Chapter 167 - 167 (1/2)

”Kurama! What's wrong? Did his operation fail?” Kushina was worried about Ryo who had been acting so unusually, as asked Kurama about it.

”Haha! Kushina, don't worry, that kid fine!” Hearing Kurama's answer, Kushina immediately was much more at ease.

”This kid should remain in this state for several days. I don't know how he made his cells so full of vitality, but I know that my Chakra was part of that. To maintain this state, he needs to replenish his energy from the outside world.”

”How would he sustain this style of eating from now on? I can't even help him much with buying Ramen!” Kushina reached for wallet and felt a little distressed.

”No don't worry! After he gets enough energy, he won't need to each so much. Think about yourself, you also have so much vitality. Do you need to eat so much?”

”That's good!” Kushina sighed with relief.

Just like Kurama mentioned, Ryo kept these eating habits for the following two days.

After two days of mad eating, Ryo took a lot of energy from the food and his body began to stabilize. On the 3rd day, his food intake was restored to a normal rate. Still, he was eating so much more than he used to.

Two days later, Ryo's body became gradually accustomed to its cellular modifications. The enormous vitality within his cells began to stimulate his body in other ways.

The most obvious change was the amounts of Chakra within his body; Ryo could clearly sense that it had increased by a bit.

This was an unexpected harvest for Ryo. However, this growth in Chakra was rather inevitable. After all, Chakra is merging of physical energy that' harvested from the trillions of cells that one has in his body, and the spiritual energy that's derived from the mind's consciousness.

Ryo did not have any genetic rearrangement that's related to Chakra, but a cell that's fuller of vitality could exert more Physical Energy than an ordinary cell.

Moreover, Ryo also enhanced Mental Strength by the opening of his Mangekyo. These two factors together led to the increase in his Chakra stores.

Ryo thought that if his Chakra was to keep increasing at such a pace, he would reach Kage tier without the Ice Lightning Chakra Mode or Sage Mode.

But after a few days, his Chakra stores stopped growing, making him feel a little down.

Over the next following days, Ryo was mainly molding Chakra and practicing, not giving any attention to the outside world. That was at least until Kogin flew in hurriedly.

”Ryo, why are you still here? Ne san and everyone went to the gate of the village! Hurry up!” Kogin said while flying over Ryo's shoulders.

Ryo hadn't been out, but from Kogin's words he was able to guess what was going on: The heroes from the Battle of Kannabi Bridge are coming back.

Just thinking of the battle made Ryo feel smothered. All he could think about was the life and death of Obito.

His thoughts went into chaos, and he had to take a deep breath to calm himself down, and then used Ice Elementization and teleported to Kushina.

After Ryo appeared, he didn't chat with the two much. He just said hello and stood beside them.

Kushina and Shisui looked at each other, both sensing that there was something wrong with Ryo.

Kushina nodded to Shisui, trying to get him to ask Ryo about what's wrong. But since he felt that his Sensei wasn't having a good mood, Shisui didn't want to bother him.

However, Kushina was persistent, and started looking angry. Shisui could only helplessly ask: ”Sensei, what's wrong?”

Ryo shook his head and did not speak. He was now confused and disturbed and did not want to answer.