Obtaining Dragon Palace City filled in some of Shinji's shortcomings in his control over time-based abilities, giving him a more comprehensive grasp of them. Without a doubt, this brought him one step closer to the divine art "Omnipotence."
Whoosh.
Shinji's body instantly transformed into a flurry of butterflies and vanished from where he stood.
The next moment, Shinji appeared at the opposite end of the central training ground.
"Pretty handy."
He chuckled.
Combining the ability to rewind time with the techniques of the Body Flicker Technique could theoretically lead to all sorts of fancy tricks.
The reason Urashiki had been caught off guard by Shinji wasn't that his "Paper Crane Body Flicker" was ineffective. It was simply that Shinji's "Imperial God Palace" countered it.
If Urashiki had faced an opponent who hadn't mastered time-based abilities, "Paper Crane Body Flicker" would at least have let him withdraw from the battlefield with relative ease.
At that thought, Shinji suddenly paused.
Because in the original timeline, Boruto's Jōgan seemed to counter Urashiki's various Space-Time Dojutsu as well.
Before Shinji had crossed over, there had been all kinds of speculation about the Jōgan's abilities. One theory was that it had a degree of foresight.
The evidence was that Boruto had once used his Jōgan to see through where Otsutsuki Urashiki would teleport before he did so.
Shinji rubbed his chin, pondering. "Does the Jōgan see through space, or does it foresee the future?"
In the original timeline, Toneri had held Boruto's Jōgan in extremely high regard, believing it was the "star of hope" that would save a doomed world. Momoshiki, an Otsutsuki noble, had also paid special attention to Boruto's Jōgan and made a prophecy about it. Urashiki had even openly expressed his wariness of Boruto's Jōgan.
All of this showed that, even in