It's like how boys in the Academy always admire beautiful kunoichi, just as girls can't help but like cool and handsome shinobi!
So
After seeing a tall, silver-haired, incredibly handsome "teacher" suddenly stride into the classroom…
All the girls of Class 7 immediately let out a collective scream!
However, what these little girls didn't know was that
This breathtakingly handsome man standing before them at this moment…
Was actually a forty-something, shiny-headed middle-aged jonin in disguise!
Yes!
The handsome man in front of them had been created through Gabai's Henge no Jutsu the Transformation Technique!
As for choosing to transform into a ridiculously handsome guy… That was Chiye's suggestion from the start.
You see, before Chiye crossed over into this world, he had spent more than ten years stuck in school life.
So he understood students extremely well,
And could easily grasp the mindset of kids their age.
He knew that the Academy's endless chakra theory classes and basic kunai lectures were extremely boring for children.
But if the teacher's teaching style stood out or the teacher happened to be unbelievably good-looking
Then the students would naturally be far more motivated.
For example, back when he was a student, he especially loved attending the classes taught by the beautiful female teachers!
"Wow! What a handsome sensei~"
"I'm weak to silver-haired types, okay?!"
"Look at his legs! They're ridiculously long!"
"I finally understand what those novels mean by 'legs starting from the neck'!"
"I seriously can't wait to hear him teach!!"
"..."
The girls were already drowning in their own daydreams.
Uchiha Mitsuki quietly let out a breath of relief.
She thought to herself that it was lucky this new teacher entered when he did
Otherwise she really might have embarrassed herself earlier.
At this moment, Gabriel walked up to the podium and performed a Kuchiyose summoning, bringing out a wooden puppet similar to the puppets used by Sunagakure shinobi.
The chakra threads in his fingers extended and connected to the puppet.
Then, under his expert control, the puppet instantly began to move.
"Woooaaahhhh~~~!"
Seeing a lifeless puppet suddenly shifting on its own, the students gasped in amazement!!
Even Sasuke, who rarely reacted to anything, stretched his neck and stared with genuine curiosity.
"Simply put, the technique of controlling a puppet in battle is known as Puppetry, or Kugutsu no Jutsu."
"Its purpose is to let the puppet fight in place of your actual body!"
"One of its greatest advantages is being completely unaffected by poison used by the enemy!"
"Poison blades, poison gas, poison mist none of that matters!"
"Furthermore, puppetry specializes in long-range combat, so you can maintain a safe distance while attacking."
"And if necessary, you can even abandon the puppet to escape with your life!"
After hearing Gabriel's explanation, the students once again erupted into impressed whispers!
"So then"
Gabriel dismissed the puppet, glanced over the classroom with a smile, and said, "Which student would like to learn this technique from me?"
"Me me me!!"
"I want to learn too!!"
"Sensei, teach me!!"
"..."
Hands shot up everywhere!
Seeing the students fight to sign up, Gabriel felt secretly proud, thinking to himself: What does it matter if this is only an elective course? I still ended up attracting just as many students as those core classes!
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Last night, Thousand Nights informed Gabriel that his puppetry would be categorized only as an elective course.
Gabriel instantly became unhappy!
Why?!
How could Silent Killing, used famously by the Hidden Mist's assassination units and even recorded in the Bingo Book, qualify as a main course, But his carefully refined Kugutsu no Jutsu, the same art that made Sunagakure's Chiyo and the Third Kazekage famous, was relegated to an elective?
He was completely unconvinced!
So at dawn, before the other instructors even arrived, he rushed straight to the Academy classroom to recruit students for his elective course!
It wasn't that Thousand Nights looked down on puppet techniques.
Rather, students only had so much chakra and stamina in a single day.
There's a limit to what a young genin-candidate can realistically learn!
If an additional full course were forced into the curriculum, the drawbacks would outweigh the benefits.
Considering that Silent Killing, with its reliance on sensory awareness and basic chakra control, was more universal and easier to teach than Kugutsu techniques which required precise chakra thread manipulation and years of practice even in Sunagakure only a minority mastered it, and even fewer reached true proficiency
Thousand Nights could only decide to designate puppetry as an optional course.
The goal was for students to understand puppet techniques, not to pressure them into mastery.
In this way
In the future, if they encountered a puppet user like those from the Sand, they wouldn't freeze in confusion just because it was their first time seeing such combat!
Just as the classroom atmosphere was heating up with enthusiastic sign-ups, suddenly a cold voice cut through the noise.
"If I'm not mistaken, the first period belongs to me."
A grim figure stepped into the room.
The man moved like a shadow of ice, eyes sharp and emotionless, and even the chakra leaking from his body felt cold.
The temperature in the entire classroom seemed to drop several degrees at his arrival!
The students immediately fell silent!
Seeing who it was, Gabriel forced an awkward smile and said, "I merely wanted to greet my adorable new students ahead of schedule. Since you're here, I'll take my leave."
When he reached the doorway, he paused and added,
"Any students who wish to learn puppetry can stay after class and wait for me."
Then he departed.
The cold man stepped onto the podium, sweeping his gaze across the students, who were now too intimidated to breathe loudly. He said in an icy tone, "I am Tōge, and I will be teaching you Water Release and the principles of Silent Killing."
This so-called Tōge was, in truth, Momochi Zabuza, the Demon of the Hidden Mist himself.
Because his real name remained on the official Hunter-nin wanted list, he naturally couldn't reveal his identity, and thus had chosen an alias.
"Tōge? Even the name sounds dangerous…"
"And he looks so scary…"
"I already miss the silver-haired teacher from before…"
"Me too…"
The students whispered nervously.
"In addition," Zabuza declared loudly, "a new student will be joining the class."
At that moment, a thin, quiet figure stepped slowly into the room…
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