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Chapter 48: A-Rank Ninjutsu
Ronin reappeared on the roof of a residential building.
The lightning around him shattered and vanished with a snap. Heavy breaths escaped his lips.
Omokage had indeed laid a heavy ambush, but from the contact, Ronin noticed there were no signs of other Phantom Troupe members.
Is he alone?
Ronin took out the preservation jar from his backpack.
He removed the Scarlet Eyes from the Nobunaga doll's head. He felt the distinct resonance—these weren't copies made by Kortopi.
Ronin used the Transformation Technique, secured the eyes, and returned to the hotel downstairs. He finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He told Kurapika what he found and took out the Scarlet Eyes.
Seeing the eyes in the jar, Kurapika froze. His own eyes turned as scarlet as the ones in the glass.
Ronin sighed. He didn't absorb them immediately. Instead, he gave Kurapika some time alone with the eyes.
Ronin entered a state of Zetsu to recover his stamina quickly.
His mind raced, thinking about the church.
Kurapika didn't stay in the room for long. Shortly after Ronin closed his eyes, Kurapika came out with the Scarlet Eyes.
His eyes were still slightly red.
Not the scarlet of the Kurta state, but the redness of having cried.
"Here, Big Brother Ronin!" Kurapika handed the eyes to Ronin solemnly. "We have more important things to do. Increase your strength quickly so we have a better chance at revenge!"
Ronin took the eyes. He didn't go hide to absorb them. Right in front of Kurapika, he hugged the jar and injected his Nen.
Upon contact with Ronin's Nen, the eyes in the jar seemed to respond to a summons, melting into a bright red stream of warmth visible even to the non-Nen user Kurapika.
The warmth flowed along Ronin's aura into his body, gathering at his eyes.
Ronin's aura receded, but the red warmth continued to flow. His pitch-black eyes changed unknowingly.
They turned scarlet, revealing two tomoe distinct from the Kurta eyes.
Then, under Kurapika's gaze, the tomoe spun. Slowly, a third tomoe formed in Ronin's eyes.
When the red stream disappeared, Ronin's eyes had completely stabilized into the Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
Kurapika watched the whole process. Big Brother Ronin didn't lie. Perhaps because he was there during the massacre, the clan entrusted their hope to him!
This time, Kurapika didn't cry. He just looked at Ronin with complex emotions.
The aura boost didn't double this time.
Based on Milia's calculation method, Ronin estimated the boost from the Scarlet Eyes was around 5,000.
It seemed this was the maximum yield a pair of eyes could provide. Fusing more eyes likely wouldn't result in exponential growth anymore.
Excluding Ronin and Kurapika, 32 pairs of Scarlet Eyes remained. If each gave 5,000, fusing them all would provide 160,000 aura.
And that was just from the eyes.
He would continue to train. Since he was still in a rapid growth phase, Ronin looked forward to seeing how high his aura capacity would go.
For now, after fusing the new eyes, his total capacity reached nearly 15,000.
He could cast B-Rank Ninjutsu with more ease. As for A-Rank...
Ronin didn't deactivate the Sharingan. He raised his hand, forming seals. Green Chakra quickly appeared on his palm.
Mystical Palm Technique.
An A-Rank Medical Ninjutsu. High consumption, high difficulty, extreme healing capability for both internal and external injuries!
Just by fusing the third pair of eyes, he unlocked A-Rank Ninjutsu this easily.
It felt almost unreal.
If the third pair unlocked A-Rank, would the fourth unlock S-Rank? And what comes after S-Rank?
Ronin couldn't imagine it yet, but he would find out as he continued to fuse them.
Now, he needed to consider which A-Rank Jutsu were available.
The most useful one for the current situation was the sensory Jutsu he had thought about before.
The Telescope Technique used by the Third Hokage to watch Naruto.
However, to use it, he needed a crystal ball. Department stores sold those.
The other condition was knowing the target's Chakra signature.
Fortunately, Ronin had come into contact with Omokage's Nen when he took the Nobunaga doll's head.
Ronin told Kurapika he was going out, transformed, and left the hotel.
As the difficulty of combat Ninjutsu increased, so did the consumption.
Many A-Rank Jutsu were hard to cast even if unlocked. He might not be able to achieve the desired effect.
Aura capacity.
It always came back to aura capacity.
If he could unlock S-Rank Ninjutsu, he would unlock Tsunade's Strength of a Hundred Seal (Yin Seal).
That technique, which stored Chakra for later release, was a godsend for him.
Especially since Tsunade developed the Creation Rebirth and Strength of a Hundred Technique—S-Rank Kinjutsu perfectly suited for the Yin Seal.
Buying a crystal ball from a department store, Ronin returned quickly.
When he cast the Telescope Technique, the crystal ball displayed the surrounding area.
Ronin manipulated the image, moving it slowly. Soon, he found traces of the dolls at the battle site.
However, trying to track them, Ronin discovered that his current proficiency only allowed the crystal ball to show a one-kilometer radius.
The church was about three kilometers away.
"We need to move," Ronin put away the crystal ball.
Kurapika grabbed the sleepy, oblivious Neon.
The three went downstairs and got into a second-hand car Ronin had bought. They drove slowly toward the church.
Neon stared out the window. She had lost the desire to escape.
That morning, she saw a news report about herself.
It covered the kidnapping. Her father, Light Nostrade, dismissed it completely, busy with social events.
The photo showed him arm-in-arm with a woman barely older than Neon, entering a high-end venue, laughing.
Clearly, her father had abandoned her as a burden.
In that case, she might as well stick with Ronin. If they died because of her prophecy, she could die with them. Not a bad end.
After all, he gave her a pretty nice collectible.
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