Just then, a figure stood ramrod straight in the doorway.
Tsunade held a set of Raito's pajamas in her arms, clearly intending to curry favor by bringing him clothes. But now her gaze was glued to his palm, and she stood as though a paralysis spell had been cast on her.
"What are you..."
Raito looked up and found Tsunade blocking the doorway. He immediately frowned in displeasure. "Who gave you permission to just walk into my room? Don't you know the rules?"
But Tsunade did not hear a word he said. All she could see was that tender green sprout.
Those chakra fluctuations brimming with life, that distinctive form-there was no mistaking it. This was her grandfather's unparalleled Wood Release kekkei genkai!
"You... why do you have Wood Release?"
Tsunade jerked her head up and stared fixedly at Raito's face.
Her expression was extraordinarily complicated, shock, confusion, and wild joy all mingling together. It made Raito feel a little unnerved.
He suddenly noticed that there seemed to be light in Tsunade's eyes.
The change instantly brought a crucial point to Raito's mind: Could this shock have... cured this woman's fear of blood just like that?
The eyes were the windows to the soul.
Before, even before she had been captured and brought to Kirigakure, Tsunade's eyes had been lifeless, like a pool of stagnant water.
But now, flames seemed to have rekindled in her eyes.
She was like a withered tree greeting spring, radiating astonishing vitality.
"Are you... a member of the Senju Clan... who ended up far from home?"
Faced with Tsunade's trembling question, Raito was momentarily speechless.
How was he supposed to explain this?
If he flatly denied it, would he crush the hope he had just given her and ruin the treatment plan?
*But if he