The days of being a puppeteer in Konoha

Chapter 39 Course Selection
It turns out that these days, the Ninja School has been as busy as a festival because of the course selection.

The instigator was the newly introduced puppetry course.

The unique teaching method, the novel and interesting pocket puppet beasts, and even the young and handsome teacher Kimura, all deeply attracted the children's attention and became an enduring topic of discussion.

But as the saying goes, a single flower does not make spring, but when a hundred flowers bloom the whole garden becomes full of spring.

Just like the catfish effect, the emergence of puppetry classes has caused other training course teachers to try their best to retain students, making the school more lively than ever before.

Many of the training course teachers who have the support of departments behind them directly invite the recently popular ninjas from their respective departments as guest lecturers.

Like Nara Shikaku, Yamanaka Inoichi, Aburame Shimi...

Without exception, they are the most dazzling among the young ninjas and are the objects of aspiration for many young ninjas.

In addition, what they will preach in school are the experiences summarized from actual combat, which are full of practical information and have attracted the attention of many practical students.

In addition, some training course teachers have imitated Hideki's pocket puppet beast and attracted young ninjas to join by offering gifts for registration.

For example, if you sign up for the medical class, you will get a free medical checkup package for your whole family at Konoha Hospital, and the logistics class will give you a 20% discount coupon for the barbecue restaurant for a year, etc...

Although none of them can be compared with the pocket puppet beasts, for some hesitant students, these gifts may become the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

Under the teachers' complicated admissions operations, many little ninjas in the school are in the wonderful trouble of not knowing which courses to choose.

——The farce came to an end only yesterday when Hideki suddenly announced that the Puppetmon would be open to all students.

Naturally, all the students in the school cheered and praised Teacher Kimura for his noble character.

Because there is no interference factor from the pocket puppet beast, they finally don't have to worry about it and can choose the training courses they really want to take according to their own wishes.

However, for those teachers who have been busy for a while, although this is indeed good news, they still feel like vomiting blood.

No, Mr. Kimura, couldn’t you announce this news earlier?
"Hahaha, Hideki, didn't you see how the other training class teachers regretted it so much when they heard the news?"

Thinking of the extremely confused expressions of the other teachers, Inuzuka Jaw couldn't help but slap the table and laugh.

"They even got together to try to target your puppetry class and snatch back your students."

"After all the trouble, you actually pushed the students out. Their plan became a joke."

At this time, Hideki had already started making parts. Hearing this, he couldn't help but say:

"Senior Jaw, I heard that your tracking class has announced that the student with the best final grade will receive a little ninja dog as a reward..."

Inuzuka Jaw's smile froze for a moment, and then he pretended to grit his teeth and said:

"I was also forced by the department leader, who said that if the course was too small, I should be the one to teach it next year!"

Hideki glanced at the other person with a half-smile, indicating that it was fine to just take it as it is.

Inuzuka Jaw quickly changed the subject:

"But then again, Hideki, aren't you worried that once this news gets out, most of your students will run away?"

"After all, although the reputation of puppetry in school has improved a lot, it is still the same in the village. Students will eventually have concerns..."

Hideki was moving his fingers, manipulating the chakra lines to assemble a bunch of freshly made parts, and said with a smile:

"Anyway, I launched Pocket Puppetmon in the first place just to get kids interested in trying to learn puppetry."

"Since the goal has been achieved, that's enough."

"Continuing to forcibly retain students who have no interest in puppetry will only waste the time of both parties."

"Of course, the most important thing is to teach students in accordance with their aptitude and let them take the path that suits them best. Isn't that the responsibility of our training course teachers?"

At this point, Hideki had just finished assembling a puppet beast. It looked like a strange seed, but behind it was not a seed, but a bud that had not yet bloomed.

Listening to Hideki's words and looking at the new pocket puppet beast in front of him that seemed to have undergone an iteration, Inuzuka Jaw couldn't help feeling a little ashamed.

He didn't come to the school to teach voluntarily, so he had been just muddling through, planning to just get through this school year.

It's quite different from a teacher like Hideki who only cares about his students.

Of course, as an adult, he would not get carried away by Hideki's words and devote himself to the cause of education.

But he also secretly made up his mind to at least live up to his salary and fulfill the basic duties of a teacher in this year...

……

So time began to pass again, and soon it was the fourth week of the new semester.

In other words, the registration day for the training course has finally arrived.

On this day, the discussion in the Ninja School about which training class to take completely disappeared.

Thanks to the competition for students in the training courses initiated by Hideki, the children have gone through countless struggles and now know very clearly which course they should choose.

So after each class teacher handed out the registration forms, the students almost immediately wrote down the courses they wanted to sign up for.

Yuhi Kurenai held her chin with one hand, gave a somewhat infatuated smile, and wrote down the name of the puppetry class on the registration form.

Asuma Sarutobi glanced at Kurenai Yuhi and felt a little jealous, but when he recalled the joy he had in the previous battle with Sensei Kimura, he still curled his lips and wrote the name of the puppetry class on the registration form.

Uchiha Obito was curious about what task Mr. Kimura would give him. At the same time, with the hope of getting rid of the reputation of being the last one in the class, he wrote down the name of the puppetry class on the registration form.

Nohara Lin recalled the scene in the twilight when her teacher kindly helped her solve her problems. Her eyes became more determined and she wrote down the names of the medical class and puppetry class on the registration form.

Shiranui Genma, Ebisu, Morino Ibiki...

There are also little ninjas whose names may not even appear in the original work.

With their longing for puppetry and the hope of changing their fate, they wrote down the name of the puppetry class on the registration form...

Then, as usual, during the training class, they once again came to the puppetry classroom that was converted from a dilapidated warehouse.

As fewer students came, the classroom became empty again, causing everyone's determination to waver a little.

At this moment, a childish cat's cry suddenly sounded.

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw a little black cat walking nimbly through their midst, eventually jumping onto the platform and beginning to lick its fur leisurely.

Then the next moment a familiar "coo" sound rang out above everyone's head.

Everyone looked up and saw a fat red owl circling above the warehouse, cooing, and finally landed on the beam above the platform.

The familiar scene made everyone smile knowingly, remembering that at the beginning everyone was tricked by the little black cat into coming to class, and the fat owl also brought them a lot of frights and surprises.

Recalling the initial curiosity, love and touching moments made everyone realize their feelings again and their eyes became firm again.

As the soul of this course, Mr. Kimura also appeared on the podium.

As usual, he was wearing a dark blue wide-sleeved kimono, with black hair in a ponytail, looking young and handsome...

"Welcome back to this puppetry classroom. Today, let's continue our journey to explore the mysteries of puppetry..."

As the teacher's familiar opening remarks sounded, everyone felt an inexplicable sense of security, and they all said in their hearts:
"I am back!"

(End of this chapter)