vncnus Chapter 23 Surrender
Chapter 23 Surrender
"football?"
Upon hearing Uchiha Ike's answer, Uchiha Obito couldn't help but raise his voice.
Shortly after Uchiha Ike entered the alley, the sounds of punches and kicks could be heard from inside.
After thinking for a while with his extraordinary wisdom, Obito concluded that Uchiha Ike must have been attacked, so he followed him with great interest.
Then he discovered that Uchiha Ike wasn't the one who got beaten up.
But it was the one who hit someone...
Just as he was about to get closer to see who had been hit, Uchiha Ike suddenly turned around and looked over!
Obito panicked instantly, turned around, and ran away.
He had barely returned to the alleyway when he saw a white blur fly out of the alley at lightning speed, tracing a graceful arc in the sky.
That's clearly the person Uchiha Ike was beating up earlier.
Uchiha Ike then said that it was a soccer ball?!
"That's right, it's football."
Uchiha Ike said with a straight face, "Don't you know that soccer balls are white?"
"Of course I know!" Obito, immediately jumping up and down in retort when questioned, said, "Soccer balls aren't pure white; they have other elements to contrast them with..."
He had heard Lin say that many people in the capital of the Land of Fire enjoyed playing football.
So he went to the bookstore to look at related magazines so that he could show Lin his extensive knowledge the next time they talked about this.
Uchiha Ike glanced at Obito and nodded in surprise, saying, "I didn't expect you to be so knowledgeable."
Obito crossed his arms and raised his chin: "Of course."
He was completely unaware that he had mistaken the white afterimage, which was definitely not a football, for a football.
"Well then, Obito-kun," Uchiha Ike shrugged, spread his hands, and asked, "Is there anything else? If not, I'll go back and rest."
Obito Uchiha was slightly taken aback.
He glanced down at the plan sheet on his palm, and this time he remembered why he had come.
He wanted to beat this ramen noodle guy to a pulp, make him apologize to Lin, and then disappear from his and Lin's world forever!
"I challenge you to a ninja duel!"
After his emotions had been building up, Obito pointed at Uchiha Ike and said angrily.
"What if you win?" Uchiha Ike didn't ask why, but directly inquired about the significance of this duel.
Without hesitation, Obito said, "I want you to apologize to Rin and disappear from our world forever!"
"So that's how it is." Uchiha Ike suddenly realized.
So you've been waiting here all this time just for this?
Uchiha Ike silently gave Obito a thumbs up in his heart.
You are this!
When it comes to simps, I, Uchiha Ichi, would call you the strongest!
"That's it." Obito nodded with his eyes closed. "You'd better surrender right now, otherwise, hehe..."
Just as he was imagining that he would beat Uchiha Ike badly,
"surrender."
"what?"
[Obito Uchiha's emotional fluctuations detected!]
[Gain 15 points and increase damage by 3%!]
Looking at the bright blue text that popped up, Uchiha Ike's lips curled into a smile.
Wow, that's an exaggeration! You can even earn points for this?
"Surrender?" Obito, having regained his senses, looked at Uchiha Ike with a question mark on his face.
Uchiha Ike didn't speak, but merely glanced at Obito indifferently.
Obito has only recently graduated and is currently at the level of an ordinary genin.
Therefore, after this period of excavation, Uchiha Ike felt that Obito's mine was almost fully mined.
After all, he has already obtained the most useful space-time talent. Now, Obito probably only has his Sharingan talent left that is still worth mentioning.
But opening one's eyes is destined to be painful, and it will also affect one's personality.
He, Uchiha Ike, already has a cheat code; he can directly use points to upgrade his Sharingan. Why should he endure this pain?
Of course, even the smallest mosquito is still meat, and Uchiha Ike wouldn't let go of what he could get from Obito.
However, compared to such a boring duel, the appropriate actions taken after surrendering can actually make the originally mediocre gains more substantial.
"That's right." Uchiha Ike raised his hands above his head: "I'll go apologize to Nohara Rin tomorrow."
Obito froze, then instinctively asked, "Why?"
"Because Rin is really upset because of me," Uchiha Ike said. "No matter how much I deny it, I can't change that."
He then looked at Obito and asked, "If you were the one who hurt Rin, would you apologize?"
"I...of course I can."
Obito's tone was urgent and rapid, as if he had already considered this question in his mind, and more than once:
"If it were me, I would apologize immediately until Lin smiled!"
Uchiha Ike nodded.
"Although I was rejected, the feelings in my heart cannot be erased in just a few days. Hearing that Lin is so sad now, I naturally feel sad too."
"So," he looked earnestly at Obito, "I will definitely apologize, Obito."
Meeting Uchiha Ike's gaze, Obito awkwardly turned his head to the side, staggering as he replied, "W-Is that so...?"
He felt a little awkward under Uchiha Ike's gaze, because apart from his grandmother and Rin, no one had ever looked at him with such sincerity.
However, while feeling lost, Obito's body gradually relaxed.
His score in the Ninja Academy exam was slightly better than Uchiha Ike's, so theoretically he should be able to defeat Uchiha Ike.
But after seeing Uchiha Ike's terrifying aura as he beat people up in the alley, he actually felt a little uneasy.
Although Obito eventually proposed a duel, it was entirely because of Rin's presence.
To make Rin happy, he was willing to risk his life to make Uchiha Ike apologize to Rin!
He did fantasize that Uchiha Ike would surrender immediately, and then Rin would only have eyes for him, and the two of them would fall in love.
But he never expected that his fantasy would actually come true...
and many more.
Obito Uchiha's expression froze, and his brain suddenly began to work at lightning speed.
Since the first part of the statement has already been fulfilled, doesn't that mean...?
Obito Uchiha could no longer hide his smile, and the corners of his mouth turned up wildly.
The second half of the sentence also implies that marriage is predestined!
"..."
Looking at Obito Uchiha's radiant smile, as bright as a chrysanthemum.
Uchiha Ike's cheek twitched slightly.
Why are you daydreaming again?
Do we really need to go down like this?
But that's alright.
The more exquisite the house built on fantasy, the more it will turn into a heavy stone slab when it crumbles, suffocating the people inside into despair.
Uchiha Ike was looking forward to that moment.
"Obito, I've said it once before, but I still want to say it..."
He stepped forward, patted Obito's arm hard, and sincerely wished, "Please, you must make Rin happy!"
Obito clenched his fist and nodded emphatically:
"Don't worry, I will definitely make Lin happy!"