Chapter 255 Game Time
Chapter 255 Game Time
"Minato-nii, are you ready? I'm going to close my eyes now!"
Kana Uzumaki was wearing a light red training outfit, her hands covering her eyes, her red twin tails swaying behind her head.
She shouted loudly, her voice filled with anticipation for the new game.
"Ready, Kana. Remember the rules: don't use your eyes to see, use your chakra to sense."
Minato Namikaze stood in the center of the courtyard, holding a specially made Flying Thunder God kunai in his hand.
Around him, on the artificial hill, tree branches, and by the pond in the courtyard, more than a dozen kunai markings with the Flying Thunder God technique had been placed in advance.
"Okay, okay! If I guess right five times, you have to take me to try the new limited-edition daifuku!"
Kana skillfully negotiated the terms.
"No problem, as long as you guess right." Minato smiled gently, then his eyes narrowed and his chakra began to circulate.
"here we go."
"Whoosh!"
A golden flash exploded in the courtyard, and Minato's figure vanished instantly.
Almost simultaneously, he appeared at the corner of the artificial hill. But the moment his toes touched the hill, before he could even catch his breath, he vanished again with a "whoosh," leaping onto a wooden stake by the pool.
This is a high-frequency, extremely short-duration continuous spatial jump.
For ordinary ninjas, such movement patterns are impossible to detect; they can only see golden afterimages everywhere in the courtyard.
Chanel's eyes were tightly closed, and her little face was scrunched up.
In her perceived world, it was initially a state of chaos.
Minato's chakra was like a golden firefly darting around, sometimes in the east, sometimes in the west, so fast that it dazzled her.
"Where...where..."
Kana bit her lip, trying to concentrate, and released her chakra outwards, sweeping across the entire courtyard like radar waves.
"Buzz—"
Suddenly, she sensed an extremely faint, discordant fluctuation in the air.
It wasn't the ripples of wind blowing through leaves, nor the ripples of koi swimming in a pond. It was the ripples created when space was torn apart and then instantly stitched back together.
"On the left! In the fork of that big cherry blossom tree!"
Chanel suddenly pointed her little finger to the left front and shouted loudly.
"Whoosh!"
Almost at the same moment she pointed, Minato's figure appeared on that tree branch.
Minato stood on a tree branch, looking at Kana, who was pointing at him with her eyes closed and without missing a single detail. A hint of undisguised shock flashed in his azure eyes.
the first time!
On her very first attempt, despite the high frequency of teleportation interference, she accurately pinpointed the landing point of his next jump!
Although he had gone a little too far, it was enough to prove that his and Nishikawa Tetsu's deduction was correct—this child's sensitivity to spatial ripples was ridiculously high!
"Did I guess right? Did I guess right?"
Kana couldn't wait to open one eye and peek out. When she saw that Minato was really standing on the tree, she immediately jumped up happily.
"Yes! I guessed right! On my first try!"
Minato jumped down from the tree, walked up to Kana, and ruffled her red hair.
"Kanna's great, but I'm going to speed things up now, are you ready?"
"Bring it on!" Kana confidently covered her eyes again.
For the next half hour, a unique game of hide-and-seek unfolded in the courtyard.
As the speed of the water gate jumps continues to increase, Kana's accuracy begins to decline.
Sometimes she was a beat too late in pointing out the direction, and sometimes she was misled by Minato's deliberate feints, such as throwing Kumo in different directions.
To Minato's relief, Kana was not discouraged by the failure; instead, she became even more enthusiastic.
Her chakra perception became increasingly acute through repeated cycles of "failure-adjustment-re-perception".
"Phew... the seventh time!"
Kana, panting, pointed to the stone sculpture in the center of the pool, "Minato-nii is over there!"
"Whoosh!"
The figure of Minato appeared on the stone carving. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and jumped down with a smile.
"Xiangna is amazing, her accuracy is already over 50%."
"Hehe, of course!" Chanel proudly raised her chin and stretched out her small hand. "Where's the promised daifuku?"
"It's here."
Minato moved his hands from behind his back to the front, and in his hands was an exquisite pastry box.
This was bought by Minato during a break from playing the game.
"Wow! Thank you, Minato-nii!"
With a cheer, Chanel grabbed the box and ran to the side corridor, sat cross-legged, and began to enjoy her spoils with great relish.
Watching Kana eat like a possessive little hamster, Minato shook his head helplessly.
He walked to the stone table next to him, where a set of wooden puzzles that Nishikawa Tetsu had sent over the day before was placed.
The surface of the puzzle was covered with dense, obscure black runes. These runes were the core spatial coordinate formulas of the Flying Thunder God Technique.
"Kana, after you've finished your daifuku, how about we play a new game?"
Minato picked up a puzzle piece, tossed it in his hand, and spoke with an enticing tone.
"A new game?" Kana, with half a mouthful of daifuku in her mouth, looked up, her eyes sparkling.
"Yes, it's called a puzzle treasure hunt."
Minato pointed to the luxurious multi-tiered food box on the table, which was locked by a special barrier and exuded an enticing aroma—it was a high-end dessert blind box specially ordered by Nishikawa Tetsu from the most expensive restaurant in the capital.
Of course, he was picked up and dropped off by some unknown blond driver.
"If you can arrange these wooden blocks into a complete pattern, all the desserts in that box are yours."
Chanel's gaze was instantly drawn to the luxurious food box, and she even forgot to chew the daifuku in her mouth.
"I want to play!"
She stuffed the remaining daifuku into her mouth, wiped her hands haphazardly, and ran to the stone table. Looking at the pile of wooden blocks that looked like scribbles, her little brows furrowed instantly.
"What...what are these drawings? They're so ugly."
"This is the password to the treasure map," Minato said seriously.
"Alright! For the treasure!"
Chanel rolled up her sleeves and began working diligently on a pile of puzzle pieces.
At first, she was just piecing things together randomly, trying to use brute force to press unrelated wooden blocks together.
But she soon discovered that the grain on these wooden blocks seemed to follow a peculiar pattern; only when two specific lines were connected would a faint attraction be generated between the wooden blocks.
"Huh? This winding line seems to be connected here..."
With her pen in her mouth, Chanel was completely immersed in the complex spatial magic structure without realizing it.
Minato stood to the side, watching Kana's focused profile, and secretly admired Nishikawa Tetsu's skillful methods.
Using desserts as bait, a restless little girl was persuaded to willingly decipher the most difficult sealing technique in the ninja world.
This kind of subtle muscle memory and visual memory is far more effective than forcing her to memorize by rote.
Minato looked at the falling petals in the courtyard, a hopeful smile playing on his lips.
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