"The original..."
Watching Hirohiko's right lung slowly heal, and seeing that though he remained unconscious, his breathing had begun to steady, Chiba's Shadow Clone quietly let out a sigh of relief. The other Shadow Clone's sudden dispelling after running out of Chakra had given him quite a scare. The Creation Rebirth-level Medical Chakra had nearly been interrupted for a second, and without its stimulation, Hirohiko's right lung had instantly stopped regenerating. Although he had quickly made up for it, he had still felt uneasy. Only now, seeing Hirohiko's condition stabilize and his right lung continue to regenerate, did he finally relax.
At the same time, after calming down, he could not help glancing at his original body. He saw that his original had just shifted his gaze toward the long wall, and immediately understood. He clearly knew just how dire their situation was.
Indeed, there was no way to resolve their current predicament. Using this Creation Rebirth-level Medical Chakra for treatment, he could feel that the fixed amount of Chakra within him was being consumed at an astonishing rate. Before long, he too would automatically disappear once his Chakra was depleted to the point where he could no longer maintain the Shadow Clone's form.
By now, his original body had already created several clones. Though he was still in the Gate of Pain state, the Chakra he could use was running low. Their opponent was the Third Raikage, and they had no reinforcements. Even if reinforcements did come, only someone on Minato Namikaze's level could stand against the Third Raikage.
For this mission, it could almost certainly be said that reinforcements were impossible.
And even if there were reinforcements, they would probably be people he did not want to come.
At this point, there was really only one path they