American comics: Starting as the Jinchūriki of the One-Tailed Beast

"I simply stated the facts they wanted to know; why are they so agitated?"

Tony looked completely bewildered, and said while straightening his somewhat disheveled clothes.

He simply wanted to make a splash and let the world know that he was the Iron Man mentioned in the newspaper headlines.

As it turned out, he severely underestimated the journalists' "enthusiasm".

If it weren't for the escort of Rod and the security guards, he wouldn't have been able to leave the lobby and return to his office at all; he would have been blocked in the lobby by the overly enthusiastic reporters, making it impossible for him to move an inch.

Upon hearing his words, Pepper and Rod immediately rolled their eyes at him.

"The billionaire and playboy known to all Americans has become Iron Man wearing high-tech armor."

"If they aren't excited at all, it just means they're incompetent."

Roy didn't roll his eyes at Tony and spoke calmly.

Pepper and Rod didn't expect Tony to do this, but he had guessed it all along.

Or, it would be a surprise if Tony obediently read the statement prepared by S.H.I.E.L.D.

"I still think they got a little too excited."

Tony continued.

He knew that revealing that he was Iron Man would bring a lot of trouble.

But he didn't take it to heart at all.

"Let's not talk about this anymore. The press conference is now over, and it's time to pay your salary."

Roy said to Tony.

Are you afraid I'll renege on my debt?

Tony asked, frowning.

"Of course you won't renege on your debt, but there's an old saying in China."

"Wealth on paper is fleeting; only what's in your pocket is truly secure!"

"This means that you can only truly feel at ease with money when it's in your own pocket."

Roy said calmly.

Of course, he wouldn't tell Tony that if he didn't receive payment for a day, the commission wasn't considered truly completed, and he wouldn't be able to receive the commission reward from the system.

Tony stared at him for a moment, then turned to Pepper and gave her a gesture.

Without any hesitation, Pepper immediately picked up the handbag beside her and took out a pen and a checkbook.

Taking the pen and checkbook, Tony wrote another check for $3050 million and handed it to Roy.

As he returned the pen and checkbook to Pepper, he said to Roy, "In just over a month, you've made $6100 million off me, not even counting your profits from shorting Stark Industries stock."

"From this perspective, you have significantly raised the income ceiling for the private investigator profession."

After glancing at the amount on the check, Roy laughed and said, "It's just hard-earned money, nothing compared to a big capitalist like you."

After saying that, he put the check into the system space.

At the same time, the system information indicating the completion of the commission appeared in his field of vision.

[Commission: To serve as Tony Stark's secret bodyguard]

[Service Status: Completed]

[Reward for the commission: Lightning Release: Chidori (sent)]

With the appearance of the system information, all the information about Lightning Release: Chidori appeared out of thin air in his mind.

He closed the information panel and continued, "If you need anything else in the future, remember to come find me in Manhattan."

"As a loyal customer, I'll give you a discount."

Tony looked at him with a smug expression and quickly replied, "If you ever encounter any problems you can't solve in the future, you can come to Los Angeles to find me."

Roy smiled, said nothing, and decisively used the Flying Thunder God Technique.

The next second, he disappeared from Tony and his two companions' sight, returning from Tony's office to the living room of his Upper East Side villa in Manhattan.

Back in the villa's living room, Roy immediately raised his hands and formed three mudras: Chou, Mao, and Shen.

The system granted him the talent to cast spells without using hand seals.

However, considering that this was the first time he had ever used Chidori, he still formed hand seals to make it more ceremonial.

He not only performed a special hand seal, but also specifically called out the name of Chidori.

"Lightning Release: Chidori!"

A high-intensity electric current formed from lightning chakra gathered in his right palm, producing a sound like a thousand birds chirping simultaneously.

Looking at his right hand, which resembled a lightning blade, Roy nodded in satisfaction.

In the official Naruto manual, Chidori and Raikiri are distinguished as two separate ninjutsu.

Chidori is an A-rank Lightning Release ninjutsu.

Lightning Blade is an S-rank Lightning Release ninjutsu.

In terms of learning difficulty, Raich is more difficult.

However, in terms of nature and power, these two ninjutsu are not fundamentally different, and the hand seals are the same: Chou, Mao, and Shen.

After admiring his right hand, which was enveloped in high-intensity electricity and releasing silver-white lightning, Roy stopped using Chidori and checked his chakra consumption.

Currently, not counting the chakra of the One-Tailed Beast, he has a total of 12 chakra.

Judging from the consumption of Chidori just now, 1 chakra unit can be used to cast Chidori 4 times, just as Kakashi said when he taught Sasuke Chidori.

This means that, without using the tailed beast's chakra, he can use Chidori up to 48 times a day.

After confirming the consumption of Chidori, Roy took out the Kusanagi Sword from the system space.

To be precise, it was the straight-bladed Kusanagi sword that Sasuke used.

Like Gaara's gourd and the Akatsuki's red cloud robe, this Kusanagi sword is also a reward given by the system, an authentic version from the Naruto world.

He casually twirled his sword and began experimenting with the Kusanagi Sword to unleash the Chidori technique, developing the Kusanagi Sword: Chidori Blade.

Although he had not received formal ninja training, he would gain corresponding knowledge along with each ninjutsu, genjutsu, or taijutsu rewarded by the system.

Besides the Chidori Blade, Sasuke plans to develop other Chidori-derived ninjutsu, such as Chidori Stream, Chidori Sharp Spear, and Chidori Thousand Bones.

Not only that, he also doesn't intend to let go of the ninjutsu that Kakashi developed based on Lightning Blade, such as Double Lightning Shock and Lightning Beast Tracking Fang.

Since we're going to develop them ourselves anyway, developing a few of them isn't a bad thing.

Time passes little by little.

In just over two hours, Roy successfully developed the Chidori Blade.

The principle behind the Chidori Blade is very simple.

By infusing the blade with Lightning Release chakra, the blade's lethality is enhanced, giving the Kusanagi Sword a Chidori-like effect.

To put it simply, it means changing from using your hands to perform Chidori to using the Kusanagi sword.

The Kusanagi sword is already very sharp.

After unleashing the Chidori Blade, the Kusanagi Sword's sharpness reaches a new level, easily cutting through even steel.

In addition, people hit by the Chidori Blade will be paralyzed throughout their bodies due to the high intensity of the electric current, making them unable to move freely.

After successfully developing the Chidori Blade, Roy opened the attribute panel and looked at the Ninjutsu section.

Chidori was displayed in the Ninjutsu section.

The newly developed Chidori Blade, like Flying Thunder God II and Flying Thunder God Slash, was not displayed.

Is it really because I'm not skilled enough?

After a moment of reflection, Roy returned the Kusanagi Sword to his system space, preparing to develop the Chidori Stream in one fell swoop.

If Chidori Blade is the use of the Kusanagi sword to unleash the Chidori, then Chidori Style is the use of Chidori to cover the entire body, achieving a balance between offense and defense.

The high-intensity electric current generated by the Chidori Stream can not only be used to defend against and paralyze enemies, but can also be channeled into the ground to carry out area attacks.

With the experience gained from developing the Chidori Blade, the development of the Chidori Stream went smoothly.

In less than an hour, Roy successfully developed the Chidori Stream.

Having experienced the feeling of using Chidori Stream and having a thousand birds covering his entire body, he ended this ninjutsu development session with great satisfaction.

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