After taking Rock Lee to a regular ward, the two returned to the secret chamber. This time, Tsunade had Anyo take off his shirt and lie flat so she could examine his body. Don't get the wrong idea; it was just a normal examination.
Tsunade examined him very carefully, and Anyo was happy to let her. With the strongest medical ninja here, perhaps she could find some way to speed up his recovery.
After examining him from head to toe, Tsunade frowned and fell deep in thought.
Only after a good while did she speak. "Your body is so strange. Your cellular vitality is extraordinarily rare, even greater than my grandfather's, but every cell is starving. To sum it up, it's like having an elephant's body with a mouse's strength."
Anyo couldn't help praising her. "That's a very accurate summary. That's exactly how things are right now. I need time to recover. Can you estimate how much longer it'll take?"
Tsunade shook her head. "I've never encountered anything like this before. Besides, the chakra in your body is no longer anything I'm familiar with. It's all senjutsu chakra, and there's more than one kind. I really don't know how you managed it."
Anyo hid nothing from Tsunade, telling her the entire process of how he had rebuilt his body.
Only then did Tsunade understand the dangers involved. The slightest misstep would have made his body burst and killed him. No wonder Anyo had said he had spent so long on the brink of death.
Tsunade asked in puzzlement, "Why didn't you wait until you fully recovered before coming out?"
Anyo sat up and pulled Tsunade into his arms. "I don't know how long it'll take. I was afraid that by the time I fully recovered, everyone I knew would be