"What... what happened?"
The heavy atmosphere swept over him. Looking at the five men's gloomy faces, Chiba was slightly startled. The bitter smile on his face slowly turned solemn as he hesitantly asked.
Among the old scholars who had continued their research after retirement, besides these five, there was one other person—Kimura, whom Chiba had mentioned.
Kimura was probably the quietest of the six. Usually taciturn and sparing with words, he was also the most engrossed in medical research among the five. At the same time, he had the deepest understanding and best mastery of Medical Chakra. In the field of Medical Chakra, he was an absolute genius.
Of the six, Chiba had received the most care from Kimura. The reason he had been able to use the prototype of the Creation Rebirth Jutsu Tsunade left behind to further develop Creation Rebirth-level Medical Chakra was that he had learned a vast amount about Medical Chakra from Kimura. In particular, some of Kimura's hypotheses and experimental data regarding adjustments to Medical Chakra frequencies had given Chiba considerable inspiration.
It could be said that Kimura deserved much of the credit for Chiba's mastery of the Creation Rebirth Jutsu.
Generally speaking, Kimura acted together with these five as well. Since Chiba had not seen him, he naturally asked about him while changing the subject.
But he had not expected that asking would make it seem as though something serious had happened. At once, Chiba grew worried as well.
Chiba was quite grateful to and concerned about that taciturn old man, who had devoted himself to research and given him so much inspiration.
He did not want anything to happen to the old man.
There were already very few people who sincerely cared for him. The Third Great Ninja War had taken even more