Kazeki and Yugito Nii were also awakened by the little nurse's voice. Rubbing their bleary eyes, Kazeki looked up and saw Moriyue smiling at her.
Yugito Nii's injuries were not particularly severe. Throughout the battle, Moriyue had been the one mainly drawing fire, trading heart-piercing blows with Kakuzu's tendrils and mutually wounding himself with Hidan. Looking at the battle as a whole, Moriyue had defeated each of them in the areas they excelled at most.
"Where are Kakuzu and Hidan? Those two have quite a few good things on them..."
The first thing Moriyue cared about after waking up was not his own body. After all, no matter how severe his injuries were, he would not die. What concerned him more was whether his "forbidden techniques" had gotten away.
Blood Death Art and Earth Grudge Fear were precisely the foundations that allowed Hidan and Kakuzu to establish themselves within the Akatsuki Organization. Never mind what punishment they would receive; he had to get his hands on those two techniques.
"Kaede should be interrogating them. This time... thank you."
Yugito Nii, who had remained silent until then, had clear eyes as she flipped herself out of bed and gave Moriyue a deeply sincere bow.
She was no fool. Hidan's Blood Death Art was nowhere near as worthless as Moriyue had made it sound. Though she did not know how Moriyue had broken the other man's ninjutsu, she had to admit one thing: if she alone had faced them in that battle, Hidan might really have succeeded.
After all, ninja were generally glass cannons with high offense and low defense. Kumogakure shinobi already had exceptionally strong physiques on average, but even so, she had no good way to deal with Hidan's Blood Death Art. In the end, she would likely have been