After a long while, Yakumo woke up in a hospital room at Konoha Hospital.
As she slowly opened her eyes, she found a large crowd gathered around her. "W-where am I?"
Tsunade came to the side of Yakumo's bed. "How are you feeling?"
"Lord Tsunade!"
Seeing Tsunade, Yakumo hurriedly tried to sit up and pay her respects, but before she could even raise herself, she collapsed back onto the bed.
Tsunade pressed her down. "Don't move!"
Yakumo cried out in alarm, "Lord Tsunade, what's going on? Why does my whole body hurt? I can't muster even the slightest bit of strength!"
"Your body is severely depleted. Don't move around!" Then Tsunade frowned as she looked over Yakumo's freshly completed medical report and muttered, perplexed, "That's strange."
Shion, standing nearby, asked, "Lord Tsunade, is Yakumo all right?"
The other classmates also looked toward Tsunade, their eyes filled with concern.
Shinji was among them. There was concern in his eyes, too, but he wasn't worried about Yakumo's health. He was worried that the Red Dragon Eye in her socket might be exposed.
After all, he knew Yakumo's current condition very well. As long as he supplied her with Yang Release Chakra in time, her life wouldn't be in danger for now.
Tsunade didn't answer the students' question. Instead, she asked Yakumo, "Your blood sugar and fat levels have dropped far too drastically this time. An ordinary person couldn't use their body's energy so efficiently. Did you use some kind of secret technique?"
"A secret technique!?"
Yakumo was completely bewildered.
Seeing her reaction, Tsunade was puzzled as well.
Using some kind of secret taijutsu technique, like the Eight Gates, was the most reasonable explanation for Yakumo's current physical exhaustion.
But if she hadn't used a secret technique, then the situation was much more