"Um... are you all right?"
Deep in the forest.
Liumu covered his mouth and nose and felt around in his ninja tool pouch.
"I don't think I brought any paper..."
"Uh..."
As Duy, squatting among the weeds, let out a roar of relief, Liumu hurriedly jumped back a few steps.
"Plop, plop, plop, plop..."
A short while later.
"Liumu, what the hell did you find me? Why does it have thorns?"
"Are you all right, Uncle Duy?"
On the way back to the village, Liumu looked at Might Duy limping beside him with an odd expression, then suddenly burst out laughing.
After opening the Eight Gates, Duy had ultimately recovered physically with Heluo's help, since he had not used that legendary move.
But at the time, all the chakra that had dissipated had already been fully unleashed.
Even his now-empty chakra pathways needed time to recover slowly.
Previously, since Kakashi had only had one eye treated, the energy within Heluo's body had accumulated inside him, filling his pathways in the form of chakra.
As for Duy...
He would just have to recover slowly. Being alive was already a great stroke of luck.
"Didn't you go to the Land of Grass? When did you get back to the village?"
Duy gave Liumu a pained look and asked curiously.
"Uh..."
Hearing this, Liumu hesitated briefly before answering honestly, "This body of mine is just a clone. I deliberately left it in Konoha before leaving the village."
Just then, Duy, who was already having trouble walking, suddenly stumbled. Both of them looked down.
A pale arm had abruptly emerged from the dense bushes beside them.
Seeing this, Duy hurriedly pushed aside the undergrowth and pulled the body out of the bushes.
"This is..."
Might Duy's expression immediately turned