"This..."
Teacher Naiku stared at the Chakra Paper in his hand, now coated in frost, and fell into shock along with the teachers around him.
Han came over at the call.
After seeing the result, she took Muhan from Liumu's arms.
She brushed Muhan's nose with a finger and smiled warmly.
"Liumu, look."
Naiku brought the result over to Liumu.
Liumu nodded.
The Chakra Paper had only frosted over. It had not burned.
In other words, the flames that had enveloped her back then really had not been fire release chakra.
Instead, they were...
But Muhan was still too young.
Her control over chakra was not particularly good.
She could not draw on the mysterious flames within her as Liumu had envisioned.
News that Muhan possessed a kekkei genkai spread throughout almost all of Konoha in a very short time.
Even the two Daimyō, who never appeared in public, heard about it.
And so, that very evening.
Minato mysteriously summoned Liumu to the Hokage Office.
"Do you remember the classified report about kekkei genkai we found in Kirigakure?"
Liumu nodded in confusion.
"Back when you captured Orochimaru and brought him back... oh, no, to be precise, Orochimaru had already slipped away by then."
Liumu: ...
"But you brought back his research findings too, didn't you? Together with Anko's testimony back then, they did prove that Orochimaru was experimenting on kekkei genkai."
Liumu was even more confused now.
"Why are you telling me all this?"
Minato seemed a little hesitant.
But he still said, "Actually, I wanted to ask whether you'd be interested in tutoring Muhan privately. After all..."
Liumu had told Minato and Jiraiya about how Muhan had frozen time and space at birth.
Only those four, including Han, knew about it.
What Minato had in mind amounted to