Chapter 58: No Mutual Harm

"Finally..."

"Finally finished!" Obito couldn't help cheering as he completed the last problem.

After more than ten days of hard work, he had finally finished all the installment problems. From today on, he no longer had to do problems every day.

"What's finished? Obito Uchiha, what are you yelling about? Stand up and answer the question!" Isogai Yu, startled by Obito, said irritably.

But to his surprise, Obito answered correctly. Isogai Yu had no choice but to nod and let Obito sit down and listen carefully to the lesson.

"Rin, let's go out and play tonight!" Obito said with a grin as he sat down.

"Tonight? Tomorrow is Saturday. How about going out tomorrow?" Rin Nohara said.

"Huh? Is it the weekend again?" Obito's eyes widened, asking in shock.

He had just finished the installment problems, and now it was already the weekend to get new problems.

"You've been studying so hard lately that you're confused, Obito. Today is already Friday," Rin Nohara joked.

She had seen Obito's efforts recently. He really was different from before.

"Finally, the weekend break. Class time feels so slow, but the weekend flies by in a blink."

"Yeah, even those long semester breaks don't feel as long as five days of school."

Obito:...

Human joys and sorrows do not connect; he only found them noisy.

He felt like his time from Monday to Friday had been stolen. Every time he became aware, it was already Friday and almost time to leave school, followed by an excruciatingly long weekend.

"Rin, let's do it tonight. Tomorrow during the day I have to train, and I might not have much energy at night," Obito said weakly.

With the final exams approaching, the weekend training was even harder than before.

Before, when he fought Might Guy, he could use the forest terrain to maneuver, but later they were arranged to fight on a large flat ground, where he could only rely on speed and body movement.

So Obito decided to go out with Rin Nohara tonight. Friday's training was still relatively easy.

"Alright, let's do it today. After school, after dinner, I'll come find you, and then we'll go find Kakashi together," Rin Nohara nodded and said.

Obito wanted to ask why Kakashi had to come along, but he opened his mouth and finally didn't ask.

"Maybe she thinks Kakashi has no one to play with, so she brings him along," Obito thought to himself.

After school, Obito went to the training ground as usual. He was still the last to arrive.

Same as before, they first did various body-building exercises: push-ups, pull-ups, squats, and so on.

After training for a certain amount of time, it was time for battle.

"Today I'm changing the battle rules," Muyue called Might Guy and Obito together and said.

"Each time you hit the opponent, the opponent gets two extra problems, and you get one less problem. The battle time is seven minutes."

"Two extra problems for each hit, and seven minutes." Obito felt as if he saw a mountain of problems and a sea of questions surging toward him.

Before, it was only one problem per hit, and the battle lasted only five minutes. This was a super doubling.

The only good thing was that hitting the opponent could reduce your own problems. If you hit enough times, you wouldn't have to do any problems at all.

The problem was, in previous battles, he had always been at a disadvantage!

He was glad he had the foresight to make plans with Rin Nohara for tonight.

At this intensity, the weekend was sure to be exhausting, and it would take several days to recover.

"Sharingan, Sharingan." Obito muttered over and over, desperately wanting to awaken the Uchiha clan's kekkei genkai.

"Teacher Muyue, what about the fifty problems I start with in battle?" Might Guy asked Muyue expectantly.

"Reduced to forty problems," Muyue replied.

For the sake of balance, he couldn't just remove them outright because Might Guy's taijutsu was much stronger than Obito's.

Although it wasn't completely canceled, at least ten problems were cut. Might Guy was still quite happy.

"Also, you can offset problems with exercise. At most, you can offset sixty percent of the problems. Three hundred push-ups can offset one problem, and other exercises work too," Muyue added.

Hit once and it becomes two, which suddenly inflates the number of problems. Mu Yue decided to offset the problems with training to reclaim the expanded problems.

After all, the original intention of doing the problems was to improve both of their learning and master more knowledge, not purely as a punishment mechanism.

He was going to explain all those problems; doing them wasn't the end.

"Offset by sixty percent." Obito's eyes lit up upon hearing this, but when he heard it was three hundred push-ups per problem, he again felt immense pressure.

"Three hundred per problem? Hahaha!" Might Guy directly burst into laughter. Then he would certainly max out the sixty percent offset.

Watching Might Guy laughing wildly, Obito — thinking about the endless sea of scrolls and mountain of problems he would soon face — was struck with inspiration and said calmly:

"Teacher Mu Yue, this isn't right. Using training to offset problems should be to get us better training, right? This should be according to each person's training progress — how can it be fixed to a specific number?"

He really didn't want to be stuck doing a pile of problems by himself.

"Obito, what you said makes sense. Then for Guy, it will be one thousand per problem." Mu Yue thought about it and felt it was acceptable.

Might Guy looked at Obito with a face full of question marks, his smile frozen.

"Guy, I know you definitely want to get better training, right? No need to thank me." Obito smiled and gave Might Guy a thumbs up.

"Hmm, Obito, you must also be longing for an all-out battle, right?" Might Guy started stretching his legs to warm up, ready to give one hundred and twenty percent seriousness to the fight.

Seven minutes later, the battle ended.

"Obito: one hundred problems, Guy: twenty problems." Mu Yue announced the result of the battle.

"Obito, I know you want more problems to study, right? No need to thank me." Might Guy revealed his shiny white teeth and gave a thumbs up.

Obito suddenly wanted to slap himself from seven minutes ago. What were you even after? Now look — both sides are losers.

There were really too many problems. They definitely couldn't finish them in one day, so they could only offset part with training and put part on installment plan.

Since Rin Nohara said she wanted to go play together with Kakashi, Obito simply asked Might Guy if he wanted to join.

After all, it was no longer a private date between him and Rin Nohara, and Might Guy also had a good relationship with Kakashi.

What Obito didn't expect was that Might Guy refused, saying he had already arranged to go night running with Shisui to train their bodies today.

However, they still met in the evening. While they were playing, they ran into Shisui and Might Guy, who were running.

"Shisui, trust me, try my type of tight suit next time. It's very suitable for training." Might Guy attempted to promote the green tight suit he was wearing.

Shisui looked at Might Guy, who was striking a pose, imagined himself wearing that green tight suit, and quickly shook his head to refuse. It was too strange.

"Who is that next to Guy?" Kakashi asked, looking at the unfamiliar figure beside Might Guy.

"A genius of our Uchiha clan, someone more talented than you." Obito said deliberately.

"Ha, then what are you? The dead last of the Uchiha?" Kakashi said flatly.