While creating his own unique Flying Thunder God Mark, Seimei had considered multiple condensed Kanji expressions.
He didn't want something as tacky as the "Sword of Ninja Love." Just thinking about it made him cringe hard on the spot.
Namikaze Minato, the fourth Hokage in the original Narutoverse, was great at everything except for naming things.
He was a great man.
He was a brilliant Ninja.
He was a compassionate leader of Konoha.
He was a loving husband.
He was a great innovator of Ninjutsu.
However, his naming sense was absolutely trash-tier.
For example, if not for Jiraiya and Kushina's intervention, he would have ended up naming his original technique, Rasengan, this: Halo Frozen Dessert Hair Whorl Jiraiya Twin Formula Sphere.
Long. Tacky. Ridiculous. Absolutely unbelievable.
Well, now that he had already been transmigrated into this alternative Narutoverse and stolen…cough cough…invented Rasengan early on, this Jutsu would no longer have to bear such a ridiculously long and tacky name, even for a second.
But hey, as compensation, he would teach Rasengan to Minato when he began his career as a Ninja.
Of course, that was if Namikaze Minato was truly born in this alternative world after all the mess his existence had created.
Back to the main topic, Seimei thought long and hard about the Kanji characters he would like to form after condensing the Flying Thunder God Mark.
After all, that phrase would be tied to his reputation after he grew up and gained more fame as a Shinobi, which was inevitable since he planned to create more mess to protect Konoha during the future Shinobi World Wars.
At first, he thought about borrowing Almight's famous dialogue from the My Hero Academia anime series that he watched in his previous life.
The dialogue was: Have No Fear!! For I Am Here!!!
But he quickly shot it down.
In most cases, his Flying Thunder God Kunai bearing his mark would fly to suppress and kill the enemies.
Sure, he might also be protecting his fellow Konoha ninjas and occasionally guarding a few cities from harm during his life.
But he was no hero.
He wouldn't be guarding civilians in his missions. That was the job of the nobles, their independent ninja forces, and hundreds of thousands of Samurai of the Fire Country.
He was a Shinobi. His world was small.
He would protect others if he had time. And even when he would do that, it could be because of Bandit Subjugation or Chakra Beast Extermination missions.
But in most cases, his aid would be limited to the fellow Konoha ninjas.
However, most importantly, Almight's dialogue wasn't impactful enough.
If he was going to throw Flying Thunder God kunai at his enemies anyway, he might as well make the condensed mark mean something so insulting that it would make them angry enough to vomit blood.
Yeah, anything that could make the enemies' blood pressure rise during a life-and-death battle or an ambush was always a good thing to use.
So, after racking his brain, he finally chose to condense this phrase as his Flying Thunder God Mark: Your Father is Here!
Perfect. Absolutely perfect.
Still, before his Flying Thunder God Mark could make enemies' blood pressure rise, his father, Senju Tobirama, might drag him to train and bestow some 'tough fatherly love.'
But that was okay.
He, Seimei, was already used to it.
He would heal later anyway.
Now, since he had already condensed his own Flying Thunder God Mark, it was time to test the limit of his spatial awareness.
His spatial talent was already remarkable. According to his father, Tobirama, after condensing his first Flying Thunder God Mark, it took him nearly a day to sense the spatial coordinate of the mark with his spatial sense.
And that was already excellent.
According to Tobirama's theory, how fast you could sense the spatial coordinate of your Flying Thunder God Mark was directly proportional to the degree of your spatial talent.
Even if a Shinobi became a Fuinjutsu Grandmaster and crafted his own Flying Thunder God Mark, if he couldn't sense his mark's spatial coordinate within a month, his spatial talent wasn't enough to completely learn the Flying Thunder God Technique.
If the ninjas already struggled to sense the spatial coordinate of the Flying Thunder God Mark right next to them, how could they develop their spatial awareness to detect the mark's location a few kilometers away?
Even developing their spatial awareness for their entire lifetime might not be enough.
And that was just the first step.
That was exactly why no one other than Senju Tobirama had learned the technique proficiently enough to use it during lethal combat.
Some had spatial talent, but their reaction time and reflexes weren't fast enough.
Some had lightning-fast reflexes, but abysmal spatial talent.
But most people had neither enough spatial talent nor fast enough reflexes.
And that wasn't even the most depressing part.
Even if Tobirama unearthed a talented Shinobi with enough spatial talent and fast reflexes, their talent in Fuinjutsu wasn't enough to reach the Grandmaster level.
Without becoming a Fuinjutsu Grandmaster, you could forget about even condensing your Flying Thunder God Mark.
Finding a genius like Namikaze Minato, who ticked all the boxes, was abysmally low, akin to finding a needle in a haystack.
You could only have an unexpected encounter with them, not actively find them.
Seimei could only say that in the original Narutoverse, Konoha's fortune was off the charts to make someone like Namikaze Minato pick this horrifyingly difficult S-rank technique that almost no one mastered apart from its original creator, Senju Tobirama.
Otherwise, what were the chances of Minato, a promising ninja with a bright future, ever picking an S-rank technique like the Flying Thunder God Technique, which was notorious enough to be impossible to master without space-time talent and Fuinjutsu Grandmaster-level capability, as a reward?
With such luck and opportunities, it was hard not to think of Namikaze Minato as some kind of child of destiny.
Perhaps Naruto's protagonist aura was too bright, leading to Minato's and Kushina's untimely death.
After all, what kind of protagonist could you even be if you weren't an orphan, shunned by the crowd, suffered from mental abuse severe enough to make you depressed, and only had expired milk to eat?
Yeah, the pressure of being a protagonist was too heavy.
Didn't you see? The luck and protagonist aura of Naruto was so heavy that it even suppressed Minato's own protagonist aura.
The same Minato, who despite being very lucky, having a wealthy girlfriend, and being the fastest ninja of the era, still ended up being too late to protect his students, comrades, and loved ones?
That's some real protagonist aura for ya!
Only Seimei knew how many times he thanked the gods for not being stamped by the [Protagonist] and the [Child of Destiny] title after his transmigration.
He was just an ordinary transmigrator with a simple system. He wasn't ready for this protagonist shit!
Fortunately, Seimei, a transmigrator with the Otsutsuki bloodline, could sense the spatial coordinate of his Flying Thunder God Mark almost instantly.
He had a prodigious space-time talent. And that was amazing.
Looking at his Flying Thunder God Mark with provocative Kanji, Seimei couldn't help but nod in satisfaction.
"Now, I just need to test the initial range of my spatial awareness and develop it further using the method mentioned in father's notes."
"Easy!"
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