Early the next morning Kuroto came to the Forest of Death carrying a bulging bag.

Initially thought that it would take some time to find the baby boar, but unexpectedly as soon as he landed near the small pond that seems to be the little guy's hunting ground, it suddenly sprang out from the bushes. ​​

It felt as if he didn't find the Baby boar rather the baby boar found him!

As soon as it came out Kuroto observed it.

Kuroto can judge that the size of the boar is obviously bigger than it was yesterday, but several patches of hair on its torso were bitten out and bled a little along with a bulging right eye that has gone purple, it seems this guy was seriously repaired by some other wild animal.

Looking at the limping baby boar, Kuroto asked with a smile: "Who did you provoke? It looks you have been repaired quite badly huh?"

After a little bit of teasing, Kuroto put down the bag he brought along.

Taking out a large chunk of raw meat, he cut them into small pieces with a short knife and laid them on the ground.

The baby boar that was squatting aside, stared at the pieces of meat greedily with saliva dripping from the mouth which Kuroto tried his best to ignore.

After orderly placing the meat pieces, Kuroto numbered them one by one, then took out five bottles of paralytic poison and injected them into the pieces of meat numbered from 1-5.

All five bottles of paralytic poison have the same ingredients, with only a difference in their composition ratio.

The objective of today's test is finding out the right ratio for most toxicity, which he will use to further fine-tune the poison.

After doing all the preparation, Kuroto threw the No. 1 meat piece towards the baby boar.

The little guy who has been eyeing the meat pieces with pure greed in the eyes ran over as soon Kuroto threw No. 1 meat piece, and swallowed it in two or three bites.

After finishing up, it again squatted on the ground staring at the remaining pieces.

At this time Kuroto quickly observed the baby boar with his Tenseigan.

However, the baby boar who ate the No. 1 meat piece containing paralytic poison was exactly the same as it was before. There were no obvious changes in its chakra flow or muscles around it, even the blood circulation was normal.

The only thing that has changed is the saliva dripping from the corners of its mouth, which seems to be more than before.

"No effect?"

Obviously, Kuroto was annoyed with no result. The No. 1 meat strip was injected with not just some ordinary poison, but a compound paralytic poison that he carefully modulated.

According to his estimation, even chunin class ninjas might not be able to handle it.

But here he is now, the annoying little boar is completely unaffected, after taking in the paralytic poison infused meat piece, there is no effect at all, this was completely unacceptable!

The unbelievable Kuroto threw out No. 2 meat piece… and then, piece No. 3, No. 4, No. 5…

The little wild boar took all the pieces in order very politely, and after eating, there was no change except for the greasy mouth and the dripping saliva that doesn't want to stop flowing out.

Seeing the little boar affectionately nudging his leg, and rubbing its saliva on his pants, Kuroto's forehead was full of black lines.

This piggy boar doesn't have any intention of being a subject for the live poison test at all, and actually regards him as a source of food!!!

"Do you think that's all I got!!?" Kuroto, who was a little frustrated having lost against a mere baby boar, took out the sixth bottle the most lethal one in anger, injected it into the No. meat piece, and threw it to the little wild boar…

An hour later, Kuroto who returned home started a completely new toxin preparation project.

As for the previous ones?

THREW THEM AWAY!!!

Even a baby boar that only seems to have a weak poison resistance can't be affected, what value does such a poison has?

In the next few days, Kuroto continued making poison, testing poison, and re-compounding poison repeatedly.

Talking about the results?

It's not as though there was no successful result, at least the little wild boar that is his test subject was fed properly to grow strong and healthy…

It was another such morning of his daily routine when Kuroto had just left the house to go to the Forest of Death, a person was waiting at his door.

The person saw Kuroto coming out, so he stood up, and said while blocking Kuroto's path, "My name is Uchiha Hiiragi, you should already be aware of my purpose for coming here, so decide, whether you want to start here or go elsewhere!"

While looking at the thin figure who is a shinobi of the Uchiha clan blocking his way, a small note that Shisui handed him last night flashed in his mind.

'Uchiha Hiiragi, Jonin with a cold personality, good at Fire Release, Wind Release, Taijutsu, Kenjutsu, and Shurikenjutsu, weakness: poor physical strength to match his Taijutsu and Kenjutsu specialty, accustomed to taking risks in kenjutsu battle, too focused on killing the opponent.'

Based on the description of Shisui's note, Uchiha Hiiragi's abilities are quite comprehensive.

The only weakness of poor physical strength may be a serious problem in a life and death battle but in a duel between two shinobi of the same village, it's not too big of a disadvantage. Not to mention Uchiha Hiiragi must have thought of a way to complement his weak physical strength.

It can be seen that this time the Uchiha clan has worked quite hard to win back their reputation.

So, the only thing that Kuroto can take advantage of is probably Uchiha Hiiragi's habit of taking a risk when using a sword, or that he is mentality is easily affected by his killing intent.

Thinking so, Kuroto said, "Alright, come with me."

Hiiragi nodded and followed.

Leading Hiiragi to a practice site, Kuroto said, "So what do you want to compare in the duel?"

Hiiragi seemed stunned. He didn't expect Kuroto to ask this, so after thinking a little he said, "Both Ninjutsu and Taijutsu are fine, you choose whichever you want!"

Kuroto smiled and said, "Then compare in taijutsu skills."

Since his battle with Iwamoto, Kuroto has discovered that the Hyuga style taijutsu may be strong but isn't effective enough when dealing with weird ninjutsu users, so although he didn't have much expectation but he still aroused Hiiragi to limit their type of combat. But unexpectedly Hiiragi let him choose the type of battle, and naturally, he would taijutsu skills.

After deciding the battle aspect of comparison, Kuroto and Hiiragi took the battle stance.

Kuroto's body sank slightly, with both palms wrapped in blue chakra.

Hiiragi pulled out his short sword.

The morning light hit the blade of the short kife, reflecting brilliant light.

...whiiiiiiish...

A breeze blew by, blowing off a few leaves scattered around.

The leaves whirled and floated in the air, and fell on the blade of Hiiragi's short sword, and silently broke into two pieces.

Looking at the short sword Kuroto was impressed, "Nice Sword!"

If a fine sword such as this one is in the hands of a Kenjutsu master then the effective combat power of the resulting party would increase exponentially.

Even Kuroto felt a little alert from the murderous energy coming off of the sword.

Woosh!

Uchiha Hiiragi moved suddenly and like an after image accompanied by the sound of breaking wind, rushed towards Kuroto.

Although Hiiragi's speed is extremely fast, in the vision of Tenseigan, his every movement and expression were clearly visible and moving like a slow picture, so Kuroto wasn't nervous and used the Gossip-palm stikes to meet him head-on.

In the early morning when the morning dew has still not faded away, Uchiha Hiiragi's chakra-infused Short sword and Huyga Kuroto's Hyuga-style gossip palm strike are competing for dominance!

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