The southeastern border of the Land of Fire.
After emerging from his most distant Flying Thunder God marker, Minato raced onward as though his life depended on it...!!
Hiruzen Sarutobi followed close behind, his face, restored to its prime, now etched with grim tension and guilt!
Only ten minutes earlier, Minato had learned that Kushina had not been buried beside him, but secretly laid to rest on the seabed of her homeland, the Land of Whirlpools!
"Kushina was Konoha's Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, and she had a special constitution brimming with powerful vitality, rare even among the Uzumaki Clan."
"There would have been no shortage of people... coveting the information her remains held!"
"Back then, Koharu and Homura both suggested that I destroy Kushina's remains completely, lest they fall into the wrong hands and bring grave losses upon the village."
"That was, in fact, the wisest choice... but I couldn't bring myself to let her suffer such a fate after giving her life for the village."
"So I ordered a special coffin built to withstand the pressure of the deep sea. After inscribing it with Sealing Jutsu formulas, I had it sunk to the seabed of her homeland, the Land of Whirlpools."
"All I wanted back then was to give Kushina a peaceful resting place. I never imagined the Shinobi World would end up like this! My good intentions backfired... and put Kushina in danger!!"
"I'm sorry, Minato... if anything happens to Kushina because of this, there is no way I can escape responsibility!"
Under the rules of Rinne Rebirth, if someone's remains still existed in the world, they would be revived wherever those remains lay.
That meant Kushina had awakened inside a coffin on the seabed!
Presumably, the sealed coffin still held a little air, enough to keep her alive for