Tales of a Ninja Magician: Of What Defines Us

Take it Over From Here

Just barely noticeably enough to track, Kouta's fingers moved to his pouch. This clash with the pirates emptied his pouch and medical bags up quite nicely, giving a handful of medical tools to Mana so that she patched herself up on the run didn't help either. The boy removed a blue round candy-like looking pill and tossed it into his mouth cracking it with his teeth and carefully chewing it. It was a Chakra Resource Medical Pill that he ate. After spending so much chakra treating his friends he needed a little boost.

There were countless different food pills and medical pills that the medical ninja used. Food pills were usually just toned down and less risky versions of medical pills. Due to the higher risk of aftereffects of a medical pill ruining the mission the medical pills were usually prescribed by a medical ninja and usually all intake of them was strictly managed by the squad's medical ninja. This was a rare occasion where the medical pill was slightly less dangerous and carried fewer risks than food pills.

"Are you gonna be OK?" Meiko asked turning back at Kouta who was still taking deep breaths and wearing the black rings and bags around his eyes and the pale skin proudly.

"Just ate a chakra boosting food pill, it accelerates my chakra rejuvenation rate from a day or two to an hour or two. As long as I don't take another within two to four days and have some time for some of my chakra to return I'll be fine," the young ninja confirmed his condition.

"In the meantime stay behind and do some supporting from long range, don't give her a chance to murder you," Shimo suggested.

A powerful blast of purple and red rotating streams of bursting chakra flares blew out from the ocean. The rotation of these jets emitted an intense shockwave around its center creating an everlasting barrier of shockwaves that continuously grew larger and larger splitting a large crater in the salty waters.

"I didn't think she'd still have that much chakra..." Shimo mumbled out to himself mostly, his words did carry some semblance of sense. Read was well worn out by her battle with Hachiro and the continuous injuries she had sustained throughout it. The fact that her body was so greatly injured, cut up, beaten and bruised while she still had such immense chakra resources left could have only meant that she was holding it back this whole time.

Read's body surfaced slowly rising over the surface of the water as the shockwave began to allow the split waters to gather below it, therefore, rising the bubble of concussive force separating it. The purple and blazing fire red streams began to come closer and closer together before they made a singular translucent pillar of chakra, almost like an aura surrounding Read.

The sight of the three ninja observing their emerging opponent moved more to the half-exposed chest of the woman as her busted clothing offered poor protection from curious eyes and yet the nature of their stares had nothing to do with naughty thoughts. It was more intimidating than erotic as a glowing hieroglyph meaning "Release" began glowing on Read's exposed belly and suddenly the bodies of Read and Bonny began to merge together. The merging only stopped at Bonny's head which remained dangling on the back of Read's lower neck area.

"Meiko, you're the sealing expert in our team and that looks like a seal, any idea what happened?" Kouta looked at the troubled redhead who just shrugged.

"It looked to me like a Limiter Seal. Some ninja get so absorbed into their battles that they seal off parts of their chakra in case they forget to leave some for survival needs. The "Release" hieroglyph must mean that the seal is released..." the blacksmith theorized.

"She must've sealed off her sister's chakra so that the two didn't mingle together making it harder to control her own chakra. This seal release must've opened the floodgates and let their chakra mix together" Shimo deduced. "Let's see just how much chakra she'd regained and how useful it'll be for her injured body!"