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I have found some credence in Boruto using Lightning Release for his VR.

According to a 2013 article from The Washington Post, scientists have discovered that, Sometimes its [lightning] flashes are invisible, just sudden pulses of unexpectedly powerful radiation." Joseph Dwyer, a lightning researcher at the Florida Institute of Technology, coined the term describing the phenomenon as dark lightning. Click here to read the full article

Here are some more articles about dark lightning: This what they might have been going for. Even though it now makes some sense for Boruto using LR for the VR, I still don't like it because it's more convoluted than simply using WR.
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