118. Summoning Jutsu: What a Huge Toad

Ignoring Neji’s petty arrogance, Su Ye chuckled and walked out of the school with Hinata.

The Chitauri inside the school had been concentrated in the courtyard, and the previous wave had already been completely wiped out. If they wanted to continue training, they would have to head outside. Seeing this, Neji followed silently. Although he still disapproved of Su Ye’s actions—thinking it was too reckless to drag the young mistress, Hinata, out into such danger—he no longer voiced his opposition clearly.

The sensation of personally killing the monsters was completely different from practicing on wooden stakes or sparring with his father. The feeling of landing strikes directly onto an enemy without holding back, blow after blow, left Neji somewhat intoxicated. As he watched the monsters collapse before him, a surge of infinite accomplishment welled up in his heart.

*Brother Ye may be unreliable at times, but he was right: only by experiencing a real battlefield can one become a qualified warrior.*

Neji acknowledged Su Ye’s approach in his heart, though he would never admit it aloud. "I’m only doing this to protect Hinata. Killing these monsters is merely a matter of convenience!"

Su Ye remained non-committal. Once they stepped outside the campus, the number of Chitauri soldiers increased significantly. They were not limited to infantry; many were aerial units darting through the sky. From time to time, massive Leviathans would pass overhead, smashing buildings into ruins. Fortunately, the area around Midtown School of Science and Technology didn't have many high-rises; the buildings were relatively low and small targets, so they hadn't been chosen as primary objectives by many Chitauri. Those that did arrive were infantry jumping off the Leviathans or unlucky stragglers shot down from their craft. They would gather in small groups before merging into larger forces, attacking all human targets they encountered indiscriminately.

Because there were few monsters, the military did not wantonly drop artillery or missiles in this vicinity, ensuring the trio’s safety remained relatively secure. Their goal was training, not clearing enemies at high speed, so they advanced slowly, often stopping for even just two or three monsters. Su Ye would herd them together and let Hinata handle them alone, honing her Gentle Fist close-quarters combat skills and her Byakugan’s reaction time. The results were quite good.

Just as the three were happily farming monsters, Su Ye’s phone suddenly rang. As soon as he answered, his mother’s urgent voice came through.

"Xiao Ye, where are you? Are you at home or at school? The news says something has happened in New York. Are you alright?"

Su Ye held the phone a bit further away; with his super-hearing, her anxious voice was piercing. "Mom, I’m fine. I’m just out with Hinata and Neji."

"Playing? You’re in the mood to play right now? Get out of New York immediately! Go to Boston, go to D.C., it doesn't matter—just catch a plane and come home. You’re dropping out!"

His mother’s voice was frantic, but in the background, his father’s calm, steady voice could be heard.

"Why are you making him come back now? Things are peaceful at home; you want him to return and become a spoiled heir who does nothing but rot? He doesn't need to go anywhere. Let him stay in New York. These aliens don't look like much, anyway. It’s perfect for him to get some practice in—consider it his time on the battlefield."

"Back in our day, who didn't come up through the fires of war? How can one see a rainbow without weathering the storm? It’s good for a boy to suffer a little!"

His mother didn't even have the energy to lecture Su Ye anymore; she immediately began scolding his father. "This is all your fault! I told you to teach the boy more things, but you wouldn't listen. You gave him a test paper and even sealed off the rest of the content. If anything happens to our son over there, I will never forgive you!"

"What could possibly happen?" his father muttered, though with little conviction.

"He didn't come from your body, so of course you don't care! Men are all useless, hmph!"

On the other end, his father fell completely silent.

"Xiao Ye," his mother said, turning back to him with a completely different tone after dealing with his father. "That unreliable man has been like that since he was a child. I’ll deal with him later. It’s too late for you to learn anything else, so listen closely—I’m going to teach you a new technique."

Su Ye’s eyebrows arched. Truly, a mother’s love is best! Even from thousands of miles away, she was always concerned for his safety. Compared to his father... Su Ye’s lips curled into a smirk. *So you don’t want me to go home and be an heir, you want me to stay here and fight for my life against aliens? Just you wait. Sooner or later, I’ll spill the secret that Terry is your biological son. I’ll make sure you get to 'suffer' and 'weather the storm' too, and we'll see if you find any rainbows.*

While plotting his revenge against his father, he paid close attention to the new technique his mother was teaching. After hearing it, Su Ye frowned. The technique was good, but his mother insisted he try it out on the spot, which left him conflicted. *Is this really appropriate?*

The technique his mother taught him from afar was called the "Summoning Jutsu." In essence, it allowed him to summon a creature out of thin air. It was said his father had learned it from his own teacher, and the summoned creatures were part of that same lineage.

Su Ye winced. His father actually had a teacher? That was a surprise. He wondered if that teacher was some sort of smut-writer. Had his father been led astray by a "Pervy Sage," who then in turn led Su Ye astray? So that was the root cause of why Su Ye had so many girlfriends.

But that wasn't the point. The point was his mother wanted him to summon a creature and sign a contract right now. The summoning line from Jiraiya’s branch usually produced frogs from Mount Myoboku. And what did Naruto summon when he first tried it? Wasn't it a tadpole?

*Could he really summon that in front of Hinata?* If he summoned billions of them, maybe he could consider it. Even though Hinata was only twelve, he could use the Transformation Jutsu to make himself look eighteen... *Ahem.* But currently, with Hinata’s absolute adoration for him, if he spent all that effort only to summon a tadpole, wouldn't his image crumble and his status as an idol be ruined?

Su Ye wanted to refuse, but his mother kept urging him on the phone, insisting he test it immediately. Finally, having no other choice, Su Ye sighed, formed the seals—Boar, Dog, Bird, Monkey, Ram—and slammed his hand onto the ground.

"Summoning Jutsu!"

As he struck, he prayed inwardly: *No tadpole, no tadpole, no tadpole!*

With a *poof*, a massive cloud of white mist exploded in front of him, billowing thirty meters high like a boiler bursting. When the mist cleared, a giant figure appeared before him. Su Ye’s jaw dropped as he looked at the silhouette, nearly twenty meters tall. Beside him, Hinata and Neji were so shocked their eyes rolled back—well, they were already Byakugan users, so that was their default state.

The figure stood nearly twenty meters tall, dressed in robes resembling the Feiyu (Flying Fish) uniforms of ancient China. It had a long-stemmed pipe hanging from its mouth, a massive embroidered-spring saber at its waist, its skin was covered in bumps, and a long, jagged scar ran across its eye.

Looking at this appearance, Su Ye felt as if he had lost the ability to speak. He had prayed it wouldn't be a tadpole, and he hadn't expected it to be one, given that his power was far greater than Naruto’s when he first learned the technique—thanks to the system. But he had imagined, at most, summoning Gamakichi, perhaps the size of a teddy bear. He never dreamed he would summon the Toad Boss himself, Gamabunta.

The Toad Boss looked the part, but the Feiyu uniform and the embroidered-spring saber were vastly different from the original series. *So, the Naruto series isn't just about the names like Hyuga and Hinata changing; even Gamabunta has been Sinicized? This is quite the thorough localization.*

Of course, this was a good thing for Su Ye. As a Chinese person, he should be summoning a creature dressed in Chinese-style garments. It would have been far more awkward to summon a guy wearing a kimono and a katana.