Before this day, he had never imagined just how terrifying stronger beings at higher levels could be.
No one ever wanted to experience that feeling of being almost completely unable to fight back again.
"Kitahara Kaede, I wanted to ask you when you treated Guy earlier. Have you completely mastered time?" Tsunade asked as she walked over to Kitahara Kaede.
Her body was also covered in traces left by battle. During those years, fighting had been their only choice.
"I've grasped many of time's laws, but I wouldn't dare claim that I've mastered all the Power of Time," Kitahara Kaede said with a smile.
He was not being modest. It was simply how Kitahara Kaede genuinely felt.
During the time he had clashed with the Ōtsutsuki God King, although he had ultimately emerged victorious—
Kitahara Kaede also knew clearly that he had not become the master of time.
"But you returned Guy's body to before he opened the Gate of Death. Doesn't that count as completely mastering time?" Kakashi asked incredulously.
The smile on Kitahara Kaede's face had relaxed everyone considerably, but they still cared deeply about the answer to this question.
"The way you treated Guy didn't look like a medical technique. Just how much stronger have you become over these years?" Tsunade asked. Though her words sounded like a question, she did not seem to be asking at all.
Tsunade was utterly convinced of it. She felt that Kitahara Kaede had simply been hiding his true abilities.
"Of course. After spending so many years on it, it would be strange if I hadn't grown stronger," Kitahara Kaede said with a smile.
He had not been hiding anything. He had merely said what was true.
Mastering the Power of Time was not something one could claim after simply turning