The City of Seven Waters.
Since Robin began trying to learn drawing, James had taken on a new role as an art teacher, starting with sketching and assigning Robin weekly homework.
In the first month, Robin had to find any ten objects at home every day and draw observation sketches from the front and side views — that is, twenty sketches in thirty days!
In the second month, James asked Robin to try coloring the sketches he had drawn! At this point, James taught some basic coloring techniques, including common lighting and shading issues, as well as paint mixing methods, to help Robin build a rough foundation for color drawing.
In the third month, James increased the difficulty. He required Robin to lock away the previous twenty colored drawings and then redo both sketching and coloring within a month! This greatly increased Robin's workload, but in order to draw beautiful manga like James, Robin endured it willingly, as if returning to the days spent studying at the Tree of Knowledge, wholeheartedly chasing his dream.
As days went by, James's demands grew stricter and more intense, but Robin never complained, even sacrificing sleep to complete his assignments, which made James very pleased.
Learning to draw is never easy! Especially for those who want to create something remarkable, they must first endure tedious, repetitive fine brushwork to hone their skills, and then accumulate inspiration from life! For most, the time spent mastering these skills directly determines their future achievements!
Even masters like Da Vinci had to tirelessly draw eggs as children. It was these practices that forged his solid foundation, preparing him to ascend to greatness!
James updated Naruto at home while also acting as Robin's private tutor, living a fulfilling and busy life, unaware that a troublesome figure was coming to the City of Seven Waters from the New World!
Half a year had passed since James started updating Naruto. One day, after finishing the latest chapter, the system sound rang again!
[Ding! Naruto tracing has met the system's automatic lottery condition. Start the fan points lottery? It will consume 10,000 fan points. Yes/No?]
James clicked "Yes" out of habit, then opened the treasure chest and closed the lottery interface to check the inventory. At that moment, three items were in the inventory:
The first was [Anywhere Door] drawn from Doraemon, marked as [Redeemed].
The second was [Denisa Demon Blood Flesh Safe Fusion] drawn from Great Sword, marked as [Not Redeemed].
The third was a scroll-type item. When James clicked it, he almost spat blood in anger!
Item: [Great Fireball Technique Quick Mastery Scroll]
Description: System product, guaranteed premium quality. This scroll lets you instantly master the Fireball Technique, reaching specialization, and allows release without chakra consumption! Cooldown time is one hour!
Price: 10,000 fan points.
Well, even the system despised this Fireball Technique, only giving it a 10,000 fan points value. What could James say? In Naruto, the Fireball Technique is legendary and unanimously recognized on various forums as one of the most iconic ninjutsu!
Its appearance rate is always high, not only as the Uchiha clan's signature technique but also as a popular skill learned across all ninja villages!
However, despite its frequent appearance and spectacular effect, it holds a record among all Naruto ninjutsu — zero kills!
Yes! The Fireball Technique is that legendary!
Not only has it never killed an enemy, it has never even hit a person! It's basically used as an opening animation to allow enemies to showcase dodging skills. It's quite embarrassing!
Even Chow Sing Chi's "Goodness Spear" in "Fight Back to School" managed to hit a target, but this Fireball Technique can't even compare. No wonder the system only gave it a base value of 10,000 fan points. Probably the lowest price it can assign...
Better just keep it in the inventory!
James felt a little stubborn in his heart. Should a protagonist like him really use such a useless ninjutsu? Although 10,000 fan points isn't a huge amount, it was earned painstakingly by him through diligent updates. Could he really waste it on this?
He decided to save it! Maybe next time he could draw the Rasengan or Chidori!
Robin, seeing James sulking, didn't understand what was wrong. He had been excited just moments ago but now looked dejected, as if hopeless about life.
Night quietly fell.
The City of Seven Waters welcomed a special guest. This man wore an iron mask, with two huge bone horns protruding like bull horns on both sides of his head. Two even larger ivory tusks slid down from his shoulders along his neck. In the night, he appeared cold and majestic! The man was extremely tall and muscular, like a huge ancient beast — the dreaded pirate from the New World, Captain Jack, one of the new commanders under the Beast Pirates' Kaido!
"Seriously! That captain made me do this kind of thing all the way from afar, and Shanks and his crew are still lurking nearby..." Jack complained but kept walking briskly. The night in the City of Seven Waters was peaceful as Jack arrived at 19 Rock Street and knocked on the door.
Knock knock knock! Knock knock knock!
Hearing the door knock at midnight, James got up from bed and walked out. Robin, disturbed from the next room, also rubbed his sleepy eyes and came out.
James still had some caution and peeked through the window crack. His eyes widened!
It was Drought Jack!
How could this guy come knocking on his door at midnight?
So damn scary!
James quickly ran upstairs: "Anywhere Door, to Mist Island!"
He opened the Anywhere Door, pushed Robin inside, and told him to wait on Mist Island, then quickly closed the door.
"Huh? The kid got to the door and went back?"