Konoha: Starting with Sage Mode.

Chapter 44 Graduation

The next day, Kirito woke up to find that he had graduated.

He left the Senju clan's territory early in the morning, and an ANBU member came to his door, handing him a graduation certificate and an appointment letter for him to intern in a medical class.

"What's going on?"

Holding two items, Kirito looked somewhat bewildered and asked the ANBU ninja in front of him.

"The message has been delivered. Farewell."

The ANBU ninja didn't waste any words with Kirito. After finishing their business, they formed a hand seal and disappeared.

"Kirito, why did you graduate? Didn't you say you'd wait until you were twelve to graduate with me?"

Nawaki, who was standing nearby, noticed the graduation certificate in Kirito's hand, snatched it and examined it closely. Then, his eyes widened and he said with some dissatisfaction.

Two years ago, they kept saying they would wait until they were 12 years old to graduate together.

I never expected you to shamelessly sneak away.

"How would I know? This wasn't my idea. I never thought I'd graduate so early."

Upon hearing this, Kirito immediately cried out that he was innocent.

In all honesty, how could he possibly do something as foolish as graduating early? Even if he was already at the graduation level, he would never graduate early.

Once you graduate from the ninja and officially become a Konoha genin, it means you have to obey the Third Hokage's arrangements.

He's still young, only 8 years old, and he doesn't want to be dragged to the battlefield to fight the enemy so soon.

"This is Lady Mito's intention."

Just as Kirito was about to rush to the Hokage Building to protest to the Third Hokage, Momoka suddenly appeared and explained the reason.

"Oh, it was the teacher's idea. Then it's alright."

Upon hearing Momoka's explanation, Kirito took his graduation certificate back from Nawaki with a relieved smile.

He would definitely not agree if it was the Third Generation's idea, but if it was Mito's idea, he would just accept it. He knew his teacher's personality very well; he was extremely protective of his own people.

Unsurprisingly, his placement in the medical training program was a measure Mito used to protect him.

But there was one thing he didn't quite understand: what did it have to do with him being allowed to intern in the medical class and graduating early?

Does that mean I can't do my internship in the medical program if I don't graduate early?

"What about me? I also want to graduate early."

Nawaki watched Kirito graduate, then gazed longingly at Tomoka.

If Kirito isn't going to the Ninja Academy anymore, what's the point of him staying there?

Moreover, without Kirito, he would have to confront Chizuru, the naughty girl he usually didn't get along with, every day. Just thinking about her sharp tongue and terrifying strength, he felt that his good days at school were over.

"You? You should just keep attending class obediently. I'm just asking you, how many of your theory courses did you pass?"

When Momoka heard Rope Tree's request, she ruthlessly shattered Rope Tree's wishful thinking and deeply exposed his weakness.

Rope Tree is still the same Rope Tree as before, a complete academic failure. He gets excellent grades in practical classes, but he's always among the last few in the class for theoretical classes.

Nawaki wanted to argue that he already had the strength of a Chunin, so there was no need to skip the mere theory class.

However, he dared not say these things in front of Tao Hua. Tao Hua usually doted on him very much, but the way she doted on him was no different from his grandmother's. If he dared to talk back now, she would definitely drag him back after school and force him to attend extra classes, and he could forget about going out to play.

Helpless, Rope Tree could only fall silent, revealing a look of utter despair.

Momoka didn't care about Nawaki's painful feelings of not wanting to go to school. After telling Mito what she had been asked to convey, she immediately formed a hand seal, turned into white smoke, and disappeared from the spot.

"Damn it! I don't want to go to school, I want to graduate early! Grandma, are you crazy?"

As soon as Tao Hua left, Sheng Shu immediately erupted, roaring to the sky to vent his grief and anger.

Unfortunately, faced with the Mito Law, Nawaki could only obediently carry it out.

"Alright, alright, can't you just send a shadow clone to class? It's no big deal."

Kirito couldn't stand it anymore and suddenly said this.

Upon hearing this, Rope Tree's eyes lit up; he thought it was a brilliant idea.

Why didn't he think of that before? He was so focused on using shadow clones to practice ninjutsu and taijutsu. He really loved studying too much; he never used shadow clones to attend class even once.

"Thank you, Kirito."

Nawaki expressed his gratitude to Kirito, and his previous frustration at not being able to graduate early vanished.

The next moment, he immediately formed hand seals and used the Shadow Clone Technique to create a shadow clone, then said to the shadow clone, "I'll leave the class to you."

But to Nawaki's utter surprise, his clone remained unmoved by his orders.

The clone of Nawaki picked its nose and looked at Nawaki with disdain: "Why should I? I don't want to go to school."

"You're my clone, so of course you have to listen to me."

Seeing this, Rope Tree was somewhat dumbfounded and said...

The Rope Tree clone immediately covered its ears with its hands, putting on a "what's the worst that can happen?" attitude, clearly unwilling to go to school.

Having no other choice, Rope Tree had to use the Shadow Clone Technique again to create new shadow clones.

As a result, the newly appeared shadow clone still refused his request.

For a moment, Rope Tree angrily started fighting with his two shadow clones.

"It seems that studying is indeed the thing that Nawaki hates the most, and he would rather die than do it even if it's a shadow clone."

Kirito watched the farce unfold before him, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

He decisively said goodbye to Rope Tree and left first, heading towards the hospital alone.

However, after walking for a while, he successfully used the Shadow Clone Technique without forming any hand seals, creating three shadow clones in one go. Then he smiled and said, "I'll leave today's matter to you."

Kirito uses shadow clones to assist him in his training, something he does every day.

Through persistent practice, he gained a deep understanding of the Shadow Clone Technique, and the level of this ninjutsu on his attribute panel has reached 4.

The key to understanding this ninjutsu is that it can be released without hand seals, and it only requires a small amount of chakra to create shadow clones, without needing to divide one's own chakra among the shadow clones.

Just like now, with his powerful chakra manipulation, he left enough chakra for each of his three shadow clones to operate for a day.

If it were before, one of the three shadow clones would go to the basement of the orphanage to conduct experimental research, one would go to the sealing class to slack off and study sealing techniques, and the last would go to the basement of a certain pharmacist's restaurant branch to learn pharmacology and medicine making.

Now that he has graduated from the Ninja Academy, his main body no longer needs to attend classes there. So, starting today, he plans to use his last shadow clone for fishing.

The three shadow clones already understood what Kirito was thinking and nodded in agreement. But just as they were about to split up, four masked ANBU ninjas suddenly appeared and surrounded Kirito and his three shadow clones.

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