Approved

Managing to train an extra hour a day with the help of his clone, Ryo had improved efficiency, but it wasn't as if an additional hour would make a difference; the advantage was that he could focus on two different things at the same time.

At the moment, he was in the training area, the second place he visited most after the academy. Ryo trained the control of golden metal while his clone studied medicine. Every now and then, he heard the clone complaining while wanting a bit of silence.

On the other hand, Ryo was attacking some trees a little further away; his two fists were golden at the moment, allowing him to deliver stronger blows while training his taijutsu against something resistant.

"I can use the golden protection more effectively this way. Chakra consumption is manageable. However, I lack reach like this, and the attacks I launch with the coins still cost me too much chakra to maintain in the air, speed, and power."

He looked at his hands and then thought about Kentou's weapon, a katana. It resembled the one Sasuke would use later, but with some green details. Ryo clasped his hands together as if holding a katana, and soon the golden liquid began to flow from his hands, slowly joining in the middle and rising half a meter upwards, forming a golden katana.

"This might help! But I have no idea how to use a sword; the movements I know are from some movies I watched in the past."

He then took a step back, distancing himself from the tree by two steps, and raised the katana in his hand upwards. In the next instant, Ryo took a step forward, brandishing the weapon downward diagonally, aiming at the tree.

As the sword touched the wood, it penetrated 20 centimeters, and at that point, Ryo could feel the sword drawing more chakra than before. He held back the chakra, not feeding the metal with the chakra he wanted, and in that moment, the liquid metal transformed into water, flying to the sides and slowly reuniting in the shape of two coins on the ground.

Breathing heavily, he looked at it. "The more resistant something is to cut, the more chakra it will need, but it will also increase the power of the weapon and sharpen the blade even more. Theoretically, if I had as much chakra as the Kyuubi, could I cut anything I want then?"

Ryo began to fantasize for a few seconds before shaking his head to return to the present world. Looking to the side, he saw his clone walking towards him. "I left the notes on the table; put them away later." Saying this, the clone disappeared upon reaching the time limit of duration that Ryo could maintain.

Putting his hand on the side of his head after all the knowledge that his clone absorbed entered his mind, he spoke. "I don't think I'll get used to this so quickly; now imagine receiving the knowledge of numerous clones."

After a few minutes of tidying up the table, Kentou arrived at the location. He looked the same as always, with a tired face, smoking a cigarette, while scratching his unkempt beard. Today he was still wearing sunglasses.

"Ah, my head shouldn't have drunk so much last night." Hearing this, Ryo looked at the sensei. "Why not use a detoxification ninjutsu, sensei?" Kentou looked at the boy and then punched him lightly from below on the head, without any real force. "What do you mean, Ryo? The best part of being a man is waking up all wrong and not wanting to do anything the next day after drinking all night as if there were no tomorrow!"

Ryo put his hand on his head, chuckling lightly. "I don't understand that, sensei, but if you say so, okay. What do we have for today?" Kentou looked at Ryo while opening a smile, grabbing a scroll and tossing it to Ryo. "Learn this ninjutsu today, and after you're sure you can use it, you can use it on me."

Looking at the scroll, he pondered the words. "Use it on him?" Then he opened the scroll, seeing the basic detoxification ninjutsu described on it, similar to the basic healing jutsu he had learned. Ryo then spoke, "Sensei, is this...?" But as he looked at the man, he was lying in the corner, under the shade of one of the trees, with his arm covering his face.

"This guy..." Ryo sighed as he made the hand seals, creating a clone with 30% of his total chakra, leaving him with a little less than half of his remaining chakra. As soon as the clone appeared, the two began to read the scroll and discuss the hand seals.

It didn't take long for the first tests to begin; Ryo and his clone made the hand signs several times, and after a few minutes, Ryo left the clone alone to train for him. Ryo sat down to meditate; he didn't have much chakra left after making some mistakes with the hand seals.

After 30 minutes, the clone disappeared, passing the memories to Ryo, who opened his eyes as he stood up and walked over to the scroll once again, looking at it and then making the hand seals. A green chakra appeared on Ryo's hand like a layer, and he smiled faintly at seeing it, then walked over to Kentou-sensei and placed his hand on the man's head.

Kentou was observing all the progress in the meantime, at least feeling Ryo's movements, and at a certain point, after a few minutes, about 40 minutes, the boy walked towards him, and a touch on his forehead was felt; at the same time, a gentle wave of chakra entered Kentou's body, acting on the residual alcohol in his body.

A small wisp of smoke rose from his body as he opened his eyes, feeling much better indeed. "You executed it very well, Ryo, it took about 40 minutes to learn this, right? Very good." He had already assessed Ryo's potential for Iryoujutsu, as it was the last week of the testing period, he already had the verdict.

"The Hokage asked me to train you for a month to test if you had a future in this, and I can say that you do. So, we'll be training together for some more time, Ryo-kun." He opened a mischievous smile. "So get ready for more intense training, combat will be included, so it's good to learn to heal well because you'll need to heal yourself during training."

Ryo was happy with the news, he had passed the evaluation, or whatever Kentou had used to assess him, but even so, with the last part being said, a shiver ran down his spine. And he knew Kentou didn't play much with his words, so Ryo would have a tough time on his hands with the crazy doctor.

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