"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.

  "Sehis is all I have. Two fuinjutsu grandmasters and Mitsuru Sensei herself crafted these seals on me. Acc to Sehis is the best version she knows. I know it’s inferior to what Lady Tsunade uses, but it's still better than nothing, right?" Kaida asked with a smile, though his emotions inside were in turmoil.

  'This is an inferior version? My broken bones are almost pletely healed within a minute, and the pain stopped as soon as the healing started. This is the first time I’ve felt like a true ninja. Is this how Guy feels when he uses Taijutsu? I want to learn it.'

  "Sensei is really sg off too much," Jiraiya sighed.

  A fused expression appeared on Kaida’s face. Seeing that, Jiraiya tinued,

  "Even though he doesn’t know the perfect version of the jutsu like Tsunade, he could have made it 30% more effit just by himself. Sigh, looks like my work has increased. Now I have to repair this damage caused by others too," Jiraiya said.

  "Sensei..." Kaida started but stopped midway.

  "What is it?"

  "I want to ask a question I’ve had in my mind," Kaida said.

  "Go ahead."

  "Since you modify this seal and make it better, does that mean you're better than two fuinjutsu grandmasters bined?"

  "You could say that," Jiraiya replied in a proud tone.

  "Then I have a question about modifying the seal. Sihis seal is providing chakra to the healing seals in the body, we use that chakra to perform jutsu or something simir?" Kaida asked.

  "No, that chakra is sent to your body through a predefined path, avoiding your chakra work. If they collide in any way, you’ll lose your ability to use chakra entirely. Now, if you want to use it to perform jutsu, that would mean providing that chakra directly to your chakra work. There are better and less painful ways to it suicide than that," Jiraiya replied.

  "Then if we ’t use it for jutsu, is there still a ce to use it for increasing strength and speed like we do with normal chakra?" Kaida asked, already expeg the answer.

  "Yes, if you had infinite chakra, that is. This jutsu save your life in dire times, and chakra is crucial for that. If you use chakra to increase your strength, not only will it waste six out of ten parts of chakra in the process, but you’ll also ck chakra when you most," Jiraiya expined.

  "But in cases where my life isn’t in danger, and I need extra strength while maintaining my chakra reserves for other things, wouldn’t it e in handy?" Kaida asked.

  "Didn’t you hear how ineffit it is? You’ll be wasting chakra like crazy for just a slight increase in strength," Jiraiya said.

  "But during an emergency, I’ll have extra chakra and, with that, ara the fight. Also, I ’t just rely on the healing part of this seal—I really like my lifespan, Sensei," Kaida added with an awkward ugh.

  "........." Jiraiya went silent for a minute.

  "Um, Sensei, was my request too absurd?" Kaida asked, seeing how Jiraiya was silent for so long.

  "It’s not absurd. The absurd thing is that it actually makes sense. Havira chakra to deal with weak but numerous enemies would be quite a boon. Why the hell hasn’t ahought of this before?" Jiraiya said.

  "Maybe because no oher than Lady Tsunade uses this jutsu, and she already has high chakra reserves. With her near-perfect Mitotic Regeion Jutsu, she doesn’t o waste that much chakra," Kaida suggested.

  "You’ve been thinking about this for quite some time, huh? You already have so many theories, even though you’ve just learhis jutsu," Jiraiya remarked.

  "Yes, Sensei, but I’ve been training to learn this jutsu for months. During that time, it was just wishful thinking, but now, with your help, I wao know if some of those things are possible or not," Kaida expined.

  "Well, the ces aren’t zero. I’ll have to sult with Sensei about some of the details, but it should be possible for you to use the chakra in the seal for strength augmentation.

  But let me tell you, if I hadn’t stopped you and we had tihe fight for one more mi that same iy, you’d have lost oo two months of your lifespan—at least. You could reach S-rank for a while, but always measure whether the situation is worth that sacrifice, okay?" Jiraiya advised.

  "Yes, Sensei," Kaida replied.

  'With the damage I’m sustaining during that chakra-enharength usage, oo two months is on the lower side. But it wasn’t pletely without reason. I wao know my true peak power.

  If I use the seal with chakra-enharength to strike with a sword ssh loaded with fire chakra, that would truly be a frightening attack. Even a low Kage-level ninja’s defense would shatter in front of it. Though the ce of using it against them is slim, because while my attack power increases expoially, my trol over the attack decreases siderably. Well, it’s a fair trade, I think,' Kaida thought.

  "Apart from the topic of whether we should improve the seal or not, let’s return to the main point. With this, I know the basic idea of your offense and defense, both of which are at Elite Jonin level. And when I say this,

  it’s quite a pliment because even some heads or minor s in Konoha aren’t at that level in both offense and defense. But there’s one point where you g behind them, and every one of them could defeat you easily—unless you use that seal or your Sharingan. you guess what that is?" Jiraiya asked.

  "Battle IQ," Kaida replied, already knowing the answer.

  "Yes. From what I tell, you haven’t participated in actual fights against strong oppos. Most of yhting style es from friendly spars, which isn’t bad, but now, with this level of strength, you need some battle awareoo. If not for time straints, I would’ve loved to take you on a world tour. You’d have learned many things and gaihe experience you need," Jiraiya said.

  "Sensei, do you even fight enemy ninja when you go on tours?" Kaida asked.

  "Well, they’re not always vacations. Most of the time, they’re orders from Sensei (Hiruzen) himself. But the enemy ninja you're talking about are different from the ones I fight.

  There are many small-time anizations, like the bandit vilge you and the Uchiha are f. Such anizations are normally guarded by top-level batants, and if left alohey make life hell for the on people. That’s why I eliminate such groups too," Jiraiya expined.

  "The bandit vilge isn’t like that, Sehey’re people who were forced to bee bandits and had a ce to atone for their wrongdoing. That’s why I chose to spare their lives and give them a sed ce. We’ve altered their memories too. Now, they’ll just live like normal vilgers and won’t revert to how they were," Kaida said, feeling a bit unfortable being pared to such people.

  "I know, Kaida. Otherwise, the vilge would have taken a long before your parted. I was just giving an example, not paring the two. But as, a world tour isn’t feasible in just one month. So, for the month, this will be your battlefield.

  I’ll teach you in the m, and we’ll spar iernoon. You won’t use that seal of yours during our spar. Then, in the evening, we’ll work on the shortings you show in the spar. Until I find a way to modify your seal, this will be our schedule," Jiraiya expined.

  "But Sensei, you said I have these shortings because I’ve only had friendly spars with others and not actual fights. So how is this any different from that?" Kaida asked. Then he suddenly felt a chill, even though the area was warm and cozy.

  "Don’t worry, this won’t be a ‘friendly’ spar like you’ve had until now," Jiraiya said with a smile. But to Kaida, it didn’t look like a friendly smile—it looked like the hospital was already preparing a bed for him.