Souya gripped the Starfall Rod with both hands, feeling the warmth pulsing from within and the abundant Chakra it had stored back up.
Its purple-blue surface was now free of all other runic techniques.
Before he lost consciousness, he had handed the Starfall Rod to Sasori and asked him to seal away Minato's "Sword of Ninja Love" technique.
Souya didn't want Minato to suddenly appear in front of him while he was unconscious, behead him with a Kunai, or use a Rasengan to shake his brains into mush.
Since waking up a few days ago, Souya had been studying how to undo the seal Minato had placed on the Starfall Rod.
The seal Minato had set with a light touch had kept him puzzling over it for ages. It was like trying to find the end of a thread in a tangled mess. Only after a long time of fumbling around had Souya managed to undo Minato's seal and restore the rod's original function.
As he worked, he had grumbled and marveled at the same time. Minato's skill in Sealing Technique was leagues beyond his own, and his talent for it was astonishing. The Uzumaki Clan's generations of accumulated knowledge had truly shone through in him.
Only after slowly wearing away the "Sword of Ninja Love" technique had Souya finally been able to relax. Without a certain level of skill in Sealing Technique, he wouldn't even have been able to find the technique.
As for simply erasing the technique, that would have been giving Souya far too much credit at his current level.
"Let's go, Sasori!" Souya said to Sasori, who had just finished his discharge paperwork. With the Starfall Rod slung across his back, he strode out of the hospital ahead of him.
Souya had ended up hospitalized after