Sealing the Nine-Tails

Kazan ignored the stares and kept shoveling food into his mouth.

Every cell in his body had come alive, fighting for the food's nutrients to grow stronger.

Plates piled up beside him like a small mountain, but Kazan showed no sign of stopping.

His teeth were absurdly strong. He could crunch through bones and swallow them, like some kind of iron-eating beast.

Most astonishing of all, as Kazan kept eating, his century-old body regained its healthy glow.

His depleted vitality rapidly returned. Like a field parched for ages and finally watered by a clear spring, his body drank in the nourishment and came back to life.

Before long, Kazan looked like the man everyone knew again.

Life Return really was incredible.

Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others envied him, but unfortunately, none of them could grasp it.

Kazan had once taught Might Duy while Hiruzen Sarutobi listened nearby. Hiruzen had secretly tried it afterward, but he couldn't make heads or tails of it.

"Kazan, here." Kurenai handed him a bottle of water, and Kazan drained it.

"Now I feel alive!" He sprang to his feet and stretched.

His strength hadn't fully returned, but he was back to sixty or seventy percent. He still couldn't compare to Luffy, who could use Gear Fifth after a good meal.

"So, what are you planning to do with her now that you've brought her back?"

Kazan looked down at Uchiha Hikari, who lay unconscious nearby.

The people of Konoha still weren't taking chances. They had covered her eyes and bound her hands and feet, giving her much the same treatment Sasuke would receive when he surrendered and returned to Konoha years later.

"I'll send her to the Interrogation Department and find out what they're planning."

Quite a few people had heard Kazan's conversation with Uchiha