"I don't believe him. He's lying. There's something important he's hiding from us. No... it would be more accurate to say that he successfully deceived us. Something has fooled us. Though it's only a gut feeling, if we stay, we may all be unable to leave."
Seemingly sensing Minato Namikaze's stiffness from shock, Yukina lowered her voice and added another sentence after telling them to retreat.
For some reason, she kept feeling that something important had been overlooked. Uchiha Nobuhiko before them had completely led her astray regarding some crucial matter, without leaving even the slightest trace.
Even as she kept reflecting and analyzing it now, she could not figure it out.
And though being unable to figure it out seemed to mean there was no problem, she could not shake the intense, warning-like sense of dread in her heart. It was as if, if she did not choose to leave now, she might suffer pain even greater than losing Chiba.
"But what Uchiha Nobuhiko said makes perfect sense. At least there's still a sliver of hope now. Are we really just going to give up on Chiba?"
Yet in the next moment, upon hearing Yukina's words, Minato Namikaze changed his earlier opposition and spoke with some hesitation.
"We only need to leave Chiba behind. Since Uchiha Nobuhiko wants to exchange Chiba for his own freedom, he probably won't harm Chiba."
Yukina seemed to have already prepared her argument. The moment Minato Namikaze finished speaking, she followed up with this.
And what she said happened to coincide exactly with what Minato Namikaze had been thinking.
Leaving Chiba behind could instead increase his chances of survival. Moreover, Uchiha Nobuhiko's current goal was to remove the curse seal that bound him to the Masked Man. No matter how one looked at it,