“Teacher Shanmu!”
Ruofeng spoke calmly as he watched Shanmu approach.
Shanmu nodded slightly.
“You three are all here. Then come with me. Your class has already been arranged. Study hard from now on and become the pride of Konoha!”
His words were filled with enthusiasm, but they sounded completely indifferent to Ruofeng.
He automatically filtered out such brainwashing rhetoric.
Kushina, however, was different.
Her eyes sparkled with determination as she firmly declared,
“I’m going to become Konoha’s first female Hokage!”
Her voice was full of confidence.
She then looked toward Ruofeng, carrying herself like a determined young leader.
Reiko was somewhat shy.
She lowered her head and softly said,
“I understand.”
Seeing the reactions of the three children, Shanmu felt a headache coming on.
Fortunately, he wasn’t one of their teachers.
He was a school administrator.
More importantly, he knew the identities of these three and had no desire to teach them himself.
Two of them were members of the Uzumaki clan.
One of them would eventually become the Jinchuriki, while the other would become the Jinchuriki’s closest companion.
Their positions would naturally be different from those of ordinary students.
As for Ruofeng, Shanmu had already investigated his background.
He had Jiraiya behind him, and in the past two days, he had somehow become connected to the Senju clan as well.
How could Shanmu possibly afford to provoke any of them?
All three were people he could neither offend nor casually interfere with.
It was better to let them develop freely.
Shanmu thought this silently as he led them toward Class One.
He even found himself silently sympathizing with the teacher who would be responsible for the three of them in the future.
“Knock, knock…”
The quiet classroom was interrupted.
The teacher, who was about to begin the lesson, stopped and looked toward Shanmu.
“Lord Shanmu… Is there something you need?”
As a teacher, he naturally knew who his superior was.
Shanmu smiled and looked at the three children.
“Yamada, these are three new students. From now on, they will be students in Class One.”
Yamada was slightly surprised.
“I see. Are they transfer students?”
His casual words concealed his understanding that these three children were not ordinary.
For Shanmu to personally escort them here clearly meant that they had powerful backgrounds.
Shanmu nodded.
“That’s right. I’ll leave these three children to you. Teach them well. The Hokage is looking forward to seeing how they develop.”
A glint flashed through Yamada’s eyes.
“I understand. I’ll make sure to teach them properly.”
With that, Shanmu left, leaving only Ruofeng and the two girls behind.
While Shanmu and Yamada were speaking, Ruofeng had already swept his eyes across the entire classroom.
He still didn’t know how to properly use his sensory ability, but some instinctive perception remained.
As he looked at his future classmates, Ruofeng noticed several familiar faces.
His gaze soon landed on Minato.
Although the boy still looked somewhat innocent and naïve, there was no doubt that this was the future Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze.
At this moment, Minato was also looking at the three newcomers, although most of his attention was focused on Kushina and Reiko.
Before long, Yamada spoke.
“All right. Since you are new students, introduce yourselves.”
It was an ordinary request and a common way to begin.
Ruofeng nodded silently and prepared to walk to the front of the classroom.
However, he suddenly noticed that Kushina was trembling slightly, and a trace of anger had appeared on her face.
Ruofeng looked around.
Many of the students were staring at them with expressions of rejection, as though they were deliberately excluding the three newcomers.
Kushina’s anger erupted.
“My name is Kushina Uzumaki! My dream is to become Konoha’s first female Hokage!”
Her declaration carried both furious determination and an unshakable will.
Ruofeng was momentarily stunned.
Then the classroom erupted in laughter.
He turned around.
Many of the students were laughing loudly, as though they were mocking Kushina’s dream and ridiculing her anger.
Yamada looked somewhat awkward before adopting a stern expression.
“Quiet! That is Kushina’s dream. None of you have the right to mock someone else’s dream!”
The laughing students gradually fell silent.
It seemed Yamada still commanded considerable authority as a teacher.
He then looked toward Ruofeng.
“Next, this student will introduce himself.”
Ruofeng looked at Kushina reassuringly.
Then his expression became cold.
The small amount of chakra within his body slowly began to circulate.
“Remember this name.
One day, you will be proud that you knew it.
“And don’t look at me with that mocking expression.
You aren’t qualified to look at me that way.
“All you can do is look up at me. You will never be able to follow in my footsteps.”
As he spoke, Ruofeng took Kushina’s hand and released his chakra as he slowly walked down from the front of the classroom.
His arrogant words immediately angered the students.
Yet the terrifying look in Ruofeng’s eyes left them unable to say anything.
At some point, Ruofeng’s sensory ability had quietly emerged.
It carried an inexplicable coldness.
That coldness made the students instinctively fall silent.
Some even avoided meeting Ruofeng’s eyes.
Perhaps this was one way of using his sensory ability.
Ruofeng himself had no idea.
His grandfather had yet to teach him how to use the ability he had inherited from his mother and from his grandfather’s clan.
But the anger he felt when he saw Kushina being mocked seemed to have instinctively triggered it.
Yamada had initially been somewhat surprised.
But when he heard Ruofeng’s name, a faint smile appeared on his face, and his gaze toward Ruofeng subtly changed.
The classroom fell completely silent.
Reiko was somewhat timid.
She only managed to say a few words before quickly returning to her seat.
After the three introductions were finished, they walked toward a spot near the classroom door where no students were sitting.
The three took their seats.
Yamada smiled faintly before speaking.
“The three new students have finished introducing themselves.
Let’s continue with our lesson.
“Today, we’ll continue discussing chakra, particularly some questions concerning chakra extraction.
“First, everyone has a different physical constitution.
The amount of energy contained within their cells also differs, so the amount of chakra they can extract is naturally different.
“Recently, Minato raised a question: if everyone can extract chakra, why is there such a difference in the power of their chakra?
“Even I wasn’t certain about this, so I consulted several senior shinobi. Only then did I learn that the strength of a person’s chakra depends on their physical constitution as well as their bloodline…”
Yamada continued explaining various aspects of chakra.
Ruofeng listened carefully.
After all, this was knowledge he had never truly learned before.
Although Jiraiya had taught him some things, those lessons had only covered part of the subject.