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Even after suffering such severe injuries, Sakada was still able to speak. Tatsumi couldn't help but marvel at the other's tenacious will.
Sakada used the last of his strength to form a hand seal.
After completing the hand seal, Sakada could no longer hold on.
Suddenly, an even stronger tremor came from underground.
The A-rank Earth Release technique that Sakada had released earlier had not yet ended.
The most violent power, from the final hand seal formed by Sakada, was completely detonated.
All of his chakra was concentrated on the Earth Release.
The uncontrolled Earth Release completely erupted.
The entire ground began to shake, sink, and rise.
Tatsumi was like a small boat in the ocean.
Even more stone spikes rushed toward Tatsumi in an instant.
Tatsumi wanted to prop himself up. He tried for a few seconds, then helplessly lowered his arms.
He lay on the ground, gasping for breath. He had completely run out of chakra and strength.
Sakada had already died just now. His body lay beside Tatsumi.
After forming that hand seal, his life had also come to an end.
But before his death, his goal was achieved.
Kill Tatsumi!
Tatsumi opened his eyes and looked at the sky.
Night had already fallen. This forest had been completely destroyed. The temperature had also dropped further.
Tatsumi only felt that the ground was covered with countless sharp spikes.
Even if he could escape the siege of this Earth Release, the severe poison he had been afflicted with would take his life.
The pain, like maggots attached to bone, burrowed into every part of his body, tearing him apart from the outside in, and then from the inside out.
He felt his consciousness slowly weakening. Was this the taste of death?
Immediately, hallucinations appeared again.
The forest that had been destroyed disappeared.
He saw the village where he had lived for nine years.
His friends were waving at him.
Then the hallucination shifted, and Tatsumi seemed to see a figure slowly walking toward him.
—Tsunade?
As Tsunade slowly walked down from a distance, Tatsumi, who had seemed to have lost all feeling, suddenly regained it.
The pain also didn't seem as intense and sharp as before.
—Heavenly Foot of Pain!
Suddenly, a tremor even more violent than the Earth Release technique came.
That absolute force was enough to make the earth tremble. Even the stone spikes surrounding Tatsumi were instantly blasted into dust.
A huge crack burst forth in front of Tatsumi's body, directly tearing open the cage that confined him.
It also broke the A-rank Earth Release that Sakada had released before his death.
"Tsunade, hurry up and save him!" Orochimaru's hoarse voice came urgently.
Tatsumi, whose vision was already blurred, opened his eyes and found that he couldn't see anything.
Familiar voices came—it was Tsunade and Orochimaru.
It seemed that it wasn't a hallucination after all.
"...Mm."
Afterward, a fragrance filled the air, and Tatsumi felt himself being carefully picked up.
After a few gentle vibrations, Tatsumi left the soft embrace and returned to the ground.
"I'll heal him. You go check on how Nawaki and the others are doing now."
Tsunade, looking slightly serious, checked Tatsumi's poisoning while directing Orochimaru to the other side.
She had just rushed over from there and had only sensed from their auras that the three of them were not dead.
As for how badly they were injured, she hadn't had time to check.
In the current situation, where she couldn't spare the time, she could only let Orochimaru confirm.
"Tsk tsk, he's really badly injured."
Tsunade looked at Tatsumi.
"Kid, if I had been any later, you would have died."
Tsunade said softly.
Tatsumi suddenly felt a little sore in his nose.
He had never seen such a gentle Tsunade before.
However, Tsunade's voice continued.
"Orochimaru, are you dead yet!"
"If you're not dead, then hurry up and go! Stop dawdling!"
The feeling of gentleness disappeared instantly. It seemed that had been a hallucination just now.
This was the real Tsunade.
Orochimaru sighed inwardly, "Aren't people just concerned about their disciple? What's wrong with that?"
Then he had no choice but to immediately run toward the other side.
Tsunade summoned a set of medical tools.
The scalpel cut a few small openings on Tatsumi's body to release the poisoned blood.
On Tsunade's other hand, the chakra unique to medical ninjas also lit up.
Then she cut open Tatsumi's clothes.
"It'll hurt a bit. Bear with it."
Using medical chakra to protect Tatsumi's heart, Tsunade saw that he was still conscious and spoke softly.
In a daze, Tatsumi heard Tsunade say this.
Then, in the next instant, intense pain came from all over his body.
"Ah ah ah!"
A painful scream echoed.
Orochimaru came back panting in less than two minutes.
"The three of them are fine. Their lives are not in danger—just some minor injuries. They'll get over it if they endure."
He stretched his head to see Tatsumi's injuries.
"...."
"How is it?"
The treatment was at its most critical moment. Tsunade's Mystic Palm Technique was moving around Tatsumi's body.
As some of the wounds healed, black blood began to flow out of them.
"Internal organs are displaced, three ruptures, internal bleeding. Two ribs are broken. Chakra exhausted. Stamina exhausted."
Orochimaru nodded. Then he looked at the corpse beside him and stored it away with a scroll.
"It seems that we can get some good information this time."
Orochimaru's hoarse voice came.
"Oh? How so?"
Tsunade asked.
"This Jonin in front of us is the leader of a small squad of the Sand Village's Anbu."
"...."
Tsunade's face suddenly darkened.
"What's wrong?"
"The Sand Ninja's neurotoxin has spread throughout his body. These are not the most serious—what's worse is a poison I have never seen before."
"The Delicate Illness Extraction Technique cannot extract all the toxins. A proper treatment plan must be done back in Konoha immediately. It's too crude here."
"But we can't go back now," Orochimaru said anxiously.
Tsunade bit open her thumb. "Summoning Technique."
As the smoke dissipated, a slug appeared on the ground.
"What's wrong, Lady Tsunade?" the slug asked.
"I need to take him back to Konoha. Slug, wrap us up and then release the summoning technique to take us back to Shikkotsu Forest."
After saying that, Tsunade looked at Orochimaru.
"You contact Konoha immediately! Konoha Hospital has my blood stored. Let the Third Hokage summon us back."
"Boom!"
After a burst of smoke, Tsunade and Tatsumi disappeared from Orochimaru's sight.
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