Kato Dan followed Miki into the room, cautiously surveying the layout of the surroundings.
The room wasn't large, about thirty square meters, with windows on three sides, offering a view of the trees and flowers planted outside Konoha Hospital, creating a quiet environment.
If one didn't look at the items in the room, that is.
On the upright shelves, transparent glass bottles were densely packed, with various organisms preserved in liquid: plants, animals, insects, and even human organs.
Kato Dan swallowed hard, his gaze darting towards the tough guy on the side.
He was now completely enveloped by a swarm of Insects, lying on a small bed, occasionally letting out a faint groan.
He wouldn't die, would he?
Kato Dan looked at Aburame Hime, who was sitting at the desk, constantly twirling a pen.
She was scrutinizing him…
He could clearly feel it.
Then he thought, is she interested in me?
No, no, no!
Kato Dan vigorously shook his head, forced a smile, and stammered, "Um… Is he… alright?"
His subconscious was asking what had happened.
"He's fine," Miki said. "Sit."
Kato Dan obediently shuffled his butt and sat down, looking at Miki uneasily.
"Um, Doctor, I'm fine."
Kato Dan tried to save himself.
"Oh?" Miki looked at Kato Dan's leg.
"It's just a broken leg, it'll heal in a few days!" Kato Dan quickly said.
"Oh?" Miki hummed lightly, stopped twirling the pen, and tapped the desk intermittently with her index finger.
She didn't speak.
Kato Dan involuntarily held his breath, his scalp tingling with nervousness, awaiting the final verdict.
"You, fellow, you have a short-lived appearance."
Although a lot of time had passed, Miki still recognized him.
Tsunade's future boyfriend.
Their relationship only went as far as holding hands.
"No way!" Kato Dan asked anxiously, "Will a broken leg kill me?"
Then, a thought struck him, and he asked with a pale face, "I don't have some other illness, do I?"
"No, you don't," Miki said. "Why are you here?"
"I got lost!" Kato Dan said. "My feet hurt from walking, so I'm sitting for a bit!"
"How interesting," Miki said. "Take them off."
Upon hearing this, Kato Dan immediately hugged himself with both hands, looking at Miki nervously.
"Tsk, your shoes."
"I'm not sick!" Kato Dan lowered his hands, blushing, and said.
"A broken leg heals slowly because the bone growth is slow, and naturally grown bone will be much weaker than the previously fractured bone. For a Shinobi's career, this is a fatal threat that cannot be ignored," Miki said. "You wouldn't want your leg to suddenly break while trying to escape, leading to your demise, would you?"
"Not to mention, even after it heals, you'll feel pain during strenuous activity. In close combat, this would be the most direct cause of defeat."
"I have Spiritual Transformation Technique!" Kato Dan whispered. "I don't engage in much close combat, so it won't affect me much."
"So much nonsense," Miki said, standing up and looking down at Kato Dan, her voice cold. "I've given you enough face, kid."
"What are you going to do!?"
No sooner had he spoken than Miki waved her hand, and Kato Dan was horrified to find himself unable to control his body.
"Chakra Scalpel is a Ninjutsu that allows for internal cutting without external wounds."
With that, Miki pulled a pair of white gloves from her pocket, elegantly put them on with a serene expression, and slowly said, "I've severed the neural synapses below your cervical spine, causing your entire body below the brain to disconnect from brain signals and lose control."
"If I don't hurry, a large number of neurons will die, which will lead to paralysis, for life."
Miki finished putting on her gloves, looked at Kato Dan, and asked, "Still want treatment?"
Just as the rumors said…
A demon!!!
Kato Dan's eyes welled up with tears, and he shouted, "Hurry up!!!"
"Hmm?" Miki said. "Speaking of which, Senior, you're a Ninja Academy graduate, aren't you? Didn't they teach etiquette there?"
The 'Confrontation Seal' was part of it, as well as some training related to not disgracing the Village during outside missions.
"Please hurry up!" Kato Dan was about to cry, whimpering, "Thank you so much!"
"Since you've said so," Miki said, extending her hand, which was covered in black Insects.
Looking at these terrifying little things, Kato Dan's eyelids twitched wildly.
"Open your mouth," Miki commanded.
Kato Dan kept his mouth tightly shut, shaking his head desperately.
"This is medicine," Miki explained. "It's no different from what you usually eat, digests quickly, and has no toxins or side effects."
Kato Dan shook his head desperately, keeping his mouth tightly closed.
"One by one, why don't any of them know a good thing when they see it?" Miki sighed.
Because of such reasons, she received too many complaints, and Konoha Hospital decided in a meeting to open a separate department for Miki.
Patients or whatever, it was up to fate.
Miki stepped forward and pinched Kato Dan's mouth.
With force, Kato Dan's mouth opened.
Miki put her fingers to his mouth, and one by one, beetles crawled into Kato Dan's mouth.
These were a variant of the snack bugs, except they carried medicine in their rear.
They could also detach their bodies automatically, but Miki didn't want to do that now.
"Don't bite, swallow."
It wasn't some special medicine, just a pain reliever.
Although he had been fully anesthetized by severing the neural synapses, it would be very painful after the Ninjutsu.
This would make him feel a little better.
By the time the Ninjutsu was over, the bugs in his stomach would have mostly started to digest, and the medicine would take effect.
Miki timed this perfectly.
This same procedure wasn't new to her.
Now, Kato Dan didn't dare to bite, let alone move his mouth. He watched with wide eyes as the terrifying little creatures disappeared from his sight, his pupils shaking violently as if in an earthquake.
These guys wouldn't bite through his stomach, would they?
Kato Dan thought of this terrifying possibility.
At this moment, Miki in front of him made another move.
She tapped his broken knee, and it jumped due to a nerve reflex.
Miki grabbed his foot and said, "Does your foot stink?"
"Not at all!"
"I mean I can treat it, for three million."
This guy clearly had a work-related injury from a mission, which the Village would reimburse.
Meaning it was free.
"I have no money!!!" Kato Dan was truly on the verge of collapsing.
As he spoke, Miki grabbed his foot, and a large number of Insects crawled onto it, biting open the skin with their powerful mandibles, creating tiny wounds, and then one by one, they crawled inside.
Normally, this step would be extremely painful.
However, with the full anesthesia, the transmission of signals was blocked by severing the nerves.
Kato Dan watched the constantly bulging particles under the skin of his calf moving rapidly, his scalp chilling.
"What is this!!!"
"Don't be nervous, it's a subcutaneous examination," Miki said, looking at Kato Dan.
"It'll be over quickly."
Insect Secret Technique: Life-Transfer Ninjutsu
It rapidly activates and enhances the body's self-healing ability using the life force of insects.
Without side effects, it causes osteocytes to rapidly divide and self-heal.
More simply put, it restores health.
A moment later, as Miki lightly stroked his neck, Kato Dan felt the presence of his body.
"Where are the bugs?" he asked with a trembling voice.
Because he only saw the bugs go in, but not come out.
"They're dead," Miki said, starting to remove her gloves. "Don't be nervous, come back here in a week to have the splint removed."
"Splint?"
"Just as you're thinking, the corpses of the bugs. You wouldn't want to wear them for the rest of your life, would you? Although you could."
"However, it might hurt a bit when it rains or something."
Flesh can decompose, but these chitinous exoskeletons are very hard.
These Insects can self-dissolve and stick together, forming various stable and solid shapes.
It's a cracked version of the Slug Sage's ability.
And this healing life force, like the Slug Sage, treats the target by consuming its own cells.
Figuratively speaking, it's a Slug covered in an insect shell.
Once the life force is consumed and the flesh decomposes, these insect exoskeletons need to be removed.
It's not ideal for combat.
But it's convenient.
It's one of Miki's small achievements in recent years.
"Do I have to come again!?" Kato Dan asked.
He remembered what the doctor had said about psychological trauma earlier.
He wondered how large his psychological trauma was now.
"Can I not come?"
"So annoying, yes, you can." Miki waved her hand as if shooing a fly.
Kato Dan, as if granted a great pardon, got up and hopped out of the room.
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