Haoyuan grinned. "No, Dad. I was practicing the Crane Cry Scattering Flower Technique, and then I happened to spot you."
Torifu curled his lip. How was he supposed to believe that?
Did you really have to climb this high just to practice a jutsu?
Besides, why hadn't he called out when he saw him? Torifu had been completely caught off guard.
At first glance, he'd thought the Otsutsuki had launched an early attack on the Shinobi World.
"I never should've taught you that flying Cloud Release jutsu. Now you're using it to pull this kind of stunt on me, huh!"
Haoyuan stuck out his tongue mischievously, then quickly made his escape, afraid Torifu would give him a beating.
Torifu shook his head helplessly, then closed his eyes.
At eleven, Haoyuan was much naughtier than he'd been as a little kid.
Still, his virtues more than made up for his faults. If you asked who the most outstanding ninja in Konoha was these days, the answer was Kumonaka Haoyuan.
An eleven-year-old Jonin who had mastered three special nature transformations—Cloud Release, Ice Release, and Crystal Release—and possessed an astonishing amount of Chakra.
Among Konoha's younger generation, and even among the older generations of ninja, Haoyuan was in a class of his own.
He was a rising star in Konoha.
He'd become a Jonin at an even younger age than Kakashi had.
There was no doubt that this was thanks to Torifu's excellent genes, along with the foundation Haoyuan had built by eating all kinds of herbs that enhanced Chakra and talent from an early age.
His aptitude was far better than Torifu's.
Torifu didn't particularly want to admit it, but the facts were right there in front of him. There was no getting around them.
"Ah, the waves of the Yangtze River