"Drip!"
A bead of sweat slid down the focused, solemn face, its faintly furrowed brow and grave expression twisted with tension. It splashed onto the desk, scattering into tiny dark marks.
The last one...
It was complete! Full coverage, complete!
In the darkness, a faint layer of black snake-like patterns now covered the outline of the brain formed by the green pathways. Every single tendril of the Caged Bird Seal had been wrapped up. Not one had escaped.
Chiba's eyelids trembled slightly. After carefully inspecting it through his Chakra sensing vision and confirming there were no omissions, he slowly opened his eyes.
Then, he slowly moved his hand away.
As his hand moved aside, the vivid blue X-shaped curse mark on the smooth, fair forehead reflected itself in Chiba's eyes, glaringly conspicuous against the pale skin.
"Huu..."
At the sight, Chiba let out a long breath, though his body swayed slightly.
It seemed he had truly succeeded. All that remained was to activate the seal.
The Caged Bird Seal really was difficult to deal with. Merely achieving full coverage had already consumed ninety percent of his Chakra. If it had been any more complicated, he probably would have failed due to insufficient Chakra.
Still, everything had gone smoothly so far. His remaining Chakra was enough to activate the seal.
As he swayed, the heaviest stone in his heart finally fell away, and he relaxed considerably.
His Sealing Jutsu had already succeeded halfway.
Now that he had covered the combined Sealing Jutsu Formula and Curse Mark Jutsu Formula, he only needed to activate the seal to learn whether it would succeed or fail.
At that moment, within the glaring X-shaped curse mark in his sight, there was now a black Sealing Jutsu Formula composed of circular Sealing Tadpole Script and fused