Ch 18 : Bet

" ….. "

Why did he look so desperate?

Couldn't it be more obvious? He had fallen into the trap of that wretched woman.

Now Tenma just realizes that the more beautiful a woman is, the more dangerous she is.

Look at Nami. Though she was beautiful, once you take your glance off her, she would rob all your wallet empty. Offending Robin and you will get your nuts cracked by Dos Fleur and as Boa Hancock… Tenma didn't even need to say it. If you are not strong enough and have bad thoughts about her, you will immediately be turned into stone.

Looking at Tenma, whose face becomes even more gloomy, Law quickly realizes that he had worded his question wrong.

" *Cough* I mean, don't you still have me? So Why are you so desperate?"

Said Law, which made Tenma even more confused.

Yes, he had Torao to guide him, but then what? Tenma knew that Torao excels in surgery, but this was Medical Ninjutsu, and learning all of them in two weeks was still a bit too much, even when he had Torao's guidance.

But Law just smiled. He knew Tenma was confused, so rather than saying it with words, it would be better if he just showed Tenma the way.

" Hehe, of course, I have my way. Still, please get a grip on yourself and don't puke later?"

" ??? "

Temma was just about to say something when he suddenly saw a "room" had enveloped the two of them.

And the next thing he knew, he felt his view was going around, and only white surrounded him.

. . . . . . . .

In the meantime, an anbu returned to the Third Hokage's office and reported the content of the discussion between Tenma and Tsunade.

Including the bet between the two.

" Damn.. That Tsunade.. Isn't it a bit too much? To learn that much material just in two weeks, Tenma was already destined to fail."

The Third Hokage held his head.

Really.. his three disciples were like this, and only Orochimaru was a bit better.

Even so, he could feel there was a darkness hidden behind Orochimaru, and it made him feel a bit uneasy.

" It seems I need to quickly find a reason to give to the Shimura clan. But then.. would it be the first time Tsunade won her bet?"

For some reason, the thought of Tsunade winning a bet felt a bit weird to the Third Hokage. But as a person with a long experience, he also knew that Tenma's chance of learning those medical jutsus in just two weeks was almost near zero.

In the end, he could only shake his head helplessly.

" *Sigh* Let's not think too much. Anyway, I'll try to stop her before she can do anything too much. Well, maybe one or two years' worth of alcohol money…."

The Third Hokage said before he decided to close this matter and continued his job as a Hokage.

. . . . . . . . . .

Unknown to everyone, while everybody was currently underestimating Tenma's chance of learning the jutsus, Tenma was currently on fire.

He was reading the book like a mad person, and whenever he did not understand a topic in the book, he quickly asked Law for guidance.

Yup, even though Law did not really excel in this category, he could still give Tenma some guidance with his experiences as a surgeon.

But that was not all. Actually, Tenma was now able to get out of his desperation because of this.

" Still.. who thought that the system also had a function like this."

Tenma mumbled. He marveled at the white space surrounding him.

The White Space here was no ordinary White Space.

And rather, it was a Special Space created by the system, with function none other than giving the teacher a special private place to train Tenma.

But that's not all.

If Sanji's space only made Tenma disconnected from the outside world, this space of Law had an extra function.

And that is, one hour here equals one year outside.

Once Tenma learned this information, there was nothing else holding him back. And now, he had mustered all his focus and energy to learn the medical jutsu book given by Tsunade.

Soon, One Month in the white room quickly passed.

After a long period of only eating, reading, and sleeping, Tenma eventually finished reading all the medical books.

But this was just the first step.

Because next, Tenma needed to be able to implement them as a jutsu.

Medical-Ninjutsu, also a kind of Ninjutsu, requires a strong Chakra to control the ability during training.

To learn Medical-Ninjutsu, a ninja need to have certain Chakra controllability.

Moreover, when one tries to learn a more advanced Medical Jutsu, the required Chakra control energy will be doubled.

This is also why even in the whole Ninja world, the number of people who could really use the Medical Jutsu was always low.

Today, finally took the big step toward learning the medical jutsu.

For the first time, he would do the thing specified in the book, and that is to heal a fish.