Year 53 of Konoha.
Late June.
Konoha and Iwagakure had gone to war.
Gua was still attending school. No, to be precise, he was waiting for the holidays.
Summer vacation started on July 1.
Whether there was a war or not, he couldn't do much about it.
One thing worth mentioning was that Gua had already reached the fourth gate of the Eight Gates Released Formation.
Yes, that was right. His progress was practically cheating.
It felt like flying.
Unfortunately, the actual increase in strength was seriously underwhelming.
Judging by his current results, his initial prediction had probably been pretty accurate. Opening all eight gates of the Eight Gates Released Formation would likely double his taijutsu strength, at most.
If he wanted to go completely berserk like Might Guy...
Flood the screen with red text and kick his way straight to the finale, that probably wasn't happening.
Meanwhile,
Gua had also figured out a little of what his eyes could do.
He had experimented on Itachi.
He told Itachi to stare straight into his eyes, and Itachi obediently did so.
Then the two tomoe in Gua's eyes spun.
He didn't know how to cast genjutsu. He simply tried to recapture the feeling from last time, channeling chakra toward his eyes. As though guided by some invisible consciousness, both caster and target slipped into another world.
However, the caster could instantly recognize the boundary between reality and illusion, achieving something akin to a split consciousness.
One part controlled things in the mental world.
The other remained fully aware in the real world.
Gua figured this was probably genjutsu.
After further training, Gua had gained a decent grasp of the ocular technique he had acquired through idling.
Actually,
It wasn't really mastery, but familiarity, as though the ability had belonged to these