Konoha: The seal art teacher of the ninja school

"But……"

Although Kushina's heart was filled with excitement after hearing Natsuhiko's plan, she sincerely hoped that the tavern would be built soon so that she could fight more duelists from all over the world.

However, perhaps due to preconceptions, Kushina has always regarded this game as a child's play.

Thinking of a group of big men wearing duel disks and saying "It's my turn!" "Drawing cards!",

Kushina felt inexplicably ashamed of them, so embarrassed that she could dig out the tavern that Natsuhiko wanted to open with her feet on the ground.

I feel a strong sense of dissonance.

She didn't know that Xia Yan had a special word to describe this situation in his previous life, which was "wrong style of painting"!

Seeing that Kushina couldn't explain why, Natsuhiko snapped his fingers and smiled.

"Speaking of which, Kushina, you will be an adult in a year or two. Do you think that the Genin cards will no longer be good by then?"

When Kushina heard this, she tilted her head and thought about it.

A few years later, I quickly thought of myself with a devilish figure like Sister Tsunade, wearing a duel plate and playing cards...

"How can it be repaired? It's really fun!"

Kushina nodded helplessly, but still had some doubts.

"But... this game is fun, but will anyone really be willing to spend real money to buy these small pieces of paper?"

Although these cards are designed very beautifully by Xia Yan, they are still small pieces of paper after all!

Not to mention that according to Xia Yan's previous design ideas, these cards still have a number of uses, which makes it even more difficult to buy, right?

It's a pity that Kushina is still too naive and doesn't know that Natsuhiko's lower limit is lower than she imagined.

"What, buy cards?"

Xia Yan couldn't help but sneer, "How can such a good thing be possible?"

He shook his head and smiled, opened the desk drawer, rummaged through it, took out a concept drawing and handed it to Kushina.

Kushina took a look and saw a scene drawn in the form of a sketch.

I saw two people sitting on both sides of the table, with a few little people standing in front of each table, who looked like characters from the Genin card.

Judging from the entire picture, they should be playing a ninja card game with the projection scaled down.

"Because the space in the tavern is limited, I reduced the size of the projection. Of course, there are also game consoles with one-to-one imaging, but that's not what I should be focusing on now." Xia Yan tapped a spot on the concept map with his hand.

Kushina looked at where he was pointing and saw what she had been paying attention to just now.

She discovered that the two people in the battle were not wearing duel disks or holding cards in their hands.

Instead, those cards floated in front of them as if they had been cast with ninja magic.

Then Kushina heard Natsu Yan explain: "The cards in front of them are actually projections, and I integrated them into the machine."

"So actually, what they bought was the right to use the virtual cards."

Kushina's eyes opened wide when she heard this, her pupils filled with disbelief.

"Virtual...virtual card? And you only have the right to use it?"

Listen, are you speaking human language?

Kushina originally thought that Natsuhiko's plan to sell small pieces of paper was already outrageous, but she didn't expect that Natsuhiko's idea was even more outrageous, and what he planned to sell was actually a virtual card!

It’s so outrageous that my mother opened the door for me—it’s so outrageous!

For a moment, a feeling of worry emerged from the bottom of Kushina's heart.

She felt that Xia Yan must have been blinded by the illusion that ninja cards were popular in ninja schools.

After all, the fierce ninja cards in the ninja school are provided to students for free as a teaching aid.

In addition, the little ninjas have never seen the world and do not have many entertainment activities, so they will naturally be deeply attracted by the ninja cards.

To put it another way, even if the Genin card is loved by adults.

But would these well-informed adult ninjas really be willing to spend money to buy such virtual cards that they can only see but cannot touch?

After listening to Natsuhiko's crazy idea, Kushina couldn't help but feel that selling small pieces of paper was actually not an unacceptable thing.

Looking at Natsu Yan's confident look, Kushina knew that he would definitely not listen to the cold water poured on her at this time.

So she decided to take a roundabout route and get more information before making any plans.

"By the way, Natsuhiko, why did you suddenly think of doing this?" Kushina asked.

"Actually, I had a similar plan before I returned to Konoha, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to take out those cards and the duel plate all at once. It's just that I had to travel around the Land of Fire because of missions.

, so this plan has been shelved.”

While explaining to Kushina, Natsuhiko rolled up the drawings and put them in the drawer and put them away.

"Aren't I working in a ninja school now? I happen to have a lot of free time, so I naturally planned to implement it."

"Besides, I'm already a jounin, and I have some savings. It's time to start a business."

"Actually, this is not a surprising thing. Most teachers in ninja schools have similar side jobs."

"After all, ninjas eat the food of youth, and the risks are also very high. You never know when you may be injured and you will no longer be a ninja. You have to consider the transformation issue after retirement..."

"For a ninja like me who comes from a civilian background, I don't have a ninja clan to protect me, so I naturally have to make plans in advance..."

Kushina, who originally wanted to find some flaws in Natsuhiko's reasons, became more and more twitching as she listened.

She originally thought that Xia Yan would come up with some fanciful reasons like selling virtual cards, but she didn't expect that the real reason would be so simple and unpretentious.

So down to earth.

People who don't know may think it's a middle-aged ninja holding a thermos filled with wolfberry in his hand.

Hey, Xia Yan, you are only sixteen years old! Do you need to think so far ahead?

You are like this, making it difficult for me who is already fifteen years old!?

Knowing that Natsuhiko had made plans for his future decades, Kushina, who only thought about how to play more games of ninja every day, began to feel anxious.

I feel like at my age and stage, I shouldn’t be able to sleep.

"Of course there is a more important reason."

Seeing Kushina's doubtful look on life, Natsuhiko knew that the anxiety was almost sold, so he smiled secretly at the corner of his mouth and changed the topic.

"Kushina, you also know that learning sealing techniques is very expensive."

"So have you ever thought that, barring any accidents, it would be impossible for such a huge class like ours to sustain itself, and it would be destined to be a flash in the pan?"

"Even now, although Lord Biwako has increased funding several times, the income and expenditure of this course can only be barely maintained."

"When it comes time to formally learn how to draw runes, I won't be able to fool you with the cards I made, and it will cost a lot of money."

"Moreover, the cost of learning sealing arts cannot be borne by the school alone. Many students from ordinary families simply do not have the financial resources to support after-school practice."

"So obviously sooner or later, the Sealing Arts class will return to its original form, which is an unpopular class with only three or two kittens in each grade."

Kushina was a little surprised when she heard Natsu Yan suddenly talk about the sealing arts class.

However, as Xia Yan told her story, she gradually stopped caring about what happened at the Naoshizi Jiren Tavern.

Each fact listed by Natsuhiko hit Kushina's heart like a heavy hammer, making her suddenly startled and dripping with cold sweat.

If the number of students in this course is greatly reduced, wouldn't it mean that she is no longer needed as a teaching assistant?

For a time, various memories appeared in her mind like a revolving lantern...

While correcting my homework, I listened to the laughter of the little ninjas playing cards and playing;

Xia Yan’s various novel and interesting teaching methods in the sealing arts class;

Every day after school, he and Xia Yan play a few games of fierce endurance. Although they are defeated repeatedly, they still enjoy it;

In the evening, I would share my day's experience with Mito's grandma to make her happy, and finally fall asleep with expectations for tomorrow...

Although it was only a short month, Kushina had unknowingly gotten used to this kind of life and fell in love with it.

And she thought this life would continue forever.

However, Xia Yan's words ruthlessly revealed a fact.

That was the routine she thought would last forever.

In fact, it is like a beautiful castle made of sand, which may collapse at any time due to a small wave.

Kushina, who noticed this fact, felt empty for a moment...