"Time’s up. Even though you were uo nd an attae, I still got a good idea of your offense. Now it’s time to test your defense."

  ‘This brat... Even handling him alone is getting hard, and now he wants to use shadow es. No ce,’ Jiraiya thought.

  That’s why he stopped the test before the full 10 minutes were up. It wasn’t like he would lose to Kaida, but he had already said that he would only defend and not attaow, if Kaida used five shadow es, there was a very high ce that either he would subsciously attack them or that Kaida would nd an atta him. Both could be sidered a loss for someone like him—a Sannin who had participated in two great ninja wars and done hundreds of S-rank missions. Beied by a 10-year-old boy would be quite ironid shameful.

  Kaida also felt that he should still have one minute remaining. Since he had practiced in the hospital for so long and even pleted so many operations, he had developed a very keen sense of time. Even though there was no clo the training area, Kaida could somehow ‘feel’ that he still had 1–2 minutes left.

  But sihis wasn’t a spar and there was no way he could even think of defeating someone who had almost beaten one of the stro existences in the world, Nagato, without knowing his full power at all—at least not yet—he let go of his thoughts and focused on the est.

  "For your defense, I will attack you now for a full five minutes. Use every means necessary to stay scious until the end of the test," Jiraiya said.

  "Sensei, how could I defend against you?" Kaida asked.

  "You’re uimating yourself too much. Also, I’m not going to go all out anyway. I just want to check your level so we work to improve it," Jiraiya replied.

  "Okay, Sensei," Kaida said, dispersing his es. His chakra, which was already down to 40% after all that attag, replenished a little, returning to about 60%.

  Kaida turned on his Sharingan, still active, and made two shadow es once again.

  "I’m ready, Sensei," Kaida said.

  "Okay then, here I e," Jiraiya said, suddenly disappearing from his position. Only a ninja at the Jonin level her could react to an attack of that speed. And even this wasn’t Jiraiya’s full power—just 5%, barely enough to check Kaida’s defense level and not actally kill him.

  But since his attack was still at a level only a Jonin could deted evade, Kaida, with his 3-tomoe Sharingan activated, could easily see through it.

  Before Jiraiya could nd a pun Kaida’s chest, Kaida evaded to the side and terattacked with a punch aimed at Jiraiya’s ribs.

  Startled by the sudden attack, Jiraiya almost took the hit before his instincts kicked in, and he used the Body Flicker Jutsu to evade.

  "The best defense is a good offense. Good choice," Jiraiya said. Seeing that a Jonin-level attack wasn’t enough, he increased his offensive power to twice what it was before.

  Kaida could sehe danger increasing. He was sure that if he took a single punow, his bones would break. So, using all his strength, he began evading oack after another while his es stood on the sidelines, watg.

  Seeing that even this wasn’t enough, Jiraiya raised his strength output to the peak elite Jonin level, a threshold only araordinary ninja could achieve. With Jiraiya’s battle IQ added, it became almost impossible for Kaida to defend against each of his attacks.

  Just wheack finally slipped past Kaida’s defense, one of his shadow es disappeared from its position and appeared between Jiraiya and Kaida. The punch, which was aimed at Kaida’s belly, was intercepted by the e. Though it dispersed, Kaida mao evade the blow.

  He quickly used the Body Flicker Jutsu to create some distaween them. Jiraiya wasn’t going to give him time to rest, but Kaida khat too, and so did his es. One of them drew a sword hidden behind its bad charged at Jiraiya.

  The e khere was no way it could defeat Jiraiya, but that wasn’t its goal. Its objective was to defend and stall for time while Kaida reguted his breathing to recover from the fatigue he had built up in the past three minutes.

  Normally, Kaida could run for 4–5 hours, but this was different. Evading attacks, especially ones of such power, required much more stamina than simple exercise.

  After 30 seds, the e dispersed, and Jiraiya ran toward Kaida again.

  ‘It held him off lohan I expected,’ Kaida thought as he evaded atack. But this time, Jiraiya wasn’t limiting his strength to the elite Jonin level. It was already at low Kage level, using chakra to enhance his speed and power.

  It became almost impossible for Kaida to stop Jiraiya’s attaow.

  And then the iable happened. Oack, a feint aimed at his faded on his chest, sending him flying back several meters. Kaida felt his ribs breaking.

  ‘Holding back, my ass! He’s trying to kill me for sure,’ Kaida thought as bck markings started appearing on his body.

  In a blink, his wounds began to heal. Before he hit the ground, most of the pain was gone. He flipped in mid-air and nded on his feet instead of his back.

  Mitotic Regeion Seal.

  Now that it had e to this, there was o hold back. Sihe seal was already activated, he no longer had to. He poured all his chakra into increasing his speed and strength, pushing himself beyond normal limits. At this level, the backsh from the attacks would hurt the user too. If the strike nded on the enemy, both Kaida’s and the oppo’s bones would break. Most people instinctively avoided this level of enha, but Kaida didn’t care.

  He disappeared from his position and reappeared in front of Jiraiya within milliseds, almost as if he had used a jutsu. His legs screamed in pain from the strain, most likely sustaining a minor fracture, but the wound healed in seds.

  With all his strength, Kaida threunch at Jiraiya. But this time, Jiraiya stopped holding bad caught Kaida’s fist with his hand.

  Even though Kaida used his full power, Jiraiya was still pushed back slightly.

  "Okay, that’s enough. Also, why are you using such a crude version of this jutsu? It speeds up your cell division, shortening your lifespan," Jiraiya asked.