Hiruzen Sarutobi stopped Tsunade and said gravely, "An urgent battle report just came in from the Sunagakure front. Our troops are in trouble."
Yūto froze at his words.
Wasn't Sunagakure famously weak?
They competed with Kirigakure year after year for last place among the Five Great Nations' shinobi villages, and now they were actually causing an emergency at the front?
Tsunade's expression immediately darkened at Hiruzen Sarutobi's words. Folding her arms, she said, "Old man, you know I have hemophobia. I'd only be a burden at the front."
Sarutobi sighed. The Second Shinobi World War had hurt Tsunade far too deeply.
Since that war, Tsunade had grown far more dispirited and shown hints of antiwar sentiment.
After all, the only family she had had all died in that war. The shadow it had left over the girl ran far too deep.
But only Tsunade could solve the problem at the Sunagakure front now!
"Tsunade," Sarutobi suddenly lowered his voice, "your hemophobia was cured a while ago, wasn't it?"
"And Yūto helped treat it, didn't he?" As he spoke, he turned to Yūto. "Otherwise, I wouldn't have deliberately indulged him just now."
Exposed, Tsunade's face alternated between red and white. She hadn't expected the old Third Hokage to have learned about this.
It had to be that evil blond Flying Thunder God who snitched!
Then Sarutobi added, "Even the Poison Extraction Team is helpless against Chiyo's newly developed poison. Shinobi at the front die from it every day. You're the only person in all of Konoha who can counter her poison."
Only when Hiruzen Sarutobi mentioned Chiyo's name did Yūto recall what he knew about this Sunagakure expert.
Chiyo really was the only capable fighter in Sunagakure. The rest were all small fry.
But that old woman's use of poison really