As soon as she finished speaking, she regretted it.
What she said…
sounded like she was hinting at something.
But Uchiha Makoto smiled.
[Ding! Kurenai’s trust in your lie—that she might become your wife in the future—is 20%, with a materialization degree of 6%.]
It worked.
Although there was only 20% trust, because the other party was not a character with too much plot weight, the materialization degree was only 30%.
This meant that even if Kurenai believed him 100%, the system could only materialize 30% of the effect.
But it didn’t matter.
Slow and steady wins the race after all.
20% today, 30% tomorrow, 50% the day after…
one day it would be maxed out.
And her favorability increased too.
Although 6% wasn’t much, it was still better than nothing.
“Thank you.” Uchiha Makoto smiled at Kurenai.
“Your evaluation is very high.”
Then he turned around and looked at Asuma, who was still glaring at him.
“Classmate Asuma, did you hear that? Kurenai said she might choose someone like me, keep it up.”
After saying that, he leisurely walked back to his seat.
Asuma stood in place, his fists cracking.
But Kurenai held him back.
“Asuma, stop making a fuss.” Kurenai’s voice was very soft.
“Makoto was just joking.”
“Joking?” Asuma gritted his teeth.
“Was that a joke? He clearly meant it!”
“Alright.” Kurenai interrupted him.
“Class is starting.”
The teacher walked into the classroom, and Asuma could only sit back in his seat with a belly full of anger.
For the entire class, he kept glaring at Uchiha Makoto.
Uchiha Makoto didn’t care at all.
He was thinking about other things.
Just now, the system prompt showed that Kurenai only had a weight of 30%.
In the original work, Kurenai’s screen time was not little.
She was Hinata’s Jonin instructor, and she even had a child with Asuma.
In the early stage, she always hung out with Kakashi, Might Guy, and Asuma.
She could be considered one of Konoha’s representative Jonin.
With a character like this, the weight was only 30%?
“I have no idea how this damned system calculates the weight value,” Uchiha Makoto thought.
The end-of-class bell rang.
Kurenai packed up her things, ready to go home.
Asuma followed by her side, still chattering endlessly.
“Kurenai, don’t pay attention to that Uchiha Makoto. People from the Uchiha Clan are all like that, arrogant and condescending…”
Kurenai didn’t speak.
Makoto asked her if he was “suitable to be a husband”.
She answered “I might choose someone like you”.
Thinking back now, those words were too rash.
But back then…
back then she didn’t know why, she just blurted it out like that.
And after saying it, her feeling towards Makoto…
seemed a bit different.
Before, she felt that Makoto was just a classmate, strong and good-looking, but nothing special.
Now when she saw Makoto, her heartbeat would quicken a little.
“Kurenai? Are you listening?” Asuma asked.
“Ah? Yes, I am.” Kurenai snapped back to reality.
“What did you say?”
Asuma sighed: “I said, tomorrow is the weekend, we are going to look at the scenery on the Hokage Rock, are you going?”
“I…” Kurenai hesitated for a moment.
“I have something to do tomorrow.”
“What is it?”
“Training.” Kurenai made up an excuse.
“Chakra control still needs practice.”
It was actually an excuse.
She just didn’t want to go out alone with Asuma.
Before, she didn’t think much of it; Asuma was just a friend, and hanging out together was normal.
But now…
now she was getting a bit annoyed.
Annoyed that Asuma always followed her, annoyed that Asuma always had a “you are mine” attitude.
She wasn’t anyone’s appendage.
“Then I’ll accompany you in your training!” Asuma said immediately.
“No need.” Kurenai shook her head.
“I want to practice alone.”
After saying that, she quickened her pace, leaving Asuma behind.
Asuma stood in place, looking at Kurenai’s back with a blank expression on his face.
What did he do wrong?
Why did Kurenai suddenly ignore him?
Is it because of Uchiha Makoto?
It must be!
Asuma clenched his fists, fire blazing in his eyes.
Uchiha Makoto…
Just you wait!
Meanwhile, Uchiha Makoto was on his way home.
He was carrying the freshly bought beef in his hand, his mind still thinking about the NPC weight matter.
He thought about it and smiled.
Forget it, I won’t think about it anymore.
Anyway, there’s plenty of time, take it slow.
He hummed an out-of-tune song and pushed open his front door.
The house was still as rundown and empty as before.
But at least now, he could eat meat. Find the original chapter at g.com.
And in the future, maybe he could even have an exceptionally stunning girlfriend.
“Ah, life,” Uchiha Makoto put the beef into the pot and lit the fire, “still has a lot to look forward to.”
Uchiha Makoto ate the meat on the table, spinning his chopsticks unconsciously in his hand, thinking about what skill to materialize next to improve his strength.
First, the path of Ninjutsu was directly choked off.
Are you kidding me, an orphan of the Uchiha Clan whose parents both died suddenly showing earth-shattering Ninjutsu talent?
That outcome definitely wouldn’t be being put on a pedestal, but rather being secretly eliminated by Danzo, or in the future used by Orochimaru as an excellent Sharingan hotbed and experimental material.
Power coming too abruptly and illogically was a death warrant before having sufficient self-protection ability.
Therefore, he could only continue to deeply cultivate Taijutsu.
Now, let’s screen the remaining five of the Six Powers one by one.
After all, the Six Powers were relatively simple and easier to materialize.
Finger Pistol was eliminated first.
Uchiha Makoto curled his lips.
When reading the manga in his past life, he felt this skill was purely filler.
“Poke people with fingers for no reason? I have Kunai, I have Shuriken, in the future I can even get a divine artifact similar to the Kusanagi Sword to play with, why use fingers to poke people.”
In the Ninja World where Kunai, swords, and explosive tags flew everywhere, specializing in “finger poking” was truly a bit of performance art.
Paper Drawing sounded like a “evasion divine skill”, but in the Naruto World its cost-performance ratio was too low.
Relaxing the body to perceive airflow sounded wonderful, but in front of the Substitution Technique among the Three Basic Techniques, this skill instantly lost its class.
Instead of wasting time materializing this skill, it was better to think about how to use the once-a-day “Lie Becomes Reality” opportunity to use the Substitution Technique more smoothly.
Soru high-speed movement was indeed tempting.
But the problem was, the Naruto World had the Ninjutsu called Body Flicker Technique.
Not to mention that in the future there was the ceiling of space Ninjutsu like the Flying Thunder God.
Whatever was materialized should be spent on Body Flicker Technique, because having the concept made it even easier to materialize.
Tempest Kick looked quite cool.
But the long-range attack methods in the Naruto World were much stronger than this.
Grand Fireball, Wind Release: Vacuum Wave, Lightning Release: False Darkness, Tailed Beast Ball…
Tempest Kick’s meager cutting power had completely no power here.
Its only advantage might be “seal-less”; this skill could be materialized later when there were more opportunities.
Anyway, Tempest Kick’s status in Uchiha Makoto’s heart was at the same table as the Great Fireball Technique.
Finally, his gaze fell on “Moonwalk”.
Aerial mobility was simply a strategic-level advantage in the early and middle stages of the Naruto World.
Think carefully, there were hardly any people in the Naruto World who could genuinely fly for a long time.
Deidara relied on clay birds, and the Third Tsuchikage relied on Ultra-Light-Weight Rock Technique; these were all unique secret techniques.
Others either resembled Sasuke’s hawk, or could freely levitate only at the later Six Paths level.
This meant that once he mastered Moonwalk, he would possess a three-dimensional battlefield initiative that the vast majority of Ninjas could hardly reach.
Advancing, he could launch attacks from a commanding height; retreating, he could take to the air to evade ground Ninjutsu and encirclement.
Reconnaissance, raid, retreat, maneuvering…
tactical choices suddenly enriched geometrically.
In an encounter battle, this was a dimensionality reduction strike.
“Moonwalk must be won.”
Uchiha Makoto whispered to himself, his finger tapping gently on the tabletop.
This was not just a skill, but a crucial air combat license.
In this Ninja World where the vast majority of battles happened on the ground, dragging the battlefield into the air one step earlier meant grasping the key to victory one step earlier.
As for how to make Obito or Might Guy believe that he had comprehended such an outrageous Taijutsu of stepping on air to ascend into the sky!
Hmm, he had to make up a good story.
Uchiha Makoto touched his chin, starting to conceive the next “white lie”.