Being brought back from the dead, Minato and Kushina were naturally overjoyed. As the Fourth Hokage, Minato was worried about Konoha Village's current state.
Compared to the village, however, Kushina was more worried about her son, Uzumaki Naruto, who had been left alone in the village.
Of course, although they both desperately wanted to return to Konoha, they had been revived because of Yoru Machi. So, they wanted to hear Yoru Machi's advice first.
But when the newly revived pair saw Yoru Machi sitting on the ground, motionless and still holding a hand seal, they immediately grew anxious.
Yoru Machi's vital signs and Chakra were perfectly normal, but Minato and Kushina had tried calling out to him just now and received no response whatsoever.
Knowing how dangerous forbidden jutsu could be, neither of them dared touch Yoru Machi recklessly, afraid of bringing him some unknown danger. They could only fret helplessly at the side.
"Minato, what exactly is going on with Yoru Machi? Did something go wrong during the revival forbidden jutsu, causing him to become completely unresponsive?"
"Logically speaking, since we were successfully revived, Yoru Machi's jutsu should have worked perfectly. This shouldn't be happening.
Could it be... the aftereffect Yoru Machi mentioned before, caused by a portion of his soul being missing?"
Any jutsu involving souls was considered extremely dangerous in the shinobi world. Yoru Machi had previously assured them that losing part of his soul was no big deal to him.
But now that Minato thought about it, he felt that Yoru Machi might have deliberately deceived them back then just to put them at ease.
It was obvious when one thought about it. The soul was one of the most important parts of life; how could losing part of it or suffering damage to it possibly