"It's here!"
Yuu immediately turned his attention to the galgame system, wanting to see what trait Healing Technique had unlocked and whether it was worth all his effort over the past while.
When he looked, several lines of text slid across his vision one after another:
[Healing Technique affection +1! Current affection: 100/100 (Heart-to-Heart)]
[Stage rewards obtained 4 times: Constitution +4. Trait · Seed of Vitality: Your Healing Technique has reached consummate mastery. When treating a wound, you may consume a certain amount of chakra to form a "Seed of Vitality" inside the treated person's body. This seed can greatly increase the injured person's cellular activity and disease resistance, promote wound healing, and intermittently record the injured person's physiological state. When the injured person is wounded to a certain degree, the seed may be consumed all at once, restoring the body within ten seconds to the best recorded state.]
[Note 1: A maximum of 5 "Seeds of Vitality" may exist at the same time. You may decide subjectively whether to generate one.]
[Note 2: For injuries such as severed limbs, the limb must still be nearby and retain cellular activity in order to trigger "restoration."]
"…Holy crap!"
Yuu carefully read the explanation, and his eyes lit up.
This Seed of Vitality trait did not seem particularly special if one only looked at the first half. It was basically an enhanced version of Wound-Healing Brand.
But the second half was different.
What did "restore physiological state" mean?
Could it be…
this thing could automatically save a file inside the body, then trigger a rollback when the injury became severe, instantly turning someone from near-death back to full health?
If so, that was rather astonishing. It was practically equivalent to a second life!
Yuu did not dare use this trait carelessly. Instead, he first found a place with no one around and tested it on himself.
He planted a Seed of Vitality in his own body first.
After confirming it was complete, he slashed his own arm.
As the blade cut across, the flesh on Yuu's arm split open, and blood flowed out.
Almost the instant the wound appeared, a strange cool current emerged from the area around his lower abdomen, flowed along his meridians, and quickly reached the wound. In only a few seconds, the wound visibly healed until it returned to normal.
When he wiped away the blood to check, the cut mark was so faint it was almost impossible to see.
"Huh? That fast?"
Yuu was a little surprised, so he then pierced his own palm and thigh in succession, carefully experiencing the effect.
"I see…"
"The Seed of Vitality takes root in the lower abdomen area. It grows and forms there. Whenever the body is injured, it triggers automatically. Ordinary flesh wounds can almost heal within seconds. If the bone is injured, it takes a little longer, but it still won't exceed half a minute…"
"As long as a single injury doesn't reach a fatal level, the Seed of Vitality won't be consumed all at once. It's just that after repeated use in a short time, the healing speed slows somewhat.
"And this seed seems to have some growth ability. It can automatically absorb the host's chakra, grow stronger, and then feed back into the host… like a sapling growing into a great tree."
"Interesting."
Yuu hesitated for a moment, but in the end, he did not dare stab himself in the heart or any other fatal area to test the "rollback" function.
After all, that was a little too extreme. He did not have masochistic tendencies.
He could only wait for a chance to test it on someone else.
But he could not test it randomly either.
After all, this ability was theoretically an alternative version of the Sage Body, comparable to Senju Hashirama's self-healing ability. If he used it casually and someone with ulterior motives noticed, the trouble it brought would probably far outweigh the benefits.
It would be best to wait for a trustworthy acquaintance first, such as Rin, or his old father, Mikami Tajima.
Yuu thought this to himself.
…
Originally, Yuu thought he probably would not have a chance to use Seed of Vitality in the short term.
But…
as if fate were interfering, an opportunity to "test" it arrived very quickly.
Only one day after Yuu unlocked the trait, in the afternoon, the curtain of the medical tent was suddenly yanked open. Several Konoha ninja covered in blood and looking exhausted rushed in carrying a stretcher, roaring:
"Medical ninja! Hurry! Save this critically wounded patient!"
"…Dad?!"
The bandage in Rin's hand fell to the ground with a plop. Her face instantly turned deathly pale as she looked at the stretcher, and her entire body fell into panic.
That was right.
The one lying on the stretcher was none other than Nohara Hiroshi.
His current appearance was too miserable to look at. No fewer than three or four kunai and over a dozen shuriken were embedded in his body. There were also two sword puncture wounds on his left shoulder. The flesh around them was torn open and an ominous purple-black color, clearly poisoned.
In this state, he was suffering from severe blood loss and toxin corrosion. By the time he was brought in, he was already on the verge of shock. His breathing was weak and rapid. No wonder Rin immediately fell into panic.
At this moment, Rin had already dropped what she was doing and rushed over. She knelt beside the stretcher, her hands trembling as she tried to touch her father, yet afraid she might worsen his injuries. Tears rolled down like broken beads.
"Dad… how did this happen…"
"It was Sunagakure's puppet unit. They used poison and special wire traps. Hiroshi covered our squad's breakout, so…"
One of the ninja carrying the stretcher explained rapidly while gasping for breath, his face filled with guilt and urgency.
At this moment, Yuu stepped in.
"Rin, calm down. Now is exactly when concern can make things worse. We need to handle the wounds first. If we delay, it'll only become more troublesome!"
"…Mm!"
Rin was decisive by nature. After a brief moment of losing her composure, she quickly recovered. She ordered the ninja to carry Hiroshi to a hospital bed.
Yuu had already injected Nohara Hiroshi with an antidote and begun examining his injuries, his brows tightly furrowed.
Honestly, the situation was truly terrible.
Nohara Hiroshi's injuries were more severe than they appeared on the surface. In addition to the penetrating wounds, the poison had already invaded his internal organs. Simply injecting an antidote was no longer enough to cure him. Surgery had to begin immediately to remove the toxins.
"Rin! Prepare wound cleaning! I'll extract the poison from Uncle Hiroshi's body!"
Yuu gave the order decisively.
Rin nodded hard, quickly entered work mode, and picked up sterilized instruments to start treating the relatively shallow wounds on her father's body.
Yuu picked up a scalpel and cleanly cut open the skin along Nohara Hiroshi's side. Then he formed the hand seals for Delicate Illness Extraction Technique. Soft green light glowed at his fingertips as he precisely inserted them into Hiroshi's body, captured and separated the deadly toxins, then threw them into the waste basin beside him.
This process required extremely fine control. The slightest mistake could damage nerves or blood vessels, so Yuu performed it very carefully.
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