Kuina returned to her room and was about to sharpen Wado Ichimonji with a whetstone when she slipped on the stairs and fell.
Only Kuina could have done something like that. Her mind was so full of sword practice and ways to grow stronger that she hadn't even noticed her foot miss a step.
She was about to hit the floor headfirst when, with a tremendous crash, the western wall burst open. A white blur shot through it like a cannonball and caught her just before she landed.
"Are you crazy?"
Ye Chen landed, rolled to absorb the impact, and sprang to his feet. Then he let her have it.
If his Observation Haki hadn't warned him something was happening here, he couldn't imagine what might have happened.
"I... I just wanted to go upstairs and get the whetstone..."
Kuina was shaken too. Once she recovered, she knew she'd made a mistake, and a chill of fear ran through her. But when she looked up at Ye Chen, she quickly pointed below his waist.
"What? I'm talking to you, and you're pointing at me? Don't try to change the subject. Can't you use your head for once?"
After a few more angry words, Ye Chen finally looked down at himself. He jolted, then darted back through the hole in the wall.
He wasn't wearing any clothes. Ye Chen had always slept naked, and the situation had been too urgent for him to think about anything but saving her.
The commotion soon brought Koshiro to his daughter's room. After learning that Ye Chen had saved her, he stared at the broken wall in silence for a long time.
That young man was something else. He'd sensed danger so keenly even in his sleep. And the wall was hardly made of paper,