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"Alright, we will now start the training," said Kakashi, supporting himself with his crutches.
"Hell yeah!!" Naruto shouted enthusiastically.
"Ok… Before that, I want to talk to you about the shinobi ability, Chakra."
"Ummmm…"
'I've heard about it somewhere…' Naruto tried to recall, but couldn't, so he asked directly: "What's Chakra?"
"You're a ninja, and you don't know that?! What did you learn in school?!" Sakura yelled at Naruto.
"Hehe… I used to sleep during the hard classes…" Naruto said, scratching his head in embarrassment.
'This is bad…'
"Fine!! Sakura." Kakashi gave Sakura the chance to explain the concept of chakra.
"Listen, Naruto!! I'm going to explain it simply, somehow try to remember it with that slow brain of yours!!" Sakura opened a scroll:
{Beautiful Young Girl, Sakura's Lesson on Chakra.}
[Simply put, Chakra is the energy a shinobi needs when performing a jutsu. That energy has two parts: the body energy that is in each of the billions of your cells, and the spiritual energy gained through training and other experiences. These two parts are combined.]
[So by bringing out and releasing chakra, you can use a jutsu. This is done through the process of performing a seal with the hands.]
An illustration appeared showing the chakra center in the body and how it is stimulated through hand seals; eventually, the jutsu manifests outside the body.
"Exactly," Kakashi said, internally praising her: 'Iruka sensei had some good students.'
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Inside the art store in Konoha, many readers stopped at the same page.
Whether shinobi or civilians, at that moment, they swallowed nervously; civilians felt as if they were seeing something they shouldn't, while the shinobi were concerned because what they knew was now being made public in the manga.
There was no shouting or exaggerated reactions, just clear focus.
The explanation seemed simple: Sakura simplified the illustrations directly and used a few but organized words.
One of the genin in the front rows reread the paragraph.
"Body energy… spiritual energy… combine them… so that's it…!"
'So this is what I've been missing.'
He said silently to himself.
He didn't feel surprise as much as a delayed understanding.
Jutsu wasn't as complicated as he imagined, but it had never been explained to him this way before—or maybe he had never understood it like this, since he didn't focus in class the way he did on the manga.
Here's the difference!
...
This time, a chunin sitting near the back shelves looked at the illustration for a longer moment.
He knew the concept theoretically but had never thought about it this simply.
He remembered his first training, the orders, the fatigue, and repeated attempts without enough explanation.
"I've read this definition over and over, but why does it look different in the manga?" he wondered.
…
As for the jonin, their perspective was different.
They didn't stop at the explanation itself, but at its effect.
This kind of simplification, if the genin get used to it, could change the way they learn fundamentally.
Although academy instructors teach the same thing in the same scene, what was different in this manga—and revolutionary for them—was the practical teaching that accompanied the explanation!
"Could it be that he's going to teach them how to control chakra?"
"I don't dare move on to the next scene… if that really happens, it would be incredibly revolutionary!"
"Even civilians will learn!"
…
In the place where the village's most famous figures gathered, the Third Hokage slowly closed the page.
He said nothing, but he noticed something clear:
The explanation wasn't wrong… it was accurate.
"Seems I underestimated this manga again, sigh~."
In contrast, Danzo was less comfortable.
He didn't like that basic concepts were being presented so easily.
"Who gave you the right to generalize academic lessons in your book, Rubiro-kun?"
Knowledge, in his view, shouldn't be available this way.
At that moment, Danzo thought he had found a good enough reason to make Rob's life difficult, even if old Mito intervened.
…
At the same time, some academy instructors were reading the same page.
The error wasn't in what was written… but in what had never been explained before.
"Look at how focused they are now… haven't I explained the same thing hundreds of times in class?"
A teacher complained, looking at his students, including the Hyuga siblings.
"Who would have expected a day would come when the definition of chakra and methods of chakra control would be publicized… If someone told me this before, I wouldn't have believed it."
"The author is very brave…"
"He hasn't just struck at the reputation of the Hidden Mist Village; he started a real revolution in knowledge, actively sharing it with everyone."
"Honestly, I love this… I don't think I'll be able to stop reading Naruto manga."
…
Even the civilians who bought the volume out of curiosity could follow the explanation.
For the first time, the shinobi world seemed understandable at a basic level.
Those extraordinary people who were previously incomprehensible to them now seemed more natural.
The second part of the chapter wasn't shocking or full of excitement.
But it did something simpler:
It put an idea in its proper place.
On this day, inside the art store, readers understood that the manga didn't just show fights…
It explains how it starts from the basics.
…
In Sunagakure, the current scene from the manga reflected in Rob's eyes; he realized this scene would cause a stir in all three villages where his art stores had connected so far.
After all, the concept of chakra and methods of controlling it were something previously available only to shinobi—it could be considered an internal secret. Publishing it in the manga was a revolutionary step by Rob.
'And this is exactly what will make the world more interesting,' Rob thought with a smile, looking at the stunned Kazekage group at that moment.
He then raised his head and looked elsewhere: a rather special guest was staring at the manga pages intently.
From the moment she got the two volumes, she had been reading continuously; when she finished the first, she went to the second, and when she finished the second, she returned to the first, and so on.
Her page-turning speed was astonishing by any measure.
…
An 18-year-old kunoichi with tied green hair, fair skin, and an orange shinobi outfit studied the manga pages eagerly.
She was Pakura, a jonin-ranked kunoichi, extremely famous in Sunagakure, but her cold temperament prevented her from making friends.
She had not expected to encounter something as interesting as a Naruto manga after returning from her mission today.
"Wow…! Kakashi… he controls chakra skillfully to copy his enemy's techniques… but…"
"Wait… Kakashi, he's deceiving you! Hunter-nins team usually destroys the corpse on the spot… If he were a real hunter-nin, he'd have silently sent you away and completed his mission in the place, not taken the body and left."
"Do you think a monster like Zabuza would die from just two needles?"
"Sigh… Seriously, I thought you were smarter than that… but it seems the fight was exhausting for you too…"
"Oh, you realized it late, but it's good that you realized it already."
With every chapter, Pakura's enthusiasm grew bigger and bigger; she wasn't looking at the manga with the eyes of politicians, but she understood that this was a new world of entertainment opening before her.
A world that shows things as they really are, and apparently it was a story from the future; whether fiction or reality, Pakura didn't care—what mattered was that she truly loved it!
The battle between Zabuza and Kakashi really opened her eyes.
"Hmm, precise explanation of chakra… that big-forehead Sakura has a role in the end, huh?"
Pakura smiled as she followed Sakura's explanation of chakra, even acknowledging that what Sakura said was completely correct without any ambiguity, mistakes, or unnecessary additions.
"It seems next is Kakashi teaching them how to control chakra more flexibly… hmm, let me guess, will he teach them by climbing trees?"
Pakura thought, and as expected, by the end of the chapter, it turned out Kakashi agreed with her.
"No!! There aren't enough chapters, I want more…"
Finally, her eyes settled on the owner of the store, who was looking at her with a smile.
'Is he the author?' Pakura thought to herself.
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Upcoming chapter titles (spoilers):
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Chapter 75: The Five Types of Chakra – End of Volume Two!
Chapter 76: Momochi Zabuza Is My Son.
Chapter 77: Questions About the Future.
Chapter 78: Fourth Art Store – Iwagakure!
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