Shimete’s idea intrigued Daisuke. The thought of some kind of jutsu or more likely some kind of environmental factor causing chakra fluxuations made a lot more sense. The Kikai insect notion was just Chion spit balling. He stopped a moment and explained how the body he just observed had its chakra gates still in tact. Unlike a hachimon, they showed no signs of being broken nor the muscles any signs of having strengthened recently. This ‘plague’ became more and more strange as they gathered more clues. He pondered on what Shimete had said. "Excess chakra being expelled? Like those with the heaven curse seal, you mean? Makes sense, but how did it occur in so many in the time frame. Why did the chakra plague target everyone here, but only certain people elsewhere? I know I sound like a broken record, but the water source, food factories, or air pollution of some kind seems about as good as any place to check. The hospital wasn’t of any help regarding the medical records. If only we could find patient zero in this ground zero."
He took another breath and began to compile everything he knew about the village. "Trading village. Lots of traffic, could be how it spread. Shimete and team three say it’s all about chakra fluxuation. I have a visual to confirm it. Plague affected everyone here thus far and those kilometers away from the village. Visual confirmed upon arrival to this village. Civilians supposedly have little to no knowledge of chakra or chakra control. An overload could easily kill them. Its like the heaven curse seal and sensory overload. The body doesn’t know what to do and Shimete’s notion of the body forcibly expelling the ever building chakra in an attempt to spare the body caused burns throughout the chakra lines around the tissue and possibly the major organs. Like a hachimon, but there's no broken gates nor abnormal increase in muscle mass" It was baffling really. His mind was so clouded that it became annoying to ponder anymore. "Have we heard anything from squad one? Are they aware of what was just discovered in these bodies?" he asked, if everyone was kept in the loop then things would be alright, but something was still on Daisuke’s mind. The distance and mass infection concerned him along with the hachimon theory, then he had a question. To his knowledge, hachimons were known for pushing their limits and gaining stronger physical enhancements as they continued to open gates, but even at the basic levels of being a hachimon without the aid of the gates, they displayed a more than average increase in their abilities, even among other shinobi, so why didn't this corpse?
"Under the assumption that you're theory is true, Shimete, would you agree that if a regular civilian did in fact gain an enormous increase in chakra, their bodies would have burned out after...I don't know getting stronger, faster, healing faster, etc? They would not know jutsus I guess, but they should have shown some signs of superhuman intellect, or some enhanced senses, right? What we shinobi take for granted, these people should have noticed in an instant like agility, taijutsu, and stamina since ninjutsu, genjutsu, and chakra control are off the table. The elderly jumping much higher in the air... An adolescent gaining a serious increase in strength just before beating up the local bullies for the years of harassment... the husbands having higher stamina levels in bed, someone should have noticed something. I mean, as far as I know, a person with no bloodline traits or individual special abilities and no jutsu with a truck load of chakra...they defiantly should have stuck out right?", he asked as he re examined the previous body, then three other bodies with his crimson rinnegan eyes in hopes of finding more clues. He was looking for the tiniest enhancements to the body, even a slightly enhancement digestive system, anything to support what he was trying to convey to Shimete and Deta.
"This body did not show any signs of an increase in strength, but what about the others. Chakra resides in every living creature, but not all can properly harness it and utilize it in combat or everyday life without necessary training. Some warriors have no idea that they might be utilizing chakra during battle, but the fact is that they are using it. They might not notice it, but still. So why didn't they at least notice enhanced abilities for a little while prior to death. Would they have noticed the physical enhancements if they had lived?"
[mft] wc: 710
