Chapter 487: Automatic Evolution
The action of leaning down to roll up his pants legs was far too obvious. Kushina instantly pieced together exactly why Ryo had immediately checked his clothes the absolute second he woke up.
She couldn't resist casting a subtle sidelong glance at Ryo's lower legs. Over these past few years, a decent crop of leg hair has truly sprouted out. Our family's Great Ancestor is finally maturing; it's the season of a bountiful harvest...
Ryo shot her a fierce glare, rolling his pants legs back down: "Everyone was worried, weren't you? The Great Ancestor is perfectly fine..."
Tsunade shook her head with a laugh: "We wouldn't waste energy worrying about you. You've died back and forth heaven knows how many times; when have you ever genuinely run into disaster? I'm strictly concerned about Lord Third's soul parameters. You didn't accidentally drop him somewhere along the way, did you?"
Ryo: "..."
Scanning the room, Minato and Kushina wore identical expressions of playful teasing, though Tsukika and Naruto did manage to project a trace of genuine worry...
"The Great Ancestor will genuinely kick the bucket one of these days just to scare you all to absolute dust!" Ryo pursed his lips. "It wasn't merely Hiruzen; I cleanly wrestled Hitomi's soul parameters back from the netherworld as well. Exactly what tier of raw capability your Great Ancestor commands, do you guys lack a baseline understanding? With a mere handful of strikes, I had that old man Six Paths on his knees begging for—"
"Very well, Great-Great-Grandfather." Tsunade waved her hand in a thoroughly dismissive, superficial manner. "It's brilliant that you wrestled them back. I'm heading over to Lord Third's family blocks now!"
"...Beat it!"
Tsunade chuckled, stepping forward to wrap Ryo in a warm embrace: "It truly is spectacular that you are unharmed."
"Now this is the proper etiquette." Ryo lightly patted Tsunade's shoulder. "Unclasp now, refrain from taking continuous physical advantages of me."
"Yo, you're getting shy again, haha..." Tsunade let go of Ryo, spinning around to depart with a booming laugh.
Ryo's face went completely pitch black. Appraising a snickering Kushina, a gossip-hungry Tsukika, and a wide-eyed Naruto, he grit his teeth to declare: "This is completely upside down! Continuously teasing the Great Ancestor! Exactly what does the Great Ancestor have to look shy about? I have literally seen your naked biological form!"
Kushina shocked covered her mouth. There exists an incident of this nature? How on earth could Sister Tsunade...
"Heh, Kushina, I have seen yours as well!"
Kushina: ???
Minato scratched his hair: "Senior, you are explicitly referencing the duration when they were mere infants, correct?"
"Tch, I have literally held Kushina over the chamber pot to pee..."
"Ah!" Kushina's face flushed a deep crimson as she violently cut him off. "Great-grandfather, exactly what kind of unvarnished prose are you spouting?!"
Naruto and Tsukika exchanged a complex look. The two absolute youngest descendants fundamentally lacked the courage to insert a single syllable into the crossfire, deeply terrified of pulling the localized fire straight onto their own vessels...
Ryo was thoroughly smug and self-satisfied. Living for a monumental duration was spectacular beyond measure, successfully harvesting yet another premier skill to tease his descendants...
The interior blocks plunged into a prolonged silence. After a long while, Minato let out a soft sigh to speak up: "Elder, trouble you to comfortably narrate the chronicle of how the Sage of Six Paths dropped to his knees to beg for your mercy instead."
Ryo revealed a broad smile: "That is an exceptionally long and winding narrative; the Great Ancestor shall temporarily hold back the details. Naruto, the people who occupy your heart parameters have arrived."
"The people who occupy his heart... plural?" Kushina murmured softly, her gaze tracking toward her biological son instantly shifting into an entirely different light. Actively expanding her sensory parameters for a brief moment, she turned a thoroughly speechless countenance back toward Ryo.
"Is it Sakura and Sasuke?" Naruto had endured an identical template of lighthearted teasing countless times. He parsed out Ryo's explicit reference with absolute clarity, spinning around to welcome them inside the front yard.
"Naruto!" Sakura's voice rippled over. "You truly are home! Why on earth did you fail to travel to pay your respects to Lord Third... Eh? Aunt Kushina, Uncle Minato, Tsukika, Master... every single individual is present?"
Sasuke pulled his dual hands out from his apparel pockets, leaning down to systematically present a polite greeting to Ryo and the rest of the elders. A trace of profound confusion played across his countenance. An active anomaly failed to strike? Naruto scratched his hair, looking a fraction distressed. Exactly how was he supposed to offer a logical explanation regarding the logistics?
Kushina's gaze was deeply complex: "Sasuke, Sakura, you've come. We were the ones who proactively escorted Naruto and Tsukika back. Let's leave this immediate duration strictly to the family relatives of Lord Third."
Ever since Sakura had officially been taken on as an apprentice under Ryo, Kushina's active interaction with her had expanded significantly. Over these past two years, Sakura had bloomed into an exceptionally graceful, elegant young woman, leaving Kushina increasingly satisfied with this potential daughter-in-law. It was merely a pity that her choice of daughter-in-law completely failed to look at her biological son. Where on earth was she supposed to seek justice? Naruto was clearly a fraction more handsome than Sasuke...
Ryo merely offered a silent 'Heh' to her internal thoughts. In a mother's eyes, her biological son was naturally the single most handsome specimen under the sun. She even harbored the cognitive bias that Naruto was more handsome than the Great Ancestor—how on earth was that structurally possible?!
The absolute millisecond Sakura locked eyes with Kushina's complex gaze, she felt a trace of internal guilt. She hurriedly shifted the topic of conversation: "So that's how things map out. Sasuke noticed Naruto was completely missing from the plaza and assumed a hidden ambush had struck. The two of us searched a massive perimeter block looking for him!"
"I'm perfectly fine," Naruto offered a silly scratch-headed grin.
"Master," Sakura turned her focus to address Ryo. "Every single detail contained within those three volumes has been fully mastered by me. I will return the books to your safekeeping later this evening."
"Fully mastered?" Ryo given a subtle pause. "Refrain from returning the volumes. Keep them to serve as a premier family heirloom for your lineage!"
Sakura froze for a second before a look of profound delight washed over her face. It wasn't because Ryo's physical ink and paper commanded a monumental monetary value, but rather that Ryo granting her the books explicitly proved she now possessed absolute sovereign disposal rights over those three volumes. This medical repository was something ordinary medical ninja could fundamentally never hope to learn; it genuinely could operate as a premier heirloom. She even sneaked a quick sidelong glance toward Sasuke—this bridal dowry carries an exceptionally heavy weight...
Ryo fell into brief calculation: "When we initially established our terms, I stated I expected you to master the details within two years, but I honestly hadn't anticipated you could genuinely achieve it. Strictly speaking from the parameters of theoretical medical capability, aside from me, zero individuals across the shinobi world possess the capacity to eclipse you..."
"However, that is strictly theoretical expertise. You desperately require active, practical clinical rotation. Go track down your senior apprentice sister, Rin, and have her smoothly arrange an operational post for you inside the Konoha Hospital. I expect your practical medical capability to completely surpass Rin's within a single year, and entirely eclipse Tsunade's within five!"
Every single person occupying the room was monumentally startled upon hearing those benchmarks. Tsukika murmured softly under her breath: "Is Sister Sakura genuinely this formidable? As expected, throughout our entire lineage, the absolute sole idiot is strictly my brother!"
Naruto: "..."
Sakura's academic vanity was thoroughly massaged and satisfied, especially upon noticing that even the Sasuke standing beside her manifested a trace of shock across his countenance, making her exceptionally ecstatic: "Yes, Master!"
Ryo gave a firm nod. He was highly satisfied with this technical apprentice; she learned details with rapid precision and practiced with absolute diligence. If those three books were dumped into the hands of alternative medical ninja, let alone two years, it would be a miracle if they managed to master them in twenty...
"Strictly studying medical theory and surgical execution isn't sufficient. Find an alternative method on your own to see if you can beg Rin to teach you some alternative kits. Naturally, if you can comfortably find a way to have Tsunade guide you directly, it would be significantly superior!"
"Understood, Master."
Speaking of Tsunade, Ryo instantly recalled the exact physical parameters of that embrace from a moment ago. Glancing back over at Sakura, and reflecting on the graceful manner Hinata had steadily bloomed over these past two years, there were certain structural attributes Sakura genuinely needed to learn from Tsunade's build...
Holy heaven, exactly what kind of random, messy thoughts is the Great Ancestor entertaining. Ryo pursed his lips. That rascal Tsunade, does she lack the baseline realization that the Great Ancestor is currently experiencing rapid physical development?
Forcefully pacifying the chaotic visuals swimming inside his mind, Ryo supplemented a deadpan clarification: "I am explicitly telling you to master her Monster Strength Fist, not to mimic her... alternative aspects."
"Alternative aspects?" Sakura's face was entirely packed with complete confusion.
"Ahem, it's nothing," Ryo scratched his hair. "I feel a fraction hungry. Minato, prepare lunch!"
Minato rose to pace toward the kitchen block with a thoroughly helpless expression.
Kushina smiled gently: "Sakura, Sasuke, since you've already come over, comfortably remain behind to have lunch with us."
"Thank you very much, Aunt Kushina."
The two bowed to present their gratitude. Sasuke hesitated for a brief moment before taking several paces forward to close the distance to Ryo: "Great Ancestor, over the recent duration, I have consistently parsed out that my eyes appear to be experiencing a highly anomalous state. Brother failed to track down the underlying cause, instructing me to directly consult you."
"Your eyes are experiencing an anomalous state, Sasuke(-kun)?" Naruto and Sakura voiced their deep concern simultaneously.
Ryo raised his eyebrows: "Ocular parameters are anomalous?"
Sasuke gave a firm nod, his dual Mangekyou Sharingan spinning in a sharp, rhythmic sequence: "Every single time I actively unleash the Mangekyou, I experience a distinct sensation of swelling and pressure across the sockets, yet it simultaneously resembles a pure illusion..."
Ryo focused his absolute mind upon hearing that description. His dual six-tomoe Rinne Sharingan instantly tore open to lock onto the boy: "This is... an active process of evolution?"
He could clearly perceive that Sasuke's ocular structures were undergoing a profound metamorphosis, systematically evolving straight toward the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan...
Itachi hasn't even initiated his evolution yet, exactly why are Sasuke's eyes consistently executing an automatic evolution...? To think the reincarnation of Indra's chakra planted right inside the lineage of the Senju clan could command this tier of structural absurdity?
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