The Roran survivors naturally recognized Ryosuke. When they saw him appear, they hurriedly gathered around.
"Lord Ryosuke! You finally came!"
"Please save the Queen."
Ryosuke slowly descended, passed through the Roran survivors, and entered Queen Sara's home.
He saw the red-haired queen lying on the bed, her expression weak, as if she had fallen seriously ill.
When they first met, Ryosuke had already seen that Queen Sara was suffering from a terminal illness.
It was an illness that neither Ripple nor the Golden Rotation could cure.
Her life had entered its final countdown. No one knew how much longer she could live.
Back then, the two of them made an agreement.
If one day Queen Sara felt that her death was approaching, she would look for Ryosuke to extract her memory disk, so the seal and control techniques of the Dragon Vein could be passed down.
Ryosuke never expected that not long after, meeting again like this, Queen Sara's life fluctuations had nearly disappeared, and Ryosuke had even lost the ability to extract her memories into a disk.
"When did she become like this?" Ryosuke asked.
The villager who had been taking care of Queen Sara explained, "Just a little while ago."
"A little while ago?"
"Yes, Lord Ryosuke, about ten minutes ago."
Ryosuke calculated the time.
'Ten minutes… wasn't that exactly when Uchiha Itachi activated the Dragon Vein seal and vanished?'
:Meaning Queen Sara's coma was related to the loosening of the Dragon Vein seal.'
Ryosuke stopped thinking.
Right now, the urgent priority was saving her.
Queen Sara and the Dragon Vein seal were connected by countless threads. As long as he could wake her, everything would have an answer.
Ryosuke grabbed Queen Sara's hand. A strand of Ripple energy flowed over as he carefully sensed her condition, determining what ingredients he needed for the medicine.
Her body was extremely weak, he could use ingredients that replenished qi and blood.
Her spirit was scattered, her consciousness tangled into a mess, he would use Ghost God Power to nourish her spirit.
All throughout her body, most organs were severely failing, her life fluctuations faint…
The last part was the one Ryosuke thought about for a long time but still couldn't find an answer for.
There was no ingredient capable of turning back time. It was impossible to restore organs that had already failed to their original state.
If one day Ryosuke really could do that, then the world would have no elderly people.
One bottle of potion, and skin, muscles, bones, organs, even everything would be restored to their peak. Humanity would truly achieve immortality.
But human ability has its limits.
"Let's treat what we can treat first."
Ryosuke let out a light sigh and said to the villagers crowding inside the house, "Please help me get a bowl of water."
"Get water! Hurry and get water!"
A few villagers rushed to the kitchen, and soon they came back carrying a bowl of water, presenting it to Ryosuke with both hands.
Ryosuke glanced at it; a few tiny grains of sand were floating at the bottom.
This was just how things were in the desert region. Drinking this water long-term would definitely lead to problems like kidney stones, not to mention you couldn't guarantee the cleanliness of the source.
He noted the matter in his heart, deciding that after everything was over, he would talk to Tokugawa Shingen about solving the Land of Wind's water source issue.
Ryosuke used a spoon to scoop out the sand and discard it. Then he took out the qi-blood-boosting ingredients from the Ghost Room and added them to the water. Next, he retrieved a strand of Ghost God Power from the Dragon-Serpent Pearl and placed it into the bowl.
The moment the Ghost God Power appeared, the crowded and somewhat stuffy room instantly became cool.
Many people instinctively shivered. Even so, the Roran survivors couldn't hold back their curiosity and craned their necks to stare into the bowl.
They saw the Ghost God Power fall into the bowl, swirling like a phantom, or like spider silk unfurling, and in an instant it spread throughout the bowl, just looking at it sent chills down their spines.
"Lord Ryosuke… this…"
A villager smacked his lips, unable to hold back his question, "You're not planning to make the Queen drink that, are you?"
Ryosuke gestured for him to stay calm and continued tossing several tiny pearl-jam cherry tomatoes into the broth.
Under the corrosion of the Ghost God Power, the cherry tomatoes opened their mouths and let out hideous, painful wails. Watching this, the villagers all swallowed hard without realizing it.
'Was this really Lord Ryosuke?'
'Could it be someone pretending to be him?'
In fairy tales, it was always like this, the witch would transform into someone else's appearance and trick the beautiful princess into eating a poisoned apple, making the princess fall into a coma.
But Queen Sara was already comatose… he couldn't possibly be here to finish her off, right?
The crowd's thoughts were complicated.
Until a faint golden, diamond-shaped crystal slowly formed in Ryosuke's palm, interrupting everyone's thoughts. The crystal fell into the bowl,
Hum!
Ripples spread outward from the center of the broth.
The originally dark purple-black broth now had a streak of gold. The gold rippled, and a rich fragrance drifted through the air, like the flowing ribbons of the flying celestials in Dunhuang murals.
Ryosuke flicked his finger. The broth rose on its own, turned once in midair, then flowed into Queen Sara's mouth.
Queen Sara's pale complexion gradually improved, a lovely flush appearing on her cheeks.
When she finished drinking the entire bowl, her eyelashes trembled slightly, until suddenly, she snapped her eyes open.
"She woke up! She woke up!"
The Roran survivors cheered.
After the ancient Roran Kingdom was destroyed, although Sara was still called "Queen," she had long lost the corresponding authority. The reason everyone was still willing to call her Queen and stay by her side was because everyone knew, in this terrible, man-eating world, Sara was the only one who treated them sincerely well.
So seeing the Queen they had followed for so long fall into a coma truly worried the Roran survivors from the bottom of their hearts.
"Ryosuke..."
Queen Sara pushed aside the crowd, her eyes staring straight at Ryosuke, filled with lingering fear.
She raised her thumb and pressed firmly against her sweat-covered forehead.
"The seal in my memories is loosening. I'm seeing that segment of history… overlapping histories…"
Sara's gaze became scattered again, her speech incoherent.
As the seal on her memories dissolved, she saw different timelines.
These timelines intertwined, crossed, clashed, and erased one another.
This already exceeded the limit of what Sara's consciousness could withstand.
If not for the Ghost God Power in the broth nourishing her soul, Sara likely would have fainted again.
The New Moon said time had fallen into chaos.
Sara said history had begun to overlap.
Uchiha Itachi had confidently declared he would gain a new life in the past.
Ryosuke thought of one possibility, 'Itachi, that bastard… did he actually travel back into the past?'
Queen Sara's mouth opened and closed, trying to say something to Ryosuke.
But no sound came out, and Ryosuke couldn't even infer her words from her lip movements.
Queen Sara realized it too.
She struck her forehead hard, using pain to force a moment of clarity. Finally, she could speak normally, "History has entered a chaos phase, but it won't last long."
"I think that as long as the memories inside my mind stop being chaotic, and only one timeline remains, the chaotic history will solidify into 'reality.'"
"This might sound a bit complicated, and hard for you to understand. Put simply, "
Ryosuke waved his hand.
"No need to explain."
For natives of the Naruto world, it might be hard to understand.
But for Ryosuke, this was nothing more than a plot from Terminator.
Now T-1000 (Uchiha Itachi) had gone back to rewrite history.
As the Terminator, Ryosuke had to go back and stop him.
That's all there was to it.
Seeing Ryosuke understood, Queen Sara nodded vigorously. She grabbed Ryosuke's hand, "Then let's go, quickly, go to the Dragon Vein ruins. I'll send you back."
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