Chapter 26 (Patreon)

“Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have entered the second stage of the Limiter.”

“Ding! Physical potential fully released. Muscles, blood, nerves, and five senses have been greatly strengthened.”

In that instant, Yujiro felt the entire world slow down.

No.

It was not that the world had slowed.

His reaction speed, nerves, and thoughts had become faster.

His muscles, blood, and nerves all adapted at once.

“Ding! Super Perception, Recovery, and Reaction have been activated.”

At that moment, Yujiro felt every cell in his body come alive.

Even the slightest movement around him could no longer escape his senses.

This level of perception was almost comparable to activating the Three-Tomoe Sharingan.

Combined with his enhanced recovery and reaction speed, the pressure brought by those attacks vanished from Yujiro’s eyes in an instant.

Feeling the violent energy surging through his body to the extreme, Yujiro raised his head and looked at the three ninjutsu rushing toward him.

He pulled back the black blade.

Then, he clenched his right fist.

One punch.

A fearless, straight-moving punch blasted forward with full force.

Boom!

BOOM!

In an instant, a deafening explosion roared through the sky.

The three fire dragons and the shuriken wrapped in flames were blown apart at once.

The shuriken were sent flying back in the direction they had come from.

As for the lightning tiger, it was shattered directly, turning into scattered sparks of lightning before disappearing without a trace.

The second stage of the Limiter.

Terrifying.

And this was only pure physical strength.

Yujiro had not even mixed chakra into it yet.

In the distance, Shisui and Kakashi stared in shock.

They were shaken beyond words.

The storm had not yet settled. At least a dozen nearby trees had been destroyed by the shockwave.

Only after a while did the momentum slowly weaken.

Finally, everything returned to calm.

Yujiro exhaled deeply.

The second-stage state...

It really was powerful.

After releasing the second stage, Yujiro felt his body tremble slightly.

He quickly planted his blade in front of himself and quietly recovered his strength.

It was powerful.

Ridiculously powerful.

But in the end, he had only just entered the second stage.

If he used it a few more times, Yujiro might really faint on the spot.

Still, the exhaustion he had imagined was not as severe as expected.

Most of that was probably thanks to the insane training he put himself through every day.

“Yujiro, are you okay?”

Uzuki Yugao hurried over to his side and looked at him worriedly.

“I’m fine. I just used up some stamina.”

Yujiro smiled casually.

At the same time, he began to feel the benefits brought by the second stage of the Limiter.

With his enhanced recovery, his stamina was already beginning to return.

At most, he would probably recover in ten minutes.

“Yujiro, you really are amazing,” Uzuki Yugao said with admiration after seeing that he was fine.

“It’s nothing.”

Yujiro was not being humble.

He had never truly thought of himself as powerful.

After all, there were still plenty of people in the ninja world who could kill him.

Until he became the strongest in the ninja world, he would never say something like that about himself.

At that moment, Shisui quickly arrived with Itachi and Kakashi on his back.

“Yujiro, are you okay?” Shisui asked worriedly.

“I’m fine.” Yujiro smiled.

The black training clothes on his body were a little torn, and dust covered parts of him.

This was the first time since they had started training together that Yujiro had ended up looking like this.

“Yujiro, you’re seriously... a monster,” Kakashi clicked his tongue and looked him up and down.

Only after confirming that Yujiro was really fine did he continue.

“There’s no one like you. The more you fight, the stronger you get. Then you fight again, and somehow you get even stronger.”

Kakashi was deeply shaken by Yujiro.

Shisui might not fully understand it yet, but Kakashi did.

A few months ago, when he first met Yujiro, the guy had still been struggling through basic physical training.

And now...

He had destroyed a combined ninjutsu attack with one punch.

Even if it consumed a lot of energy, this level of strength was enough to make anyone feel awe.

If Kakashi had been in Yujiro’s position earlier, he could not guarantee that he would have survived those attacks the same way.

By then, Yujiro’s stamina had recovered somewhat.

After turning off the second stage, he checked his personal attributes.

【Host: Yujiro】

【Attributes: Lightning, Wind】

【Chakra: 3000 — Jōnin Level】

【Limiter: Level 2】

【Progress Toward Level 3: 0.0%】

【The normal Level 2 state can be activated once progress reaches 50%.】

【Current Goal: Continue pushing physical and attribute limits without restriction.】

【New Goal: Practice ninjutsu, strengthen ninjutsu, and train the body to its limit.】

Looking at the new goal, Yujiro could not help clicking his tongue.

Swordsmanship was only one of his skills.

Ninjutsu also had to be learned properly.

Only by combining swordsmanship and ninjutsu could he become even stronger.

That made things more challenging.

By now, it was already around three or four in the afternoon.

Today’s training ended early.

Yujiro knew that blindly pushing himself all the time was not always ideal.

Proper relaxation was also part of training.

Itachi was unconscious, so Shisui took him away first.

It was only because he had consumed too much chakra, so there was no real danger.

Kakashi shamelessly followed Yujiro back home.

Yujiro could also tell that the knot in Kakashi’s heart had loosened.

Especially after unlocking the second stage of the Limiter, he seemed to be able to sense something more fundamental from people.

A faint warmth had begun to appear around Kakashi.

The cold Kakashi of the past was slowly becoming history.

The current Kakashi was about to evolve into a seemingly serious but actually unreliable Konoha ninja.

Yujiro felt helpless.

Cold Kakashi and unserious Kakashi...

Both versions seemed troublesome in their own way.

Still, Yujiro did not care too much.

After all, this was Kakashi.