After a "deeply etched" romance, Uchiha En "bravely endured his grief" and opened his panel, adding one of the two newly acquired attribute points to Chakra volume and the other to Eye power.
Now, Uchiha En's panel looked like this:
Chakra Volume: 78
Physique: 34
Eye power: 78
Vitality: 7
Nature Affinity: 4
Level: Lv15 (1/20)
Attribute Points: 0
Previously, Uchiha En had tried adding a point to Nature Affinity after his Eye power and Chakra volume were equal.
However, after adding the point, Uchiha En didn't feel any obvious changes.
So he simply gave up on adding points to Nature Affinity and continued to focus on Eye power and Chakra.
After adding these two attribute points, Uchiha En noticed that his level had reached 15, and he casually clicked on "Extract" below.
A purple box appeared in Uchiha En's hand.
Uchiha En was stunned. So there were special rewards every 5 levels?
Uchiha En quickly opened the box, which contained a card voucher.
Uchiha En touched the card voucher, and its information immediately appeared in his mind:
Item Name: [Random Attribute Point Increase Voucher]
Item Type: Buff Item.
Item Effect: After use, you can randomly gain 1 to 99 attribute points.
Friendly Reminder: This card voucher is absolutely open, fair, and transparent. There is no fraud, and the number of points obtained is completely random.
After reading this friendly reminder, Uchiha En's mouth twitched. The more he looked at it, the more it resembled the routine of Goose Factory.
Open, fair, and transparent—didn't these three words practically mean a guaranteed minimum?
"Please don't be 1 point, please don't be 1 point, please don't be 1 point." Uchiha En silently chanted three times in his heart before opening the card voucher.
The attribute points column on his panel changed from 0 to 2.
Uchiha En was speechless. It really wasn't a minimum guarantee, but why did it feel no different from one?
Uchiha En casually added these two attribute points to Chakra and Eye power, then closed the panel, out of sight, out of mind.
The next day, Uchiha En woke up early and went to the riverbank.
Now, with only a week left until their graduation, Hyuga Asana came to the riverbank to train every morning. Uchiha En also changed his training time, coming early every day to train with Hyuga Asana.
Perhaps because there were too many things to do! The Third Hokage never spied on Uchiha En again, and with no one watching, Uchiha En and Hyuga Asana could train more freely.
Their training primarily involved sparring. Uchiha En's progress was very fast due to his cheat, but even so, Hyuga Asana hadn't fallen behind much.
The most outrageous thing was that Hyuga Asana actually comprehended Rotation on her own, just like Hyuga Neji in the original work.
Although Hyuga Asana's Rotation hadn't reached 100% absolute defense, her talent, demonstrated by comprehending it without any guidance, should be considered a once-in-a-century genius within the Hyuga Clan.
And when Hyuga Asana used Rotation, Uchiha En was unable to defeat her.
"Let's stop here for today! I can't break your Rotation." Uchiha En said, wiping sweat as he slumped to the ground.
Upon hearing this, Hyuga Asana dispersed her Rotation, then, just like Uchiha En, slumped to the ground without any regard for her image.
She slowly untied the gauze and wiped her sweat-soaked forehead with a handkerchief.
Uchiha En looked at Hyuga Asana and fell into thought. Why would a genius like Hyuga Asana be completely unknown in the original work?
Uchiha En had thought about this question long ago, and many answers came to his mind. The most reasonable explanation was related to Orochimaru.
Uchiha En felt that if he hadn't transmigrated, the original Uchiha En would have probably been directly defeated (GG) due to being unable to withstand the powerful Chakra impact when his Sharingan awakened.
Hyuga Asana would have lost Uchiha En, her only friend. Her father and brother would not dare to resist the Main Family and would only teach her to blindly obey. She could only place all her emotional reliance on Orochimaru.
She would selectively ignore all unreasonable aspects, willingly be brainwashed by Orochimaru, and then follow Orochimaru down a dark path.
When Orochimaru defected, Hyuga Asana would be deeply entangled with him, and given Konoha's higher-ups' consistent style, Hyuga Asana would undoubtedly die.
Even if she hid well and wasn't discovered by Konoha, Hyuga Asana, having lost her emotional reliance again, would likely choose suicide or simply give up, eventually becoming ordinary.
To prevent Hyuga Asana from reaching such an end, Uchiha En had recently been deliberately guiding her to draw a clear line with Orochimaru.
Hyuga Asana wasn't foolish; she understood that Uchiha En didn't want her to interact much with Orochimaru, and she had also carefully recalled her few encounters with Orochimaru during this time.
The more Hyuga Asana thought about it, the more she felt that Orochimaru was approaching her with some kind of ulterior motive.
Before, Hyuga Asana had selectively ignored these things.
Because she always remembered a sentence Orochimaru said during their second meeting: "What beautiful eyes! It's a pity they've been tainted by something filthy. I truly hope to see you, Asana, completely unbound one day."
Hyuga Asana was deeply moved by Orochimaru's words. She believed that Lord Orochimaru, as one of the Sannin, might be able to break the Caged Bird Seal.
Even if he couldn't break it, Lord Orochimaru was a strong candidate for the next Hokage. Once he became Hokage, he could use the Hokage's authority to help her remove the Caged Bird Seal.
But now, Hyuga Asana was gradually sobering up. She had heard things from Uchiha En that were completely different from her past understanding.
The relationship between the Village and the clans was not that simple. Even if Orochimaru became Hokage, he would not help her remove the Caged Bird Seal.
"The structure of the Caged Bird Seal is truly peculiar!" Uchiha En's words interrupted Hyuga Asana's thoughts.
Only then did Hyuga Asana realize that Uchiha En was looking at the Caged Bird Seal mark on her forehead with his Sharingan activated.
"Don't look! It's ugly!" Hyuga Asana said, about to wrap gauze around her forehead.
Uchiha En saw this and grabbed her hand: "Asana, let me look again. I want to help you break the Caged Bird Seal."
Hyuga Asana looked up at Uchiha En upon hearing this. In those scarlet Sharingan, Hyuga Asana saw not a trace of pity, nor mockery, but only seriousness.
She slowly lowered her hand, her white eyes seemingly tinged with red. She took a deep breath and asked in a slightly trembling voice, "En, don't you think it's ugly?"
"Of course it's ugly! But precisely because it's ugly, I won't let it remain on you. I will do everything in my power to break the Caged Bird Seal."