Chapter 236 Bird
Chapter 236 Bird
Konoha Training Ground.
"Zzzzzzz—!!!"
A sharp sound, like a thousand birds chirping in unison, echoed across the training ground.
Kakashi Hatake crouched on the ground, his left hand gripping his wrist tightly, while a dazzling ball of lightning gathered in his right palm.
The lightning was extremely unstable, flickering wildly in his hand.
"This is a newly developed ninjutsu!"
Kakashi's eyes were sharp, revealing a fierce edge.
"I call him—Chidori!"
"boom!"
The ground beneath his feet shattered, and he shot forward like a bolt of lightning at a speed too fast for the naked eye to follow, hurtling toward a boulder.
That's incredibly fast!
It was so fast that even Kakashi himself could only see the lines formed by the surrounding scenery.
However, just as he was about to hit the target, Kakashi's vision was affected by the tunneling effect due to the extreme speed, and the edges of his field of vision became blurred.
He didn't notice that there was a protruding tree root under his feet.
"Snap—"
Even the slightest deviation during high-speed movement can be fatal.
Kakashi slipped, and the Chidori in his hand deviated from its original trajectory.
"Sizzle—!!!"
The lightning grazed the boulder and slammed into Obito's feet, who was watching the scene unfold, creating a large, charred crater.
"Waaaaaah!!"
Obito was so frightened that he jumped onto Rin's back, his face turning pale.
"You idiot Kakashi! Do you want to kill me?! Where are you going to hit me?!"
"Cough cough..."
Kakashi got up from the ground, covered in dust, his headband askew, and the lightning in his hand had dissipated.
He looked at the crater that was completely off-target, then at his right hand which was still trembling slightly, and frowned.
"It's off-center again..."
"It's not just off-center."
Minato Namikaze appeared instantly in the arena, his expression serious.
"Kakashi, this move is indeed very powerful, and the thrust speed is fast enough, but..."
Minato pointed to his eyes.
"Your dynamic vision can't keep up with your body speed. At that speed, you'll develop tunnel vision, making it impossible to see the enemy's counterattack or react to unexpected situations."
"This is an unfinished technique, and a suicidal one at that."
Kakashi clenched his fists, somewhat unwillingly: "But teacher, if only it were a little faster..."
"Even if it goes fast, you won't be able to see it clearly."
Minato sighed, then, as if remembering something, a smile appeared on his lips.
"However, it's not like there's no way to solve it."
He patted Kakashi on the shoulder and pointed in the direction of the research institute.
"Go find Che."
"Can he help me solve this problem?" Kakashi wondered.
Minato held up one finger and smiled: "Che always has a way."
"By the way, come to my office later and report on the task from last time."
After saying that, Minato disappeared with a "bang". His main body was too busy to guide his disciples. It was already the limit for him to be able to send a clone over.
"Hey, Kakashi! You did that on purpose, didn't you?!"
Obito finally got off Rin's back, and angrily rushed up to Kakashi, pointing at the crater in the ground.
"You almost hit my handsome face!"
"That was a mistake." Kakashi dusted himself off, too lazy to pay him any attention. "I'm going to the research institute."
"I'm going too!" Obito snorted. "I'm going to see what kind of tricks Nishikawa-senpai can pull off. If he also says your technique is useless, I'll laugh at you for a whole year!"
Although Obito verbally mocked Kakashi, he actually envied Kakashi's talent, being able to develop such powerful ninjutsu at such a young age.
Lin smiled helplessly and followed, saying, "Alright, alright, let's go together."
……
At the Konoha Science Research Institute, Nishikawa Tetsu returned to his long-unused office after a day of running around outside, and also had the opportunity to meet the elusive Dean Orochimaru.
"Is your dynamic vision not keeping up?"
Nishikawa Tetsu sat in a swivel chair, holding a glass of iced cola. After listening to Kakashi's description, he didn't show much surprise. Instead, he gently shook the ice cubes in the glass, making a crisp clinking sound.
"This is normal. There is a delay in human retinal imaging. When you move faster than a certain threshold, the brain cannot process the image quickly enough, resulting in a situation where you 'can't see clearly'."
He took a sip of his cola and said casually:
"Actually, Minato also had this kind of trouble back then."
"What?!"
Kakashi suddenly raised his head, and for the first time, an expression of disbelief appeared in his dead fish eyes.
In his mind, Minato Namikaze represents the pinnacle of speed, so how could the yellow flash possibly obscure his vision?
"Teacher... has he encountered this problem too?" Kakashi pressed eagerly. "How did he solve it?"
"It relies on scientific training and intelligence."
Nishikawa Tetsu put down his cola and drew a circle in the air with one finger.
"Back then, to help him overcome this problem, I proposed a training scheme called Dynamic Visual Countermeasures."
"When humans move at high speeds, their eyes instinctively try to focus on a point directly in front of them, which is the root cause of the tunneling effect. The more you try to see the target clearly, the narrower your field of vision becomes."
Nishikawa Tetsuya, seeing Kakashi deep in thought, continued to explain:
"Minato's approach back then was to abandon using the center of his eyes to observe, and instead force himself to use his peripheral vision and chakra to perceive."
"Peripheral vision?" Obito, listening from the side, was completely confused. "What's that? Looking at people out of the corner of your eye? Isn't that just looking sideways?"
"Shut up, you idiot." Kakashi glared at Obito, then quickly turned back to Nishikawa Tetsu. "Please continue."
"Simply put, it means not focusing on one point, but using your peripheral vision to perceive the overall spatial changes."
Nishikawa Tetsu casually picked up a small black and white striped ball from the table and tossed it in his hand.
"At the time, I made a lot of pebbles with black and white stripes, and Fugaku-senpai used his Sharingan to throw them. Minato, on the other hand, had to overcome the strong visual residual interference from the black and white stripes while sprinting at high speed to catch those pebbles."
"Through this hellish training, the brain is forced to reconstruct the way visual signals are processed, integrating vision, chakra perception, and hearing."
Kakashi listened intently, his hands unconsciously clenching into fists.
It turns out that the teacher's strength was not innate, but rather acquired through this almost abnormal training.
"I want to practice too!"
Kakashi's eyes were resolute as he stepped forward: "Nishikawa-senpai, please tell me the specific training methods!"
Nishikawa Tetsu looked Kakashi up and down and shook his head.
"I can certainly teach you the training methods, but that kind of training puts a huge strain on your body and is slow to show results."
"What should we do then?" Kakashi asked, somewhat unwilling to give up.
"Therefore, we need some technological means to assist you and help you transition."
Nishikawa Tetsu turned around, walked to the display case behind him, and rummaged through a pile of oddly shaped parts.
Generally speaking, there are two solutions to this problem.
Nishikawa Tetsu said as he searched:
"The first option is bio-modification. For example, transplanting an eye with extremely strong dynamic vision. But don't even think about it. Our research institute is a legitimate organization and does not conduct such illegal research."
Kakashi's lips twitched; he hadn't even considered getting his eyes replaced.
"Then there's only the second option left—technology assistance."
Nishikawa Tetsu turned around, holding a pair of goggles that looked a bit bulky.
These goggles are entirely black, with a faint honeycomb texture on the lenses. Several thin data cables are attached to both sides, leading to a small battery compartment.
"This is a biosignal capture aid."
Nishikawa Tetsu tossed the goggles to Kakashi.
"Through the display screen on the lens, the living creature is projected directly into your eyes as bright lines."
Simply put, it helps you "see" things you didn't have time to see.
Kakashi took the goggles and put them on his head with some hesitation.
The view changed instantly.
Everything around was shrouded in a faint blue light. Moving objects—such as Obito, who was secretly eating snacks nearby—had a red outline around them, and even Obito's chewing motion was broken down into several keyframes.
"So clear..." Kakashi exclaimed in surprise.
"Hey! Aren't these my goggles?!"
Obito pointed at the thing on Kakashi's face and protested loudly, "Isn't that a pair of goggles? We already have mine in our team, Kakashi, don't copy my design!"
"Shut up, this is high-tech. How can it be the same as your goggles?"
Kakashi adjusted the straps, feeling a little uncomfortable, but his field of vision was indeed much wider.
"Let's go to the test field and give it a try."
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