The moment Jin activated the trait, golden chakra covered his entire body.
Sacred and inviolable.
Crack!
Crack!
Soon, a teeth-grating cracking sound rang out.
The hardest, sharpest barbs at the tip of Samehada's blade had turned to stone!
Uchiha Jin gave a light squeeze, and one barb crumbled into fragments that pattered to the ground.
"Hm? This is!!!"
Jiraiya's jaw nearly hit the floor on the spot.
His hands, which had just come together to gather Natural Energy, flew open in fright.
"Sage Mode! It has to be Sage Mode!"
"But—how does this brat know Sage Mode?!"
"And he hasn't undergone Frog Transformation. He's only developed the markings..."
"This is... the perfect Sage Mode!!!"
Jiraiya was stunned.
Or rather, he was terrified.
It wasn't as if he'd never seen Sage Mode. He was one of the few who had mastered it himself.
His student, the Fourth Hokage Namikaze Minato, wasn't particularly skilled at using Sage Mode, but he was still among the best.
Yet compared to Jin right now, the two of them looked like raw recruits.
Utterly inexperienced.
Only Sage Mode with markings and no transformation was truly powerful!
"The two Great Sages said that no one besides them could master this mode. Could it be..."
At that thought, Jiraiya's pupils suddenly contracted as he realized something. "Could this kid actually be the child of one of the two Great Sages?!"
"What is this..."
On the other side, Kisame's fishlike eyes widened further and further.
His shark mouth was so wide it looked like it could swallow a whole pig!
When the pain and stiffness surged back from Samehada's blade, he finally understood what was happening.
"Natural Energy?! Damn it, why do you have Sage Mode!!!"
Sage Mode!
A powerful mode that allowed its user to absorb Natural