Chapter 33 Untying the Knot

"This time it's not about who can throw farther, but about power."

"The rule is that you can use chakra to throw knives at the same tree, and see whose knife is more powerful."

Asuma added the details of the second match.

Che accepted it happily.

The two held the chakra short knives and injected chakra into them.

This time Che did not use the six eyes to copy Asuma's method, but injected chakra based on his own understanding.

Che chose lightning attribute chakra because he felt that lightning attribute was the most powerful among the five basic attributes.

Asuma chose wind attribute chakra, which was his strong point.

After the two were ready, they threw the chakra knives in their hands almost at the same time.

The victim was a tree that two people were hugging.

Swish! Bang!

Two completely different sounds came, and the knives thrown by the two people each caused considerable damage to the tree.

One of the knives pierced the entire trunk cleanly, leaving a hole in the middle of the trunk as thin as the knife.

The other knife hit the tree trunk and exploded a bowl-sized hole in the trunk. The knife was deeply inserted into the tree, and the surrounding area was full of charred marks.

The former was thrown by Asuma, and the latter was thrown by Che.

Che and Asuma walked forward to check their own and each other's knives.

Both were surprised by each other's strength.

Asuma's wind blade has strong penetration, and Che's lightning blade has strong destructive power, and they are evenly matched.

But at this moment, Che pulled out Asuma's chakra knife and said, "You win, Asuma."

Asuma looked at the place where Che had been looking at, and it turned out that there was a piece of stone that had just been cut in half by the residual power of the wind blade.

Asuma breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Then let's go find Hong, it's getting late."

Che nodded, and the two then led the deer back to the cabin and tied the deer outside the house.

The two soon waited for Hong to return to the cabin with a bag of food, so Che explained the situation to Hong and asked Hong to think of a content for the competition.

Hong thought the two men in front of her were playing some childish game, and said, "Are all you boys so childish? You're still competing? Forget it, then go compete to see who can help me prepare the ingredients first."

"We're having beef stew with potatoes tonight. One of you is responsible for cutting potatoes, and the other is responsible for cutting beef. Cut both potatoes and beef into pieces."

"I'm just here to feed the deer."

Hong handed a bag of ingredients to Che, and then happily came to the side of the deer and looked at them curiously.

Che and Asma came to the kitchen and took out potatoes and beef from the ingredients. Che asked Asma, "Which one do you choose?"

Asma thought for a while and said, "I'll cut the beef."

Che happily handed the beef to Asma, and washed the potatoes first. After completing the preparations, the competition was about to begin.

In order to be fair, Che and Asma used the same chopping board. Since there was only one kitchen knife, Asma's chakra knife was used uniformly, and Che took four palm-sized potatoes, which were just bigger than the beef in Asma's hand.

The two shouted the countdown of three, two, one, and then started at the same time.

Dong, dong, dong!

Che held the chakra knife and began to cut potatoes quickly, making the cutting board dong, and the potatoes were quickly cut into thick slices, and then cut into pieces.

Asuma's side made much less noise. A closer look revealed that the chakra knife was infused with sharp chakra of wind attribute.

This made Asuma cut beef like a fish in water, and his speed was no slower than Che's.

The two finished their work at the same time. At this time, Hong just pushed open the door and complained: "Why is there only one of these deer willing to eat the grass I feed? Hey, you have already cut it, who is faster?"

Che and Asuma replied: "Equally fast."

So, Hong walked into the kitchen and began to check the quality of their work.

At this time, Hong found something strange and looked directly at the beef cut by Asuma. Looking down, he finally found something wrong.

I saw Xiri Hong wanted to pick up the chopping board, but she only picked up a piece of wood, and then pushed the chopping board, and the whole chopping board was scattered all over the table.

It turned out that the chopping board and the beef were cut by Asma.

Xiri Hong's face showed a trace of black lines, and she said speechlessly: "There are only two chopping boards here, really, you can't even cut the beef properly, and you cut the chopping board too, aren't you too impatient?"

Asma lowered his head and dared not answer when he heard Xiri Hong's criticism.

"Okay, okay, you two don't make trouble, now I will clean up the mess for you, you two just wait for dinner."

In this way, Che and Asma were driven out of the wooden house by Hong.

Outside the house, Asma saw the moon that had appeared in the night sky through the gap between the trees, and inexplicably felt a melancholy feeling in his heart that he wanted to smoke a cigarette.

Asma said: "I lost."

"Well, yes, you lost, but 2 to 1, you are not bad." Che replied.

Asuma smiled bitterly and said, "It is indeed my honor."

At first, Asuma thought he could accept the failure calmly, but now it seems that his idea at that time was too naive.

When the failure really came, even if Asuma could find out that his opponent was Uchiha Che or other reasons, it would still be difficult for Asuma to get over it.

Che suddenly said, "I think Hong's last sentence is very good."

Asuma reacted for a while, remembered Hong's last sentence, and then murmured, "Too impatient? Yes, I am too impatient."

After Asuma finished speaking, he thought for a long time, and then exhaled a foul breath: "Alas, yes, I was too impatient. I actually wanted to get rid of your shadow through three simple competitions."

"It seems that I thought too much. You are still my lingering shadow." Asuma said this, but he smiled.

"But this at least shows that I am not inferior to you in everything. My wind escape is still better than yours, right?" Asuma smiled and looked at Che.

Che nodded and said: "For the use of wind attribute chakra, I am indeed not as good as you."

Asuma got affirmation, and the knot in his heart that had been in his heart for a long time was suddenly untied.

Asuma smiled and said, "If you want to learn, I can teach you."

Che readily accepted the offer and said, "Then I will teach you one too."

Asuma asked, "Isn't it Minato's move? Did you also exchange with Kakashi in the same way last time?"

Che was stunned for a moment, then laughed and said, "You are really smart. You guessed it right. It is that Rasengan, but we still need to ask Minato to confirm it."

Asuma also readily accepted it.

After Asuma opened up, the two of them started talking and chatting about random things from time to time.

"Do you like hunting?" "Never tried it." "I can teach you the two most practical hunting methods, stone throwing and archery." "Okay, then I'll teach you how to play shogi later." "You like playing shogi? This is not something only old people like." "You like shamisen, aren't you more old?"

Until Yuhi Kurenai opened the door of the wooden house and shouted to the outside: "Dinner is ready!"

Che and Asuma walked into the wooden house and enjoyed the sumptuous dinner together.

Hong noticed that the relationship between the two people in front of her seemed to have improved. She was confused for a while and thought to herself: "The relationship between boys is really strange."

Tonight, Uchiha Che and Sarutobi Asuma slept on the same bed, with their feet touching each other.