Chapter 141: Mortiferous
adj. deadly, fatal.
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He didn't know why he allowed her to continue to have an influence over him, but still he stayed his hand.
He was just being naïve, he told himself, but as he watched he would swear that some color returned to Temari's ashen skin. But that was impossible, because the poison that had gotten into Temari's system could not be fully extracted. The poison had gotten into her cell's nucleus and it mutated her DNA into producing a replica poison in each cell. This poison had been a career ending one, and something like hope was not permitted to Baki.
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