"Bullying your little brother?"
Might Duy and Guy also stood up, moving to stand beside Sora.
Sora immediately felt much more secure. With this passionate father and son pair here, he had no need to worry about his safety at all.
"It was just an assessment, hardly bullying." Sora shrugged. "Moreover, your brother used the Great Fireball technique first, almost burning me to death."
"Ryota is still young, he doesn't understand restraint." Uchiha Takumi snorted coldly. "But you could clearly have dodged it. Instead, you intentionally took it head-on, making him lose face in front of the entire class."
Sora almost laughed out loud. Another brother-con obsessed with his younger sibling. "Your Uchiha logic is really something. Your brother using a C-rank ninjutsu on a classmate is fine, but me withstanding it is my fault?"
Uchiha Takumi's eyes darkened. "Enough nonsense! Fight me. If you lose, apologize to my brother!"
Might Duy suddenly interjected, "Young man! A battle of youth should be fair and square! Sora is only six years old, and you are already a Chunin. This is not fair!"
Uchiha Takumi glanced at Might Duy disdainfully. "A permanent Genin has no right to tell me what to do."
Sora's eyes slowly turned cold.
In the original story, although Might Duy was just a Genin, whether in terms of strength or virtue, he could truly be called a master of taijutsu!
"But to avoid you saying I'm bullying you, three moves." Takumi suddenly held up three fingers. "If you can take three of my moves without falling, this matter ends. Otherwise..." His Sharingan flashed with a red light. "You will apologize to Ryota in public."
"Fine, I'll fight you."
"However, let's change the wager. If I win, you stop causing trouble for me in the future, and additionally, you teach me the Uchiha's Great Fireball technique. If you win, I will apologize to your brother in public."
Although the Great Fireball technique is not the exclusive ninjutsu of the Uchiha clan, the Uchiha clan's Great Fireball is the most powerful among all its users. This is due both to the Uchiha bloodline enhancement and their unique techniques.
And what Sora wanted was precisely that unique technique.
Uchiha Takumi scoffed mockingly. "You think you can beat me?"
"Won't we know by trying?" Sora flexed his wrist and turned to Might Duy. "Duy-senpai, could you please act as the referee?"
Might Duy frowned, but seeing the calm look in Sora's eyes, he slowly said, "No problem! With me watching from the side, nothing will happen."
Eight Gates Released Formation! Open!!!
Might Duy's skin gradually turned red, and an extremely powerful stream of chakra suddenly erupted from his body. Clearly, facing an Uchiha, Might Duy was showing considerable respect!
Sora looked at the billowing green chakra stream around Might Duy. This color meant he had likely opened the Third Gate, the Gate of Life!
"Duy-senpai! You don't need to do this!"
Opening the Eight Gates inflicts great damage on the body. Although Duy only opened to the Third Gate, he would inevitably need a period of recuperation afterwards.
"Don't worry, Sora. Youth is all about burning hot!" Might Duy raised his thumb, flashing a bright smile and a mouthful of white teeth.
"How can this Genin give me such a strong sense of pressure?"
Across from him, after Duy opened the Eight Gates, Uchiha Takumi felt that the previously unnoticeable permanent Genin now gave him an intense pressure, even a feeling that he could be instantly killed!
But he was a Chunin, and a noble member of the Uchiha clan!
Hmph!!
"Let's begin. This is the first move."
Uchiha Takumi snorted coldly, forcefully suppressing the unease in his heart.
Although he said this, unconsciously, some of the petty thoughts in Uchiha Takumi's mind gradually dissipated under the powerful chakra pressure from Might Duy.
Sora nodded to Might Duy and turned to face Uchiha Takumi.
"First move!"
Whoosh!!!
As Uchiha Takumi's Sharingan spun, eight shuriken came whistling through the air, instantly weaving an airtight net that sealed off all of Sora's escape routes.
The technique was exactly the same as Uchiha Ryota's from before!
But both the tricky angles and the speed were far superior to Ryota's.
Sora's pupils contracted slightly. He felt that the eight shuriken completely sealed off his possible movement trajectories. There was no way to escape the shuriken encirclement.
Truly worthy of the Uchiha clan's shurikenjutsu, truly worthy of the Sharingan! What Uchiha Ryota displayed could only be considered the barest basics!
But Sora was also not the same person he was two weeks ago. After learning proper taijutsu under Might Duy, he was no longer just a brute with raw strength and speed, but a martial artist skilled in techniques and forms!
Just as the shuriken were less than three meters away, Sora suddenly dropped low, sinking his waist, and twisted violently to the left as if pulled by an invisible wire.
His movements were so fast they almost left afterimages. His shoulder narrowly brushed past the foremost shuriken. Without waiting for his posture to stabilize, Sora pushed off hard with the ball of his right foot against the ground, using the reaction force to spring backward diagonally.
This step was taken at a tricky angle, allowing him to slip precisely through the gap between two crossing shuriken. Simultaneously, his left hand shot out like lightning, accurately pinching another shuriken that was skimming past his neck with two fingers.
Clink!!!
The captured shuriken was still vibrating. The remaining five shuriken brushed past his clothes and pant legs, embedding themselves in the tree trunk behind him.
Sora released his fingers, letting that shuriken fall to the ground, a faint smile curling at the corner of his mouth.
Two weeks of professional taijutsu training weren't for nothing. Compared to before when he relied solely on brute force to charge through, techniques like borrowing momentum, twisting, and slipping through gaps were now more effective for finding an opening in dense attacks.
"How is he so much stronger than Ryota described?" Uchiha Takumi watched Sora, who had just perfectly dodged the shuriken barrage, silently comparing him to his brother's description.
It's impossible to improve this much in less than a month!
"Did he hold back during the assessment?"
"Second move!" Seeing that Sora had actually dodged his shuriken, Uchiha Takumi, although somewhat surprised, did not give Sora a chance to catch his breath. His hands quickly formed seals. "Fire Release. Great Fireball Technique!"
However, considering the notion that Sora might have held back, which had just occurred to him, he reduced his chakra output slightly at the last moment. The fireball before him was only slightly larger than Uchiha Ryota's Great Fireball!
The shuriken in Sora's hand had just hit the ground when the fireball released by Uchiha Takumi came roaring towards him.
Fire Release. Great Fireball Technique: C-rank ninjutsu, the signature fire technique of the Uchiha clan.
It converts chakra into flames expelled from the mouth, forming a giant fireball to attack the enemy. When mastered to the extreme, it can even alter the battlefield environment.
Comparing it to Uchiha Ryota's Great Fireball, although the size wasn't much larger. The temperature of the flames was so high it began to distort the surrounding air. This was the real Great Fireball Technique!
"Can't take it head-on!"
Sora instantly judged the power of this fireball. The muscles in his legs tightened, and his legs beneath the bandages began to transform into dragon scales.
Thump!!!
In the instant before the fireball was about to hit, he violently pushed off the ground, rolling sideways, and instantly propelled himself nearly ten meters away.
The scorching flames grazed past his back, singeing a small patch of his clothes. Fortunately, the custom-made bandages, purchased at great expense, showed no change.