Chapter 29: Isn’t that even better?

“Huh? Why is that?” Naruto looked utterly confused.

“Training tree climbing while maintaining the transformation allows you to circulate your chakra more precisely.” Hanabi explained.

“Is it necessary?” Naruto also wanted to become stronger, but before the Land of Waves arc began, Naruto hadn’t yet achieved that level of realization.

But after all, this was Hanabi’s idea, and he was willing to admit defeat, so Naruto reluctantly transformed into a cute blonde girl with twin tails.

“Idiot.” Sasuke crossed his arms coolly, looking at Naruto as if he were an imbecile.

However, upon seeing Naruto’s swaying blonde twin tails, Sasuke couldn’t help but look away.

“Under normal circumstances, chakra cannot be stored on a large scale for long periods. Although in specific situations chakra can exist permanently or for a long time, for most people, chakra is more of a use-as-you-go resource.”

“Chakra is a mixture of spiritual energy and physical energy. When using chakra, we first mix spiritual energy and physical energy together; this process is chakra refinement. Although spiritual energy and physical energy exist within our bodies, they cannot be refined all at once.”

Hanabi’s “popular science lesson” wasn’t actually for Naruto, but for the audience.

Showcasing the worldview, attracting the audience, making them fascinated by the world itself, and increasing their engagement—this was also a method to increase popularity.

To increase popularity, sometimes one shouldn’t focus the audience’s attention solely on oneself, but make them realize the vastness of this world.

Naruto had actually explained some of this to Konohamaru in the second episode, but it wasn’t expanded upon.

Hanabi had seen in the discussion area that viewers seemed to think chakra was similar to internal energy (Qi/Neigong), so she was “correcting” the audience a bit here.

Correcting the audience’s cognition also helped deepen their impression of her and gain popularity.

[Got it. Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP), glycogen, and fat.]

[What does that mean?]

[This is middle school biology. The human body consumes energy: ATP directly powers muscles, then glycogen breaks down to power muscles, and only after that is fat consumed. Physical and spiritual energy are glycogen and fat; chakra is ATP.]

[That’s why losing weight is so hard, because you have to consume glycogen first, then fat.]

[Damn, mentioning weight loss makes me restless all of a sudden.]

[Stop it, don’t continue with such a terrifying topic.]

The effect of the science lesson was quite good, except the goofy netizens’ bullet comments went off-topic as usual.

“Improving chakra control can increase chakra utilization efficiency, making one portion of chakra do the work of two. Continuously synthesizing chakra at all times also helps us constantly strengthen ourselves.” Hanabi said.

“Simply put, by continuously and precisely maintaining chakra usage, you train your control over chakra, idiot.” Sasuke explained for Hanabi.

“Let’s put it this way.” Hanabi said. “Using the Fireball Jutsu, Sasuke might be panting after releasing three fireballs, and even his movements would be hindered. But if it were me, under the same conditions of physical and spiritual strength, I could release it five times consecutively and still maintain combat capability.”

“Ohhhhh!” Naruto shouted loudly, incidentally reminding the two that he wasn’t an idiot.

“Naruto, your best jutsu is the Sexy Jutsu, right? I heard you used it to take down the Third Hokage. That’s why I asked you to maintain this jutsu continuously.”

“Hehe, it’s not that amazing~” Naruto, being PUA’d (manipulated/complimented) by Hanabi, actually felt a bit embarrassed at this moment.

“Can’t chakra be stored?” Sasuke also had some questions. Although Sasuke also came from a prominent clan, his clan was long gone, and no one had taught him many “common sense” things. Hanabi before him was from the Hyūga clan, so she naturally knew more.

“Of course there are exceptions. For example, Lady Tsunade’s Strength of a Hundred Seal (Yin Seal) can store chakra.”

“Tsunade?”

Naruto tilted his head. What was that?

“That is one of Konoha’s Sannin.” Hanabi skimmed over it. “Besides that, in rarer cases, chakra can also be inherited, or attached to others through methods like ‘reincarnation.’ However, this is frontier scientific research, stuff that’s still being studied, so you don’t need to know about it.”

Chakra is the combination of spiritual and physical energy. Since spirit exists, possessing will allows for reincarnation; since it’s physical energy, it can also be inherited. Makes perfect sense.

“Anyway, Naruto, just maintain this posture while climbing the tree. If you transform back, transform again, until your chakra can no longer sustain it.”

[To be honest, I originally thought chakra was something like internal force, turns out it’s different?!]

[Feels somewhat similar to stamina; I’ll write a post analyzing it later.]

[Chakra is a concept from India (Ah San), probably related to pulse wheels (chakras).]

[A blonde twin-tail is right in front of you, and you guys are discussing this?]

[But that’s a guy!]

[Isn’t that even better?!]

[It’d be even better without transforming; I’m more interested in that.]

[???]

[Grass (Plant/Damn).]

[Why are there always fierce people appearing??]

“Chakra is so complicated.” Naruto’s head was spinning.

“This is just the most basic stuff.” Hanabi said. “The rest is too early for you. As I just said, the power of chakra is the combination of physical and spiritual energy. To truly increase chakra, a physique that strengthens with age and a resilient spirit are key. But you can’t improve those in a short time, so improving application efficiency is the best method. Work hard to become stronger.”

[No wonder Kakashi said earlier that it’s rare for Sasuke to use Fire Style. Turns out it’s because his age is too young and his physique is insufficient, leading to limited physical energy.]

[Actually, the real world is the same. A 9-year-old kid can’t beat an 18-year-old adult no matter what.]

[9 years old no, 8 years old yes.]

[Let the bullets fly for a while.]

[This is freaking 8 years old?!]

The bullet comments unknowingly veered off to movies/TV shows (Let the Bullets Fly reference).

“In short, Naruto, just understand it as ‘chakra-level’ weight training.” Hanabi finally gave a summary.

“I see! Hanabi, you should have said so earlier!”

Naruto suddenly realized.

If she had explained it like this earlier, wouldn’t he have understood?!

“Idiot.” Sasuke didn’t know how many times he had been speechless today.

“Also, after training ends, you don’t need to go all the way back. My family’s annex isn’t far; I’ve already had someone tidy it up.”

A training camp (joint lodging) is the best scenario for warming up relationships.

“Just wait, within a week, I will definitely climb to the top of the tree!” Naruto waved his small fist.

[Damn, originally a brute, now turned into a blonde twin-tail, why do I feel he’s somewhat cute?]

[I think I really can.]

[Calm down, that’s a guy.]

[A guy is even better!]

[Done for, another one broken.]

[Actually, even without transforming, Naruto just needs a twin-tail wig lol.]

[My bro said he needs to go calm down.]

A wave of bullet comments drifted by.

Hanabi checked bullet comments from other regions.

In the Japanese region, it was a sea of “Naruko wwwww” comments; everyone directly gave Naruto a feminine nickname.

Western region bullet comments were fewer; she would probably have to check the comments section.

“Eh, popularity increased again?”

Hanabi’s popularity was almost used up, but now, she found she had accumulated over 3,000 more popularity points.

This episode was originally unexpected; Hanabi had been stirring up trouble (goofing around) the whole time. She didn’t expect it to actually increase popularity.

“Could it be that causing changes in main characters driven by me also counts towards my popularity?”

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