Chapter 70: Holy Crap, Vacuum Seal
"That was close. Almost triggered an even bigger butterfly effect."
Inside a Rain Country cave, Yoru placed Tsunade—whose breathing had grown extremely weak—on the ground. One hand retrieved collected antidote while the other pried open her mouth, pouring liquid inside.
Worried one dose couldn't completely eliminate toxins, Yoru directly administered two doses.
Fortunately Tsunade retained swallowing consciousness. The antidote didn't spill out.
Watching her throat roll slightly as she slowly swallowed, Yoru couldn't help sighing.
If not for his caution—immediately using sensory techniques after detecting the tremor.
Discovering powerful chakra fluctuations moving at high speed underground, he'd immediately used intangibility and the Flying Thunder God Technique to rescue her.
If he'd been even seconds slower, Tsunade would truly have died.
One could only say Tsunade's fate wasn't sealed.
If Ame shinobi hadn't carried antidote, or if Yoru hadn't mastered the Flying Thunder God Technique, even rescuing her would have merely extended her life briefly.
Speaking of which, precisely because Yoru mastered the Flying Thunder God Technique, this entire butterfly effect chain triggered.
Thinking of those unrecovered Flying Thunder God kunai and stones, plus performing Flying Thunder God rescue before Hanzo of the Salamander, Yoru could already predict that the Second Shinobi World War would completely deviate from original history.
As this war's greatest variable, Yoru was destined to take the shinobi world stage early.
Calculating time, Yoru murmured: "Four months remaining. Hope it comes this year. Otherwise it'll be a full five years. Surely not six-year intervals?"
Words barely spoken, Yoru's expression suddenly froze.
He'd thought of critical information!
After evolution ended, only portions of Yoru's cells could extract Space-Time power.
Unlike regular chakra, which could be extracted from all one hundred thirty trillion cells.
That evolution seemingly replaced portions of Yoru's cells with new cells.
The update timing happened when Yoru was six years old.
This inevitably reminded Yoru of cellular renewal cycles—also six to seven years.
If his speculation proved true, then "Time's Gift" might still not come this year but rather guarantee six-year intervals.
The more Yoru thought, the more likely this seemed. His lips couldn't help twitching slightly.
Raising his hand to touch his chest cavity, Yoru suddenly really wanted to return and kiss Kushina Uzumaki.
Without this wealthy patron, he'd still lack any sense of security even now.
"Hm? What's happening?"
Just as Yoru prepared to retrieve military rations pills to recover his depleted Space-Time chakra, he suddenly seemed to notice something, reflexively looking down at Tsunade on the ground.
After drinking antidote, Tsunade not only hadn't awakened—her body actually trembled slightly.
Removing his forehead protector, Yoru touched Tsunade's forehead, discovering low body temperature plus heavy cold sweat.
"No fever. Damn... this is excessive blood loss!"
Cave lighting proved extremely dim. Having just focused on administering antidote, Yoru hadn't noticed Tsunade bore a long blade wound bleeding profusely.
Yoru reflexively wanted to use the Flying Thunder God Technique, sending Tsunade back to the border base or Konoha Hospital.
Then an awkward situation emerged.
The earlier two teleports plus one person-carrying teleport had exhausted Yoru's final 15% Space-Time chakra.
Unless he released the Yin Seal, consuming Space-Time chakra kept as trump card, Yoru needed time recovering Space-Time chakra.
Not very familiar with Tsunade, Yoru didn't particularly want using this trump card, much less wanting public opinion's influence.
Thus Yoru carried Tsunade to the light source, preparing to examine her injuries before deciding.
Removing her jonin vest, underneath Tsunade wore neither black skintight combat suit nor black mesh chainmail, but rather very ordinary white undershirt.
Since the vest proved extremely heavy, it could conceal Tsunade's figure.
Now armor removed, that magnificent spectacle immediately presented itself.
"Holy shit, those are huge!"
Yoru received tremendous shock, unable to resist using his hometown dialect for amazement.
Though knowing the two-dimensional world's premium beauties all possessed extremely exaggerated figures, even capable of defying gravity—making Newton unable to resist jumping from his coffin shouting "This isn't scientific!"
This lifetime marked Yoru's first time personally witnessing such.
Indeed, only incorrectly chosen names exist, never incorrectly called nicknames.
Konoha's Legendary Sucker—reputation well-deserved!
However, seeing that vicious wound extending from left shoulder to right waist, Yoru quickly collected his thoughts, beginning examination.
Soon, Yoru breathed relief: "Ribs not severed, internal organs unharmed, wound contains no toxins—merely external injury."
Not serious injury meant easy handling.
Thus Yoru gently tore clothing congealed by blood, stuck to the wound, preparing to use medical ninjutsu treating Tsunade.
As clothing tore open a modest opening, revealing slight radiance, Yoru discovered an astonishing point. His eyes widened involuntarily as words escaped: "Holy crap, vacuum seal!"
Yoru couldn't resist giving unconscious Tsunade a thumbs up.
Coming on infiltration dressed like this—seriously badass!
Forming seals to create green light covering his palm, Yoru treated Tsunade.
Yoru lacked Mystical Palm Technique training scrolls capable of simultaneously treating external and internal injuries while rapidly healing wounds. However, his chakra control plus not-insignificant Yang Release chakra proved completely sufficient for treating Tsunade's external injury.
When Yoru's regular chakra neared depletion, that vicious wound on Tsunade's body had closed, recovering to only a faint scar remaining.
This scar—perhaps difficult for others to eliminate.
But for medically skilled Tsunade, multiple methods should exist for handling it.
Thus Yoru covered her body with the jonin vest, then retrieved stacks of explosive tags and colored cloth, exiting the cave to set traps before returning to consume military rations pills, simultaneously guarding Tsunade while recovering both regular chakra and Space-Time chakra.
Perhaps having inhaled excessive toxins, or perhaps due to severe blood loss, Tsunade remained unconscious over five hours before awakening.
During this time, Yoru had long since recovered to full capacity, completely capable of bringing Tsunade back to the border base.
But after checking Tsunade's injuries and discovering stability, Yoru again abandoned this idea.
After all, the injured unconscious person proved no nameless nobody but rather the First Hokage's granddaughter, Fire Country's princess, the shinobi world's renowned Tsunade-hime.
Sometimes certain idiots simply wouldn't consider who was right or wrong, only thinking: Tsunade-sama collapsed unconscious while you remained unharmed—definitely your problem! You certainly dragged down Tsunade-sama!
White Fang of Konoha's death, plus Naruto Uzumaki's childhood—these idiots caused both tragedies.
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