Swimming back through the river of stars, Doctor Yokoo chose a more distant memory this time.
It was Director Yamada's... no, more precisely, it was an experience from shortly after student Yamada Soji had awakened his Kekkei Genkai.
While carrying out a mission to support Jingu Forest, his team was attacked by Waterfall Ninja assassins. Following Teacher Motonari's advice, he drank a secret medicine of the Nara Clan and gained sharper senses as a result.
This unusual opportunity greatly improved the clarity of the memory. Combined with the subsequent effects of the connection technique, Yokoo Kanta placed greater hopes on this attempt.
Yet from the instant the clouds and mist spread out once more, this memory—which should have contained little turmoil—unexpectedly went wrong for no apparent reason!
—After taking the Superman Drug, Yamada Soji did not proceed as expected to study the direct coordination between chakra projection techniques and his Kekkei Genkai.
Instead, he looked as though he had ingested some sort of hallucinogen, with all manner of bizarre visions appearing before his eyes!
In the boy's field of vision, one moment he saw the grand scene of himself wearing the Hokage's robe, ascending to the position of Hokage, and receiving the adoration of the masses; the next, it abruptly shifted to the miserable childhood in which he lost both parents...
One absurd, illogical scene after another played out in turn. How did any of this look like ninjutsu practice?
[What's going on? Could there be something wrong with the medicine Nara Motonari provided?]
Doubt rose in Yokoo Kanta's heart, and he even began to suspect that the Nara Clan, renowned throughout the Shinobi World for their intelligence, had concealed certain crucial information regarding Yamada Soji.
But Doctor Yokoo immediately rejected this utterly baseless speculation—after all, regarding Yamada Soji's personal