Chapter 50: More effort, more reward

The Next Day...

"Pack your nutrient bar, Yomi. We're not coming back to eat."

"Really? Can't we just take some time off, even to eat?"

"No, it will break the flow and concentration. We can eat all we want after training is over. Now hurry up."

"Okay, coming."

They went straight to Training Area 33 at 3 AM. Since they had booked the area, they were the only ones there.

"Here's your soldier pill. Eat it and start your practice. You can call me if you have any problems, okay?"

"Yes," Yomi replied.

Kaida went to a different part of the training area and consumed his soldier pill.

'This is the same soldier pill that Yukihiro-sensei gave me, but I do wonder what the effect of a 50,000 Ryo soldier pill would be. Well, I can always find out in the future. Now, let's make as many shadow clones as I can.'

He started making shadow clones. When he made the 24th shadow clone, he felt like he could make more, so he made one more, and another, and another.

He made 27 shadow clones. In just one month, his chakra reserves had grown again. Happy with this discovery, Kaida started his training.

'Since I have two things to train, and we're going to train twice a month, let's focus on kenjutsu one time and ninjutsu the other time.'

Kaida sent one of his clones to look after Yomi. The remaining shadow clones were split into two groups: half used the transformation jutsu to transform into swords made of chakra metal, while the other half took the swords and started kenjutsu training.

Seeing that one shadow clone was without a partner, as there were 13 clones, Kaida dispersed that clone and made a new one with more chakra.

"You'll fight with two shadow clones at the same time so that we can gain experience in fighting multiple opponents."

"Okay."

Kaida didn't participate in the sparring himself. Instead, he decided to use this time differently.

He coated his whole body in chakra from head to foot and started increasing the weight of the seal. Every 10 minutes, he increased the weight by 10 kg while running simultaneously. When he reached 120 kg, he finally stopped and continued to exercise with that weight.

After 3 hours of continuous exercise, he lay on the ground and started circulating chakra in every part of his body while maintaining the chakra coating.

Since he had pushed his body far beyond its capability, he was sure that once he stopped the chakra coating and circulation, the pain would be unbearable.

Because of this, he continued his chakra coating and circulation for an hour straight. By now, all of his clones had been dispersed, some due to damage and others due to chakra exhaustion.

Kaida once again made 27 shadow clones, and they started their sparring session again, while Kaida resumed his weight training, this time with a weight of 130 kg. While Kaida was doing his torture-cum-training, his clones were sparring with each other, maintaining chakra flow in the swords.

Due to the lethality of the attacks in this state, a clone would be dispersed even with a scratch from the sword, even though shadow clones can usually take some damage unlike normal clones. So Kaida's clones instinctively began using a very advanced kenjutsu technique where you spread your chakra around you and feel through it, acting like a sixth sense.

Normally, a ninja has to master kenjutsu and become a good sensor ninja to learn this technique, but out of necessity, Kaida learned a tamer version of it.

Thanks to this, his clones were able to dodge most of the attacks, and Kaida's defense kept improving. For the full three days, Kaida repeated this same pattern.

When only 4 hours were left, Kaida stopped his training and focused on recovery. Since the damage was too much and he knew that after 4 hours he would be unable to do anything, he halted his training and focused entirely on healing.

He sent four shadow clones to make food for them.

…

When Yomi first started her training, she only did it because Kaida said so. She was satisfied with her growth. As they had to continuously go to the academy to take missions, Yomi found out that many of her previous classmates in the so-called elite class were still on the second part of their training, while she was already a genin.

But Kaida was never satisfied, so she decided to train with him. Aside from this, another reason she didn't want to train was that lightning jutsu was really hard.

She was only able to learn one lightning jutsu in three days, while the other four jutsus she learned were water jutsu. Her sensei told her that she had to master this jutsu first before moving on to other lightning jutsus.

This jutsu wasn't anything flashy, just throwing a spark from her hand. She could do that, but to master the jutsu, her attack had to travel more than 30 meters, and she could only reach 5 meters.

Yomi decided to focus on this jutsu first and learn other jutsu afterward. She could only make 14 shadow clones at most, but since she had to practice a jutsu that required a lot of chakra, she made 10 shadow clones and started practicing.

By the end of the three-day training, she was able to attack from 12 meters away, which was a major achievement. She decided to take this training seriously, as her daily training showed only fractional growth compared to this.

…

"Yomi, let's go. The three days are almost over," Kaida called to Yomi.

"Okay."

They both went back to their flat. After taking a much-needed bath… alone, they ate the meal already prepared by Kaida's clones. Up to this point, Kaida had not stopped circulating chakra, fully devoted to healing his body.

After eating, they went to sleep.

This time, Kaida slept for a full 24 hours. The exhaustion from such intense training was overwhelming. When he woke up, he stretched his body a little.

*Tat tat tat tat tatat*

A very relaxing sound of bone cracking came from every stretch. His body was so stiff after that torture-cum-exercise.

By the end of the three days, he was doing exercises while maintaining a weight of 230 kg. He decided to check whether it had any benefit or not, so he increased the weight of the seal from 0 to 35 kg and was able to move without much difficulty. Slowly, he increased the weight, and by the time he reached 180 kg, it became too difficult to move. Seeing the improvement, he was very satisfied.

He made 10 shadow clones to clean the house and cook food. After completing his bathroom routine and brushing his teeth, he went to the hall to eat breakfast and found Yomi already waiting at the dinner table.

"Good morning, Yomi."

"Good morning. Now hurry up; I'm dying of hunger here!"

"Hahaha, okay."

After that, they ate their breakfast in silence.

"So, was there any improvement after the training?" Kaida asked after eating.

"Yes, these training sessions are more useful than I initially thought. I think I'll master my lightning jutsu in the next two sessions."

"Oh! That's great." Since they had already done enough training, Kaida and Yomi skipped their morning exercise and went straight to take missions at 6 AM after resting some more.

That day, they completed 24 missions, followed by some light training, and then went to sleep.

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(A.N: Thanks for reading, finally half century is complete ^~^)