Mizukage's Pokémon Ninja Scroll

Chapter 111 Under My Eyes

"Your little tricks are meaningless to me!"

Having said that, Tachibana Kenkawa twisted his wrist, and the divine spear nimbly flipped at his fingertips, deftly deflecting the incoming kunai.

Then he tapped the rapidly tightening wire on the ground with one foot and avoided the trap again without any pressure.

At the same time, he casually tossed the divine spear towards his opponent's chest.

Seeing that he was still trying to dodge, he immediately bent down, supported the ground with one hand, and lightly hooked his right foot.

The divine spear, which hadn't flown very far, was hooked by this divine kick, changing its flight direction.

The short sword and the spear missed their mark by a hair's breadth and struck the tree next to their opponent.

"Zabuza, you've lost again!"

Mei Terumi, acting as the referee, excitedly jumped down from the treetop and announced the result of the sword duel.

"Tachibana, you're getting more and more freakish. You can already easily beat Zabuza in a simple swordsmanship contest."

Mei Terumi completely ignored Zabuza's increasingly dark expression and began praising Tachibana Kenkawa without restraint.

Tachibana wiped her nose with a touch of smugness, but still prepared to consider Zabuza's feelings.

He then changed the subject.

"It's nothing, but what do you think of the new lines I came up with for Teacher Qing?"

Unexpectedly, Zabuzhan didn't give any face at all and just confronted him directly.

"Your lines are wrong. Captain Qing only has one eye roll."

"These are minor issues! The important thing is the second half of the sentence!"

Then, Tachibana Kanagawa launched into a series of strange remarks such as "You have no taste," "Don't you know anything about the legend of eyes," and "You guy with no eyebrows."

This made Mei Terumi laugh.

However, Mei Terumi is now becoming more and more envious of Jianchuan Tachibana's talent.

Not only did he make great achievements in ninjutsu, but he also independently developed so many novel ninjutsu techniques.

Even the sword skills he had just learned not long ago have now surpassed those of fellow genius Zabuza Momochi.

"I really don't know where this guy's limits are."

Mei Terumi watched quietly as Tachibana Kenkawa playfully fought with Zabuza, lost in thought.

Of course, what Mei Terumi didn't know was that Tachibana Kenkawa's swordsmanship had improved so much recently thanks to the "Master Technician" trait he obtained through a single draw when he was in the Land of Hot Springs.

This feature has recently brought many unexpected surprises to Jianchuan Orange.

It's far more than just the "fancy hand seals" mentioned in the system panel introduction.

More flexible and varied hand seal methods and increased hand seal speed are only one aspect.

Take swordsmanship as an example. With more agile hands and feet and quicker reactions, Tachibana Kanakawa now wields the divine spear with ease and grace, as if it were an extension of his own arm.

The sword technique that Tachibana used to toy with Zabuza earlier was named "Fancy Short Sword Technique" by Tachibana himself.

Since experiencing life and death in the Land of Hot Springs, perhaps she cherishes real life even more, and Tachibana Kanakawa's days have become much more relaxed.

Recently, she has not only been practicing swordsmanship with Zabuza frequently, but has also been more actively helping Mei Terumi develop her bloodline limit.

This has resulted in a significant reduction in the number of missions for the Jianchuan Orange Squad recently.

"Ming, you said yesterday that after we got back, we should first try to fuse with the fire-style chakra nature. How did it go?"

"Not really. I think I'm better at mastering the earth and water elements. I'll consider fire later."

Mei Terumi said, somewhat annoyed.

The development of her bloodline limit has not been ideal these past few days, so yesterday Jianchuan Ju suggested that she try starting with the water and fire attributes.

After all, Tachibana Kenkawa possesses two ninjutsu, "Hot Water" and "Steam Explosion," which allows him to offer Mei Terumi more advice in this regard.

It’s a pity that it still seems difficult to deal with now.

"My Boiling Water, although it is said to be the simultaneous use of two types of chakra nature transformation, is actually more like a composite ninjutsu."

"It can be seen as first using the water-attribute chakra nature to create or control the water flow, and then using the fire-attribute chakra nature to heat the water flow."

"I believe that if we want to transform it into a bloodline limit, we need to completely integrate these two chakra nature transformations, rather than using them separately."

"I am currently working towards that goal as well."

What Tachibana Kenkawa said were theories that the two of them had recently developed by combining the insights of Mei Terumi's father and Tachibana Kenkawa's two ninjutsu that were very close to bloodline limits.

While listening to Tachibana's words, Mei Terumi formed a "Ren" hand seal and continued trying to gather chakra.

The "Ren" seal is a rather interesting one. It is not one of the twelve basic seals, nor does it have a specific hand gesture. It is simply a small technique to help ninjas gather chakra.

For example, Naruto's future cross-shaped Shadow Clone Jutsu and Hashirama Senju's clap of his hands to summon whatever he shouts are both examples of using the "Ren" seal to gather chakra and release ninjutsu.

However, Mei Terumi is now using this method to try to condense fused chakra and develop a bloodline limit.

This is easier than the previous method of creating water flow out of thin air.

When Tachibana saw Mei Terumi begin practicing, he also formed hand seals and tried to fuse the nature changes.

Meanwhile, Zabuza practiced his basic swordsmanship by chopping down wooden stakes in the distance.

Mei Terumi thought that today would not yield any results, but would only be a chance to accumulate experience for the future.

Suddenly, without warning, he started gagging.

Just as Tachibana and Zabuza, seeing this, thought that Mei Terumi had a health problem and walked over with some concern.

Mei Terumi, who was gagging, spat out a mouthful of beige liquid. The liquid, which looked somewhat viscous, made a sizzling, corrosive sound the moment it touched the ground.

Startled, Lan Zai, who was trying to practice the "Swallow Return" technique, immediately used Lightning Flash to run away to a distance.

"This...this is done?"

Jianchuan Ju looked at the viscous substance on the ground, which was still sizzling and smoking, with some disbelief.

"Is this bloodline limit development really that disgusting?"

Just as Tachibana was thinking this, Mei Terumi, who had recovered, rushed up and hugged Tachibana tightly.

"Sentence, I've updated it before~"

To everyone's surprise, when Mei Terumi opened her mouth, it was a strange, hoarse voice, which startled even Mei Terumi herself.

The two immediately realized that this newly developed bloodline limit was clearly highly corrosive.

However, Mei Terumi failed to control the effects, resulting in burns to her vocal cords.

However, this small matter did not affect Mei Terumi's joy at her success, and she still hugged Tachibana Kenkawa and jumped around.

Mei Terumi only began to recover somewhat from her agitation when Tachibana Kenkawa started forming hand seals to cast the Water Flow Ring.

But when she thought of her previous behavior, Mei Terumi's little face immediately turned red like a ripe tomato, and even steam and white smoke seemed to rise from her head.

However, Tachibana Kenkawa is currently treating Mei Terumi.

However, he kept secretly looking at the beige sticky substance that was slowly spreading and corroding the grass in the training ground into a charred black.

He sighed inwardly.

"There's a reason why this girl might never get married!"

(End of this chapter)