The booming sound reverberated through the sky!
Although Yuto Souta reacted at the last moment and threw the Hydrogen Release: Rasengan into the air,
It was still Hydrogen Release...
The shockwave from the explosion alone toppled several large trees!
Minato Namikaze was stunned.
Uchiha Obito and Kakashi Hatake were stunned.
Even Yuto Souta himself was stunned!
He hadn't expected... that shaping Hydrogen Release into a Rasengan would produce such immense power.
In that instant, Yuto Souta felt like he'd discovered a new continent, his eyes gleaming!
In that same instant, the rest of Team Minato looked at him like he was a monster, their gazes filled with resentment...
Uchiha Obito also raised his hand.
Chakra flowed slowly, and soon a small-scale Rasengan appeared.
The Sharingan's copying ability was surprisingly effective, but he couldn't muster any excitement...
"I... I don't even want to learn this anymore!"
Glancing at the tiny, half-finished Rasengan in his hand, still unable to grasp chakra nature transformation, Uchiha Obito felt utterly dejected.
He was just one step away from mastering this ridiculously cool technique.
But someone had already crossed the finish line...
Kakashi Hatake, on the other hand,
Looked at Uchiha Obito, then at Yuto Souta, his gaze tinged with something unusual.
The gap between him and Souta-san was growing wider...
Even Uchiha Obito, after awakening his bloodline limit, was starting to catch up to him.
He should be happy, right?
Stronger teammates were never a bad thing.
But... it was so frustrating!
It took Minato Namikaze a long while to calm the turmoil in his heart.
Looking at his students again, he decided it was time to show some real skill.
"Obito, don't rely too much on your Sharingan."
Minato Namikaze's expression turned serious as he spoke sternly.
"The Sharingan can indeed see through an opponent's hand signs and chakra flow, but until you've mastered chakra nature transformation, the benefits it provides are roughly equal to the effort it demands."
"For the next while, start training in chakra nature transformation."
As he spoke, Minato Namikaze's gaze shifted to Kakashi Hatake.
"Kakashi... you need to do the same as Obito."
"Remember, not having a Sharingan isn't a weakness. Me, White Fang-sama, even Hokage-sama—we're all ninjas without Sharingan."
"Keep your mindset straight, got it?"
Minato Namikaze spoke earnestly.
The flicker of disappointment in Kakashi Hatake's eyes gradually faded.
True.
His father's blade could cut through even the Uchiha!
What was there to envy?
After guiding Kakashi Hatake, Minato Namikaze's gaze finally landed on Yuto Souta.
Coincidentally,
Yuto Souta happened to look at Minato Namikaze at the same moment.
Their eyes met—one big, one small.
Countless waves of helplessness flashed through Minato Namikaze's mind...
It was finally time, huh? Teaching a kid like this was no easy task...
But just as he was organizing his words, preparing to start a conversation with Yuto Souta,
Yuto Souta spoke first.
Though not to Minato Namikaze—he turned to Kakashi Hatake instead.
"Kakashi... actually, I think your sword... could try incorporating some Lightning Release chakra or something."
"Like this."
Yuto Souta said, beginning to form hand signs.
Slowly.
And he kept pausing mid-sign, restarting after each hesitation...
All in all, he looked completely unreliable.
Kakashi Hatake's expression grew increasingly odd.
What... was this guy doing?
Yuto Souta took a full minute to finish the signs.
Finally, accompanied by a system notification, something changed in his hands.
Flashes of white light.
Flickering constantly, accompanied by a buzzing sound like a thousand birds chirping, though it came in intermittent bursts...
Yuto Souta's face showed clear difficulty.
"The concept of this technique is roughly like this... tweak the Lightning Release chakra a bit, compress it in your hand, stuff like that."
"I'm not great with Lightning Release anyway. These are the signs—figure it out yourself."
Yuto Souta said nonchalantly, while Kakashi Hatake, after a moment of bewilderment, sank into thought.
He could vaguely understand what Yuto Souta was getting at.
Silently raising his sword, Kakashi Hatake felt a strange sense of déjà vu.
This technique... why did it feel kind of familiar?
In that brief moment, Yuto Souta had already walked up to Minato Namikaze.
From replicating the Rasengan to using it, to birthing the Hydrogen Release: Rasengan—it had all happened incredibly fast.
But that didn't mean Minato Namikaze's technique or talent was weak...
As a scholar, a researcher, Yuto Souta didn't have a habit of looking down on others.
The Iwa ninjas were one thing, but Minato Namikaze even more so.
"Minato-sensei."
"Can you teach me... how to fight?"
Yuto Souta asked humbly.
He wanted to learn Minato Namikaze's combat instincts.
That wasn't something the Sharingan could mimic or the system could record.
He also wanted to learn Minato Namikaze's other famous technique...
It wasn't invented by him, but through his hands, it was refined, surpassing its creator and earning him the title of the Yellow Flash.
Flying Thunder God.
A space-time ninjutsu, which in Yuto Souta's eyes was a technique that used chakra as a medium to connect and compress spatial particles for teleportation.
This technique ignored the limitations of space.
This technique was tailor-made for his Hydrogen Release!
After acquiring Hydrogen Release and Wood Release, he'd already chosen directions for their development.
Wood Release, naturally, would shift toward the harder Diamond Release.
And Hydrogen Release...
One Flying Thunder God kunai, and a million Hydrogen Release strikes would follow!
That was the true meaning of... world peace from a thousand miles away!
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