When Ensei Uchiha asked, a suspicious blush flashed across Kushina Uzumaki's face.
How could she explain it? She couldn't exactly say she'd woken Minato up herself.
Just then, Minato Namikaze answered for her. "I sensed Kushina's Chakra, and that was what finally woke me from that terrible nightmare."
Ensei Uchiha furrowed his brow at that and thought for a moment before speaking.
"Human willpower can do that, I suppose. But by all logic, given the state you were in, you shouldn't have been able to wake up through sheer willpower."
"There are only two possibilities. The first is that Black Zetsu's technique weakened over time. The other is that the Nine-Tails did something."
Ensei Uchiha had examined Minato Namikaze's condition before. Whatever had left him unconscious wasn't something that could be remedied with ordinary methods.
Earlier, Ensei Uchiha had said the Nine-Tails might be able to help solve the problem, but that was only theoretically possible. In practice, it would be very difficult.
At the same time, Ensei Uchiha hadn't expected Kushina Uzumaki to get along with Kurama so quickly.
"Kurama said... he once tried to send my feelings to Minato, but he didn't know if it worked."
Kushina Uzumaki spoke with a blissful expression.
"Mm. Then it looks like the first possibility is right. Black Zetsu's technique weakened over time."
Ensei Uchiha looked up and spoke without expression.
"Any technique that can keep a Hokage unconscious for years is already extremely powerful."
"But one thing still puzzles me. Why didn't Black Zetsu kill you back then?"
Ensei Uchiha didn't care that Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki looked somewhat helpless. He simply voiced the question that had been bothering him.
He had wanted to ask this for a long time.
But Kushina Uzumaki hadn't known the answer before, and Ensei