? Couldn't he find someone else to take advantage of?
But it seemed she really was his only rich friend…
Whenever I'm short on money, I really hate it—hate that I didn't make more rich second-generation friends!
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