Torikaze's arrival shattered all of that. He did not have time to waste.
So he got straight to the point.
"Lord Ashina, I think you should stop playing for now."
Ashina had been delighted to see Torikaze, but Torikaze's next words left him stunned.
"What's wrong, Torikaze? You seem to be in low spirits."
"Your second son is already at death's door. He asked me to bring you back. He wants to see whether you still look the same as you did back then."
After hearing this, Uzumaki Ashina unconsciously dropped the chess piece in his hand.
He had never expected his second son to die. His heart had stirred when so many of his sons had died before, but only faintly; it was something he had already anticipated.
But news about his second son truly made him anxious.
"Quick! Take me to see him! What happened to Qinghe?"
"Doesn't Torikaze have a Healing Art? Why not heal him?"
Tobirama asked.
Torikaze's Healing Art could heal nearly any illness. It could even save someone who was already dying.
Saving an ordinary person should have been even easier.
Torikaze sighed. "It's not that I refuse to save him. He himself no longer has any attachment to this world. The reason I came to find you this time was because he said he wanted to see you one last time."
Ashina froze. "I heard that everything in the Land of Whirlpools was flourishing. How did it... become like this?"
Ashina did not know what to do.
His second son was his favorite. If not for the fact that he had no Chakra, Ashina truly would have passed the position of daimyo to him.
But fate had played a cruel joke on him. The only son without Chakra was, coincidentally, the most promising