077 Naruto Mobile Game

Seeing that she had lost, Hinata put down her phone.

She had only managed to defeat Naruto. After that, with her HP in an unhealthy state, she was taken down by the opponent organization's third-slot player who filled Naruto's vacancy.

That is to say, in this match of [Uzumaki Naruto] VS [Hyūga Main Family], there was nothing left for her to do.

Of course, there was nothing left for Naruto either.

Thinking of this, Hinata silently apologized in her heart. But fighting Naruto-kun with all her strength was probably what Naruto-kun wanted to see, right?

From the overall results, Hinata and Naruto traded one for one. It wasn't a loss—if anything, it was a small gain.

Because although she was already off the machine, she had at least shaved off a bit of the second opponent's HP.

So her father, Hyūga Hiashi, didn't blame her. He only told her to watch from the side and prepare for the next round.

Hinata gently slid her finger across the phone screen, her eyes moving from top to bottom as she looked through the list.

Slot 1: [Spark Princess] VS [Nara's Emulator Player] (battle in progress)

Slot 2: [Byakugan's Sage] VS [Glory to Uchiha] (battle in progress)

Slot 3: [Byakugan's Virtue] / [Team Seven Sakura]

Slot 4: [Byakugan's Autumn] / [Yamanaka Flower]

Slot 5: [Byakugan's Steel] / [Well-Filled Man]

Slot 6: [Byakugan's Rose] / [Crimson]

Slot 7: [Byakugan's Filial] / [With Rin]

Slot 8: [Byakugan's Fire] / [Uchiha's Koto]

Slot 9: [Sunlight] / [Hero Jiraiya]

Slot 10: [Byakugan's Sight] / [Invincible Hokage] (defeated)

Aside from the first two matches, the rest were still in the preparation phase. The current positions were only temporary and didn't necessarily mean they would face those opponents.

After all, if a teammate lost, lower-positioned members would need to move up and fill the slot.

Nara… was that Shikamaru?

Hinata felt a little worried about Hanabi. Although the Hyūga overall combat strength was higher, Shikamaru was definitely not an easy opponent.

"Ahhh, that hateful guy—this is making me furious!" someone suddenly shouted.

Everyone present except those fully focused on their matches subconsciously looked over, but after just one glance, they hurriedly looked away.

Hanabi was sitting on the ground with her legs spread, her delicate little face flushed bright red, her long hair tossed into disarray by her head movements.

She had one hand raised high, looking as if she were about to smash the phone in her hand onto the ground.

"Hanabi! Have you no decorum!" Hiashi scolded.

"Father..." Hanabi looked aggrieved, but she obediently pulled her phone back.

Her sharp eyes suddenly spotted Hinata secretly beckoning to her, and she immediately beamed and ran over.

"Sister, let me tell you—ugh, that guy really made me so mad!" Hanabi threw herself into Hinata's arms and complained in a low voice.

"Your opponent? What happened?" Hinata gently helped tidy her hair a little.

"He subbed down and just stood there watching me. When I got close, he dodged on the Y-axis. My skills couldn't hit him at all, and instead he baited all of them out of me!"

"I see… that's a lot of pressure."

Hinata's smile looked a little awkward, because… she had just lost to Shikamaru in exactly the same way.

That kind of pressure was truly overwhelming. After a single match, she was already sweating.

During the match, he would just stand on the center line and watch you. If you attacked him, he would move up or down.

He wouldn't move on the X-axis at all—only the Y-axis. Or sometimes the opposite.

It was pure, straight-line movement—pure X-axis and pure Y-axis, with not the slightest deviation.

The joystick control sensitivity was practically more responsive than human nerve receptors! How could someone achieve 100% Y-axis movement?

And she didn't know if it was just her imagination, but Hinata always felt that Shikamaru's base Y-axis movement speed was faster than theirs.

"This involves special keybinding settings. It's a bit complicated—just listen roughly."

At Hokage Rock, Shikamaru took his hands off the keyboard and began explaining to the organization members gathered around him.

"In Ninja Mobile Game, the Y-axis movement speed of the joystick depends on how far your joystick input is from the center point."

"That is to say, the closer your finger presses to the center of the joystick, the slower the Y-axis movement. The farther away, the faster it is."

"With an emulator, you can directly set the touch point to the topmost and bottommost positions, achieving full-speed Y-axis movement throughout—one step faster than normal players."

After hearing Shikamaru's explanation, Naruto and the others sucked in a sharp breath, with only one thought in mind… there's actually such an operation?

"Then compared to phones, the emulator's advantages aren't just this, right?" Kakashi keenly sensed something off.

Shikamaru nodded and continued.

With an emulator, your fingers don't block the screen, and the keyboard allows multi-finger operations.

You can press the skills you want faster, comprehensively increasing reaction speed, and even trigger multiple skills simultaneously.

Vertical movement—calmly moving vertically at any time, full-speed Y-axis movement, while left-right movement doesn't shake the screen.

"Oh right, and head-patting is faster too," Shikamaru added. "And there's no key conflict. You can pat heads while fighting at the same time."

"Huh? Then that's even more convenient than specifically summoning a shadow clone to help with head-patting!" Naruto said with a shocked expression.

The others silently wiped away a cold sweat.

How should they put it… even though they really wanted to complain about the emulator, Naruto's comment was even more ridiculous.

"Alright, alright, stop researching this. The stronger the emulator, the better our odds, right?" Asuma dispersed the crowd. "Shikamaru, you're up."

Shikamaru glanced over—and sure enough, he was. The next member of the opposing organization in the Organization Dominion Tournament had stepped in.

Seeing Shikamaru enter his third match, everyone quickly moved away to avoid disturbing him.

After stepping back, Naruto looked at the already fully focused Shikamaru, feeling a bit envious inside.

Seriously, Shikamaru might even pull off a one-versus-three. Meanwhile, he himself had knelt right at the start.

How was Sasuke doing over there? Naruto wondered.

Sasuke hadn't come over to watch Shikamaru earlier and had been fully immersed in his own match.

When Shikamaru was fighting Hanabi, Sasuke had already finished his first round and entered the second. That meant both of them were playing their second match.

But Shikamaru's first match was cleaning up after Naruto, so it had gone faster.

Shikamaru finished his second match and had just started the third, while Sasuke's second match was still ongoing.

Naruto tiptoed over, sneaking up behind Sasuke, craning his neck to observe…

"Naruto, get lost!"

"Huh?! You noticed me even then?"

Naruto was shocked. Sasuke didn't even turn his head, and Naruto's movements were so light—yet he still sensed him.

"So, how's it going, Sasuke?" Since he'd already been discovered, Naruto stopped hiding and leaned in. Sasuke didn't stop him.

Watching the match, Naruto realized Sasuke's situation wasn't looking too good.

His first-slot ninja [Jiraiya] and second-slot ninja [Guy] had both already fallen.

He didn't know which rounds they had died in.

Now Sasuke only had one third-slot [Hatake Kakashi] left in his hands. He still had one summon remaining, and his HP was only a little over half.

His opponent, meanwhile, was the second-slot [Hidan].

"No, Sasuke—why didn't you use any Akatsuki ninjas?" Naruto was full of question marks.

"I refuse to use anyone from the same organization as Uchiha Itachi," Sasuke said calmly, leaving Naruto completely speechless.

So by that logic, you didn't use a single one of the three Akatsuki ninjas you unlocked earlier?

Alright, that reason is incredibly strong!