"Well done. Another win for you." After getting up from the ground, Kazemori Masaki brushed himself off and gave Minato Namikaze a slight nod.
Minato let out a relieved breath and sank to the ground. "That was close. If the Flying Thunder God kunai hadn't landed beside you during the attack, Teacher Kazemori, I probably couldn't have teleported over."
"I'd say it took real nerve to teleport into the explosion from those Wind Release kunai. One wrong move, and you would have been caught in it yourself." Masaki slowly walked over.
"I accounted for that too." Minato smiled. "A user of the Flying Thunder God Technique has to calculate every step, or at least account for as much as possible. Otherwise, they can hardly call themselves a competent user."
Masaki nodded slightly. Minato was absolutely right. When fighting with the Flying Thunder God Technique, judging space and timing was crucial. Even a slight error could have a major effect on the outcome. Without strong calculating skills, a user could never wield the technique to perfection, even if they had the physical reflexes for it.
In that respect, the Flying Thunder God Technique had exceptionally demanding requirements that ordinary secret techniques could not compare with. Masaki was deeply pleased that Minato could meet them.
Minato truly had talent. He had fully adapted to the Flying Thunder God Technique's successive teleportation tactics and had even learned Flying Thunder God: Guiding Thunder. That was no small achievement.
Although everyone possessed some degree of aptitude for learning Flying Thunder God, those differences in degree were precisely what set them apart. Genma Shiranui needed two others to perform a Flying Thunder God teleportation, while Minato could do it alone. Not only could he teleport alone, he could do so repeatedly in succession, which required even