Chapter 124: Monstrous Strength

Ninja Academy Teacher: I Teach and Get Stronger, Chapter 41: Monstrous Strength. "Izumo, how was your vacation?"

"It's a long story. What about you, Tetsu?"

"Still playing mind games with my poisonous cousin."

"How poisonous?"

"He actually ignored the peace agreement we signed before and reactivated that vicious scheme. My parents have been lecturing me several times."

"Truly poisonous!"

"But I'm not so easy to bully. I pretended to accidentally knock off one leg and one hand from his favorite little statue of the Third Hokage."

"Only you would do that!" Shigure Izumo gave Kongō Tetsu a thumbs-up, thinking to himself that Tetsu was even more vindictive.

"What about you, Izumo? Why is it a long story?" Kongō Tetsu asked.

"Remember the neighbor girl I really liked? I was planning to get a good grade on the final exam and approach her again as a strong ninja."

"And then? Did you succeed?"

"No. I built it up for a few days, then summer training started. I trained every day and completely forgot about it. When I finally remembered, I saw her playing with another boy."

"It's okay. Maybe that was her relative." Hearing the outcome, Kongō Tetsu's tense heart finally relaxed, so he tried to comfort him.

"It can't be a relative! Please don't let it be a relative!" Kongō Tetsu thought to himself.

"Don't either of you go out to have fun? I recently found a new dango shop that's pretty good." Mitarashi Anko cut in.

The two were not interested in the dango shop Anko mentioned, unless Anko had a cute sister who would go with them.

"By the way, I just saw the schedule—looks like today is taijutsu class." Kongō Tetsu remembered something.

"I wonder who the new taijutsu teacher will be."

During summer training, Muzuki had told them there would be a new taijutsu teacher, but didn't say who.

"Whoever it is, it can't be worse than Teacher Tanimura, right?" Shigure Izumo said.

After having Muzuki teach him taijutsu during summer training, he felt that Tanimura Toshihiro hadn't actually taught them anything worthwhile.

"I hope he's at least two-thirds as good as Teacher Muzuki. I'd be satisfied with that." Kongō Tetsu didn't think he was asking for much.

"Let's head to the training ground and get ready for class." Mizuki walked into the classroom and said.

"Could it be that this semester's taijutsu teacher is you, Mizuki-sensei?" Anko asked excitedly.

"Mm-hmm." Mizuki nodded with a smile.

"Great! Next vacation, if there's another training camp, I'm definitely getting into Group B!" Kongō Tetsu cheered.

His expectation had been two-thirds of Mizuki, but now they got Mizuki himself—far exceeding his hopes.

The whole class was cheering. Having Mizuki as their taijutsu teacher was truly great news for them.

"Everyone, quiet down a little. Don't get too worked up. Let's go train first." Mizuki said with a smile.

Then Mizuki led Class 1-1 to the training ground to practice.

Feeling the long-missed relaxed class atmosphere, some students sighed:

"Vacation was too long. A month ago I was already starting to miss Mizuki-sensei's classes."

"Yeah, and having too much time off isn't that fun. I got bored after half a month of vacation."

Listening to his classmates' conversations, Kongō Tetsu and Shigure Izumo couldn't help but feel that people's joys and sorrows weren't the same. Students like them, who had gone through summer training, had only about half a month of actual vacation total.

"Teacher Tanimura used to say that taijutsu is different from ninjutsu and can't be taught in very fine detail, but I think Teacher Mizuki is quite thorough."

Since it was their first time having a different teacher for taijutsu, the students instinctively compared Mizuki with Tanimura Toshihiro.

"Everyone, focus on your training. You can discuss after class." Mizuki reminded them gently.

This semester, Class 1-1 was entirely his responsibility. Mizuki would teach theory, taijutsu, and ninjutsu.

Mizuki aimed to create an absolute strongest class—both to earn system upgrade rewards and to prove his value in teaching.

If it were Tanimura Toshihiro, they would have argued while training. But since it was Mizuki speaking, everyone immediately fell silent and worked hard.

【】

【Lecture completed】

【Evaluation: a】

【Reward: Painful Sky Foot】

In Muyue's mind flashed the training memories related to the Painful Sky Foot.

He remembered this was Tsunade's taijutsu, very plain and unadorned, mainly focusing on the principle of "great strength can shatter even bricks"—one kick could crack the ground open.

However, this seemingly plain taijutsu was actually not simple; it required a special chakra burst technique, which could greatly increase power and could be called "Monstrous Strength."

The reward was quite decent—he had grasped one more chakra technique, and it could also be taught to Nohara Rin.

Although it was taijutsu, the Painful Sky Foot was not suitable for Might Guy, because this technique severely tested one's chakra control level and required fine manipulation of chakra.

"The afternoon theory class is a large lecture, held in that big tiered lecture hall where the meeting was." Before leaving, Muyue reminded them.

"Large lecture? What large lecture?" The students were a bit puzzled; they had noticed that the theory class on their schedule had a marked classroom, but didn't understand why.

"The afternoon theory class is for four classes together—there will also be students from Class 2, Class 3, and Class 4." Muyue explained.

"So many people in one class—won't it be very lively?" Some students thought it sounded nice.

"Isn't this the same as during the special training?" Izumo Kamizuki felt it was somewhat familiar.

Muyue didn't explain much; it was really just four classes combined into one, nothing special about it.

This kind of large lecture tested the students' self-discipline more, because with so many people the teacher couldn't manage everyone and couldn't watch all of them at once.

Of course, that was in Muyue's previous world; here it was different, the teachers were ninjas, beings like superhumans.

Muyue didn't know what other teachers thought, but he felt that theory class wouldn't be too hard to manage.

"Kotetsu, Izumo, what's that special training you mentioned? It feels like you've gotten a lot stronger." After class, some students familiar with Kotetsu Hagane and Izumo Kamizuki asked.

With two exams per semester and studying together every day, as classmates they knew each other's strength fairly well, and Kotetsu Hagane and Izumo Kamizuki had improved a lot, so it was easy to notice.

"During the break before, Teacher Muyue set up a summer special training, taking us and a group of fourth-year students to train for five weeks." Kotetsu Hagane explained.

"Most of them were fourth-year students. For other grades like ours, only eight people per grade could go." When he said this, Kotetsu Hagane lifted his chin slightly.

Although his combat score didn't make top three in this class, he did enter top eight in his grade.

Some showed envy, while others felt it was too tiring—right after the break started, five weeks of special training, and then school started not long after it ended.

I've got a bit of diarrhea today, four times last night, so the update is a little late.