Not Everyone Can Learn the Yin Seal

Nawaki and Jiraiya could only be said to be similar in certain ways; they were still very different in many others.

After thinking for a moment, Minato Namikaze asked curiously:

"Sensei, are you worried that Nawaki will become a dead last like Lord Jiraiya?"

"Isn't he already a dead last?"

Jingyi asked with an amused smile.

Minato Namikaze was left completely speechless.

Nawaki's "dead last" title had only been meant as a joke.

With Nawaki's talent, he truly could not be considered a dead last.

Back when he was at the Ninja Academy, Nawaki had been one of the school's geniuses.

It was just that his genius... had not shone quite as brightly.

Yet after Nawaki left the Ninja Academy and started following Jingyi around, he became a genuine dead last.

"Actually, if we go by the timeline, Jiraiya wasn't the dead last. Tsunade and Orochimaru were. More precisely, that title belonged to Orochimaru."

"Huh?"

Lord Orochimaru was the dead last?

That claim utterly stunned Minato Namikaze.

After all, Orochimaru had always been regarded as a genius by everyone since childhood. Even now, he was undoubtedly the strongest of the three.

Tsunade had always been the one stuck in the middle—not outstanding enough to surpass the best, yet better than the worst.

When she was young, she was inferior to Orochimaru. After Jiraiya began to take off, she was inferior to him as well, though she could surpass Orochimaru through special secret techniques.

Of the three, Orochimaru had made almost no major progress after his strength reached its peak.

Tsunade and Jiraiya, on the other hand, had continued to grow stronger with time.

The difference was that Tsunade relied on secret techniques, while Jiraiya relied on years of accumulated growth.

"Oh? Jingyi-kun means Jiraiya is stronger than me?"

Orochimaru's smiling