Chapter 20: Chapter 20: Illiteracy is Not Worthy of Being Hokage!
That afternoon at Ichiraku Ramen Shop, Sasuke treated Naruto to ramen and also ordered a bowl of tomato and egg noodles for himself, which left Naruto stunned by his generosity.
["I won't accept charity from others!" He wanted to say that, but Sasuke was too generous and treated him to the Ichiraku ramen that he coveted the most.]
[Money is always like this. If you have it from the beginning, you won't feel much advantage. You will only know the happiness of having it after you lose it. The greatest sorrow in the world is that it is difficult to recover after losing it.]
[The cub host saved part of his parents' inheritance from home in advance, so he was not short of funds. After seeing the embarrassment of another orphan, he realized the importance of money.]
[When you have enough money, you can treat people to food and drinks, and you can serve the best food without worrying about eating too much at one meal. Where will the next meal come from?]
[From daily food, clothing, housing, and transportation, to the maintenance of medicinal materials related to cultivation, equipment manufacturing, and even the maintenance of special training grounds, sufficient funds are needed, and going to the hospital also costs money.]
[As an orphan, Naruto's food, clothing, housing, and transportation are naturally subsidized by money, but if he wants to go further, he will be a little poor, but sometimes that little bit of happiness is needed. This time and this food are needed. After this time point, it is difficult to get the same happiness again.]
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Sasuke slowly ate the ramen that suited his taste, while skipping and blocking the unimportant information, mainly looking up the content he wanted to see, and gradually understood the importance of money.
"If I didn't take some of the inheritance from home in time, would I live a poorer life than now?"
Sasuke looked at Naruto's condition and found that he was indeed a little embarrassed in terms of material.
But if you don't covet luxury, or even progress, and just live in poverty, it's not bad.
The most basic guarantee of food, clothing, housing, and transportation is definitely no problem.
But...
Whether it is to improve one's own seriousness or improve one's own strength, it will be better if it is more efficient and convenient.
Carefully calculating the problem of clothes and food that he currently solves with money, if there is no inheritance, he can survive by using the subsidy to deal with it himself, but it will indeed waste a lot of time.
According to the system, even if he cooks normally, the energy and time consumed will be deducted from the practice.
However, as a student, a student who has not started working yet, his money is constantly decreasing.
What should he do after graduating from the ninja academy?
Next to him, the projected white kitten seemed to be a living, self-conscious creature, communicating with him as his companion and comforting Sasuke's emotions.
On the other side, Naruto was enjoying his meal halfway through. Seeing Sasuke was very quiet, he wanted to speak but didn't know what to say.
After finishing the ramen, he finally mustered up the courage to say, "Thank you, Sasuke, you're the first to treat me to dinner.
"Anyway..."
"Don't worry too much, it won't cost much anyway. If you pass all the subjects, I think Iruka-sensei will treat you to ramen for a month."
Sasuke finally spoke, speaking slowly, "Like I told you before, this is a partial recognition of your perseverance, but it may also be pure recklessness.
"Your challenge today consumed much more energy than you think. If you don't eat enough, you can't support this consumption at all. Pay attention to this aspect in the future."
"But your efficiency in learning the common sense of ninjutsu class, chakra training, and actual combat exercises is too slow. As a challenge, I doubt whether you are just talking about it."
Naruto shook his head: "Of course not, I am working hard to defeat you!"
"I have excellent grades in all subjects, and my average score drops to barely qualified. Your way to defeat me is to drag me down?"
Sasuke asked faintly.
Naruto really didn't have much chance to annoy him in the past month, but the effect of his improved grades was that Iruka's slamming of the table was reduced.
Naruto blushed immediately: "I just failed temporarily! As a man who will become Hokage in the future, I have to protect the daimyo and the princess and fight against the most powerful evil ninja..."
Sasuke caught the key words and said: "Future Hokage?"
"Yes! I want to be the future Hokage!"
Naruto imagined a bright future.
In response, Sasuke read the narration on Naruto's face: "If you want to become a Hokage, you need to have a deep enough understanding of the situation of the entire village, and at the same time have a considerable level of knowledge reserves, and have sufficient diplomatic experience. Ninjutsu, illusion, and physical skills are just the foundation."
"You need to be able to coordinate all parties internally and work together. You need to be good at making friends with people far away and attacking those near. You need to solve the historical problems left over from the past of the village, solve the current public opinion problems now, and have a far-sighted vision for the future, solve the ideological problems of our village, and the future strategic policy problems, and even the final specific tactical execution plan—"
"Are you confident that you can meet the corresponding conditions in the future?"
Naruto: "Ah? Do you need to know so many things to be a Hokage?"
He just felt a headache at the moment.
The things Sasuke said, just taking them apart gave him a splitting headache, and listening to them together was almost like a heavenly book.
He even didn't remember anything because he didn't understand them.
Seeing his confused look, Sasuke knew that Naruto was confused about who he was and what he was doing, and he understood it.
Because he was just talking to the narrator. After seeing this guy talking about his dream, the narrator also expanded on the basic requirements for being a good Hokage, and a lot of information was beyond his scope.
But it didn't matter, he just knew more than the other party.
When Naruto was confused and suffering, while frowning, Sasuke added: "If you want to be a good Hokage, getting rid of the label of a poor student is a necessary condition. An illiterate person cannot become a Hokage. Even if you have a chance with this condition, are you going to hold the whole village back?"
"I don't want to hold back! But... can't you really become a Hokage if your grades are not up to standard?"
Naruto looked extremely conflicted.
He had set up the dream of becoming a Hokage. He originally thought that he would try his best to make himself look powerful, but he didn't expect that he would have to get rid of his illiterate identity.
Sasuke said calmly: "It will be fine if you get rid of your illiterate identity. If you don't understand something, go and ask Iruka-sensei. As long as you harass him enough times, you can naturally make up for these basics."
"Ask Iruka-sensei? But I always make him angry."
Naruto was a little hesitant about this.
"Then give him a passing grade as a reward!" Sasuke stood up and said in an unquestionable tone, "If you really want to challenge me, at least don't stand in front of me with such a bad grade.
"Do you think that being the top student in the grade only means being the best fighter? Of course, I don't deny that I am much stronger than you, but my grades in other subjects are also excellent. In short, I have the potential to become a Hokage. What do you think?"
After finishing the ramen, Naruto, who had rarely eaten ramen, felt mixed emotions, and the happiness of eating ramen was greatly reduced.
Sasuke regained his peace.
After mastering the alternative mind-reading technique, he found that he had a proper plan to deal with the troublesome person who had been a hindrance in the past.
In the future, as long as he didn't want to be harassed by the other party, he could send out this killer.
If he wanted to get rid of his status as a poor student, Naruto had to ask Iruka for advice. This was an extremely painful daily routine for both the teacher and the student.
This stems from the village's own education problem, but after the problem was thrown to the ninja teacher, he was not in trouble, so he didn't have to worry too much.
Those things that need to be considered to become Hokage, and even the problems of this ninja academy.
For the time being, they were all left behind by Sasuke.
After finishing the daily courses in the ninja academy and making sure that his body was not wasted in the practical class, Sasuke rushed to the training ground near his family land with excitement.
That day, after Naruto returned home, he took out the basic chakra textbook again, understood the composition information of chakra, and tried to understand and recite it until that night.
It's not that he learned it later, but it was time to go to bed.
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