What is it, Chiba?
Minato Namikaze's words echoed in his mind. With a tap, Chiba's retreating foot landed on the ground. Then, his eyes suddenly cleared, and the startled, bewildered look caused by Minato Namikaze's sudden arrival vanished at once.
"Teacher Minato..."
But before he could finish, Minato Namikaze, who had just spoken, sharply noticed Hirohiko and Yukina lying on the ground. Frowning, he interrupted Chiba. "Are they all right?"
"Ah! They're fine!"
Chiba reacted quickly despite being cut off, hurriedly answering as astonishment quietly rose in his heart.
Although he knew that the Flying Thunder God could be called the fastest ninjutsu, without question, he could not help but be stunned after experiencing its speed firsthand.
An instant—it truly had only been an instant. Even for someone accustomed to the Third Raikage's elusive speed, it still gave him a fright.
Fast! Far too fast! This speed was different from the Third Raikage's. With the Third Raikage's speed, Chiba could still feel time passing. Even within one-tenth of a second, two-tenths of a second, or during movements that exceeded his dynamic vision, he could still sense time slipping away and feel that the Third Raikage's movement consumed time.
But Minato Namikaze had been different just now! His speed made Chiba unable to perceive time. It was as though time had stopped when he moved—no, even space itself seemed to have frozen. Only once his entire figure appeared, or rather, once Chiba's dynamic and static vision caught him, did time and space seem to return to normal.
This kind of speed seemed to consume no time at all. The movement—or rather, the leap through space—was completed within the same second, the same tenth of a second, even the same frame his dynamic vision could capture.
It was a strange, even profound