Chapter 112: Twin Vortex Water Severing Wave
Yoru returned to the lakeside.
Tobirama Senju was indeed a genius; the ninjutsu he created was so unique.
Common Water Style mainly focused on impact damage.
However, he, Tobirama Senju, researched a method similar to centrifugal pump rotation for pressurization, using chakra to increase water pressure and give the water stream an extremely high initial velocity.
But this was still not the extreme.
Yoru gained new inspiration; he could completely use two centrifugal pressurized water vortices to simulate gear pump pressurization.
In his previous life, the water pressure produced by gear pumps was much greater than that of centrifugal pumps.
Two gears rotated in opposite directions, with the meshing point of the gears rotating at high speed, continuously forming a vacuum to provide high water pressure.
After Yoru formed hand seals, a mouthful of water now gathered in his mouth.
Not much water was needed; it could be created as required.
Then, he slowly formed hand seals, forming two water vortices in his mouth.
One water vortex rotated to the left, the other to the right.
He controlled the two water vortices, slowly moving them toward the center.
When the two water vortices collided, they meshed in the middle, not only having the centrifugal water pressure from the water vortices themselves, but also the squeezing water pressure from the meshing of the water vortices.
Yoru felt the water pressure in his mouth increase instantly.
A stream of water sprayed out; this time, the water stream’s speed was even faster.
The water stream pierced the first tree and embedded into the trunk of the second tree.
By continuously maintaining chakra and slightly sweeping horizontally, the Water Severing Wave cut down two big trees.
Success!
He had slightly modified it, using the gear pump knowledge from his previous life, to obtain a more powerful Water Severing Wave.
He named this improved ninjutsu Water Style: Twin Vortex Water Severing Wave.
After practicing continuously more than a dozen times, Yoru became increasingly proficient.
He found a stone and used Water Severing Wave on it.
The stone was swiftly cut in half in front of the Water Severing Wave.
Such attack power would become Yoru’s strongest blade in actual combat, a sharp water blade.
The exploration of Water Severing Wave would stop here for now; next, he would spend a lot of time honing this ninjutsu.
Proficiency, chakra consumption, power enhancement, and so on, all required a long time.
There was also hand seal training; hand seals not only involved seals, but also practicing the corresponding chakra circulation to improve hand seal speed.
Yoru remembered that in the original story, Sage Fukasaku had once used a technique similar to Water Severing Wave to cut open Nagato’s summoning beast.
If he could reach that level of power, this technique would be extremely threatening.
Ultra-high speed and line-cutting ultra-large range made it sufficient as a signature ninjutsu for a jonin.
The afternoon of the second day, Yoru received a mission to be responsible for the security defense of the jonin meeting.
This was a particularly easy mission; there wouldn’t be spies launching an attack during a Konoha jonin gathering, right? With the entire venue full of jonin, that would be too stupid.
In the jonin meeting, Anbu mostly served as the Hokage’s backdrop, or helped the Hokage quickly pass orders or scrolls, and temporarily summon someone to speak at the jonin meeting.
On the second floor of the Hokage Building, aside from the jonin from the front line and Anbu, the remaining more than 90 jonin were all present.
Yoru stood in a corner of the meeting room, carrying out the boring guard mission.
Hiruzen Sarutobi, Danzo Shimura, and Koharu Utatane sat at the presidium in the front.
The jonin squad leader, Nara Clan Head Nara Shikaku, said:
“Everyone has heard that the Hidden Sand Village has declared war on Konoha. This jonin meeting mainly announces the allocation of personnel such as the commander-in-chief, deputy commander, and various squad captains for the Land of Rivers Battlefield…”
“Wait!”
Yoru heard a voice and immediately became alert.
Someone actually interrupted the jonin squad leader’s speech; what bold courage.
Seeing that it was Tsunade, Yoru wasn’t surprised.
Tsunade, sitting in the first row, stood up at this time and said:
“It’s not urgent to decide on the Land of Rivers Battlefield matters now; shouldn’t we first summarize the problems of the Land of Grass and Land of Rain battlefields?
So many Leaf Ninja died in the Land of Rain and Land of Grass; doesn’t anyone think we need reflection, that someone needs to take responsibility?”
Hearing Tsunade’s words, everyone looked toward the high-ranking officials on the presidium.
Yoru felt that Tsunade’s questioning had a lot of aura, but it was too reckless and might not form an effective attack on the high-ranking officials.
Sure enough, Nara Shikaku said:
“The sacrifices in the Land of Grass and Land of Rain pain the village greatly.
However, the battle report sent back by Commander-in-Chief Mito Mon’en shows that we have driven out the Stone Ninja from the Land of Grass and negotiated with the Daimyo of the Land of Grass on the guardian ninja quota.
In the future, the guardian ninja for the Daimyo of the Land of Grass will be provided by Konoha ninja.
Post-war, we will obtain a mission quota from the Land of Grass.
For the village, sacrifices are inevitable.”
What Nara Shikaku said was high-sounding; a single “for the village” could shut others up.
But Tsunade no longer believed these things now. Tsunade continued:
“I once proposed that each squad be equipped with a medical ninja.
As long as a squad has a medical ninja, the ninja mortality rate will drop greatly.
If you say it’s impossible to equip each squad with a medical ninja, then what about increasing the number of medical ninja?
As long as the number of medical ninja on the front line doubles, the ninja casualty rate will also drop greatly.
Such an obviously correct thing—why has the village always been unwilling to do it?
I have never hesitated to sacrifice for the village.
But everything has a limit; why can’t we do something to reduce sacrifices?”
Koharu Utatane, responsible for internal affairs, had to stand up and explain:
“Princess Tsunade, training a medical ninja requires a long time.
Basic anatomy, medical principles, medical ninjutsu—without five years, it’s impossible to train a genin into a qualified medical ninja.
Just the medical principle scrolls alone would fill a large cart.
The village knows the benefits of training medical ninja and is willing to reduce the ninja sacrifice rate, but the investment is too great, the cycle too long, and it can’t be achieved during wartime.
After this Ninja World War ends, I am willing to properly listen to your opinions.”
Koharu Utatane’s words didn’t spell it out, but everyone else understood the meaning.
To treat one wounded soldier required too many resources; compared to that, training more cannon fodder was obviously more cost-effective.
Treating genin as one-time cannon fodder and chunin as cannon fodder squad leaders made the war’s input-output ratio higher.
In the jonin class, most ninja clan jonin supported the village’s practices.
But those civilian jonin who had truly risked life and death on missions, groped out a combat system suited to themselves, and luckily been promoted, all showed sorrow on their faces.
At this moment, Senju Hanaki, the clan head of the Senju Clan, and also the director of Konoha Hospital, stood up.
Senju Hanaki said:
“Hokage, my Senju Clan still has 227 ninja.
I am willing to contribute the strength of the Senju Clan, letting them become the village’s medical ninja to treat the wounded.
The Senju Clan has special physiques; most have learned some medical ninjutsu, and there are already 112 medical ninja.
The remaining 114 ninja, Princess Tsunade and I are confident that within one month, at least 50 of them can become qualified medical ninja.”
All the jonin looked shocked at Senju Hanaki and Tsunade in the first row!
What was the Senju Clan doing?
They were using becoming medical ninja as an excuse to have most of the clan ninja withdraw from the combat sequence!
Withdraw from the front line, detach from combat, and fully enter the medical system?
The Senju Clan, to avoid giving others pretext, still left 64 combat ninja.
For the village, they invested resources to train medical ninja. For the village, they left 64 ninja on the front line.
No matter which aspect, it seemed impossible to say the Senju Clan was bad.
When a woman is in charge, she is indeed more realistic.
