Konan and Yugito continued playing cat's cradle in the yard. Naori sat back down beneath the veranda and picked up the book she had not finished earlier.
The yard fell quiet, leaving only the rustling of wind through the treetops and a few distant insect calls.
Mirai's footsteps were light, but he was calculating something else in his mind.
Now that he had Wood Release, the next step was to go through Hashirama Senju's Wood Release Ninjutsu. At the very least, he needed to master the most commonly used techniques.
After all, Hashirama's Wood Release was far more than simply growing a few vines.
Back then, that guy had forcibly pinned down the Nine-Tails with Wood Release and used a Wood Golem to pound Madara's Susanoo into submission.
There was even the Senjutsu-enhanced Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands!
That level of Wood Release was what he truly wanted.
The wind blew in from the direction of the training ground, carrying the coolness of the night.
Mirai tucked the scroll into his clothes and pushed open the bathroom door. Kushina followed right behind him...
Time passed faster than expected.
The God Tree in his Mental Space had grown another stretch, shooting up to three hundred meters.
Its trunk was thick, its canopy blotted out the sky, and green vines slowly writhed through the void like slumbering giant pythons.
Every time Mirai entered his Mental Space and looked at the ever-growing tree, his feelings were complicated—
On one hand, this thing really was starting to feel like an overpowered cheat. On the other, its appetite was simply too enormous.
The Two-Tails Matatabi's Chakra had been drained for over half a year. He took a tenth at a time. At first, she could recover in about a month, but later,