"Minato... Hirohiko..."
Watching Hirohiko stand there in a daze, his entire body seemingly stiff, Kushina slowly rose to her feet. The worry on her face only deepened as she could not help looking toward her husband.
"It's all right."
Hearing the worry in his wife's voice, Minato Namikaze furrowed his brow tightly as well.
In his expectations, upon learning that Uchiha Nobuhiko had been defeated and reduced to such a miserable state, Hirohiko's reaction would be no more than one of several possibilities.
The first was simple happiness, wild joy. Chiba had been saved, and everyone had been saved.
The second was something more complicated, where it was hard to tell whether he felt joy or anger.
The third was pure fury and hatred, perhaps coupled with the resentment of not having personally killed Uchiha Nobuhiko.
Of those three possibilities, Hirohiko's current reaction leaned more toward the third—and that was the outcome they least wanted to see.
If it was the third, then there was a very real chance that something had gone wrong with Hirohiko's mind.
At that moment, Minato Namikaze felt uneasy as well. He had little confidence when he said those three words: it's all right.
"It's fine."
At that moment, Yukina, who had already walked up beside them, looked at Hirohiko and spoke. The smile on her lips had not changed in the slightest.
"He's Hirohiko, not just some random member of the Uchiha Clan."
At the end, she turned her gaze toward the two Teachers and spoke.
He's Hirohiko, not just some random member of the Uchiha Clan...
Hearing that, Kushina and Minato Namikaze both froze.
"Is that so... It's over already. That's good. Chiba has been saved."
At the same time, the expression on Hirohiko's blank face slowly returned to its usual poker face