Despite everyone's desperate efforts to resuscitate the Lord, his vital signs continued to weaken. After checking his pupils and pulse once more, Yamanaka Takuma shook his head helplessly at the others, indicating that the Lord's heartbeat and breathing had both stopped.
Only then did the Physician from the Lord's estate finally arrive, and there was clearly nothing he could do either. With his abilities, he could not possibly save someone whose heart and breathing had already stopped.
Even Tsunade, whose medical skills were exceptional within Konoha Ninja Village, probably could not have revived him immediately, let alone this physician. At most, she could have used a technique derived from Earth Grudge Fear to keep the Lord's heart beating. Whether she could actually save him during that window was another question entirely.
No one yet understood why the Lord had died. Everyone had seen it clearly: nobody had attacked him. He had simply collapsed without warning, and then his vital signs had begun to decline.
It was as though the Lord's life had suddenly been severed, leaving them with an eerie feeling they could not put into words.
"What... happened?" Mizuki asked as she watched, struggling to comprehend it. She had never encountered anything like this in her ninja career.
"Normally, it could be the result of some Cursed Technique activating inside his body, but I found no signs of anything like that," Yamanaka Takuma said.
Yamanaka Takuma was referring to a type of Sealing Jutsu specifically designed to protect important intelligence. Anyone privy to such information would place this kind of seal within their mind. Important members of the Konoha High Command, Anbu, Intelligence Department, and Medical Department, for instance, all had such seals placed on themselves to prevent enemies from extracting intelligence through secret techniques if they were unexpectedly