"Is that so..."
Out of the corner of her eye, Yukina saw Minato Namikaze watching her in silence for a long time. She lowered her head slightly, her hands continuing to dress the wound in an orderly manner.
As the deputy captain of the Defense Force, Yukina might still look like a little girl of twelve or thirteen, but inwardly, she saw things more clearly than most of the village's higher-ups. Her strategic talents had fully blossomed, and during this escort, she had even calculated against Chiba without bias.
She understood very well what it meant that Chiba had not sent a signal for so long.
Combined with the attack just now, it likely meant that Chiba was in grave danger.
Since she had even managed to learn the details of Chiba's plan, she naturally knew about this method of signaling with Flying Thunder God Kunai and seals.
And according to her deductions, if the enemy who had just attacked the Hokage was the one Chiba had gone to face, then Chiba must have already met with disaster.
If it was not Chiba's opponent but the other one, then Chiba was still likely in grave danger. It had been nearly twenty minutes since Teacher Kushina and Teacher Minato had been transferred here. Her estimate might not have been entirely accurate, perhaps a little less or a little more, but it could not have been too far off.
A battle of around twenty minutes, against a Space-Time Ninja from the Uchiha Clan who possessed the Sharingan... No matter how strong Chiba was, his strength would be limited against such a powerful opponent. After so much time, he had either fallen into a disadvantageous struggle and was steadily approaching defeat and death—
—or he had already been killed.
In other words, Chiba