"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
Under the westering sunlight, the familiar sound of flesh striking hard wood rang out continuously behind the modest cabin.
"One thousand three hundred and thirty-seven, one thousand one hundred and thirty-eight... one thousand two hundred and one..."
Without any flashy moves or slacking off, his absolutely standard side kicks struck the newly erected wooden post again and again. Amid the flying wood chips, the splitting bark kept cracking apart, nearly falling away in fragments.
Caged Bird Seal...
As Chiba carried out his daily side-kick training, his brow furrowed ever more deeply. During these nearly three hours of taijutsu training, he had sorted through everything from his return to the village up to Hyuga Shinsuke's letter. Most matters had already been considered thoroughly; all that remained was putting them into action.
Only the Caged Bird Seal left him unable to figure out a solution despite racking his brains.
After all, this was a curse mark technique dating back to the era of the Sage of Six Paths, or even Kaguya. It was far too ancient. Even if he found a teacher knowledgeable about Blood Curse Marks, what that teacher could teach might not have much connection to the Caged Bird Seal.
In other words, it was very possible that the loss of the various Curse Mark Jutsu Formulas derived from the method used to construct the Caged Bird Seal had made it impossible to eradicate it at its root.
After all, curse mark techniques differed from Sealing Jutsu. At the very least, the Uzumaki Clan had preserved a relatively complete body of Sealing Jutsu, and one could basically learn the fundamentals of Sealing Jutsu from them.
Furthermore, leaving aside the Sealing Jutsu of the Yin Seal system, the Sealing Jutsu of the Four Symbols Seal system likely originated