Being an otaku in the world of American comics

#329 - focus

Soon after, before long, the Hokage arrived at the venue.

After some opening remarks and words of encouragement, the subsequent procedures were the same as in the original storyline.

The Hokage was surprised that twenty-one young people had passed the second round of the Chunin Exams.

Therefore, to make the final third-round matches a month later more interesting, the Hokage decided to hold an additional preliminary round.

That is to say, these twenty-one young people would now begin an additional round of matches.

This would reduce the number of people eligible to participate in the third round to ten.

The referee for the matches was still the famous Leaf jonin with a weak constitution, Hayate Gekko.

Then, before the matches began, Kabuto Yakushi, as usual, gave up his right to participate.

Thus, the twenty-one young people became twenty, which would have been exactly enough for ten one-on-one matches.

However, this time, Hinata was unable to participate due to the need for rest.

Although the girl herself felt that she was fine, the head of the Hyuga clan disagreed with her taking the risk, so twenty became nineteen…

Soon, the preliminary matches began.

In the first round, Sasuke faced an unknown ninja from Kabuto Yakushi's group, who had already given up.

This genin's style of dress was a bit like Kakashi's, with a mask and small sunglasses on his face.

At this time, Sasuke had not yet been marked with the Cursed Seal by Orochimaru, so his strength was at its peak.

As for the mysterious little sunglasses guy~

Liang Yue remembered that this guy, apart from having a technique to absorb other people's chakra to a limited extent, had almost no other characteristics.

In the original storyline, Sasuke, whose strength was greatly limited and could not exert even thirty or forty percent of his power, could still defeat him with taijutsu.

Now, needless to say~

Sure enough, just as they met, the little sunglasses guy was knocked down by Sasuke with a fierce low kick.

Immediately following, was a swift stomp, directly kicking the opponent in the chin.

Then, the person's head tilted, and he fainted.

Needless to say, Sasuke's current fighting style must have been learned from Liang Yue.

After all, he originally had the skill "Low Kick", so he naturally had to practice it diligently.

In the past, when sparring with him, Naruto, Sasuke, and even Hinata had suffered this loss, so they naturally learned it as well~

In short, in this match, Sasuke easily and unscathed defeated his opponent~

The second match was between Shino Aburame, Hinata's teammate from Team Kurenai, and a young ninja from the Sound Five who could release air blasts.

As a result, Shino used his insects to block the air outlet on the Sound ninja's hand, winning the match…

The third match was between Kabuto Yakushi's other teammate and the Sand Village puppeteer, Kankuro~

As a result, the latter easily won.

The fourth match was between Sakura and Ino~

The two were childhood playmates and close friends, so they were a little restrained when fighting, and in the end, they could only decide the outcome with taijutsu.

The fifth match was between Tenten, the female ninja from Team Guy with Neji and Lee, and Temari from the Sand Village.

Tenten's fighting style was based on throwing a large number of ninja tools and shuriken with skillful techniques, but unfortunately, this time she happened to meet her nemesis, Temari, who wielded a large fan and was skilled in wind-style ninjutsu.

She was knocked down almost instantly, and Tenten was defeated…

The sixth match was between Shikamaru and a female ninja from the Sound Five, Shikamaru won~

The seventh match was between Naruto and Kiba, and after some twists and turns, Naruto won.

The eighth match, Neji had a bye and advanced directly.

The ninth match was between Rock Lee and Gaara.

Rock Lee opened the Eight Gates, but still lost to the Sand Village's jinchuriki Gaara because his physical fitness was not up to par, and he even caused muscle tears, fractures, and other injuries by forcibly opening the Fifth Gate.

If Tsunade hadn't personally stepped in later to perform surgery to heal his bones, Lee probably wouldn't have been able to practice martial arts for the rest of his life.

However, this kid will probably have to lie down for a while in the coming period.

The tenth match was between Choji and the Sound ninja with bandages, the chubby boy threw the match, and the bandage guy won…

After the match, the Third Hokage announced the list of winning contestants and also pointed out that the third round of the Chunin Selection Exams would be held in a month.

This month would be left for everyone to fill in the gaps and improve themselves.

… …

Of course, although the matches of these little guys were very exciting.

Especially Naruto and Lee, both of whom had amazing performances.

But discerning people could see that the Leaf jonin, the Third Hokage, and even the participating contestants all seemed a little absent-minded after leaving the arena.

Obviously, these people were attracted by Liang Yue's previous methods…

At this time, after a series of inquiries, the fact that Hinata had been marked with the Cursed Seal had also spread among the Third Hokage and others.

Coupled with the fact that Orochimaru's traces had appeared on the outskirts of the Forest of Death exam site before.

So, it was clear that the Cursed Seal on Hinata's body was most likely his doing.

And besides Hinata, Red Bean Mitarashi, as Orochimaru's former disciple, also had this Cursed Seal on her body.

However, relatively speaking, the Cursed Seal on her body, as an early work of Orochimaru, may be even more elementary and immature.

But even so, Red Bean, who was in Konoha, had not been able to remove it with the help and research of a group of Konoha ninjas.

Now, Liang Yue helped Hinata get rid of the threat of this Cursed Seal in front of them in just a moment.

Under this circumstance, he naturally became the focus of the audience.

Although Liang Yue had been standing quietly aside afterward, without doing anything out of the ordinary, it still prevented everyone from concentrating on watching the fierce battles.

This situation was probably like hearing thunder in silence…

Of course, in addition to removing Orochimaru's Cursed Seal, the small tree surrounded by lightning and fire that appeared behind Liang Yue when he was using his power should also be very eye-catching.

… …

"… … So~ First of all, how exactly did you remove Orochimaru's Cursed Seal from Hinata's body~ Chunqiu? You know, that girl Red Bean also has a Cursed Seal left by Orochimaru.

Our Konoha also organized a group of people to study it, but unfortunately, in the end, there were no results."

Inside a secret dark room, the Third Hokage and Liang Yue were sitting opposite each other at this time, with the head of the Hyuga clan, Kakashi, and Jiraiya, who didn't know when he came back, accompanying them.

Speaking of which, although Liang Yue had never seen Jiraiya, and the other party had not introduced himself after appearing, he still recognized the other party at first sight based on his unique shape.

"It shouldn't be difficult to remove this Cursed Seal. The method is actually simple insertion and coverage, and then using chakra to wrap it and take it out of the body together."

Liang Yue was sitting there solemnly at this time, saying with a deep gaze.

"The most direct reason I can do this is probably because of the chakra composition."

"Oh? Since you mentioned the chakra composition, can you tell me, what is the difference between your chakra and ours?"

Jiraiya touched his chin at this time and interjected.