The days of being a puppeteer in Konoha

Chapter 77 The Second Stage of Training
Even though Obito's shrill cries were so heartbreaking and made anyone who heard them cry.

But his teacher Hideki remained indifferent, and even complained to Minato beside him:

"Young people today are so spoiled that even this little bit of training can scare them to death."

Minato could only laugh and cry when he heard this.

Although he really wanted to say that this training method, which was almost like water torture, could not be considered a small tempering.

But when he thought about it, he found that when he was training under Master Jiraiya, he was not much better than this.

He was either forced to eat all kinds of insect food, or was suddenly pushed off a cliff, forcing him to use psychic magic to escape...

Do all teachers in the world share the same brain?

Although he really wanted to complain like this, the knowledgeable Minato actually knew the reason behind it.

You should know that chakra is a mixture of physical energy and spiritual energy.

In addition to accumulating experience and knowledge, the most effective way to increase spiritual energy is to endure various difficult training.

Every time you overcome the urge to give up, it is a test of your mental strength.

Therefore, since ancient times, using various arduous training that is unbearable for ordinary people to train their disciples has been a reserved item for ninjas.

That is why ninjas are called ninjas - people who are good at endurance.

However, Obito was too young after all, which made the kind-hearted Minato a little worried.

So while fishing and reading, he would occasionally glance in the direction of Obito, fearing that the child would be killed by Hideki accidentally.

——It would be better if you died of fun, so that your son wouldn’t have to be an orphan as soon as he was born.

If Hideki knew what Minato was thinking, he would definitely complain like this.

However, he was also a little annoyed by Obito's howling every now and then, so he greeted Minato and walked towards Obito...

In order to enable Obito to fully master the Great Fireball Technique, Hideki taught him a chakra control training method that combined chakra and breathing.

After nearly a month of hard training, Obito finally completed the first stage of training.

This meant that even though he was wearing the helmet that restricted his breathing, he was still able to run around the school playground at least fifty times.

If the Great Fireball Technique is used perfectly, Obito can actually spray out a fireball with a diameter of two meters.

Unfortunately, this situation is still very rare, so Hideki took advantage of the time today to start the second stage of training for Obito.

The principle is actually very similar to the previous one, both of which use the feeling of suffocation to force Obito to use the power of chakra to assist his breathing.

However, in the first stage, you only need to push open the exhaust hole of the helmet with force. Even if you fail, you have plenty of time to try again. It is actually not difficult.

In fact, the reason why Obito's Fireball Technique is sometimes effective and sometimes not is because he still can't succeed every time.

Therefore, the goal of the second stage of training is naturally to enable Obito to use this technique at any time.

For this reason, Hideki invented this inverted lifting machine.

Its biggest feature is that the time of lowering and rising is random.

Obito didn't know when he would be sunk into the water, nor when he would be pulled into the air.

In this case, he would not have the opportunity to try again. During the short time he surfaced, Obito had to use the power of chakra to inhale a large amount of air in order to survive the time underwater that would end at an unknown time.

The possibility of drowning at any time can also simulate the tension of actual combat and improve the effect of training.

Hideki quickly came to the machine, kicked it lightly, and then Obito was pulled out of the water by the rope.

While the child was still spitting out water, Hideki sighed:

"Obito-kun, you still have time to scream. You might as well use your energy to take a few more breaths of air. That way it will be easier."

"Besides, you keep yelling like that, scaring away all the fish. How can Minato and I go fishing?"

Apparently, Obito felt that his life was more important than whether his teacher could catch a fish, and he started to cry again:

"Teacher, please spare my life! I have reached my limit. If I continue like this, I will definitely drown."

Hideki rolled his eyes when he heard that.

Judging from the way this kid begged for mercy, he was still far from his true limit...

That's right. In fact, in the process of practicing this technique, Obito's entire breathing system was also fully exercised.

According to calculations using Spider-Sense, his lungs alone had expanded by 20 percent in just one month.

The actual lung capacity has doubled, approaching the level of an adult Genin.

And this is the data under normal conditions. If chakra is used to assist, the data can be doubled.

Even Phelps, the flying fish who was famous for his lung capacity in his previous life, was just a piece of trash in front of Obito.

How could an animal like this be drowned so easily?

However, Hideki was always reluctant to force his students, so he smiled and said:
"It's okay to stop training, but are you sure, Obito?"

"The points system is still in the testing phase, so you only need a few points to ask me to assist you in your training."

"But now that it has been officially implemented, I can't continue to show favoritism, otherwise it will be unfair to other students."

"So if you choose to give up, Obito, you will have to spend 200 points to ask me to guide you again in the future."

"Two...two hundred points..."

Obito, who was twisting in the air like a caterpillar, suddenly tensed up and his eyes widened.

In the week after the point system was implemented, he only earned 18 points in total, and most of them were earned by setting up stalls.

At this rate, wouldn't it take two months to earn 200 points?
Moreover, the teacher has given him guidance several times and even made special ninja tools for him for special training.

If you calculate it, wouldn’t the points be over a thousand?
When everything was quantified with points, Obito realized how much advantage he had gained.

Considering that many of his classmates would probably be eager to take this special training, it was really hard for Obito to say the word "give up".

Die or die!

In order to live up to the teacher's kindness and to let his grandmother have a happy festival, Obito finally made up his mind and said, gritted his teeth:
"Teacher, I decided... Gurgle Gurgle Gurgle..."

Unfortunately, before the kid could finish his words, the machine started up again, causing him to fall headfirst into the river...

(End of this chapter)