"Naruto, you really are a genius!"
Jiraiya stood there in a daze, sighing from the bottom of his heart.
A moment later, he laughed again, returning to his usual self. His tiny eyes gleamed wickedly. "But compared to this sage, you're still just a tiny bit behind."
He pinched his fingers together, making a gesture that had cost him the Bang Kingdom market.
"Sage Mode isn't that hard, is it?"
Boruto, who had watched the entire process from the side, spoke up.
Jiraiya's panicked behavior earlier had given him quite a scare.
With all those side effects, he had thought Naruto was about to kick the bucket.
But after seeing Naruto succeed so easily with his own eyes, Boruto thought, I could do that too!
Wasn't this something anyone with hands could manage?
"You little brat!"
Jiraiya was displeased. If Sage Mode was simple, then wouldn't all those years he had spent learning it make him an idiot?
He rattled on about how Sage Mode was a ninjutsu beyond S-rank, one of the most difficult techniques in the shinobi world to master, and so on.
Then Boruto destroyed him with a single clever question.
"Mister~, it took you a long time to learn it, didn't it?"
Jiraiya was speechless. He stared blankly at him, unable to say a word.
As the saying went, don't expose someone's hardships.
You sure talked a lot, kid!
Jiraiya stretched out his wicked hand, pressed it onto Boruto's head, and began ruthlessly messing up his hair.
That'll teach you to talk too much!
"Nooo~~"
While the two messed around, Naruto simply tuned them out and began exploring the marvelous Sage Mode.
Countless specks of light around him continuously flowed into his body under his particle-level Chakra control, merging with Chakra to produce Senjutsu Chakra.
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