Magnetic Storm

Satoru gazed at the disheartened Obito, silently thinking, "Obito, you can't blame me for this."

"Only you never fail to do something foolish, which doesn't surprise anyone. You are the best subject for experiments, and besides, I'm just trying to motivate you to study and not get lost in early romance, it's for your own good.

Through the interference experiments with the shurikens, I found that I have some control even over high-speed flying shuriken. From now on, these shinobi tools pose no significant threat to me.

Watching Obito dancing around with excitement, Daiki sighed and scratched his Mediterranean-like hair, giving him a headache.

"How did the Uchiha end up with such an eccentric?"

"Well, forget it. Next, Hyuga Iruha."

In the crowd, a boy with a bandage wrapped around his forehead and pure white eyes stepped forward and threw some shuriken.

"10 points, 9 points, 10 points..."

"Amazing! Just slightly behind Kakashi's score."

"Of course, he's from the Hyuga clan."

"Why is there a bandage on his forehead?" someone asked in a hushed voice.

"Shh! Don't you know? It's the Hyuga clan's..."

Iruha's face turned cold, and he instinctively clenched his fists as he returned to his position.

Daiki nodded in satisfaction. After observing these few days, he realized that Iruha, although not the most talented, was undoubtedly the most hardworking one. For the Hyuga branch, diligence and hard work were their only way out.

"Next, Hyuga Satoru."

Satoru stepped forward, taking several shuriken in his hands.

"7 points, 7 points, 7 points... 10 points."

After several 7-point throws, he barely managed to hit a 10-point target.

The crowd whispered to each other.

"Although they are both from the Hyuga family, it seems like Satoru is quite inferior to Iruha! The gap with Kakashi is even wider."

"Yeah, not everyone is a genius, after all."

Satoru remained expressionless. He didn't want to reveal his electromagnetic powers so soon, as it better suited his image of being an inconspicuous member of the Hyuga family.

After observing Satoru's performance, Iruha withdrew his gaze. Although they were both from the Hyuga family, they had little interaction in normal times, and Satoru's abilities weren't worth his attention.

However, Rin suddenly looked at Satoru's target with a glint in her eyes. She noticed that the shuriken's positions formed a hexagram with the center.

A coincidence?

Interesting...

...

Not long after Satoru returned home, someone knocked on the door. Opening it, he saw a branch guard with a shinobi headband handing him a slightly bulging envelope.

"Hyuga Satoru, this is your monthly living allowance from the family."

Satoru took the envelope with his name and amount written on it.

"Okay, thank you."

The guard nodded and disappeared on the spot.

This branch guard was specially assigned to deliver the living allowance. Satoru would only meet him once a month, and there was little extra communication.

Opening the envelope, he found 15 thin banknotes, totaling 1500 ryo. Satoru felt a bit troubled, as in a world where even a bowl of ramen cost 60 Ryo, 1500 Ryo was somewhat limited for an entire month.

As one of the most prestigious clans in Konoha, the Hyuga family upheld its traditions and regulations to the extreme, even more so than the Uchiha clan, emphasizing order and restraint.

Here, Satoru truly experienced the warmth and coldness of human emotions. As an orphan, he lived alone in a corner of the clan territory, and the family rarely showed any concern. However, he knew that he received this living allowance as a token of respect for his father's sacrifice for the main branch.

The Hyuga family didn't support idlers.

But in a way, this was also good. If he belonged to another branch, his actions would be heavily controlled by the main branch. Currently, he had some degree of freedom.

As for the caged bird seal, Satoru wasn't particularly afraid. As his electromagnetic powers grew stronger, he became almost unstoppable. Solving a curse mark wasn't a difficult task, and in the worst case, once he became powerful enough, he could even trigger a coup and use the Sharingan's Izanami to resolve the caged bird seal.

The key was to be strong enough.

After dinner, Satoru quietly slipped out of the clan's territory and headed to the forest on the back mountain. He wanted to comprehensively test his abilities without the risk of being noticed by the other clan members.

Satoru exerted his full strength as he threw shurikens, and with the assistance of electromagnetic powers, the shurikens were surrounded by a faint blue electric light, disappearing with a whoosh sound. Through the vision of his Byakugan, he saw the shuriken hitting a tree trunk a hundred meters away.

He raised an eyebrow; For conventional shinobis, the maximum range of shuriken attacks was about 40 meters. Even for elite shinobi, it was challenging to exceed this limit. To put it into perspective, 40 meters was already equivalent to the height of a ten-story building.

Ninjutsu attacks generally had even shorter effective ranges. Take the Fireball Jutsu, for instance. Despite its powerful appearance, its impact range was only a few meters ahead, making it suitable for creating an intense atmosphere during battles but easily avoidable.

Shinobis did have their limits!

However, his electromagnetic powers allowed him to break through these limitations. The combination of his powerful Byakugan vision and electromagnetic abilities granted him exceptional sniping capabilities.

Just imagine, you're enjoying hot pot and singing, and suddenly you're headshot without even seeing the enemy's shadow. Who would you even complain to about that?

Satoru pondered; the range of his Byakugan was approximately one kilometer, giving him insight into everything within that radius except for a small blind spot behind his forehead. However, even with electromagnetic enhancement, the effective range of shuriken attacks remained limited to around a hundred meters, which was still far from his vision's capabilities.

If he could develop an electromagnetic cannon, that wouldn't be a problem, but his current Level 1 electromagnetic abilities didn't allow for such a feat.

"So, are there any shinobi tools that can maximize my attack range?"

After some contemplation, Satoru's eyes suddenly lit up.

A bow!

In this era without guns, the bow was the longest-range weapon!

He recalled a question he had seen on Zhihu in his previous life: If you were to become a Hyuga shinobi, how would you maximize the advantages of the Byakugan? One of the highly upvoted answers was to pick up a bow and arrow.

Only when he used a bow and arrow could he fully maximize the power of his Byakugan!

However, conventional bows and arrows were rarely capable of reaching distances of over a hundred meters, but he was different! He had electromagnetic powers!

Satoru became more excited as he thought about it!

Due to their construction, bows and arrows inherently had greater range than shurikens, and with the electromagnetic enhancement, reaching a kilometer was not an impossible feat!

This was like having a perfect sniper rifle!

And it came with built-in X-ray vision!

Oh, how times have changed!

Moreover, his Byakugan's vision would continue to expand with further cultivation. Some powerful members of the main family could even achieve a range of five kilometers!

Satoru took a deep breath, suppressing his overwhelming excitement.

With a long-range attack method in mind, he also needed to develop a close-range combat technique. While Gentle Fist was the most famous attack style of the Hyuga, Satoru had no intention of learning it!

He approached a large tree with open arms, took a Gentle Fist stance, and used electromagnetic powers to change the magnetic field of his palms before striking.

A muffled sound resonated as a faint blue membrane burst out of his palm the moment it came into contact with the tree trunk. The tree, with a thick trunk, split open from the middle, scattering wood chips.

Satoru shook his hand, quite satisfied with the power. Before attacking, he had changed the magnetic field between his palm and the tree trunk. At the moment of contact, a high-voltage current, accompanied by repulsive force, erupted, directly bisecting the large tree.

If the Hyuga clan head were present, they would probably jump in shock, exclaiming, "What in the world is this Gentle Fist?"

"Let's call this move 'Magnetic Storm Palm!' The power is quite acceptable. With enough chakra, I can turn each of the Gentle Fist's sixty-eight strikes into a Magnetic Storm Palm! However..."

Satoru frowned as he looked at his slightly trembling hand.

"This move requires a high level of physical strength. With my current physical strength, I'm afraid I can't even complete the Magnetic Storm Eighteen Palms, let alone sixty-four."

Satoru fell into contemplation. "The Eight Gates technique seems to be the best Taijutsu for enhancing physical abilities. Strong Fist Style would also be suitable for Magnetic Storm Palm; I need to find a way to learn them."

If the Hyuga clan head were here, they would probably be infuriated, thinking, "You're a Hyuga shinobi, and you're learning Strong Fist? Are you trying to disgrace the clan's teachings?"

Having settled on a direction, Satoru stretched lazily, feeling incredibly refreshed.

"That's it then! I'll find a way to get a high-strength bow and learn the Eight Gates technique."