20 Chapter 19 Physical Anesthesia

The evening breeze at night was a bit cold, as if it had blown into someone's heart.

"I must have been caught in a Genjutsu, it must be..." By the river, Shinku quickly formed hand seal, "Ha! Kai!"

"Huh? Shinku-senpai, with your spiritual strength, does it take so much trouble to crack my Genjutsu?" Sōseki asked in confusion with his head tilted.

"I'm not talking about Genjutsu... forget it." The corner of Shinku's mouth twitched slightly, and then he immediately stared at Soseki with scorching eyes and said, "Your talent on Genjutsu is the best I have ever seen. Don't learn Medical Ninjutsu anymore. Follow me in training Genjutsu!"

Hearing this, Sōseki's eyes turned weird, 'Is this the so-called scumbag embodiment?'

Obviously yesterday, he was still saying that Kurenai is the one who has the best Genjutsu talent he has ever seen, but today, he actually changed it.

'If my 'talent' in Medical Ninjutsu is the result of self-harming efforts and learning methods, then my 'talent' in Genjutsu is more of a gift from my previous life's experience and soul fusion. Relatively speaking, my talent in Genjutsu can really be regarded as the highest genius. It's a pity that what you can give me is too little, Shinku-senpai..."

Sōseki felt regretful in his heart, but he still replied with a firm face on the surface, "Shinku-senpai, I'm sorry, but my dream is to become a Medical-nin like Tsunade-sama!"

Although it is a bit rude, Sōseki really doesn't like Shinku's level of Genjutsu.

This is also the limitation of Genjutsu. This world's top Genjutsu experts are almost all from the Uchiha Clan. In fact, Shinku's Genjutsu is actually the peak that ordinary Genjutsu-user Shinobi can reach.

Fortunately, Sōseki has made a plan for his future path in Genjutsu, but the preconditions for this plan have not been met yet.

"Alas, what a pity." Although Shinku knew that the more talented a person is, the less likely he is to change his beliefs, he still felt regretful when he heard Soseki rejected him.

Medical-nin still has experts like Tsunade-sama to support their reputation, but there are only two or three strong experts in Genjutsu.

'Forget it, that's fine. If I let him learn Genjutsu with me wholeheartedly, it might only take him two years before he squeezes me dry.' Shinku comforted himself, forced a smile and said, "Come on, let's start the next stage of training."

...

Time slips away like sand between fingers and in a blink of an eye, two months has passed.

"Wait, don't come over!!!"

"Don't worry, my knife is fast!"

"No, no, I am already fine. Let me go."

"Oh, you want to leave after entering the hospital? Hurry up and hold him down for me."

"Wait, what are you holding in your hands?"

"This is a good thing that can make you forget your pain. Ha! Physical anesthesia! Huh? Why doesn't it work? Again, physical anesthesia!"

"Pfft~!"

"You can't do like that. If you still don't have a good grasp of your strength, let me do it."

"No, don't hit me. Please just cut it directly~"

"Since you asked for it, then..."

"Ah~oh~!"

"Barrier team, quickly set up a sound-sealing barrier!"

Outside the Konoha Hospital, listening to the screams coming from the ward one after another, Nonō apologized with embarrassment, "Tsunade-sama, sorry for making you seeing such embarrassment."

Tsunade shook her head calmly, "I have seen worse scenes than this when I had surgery before."

"However, what is this physical anesthesia?"

"Don't you know? This matter should have been discussed a month ago."

"A month ago? Huh, I, the director of Konoha Hospital, am really incompetent." Tsunade said with a smile, mocking herself.

"Tsunade-sama, we all know that you are afraid..." Nonō said hurriedly, but was interrupted by Tsunade before she could finish.

"Incompetence means incompetence. There is no need to find a reason for me." Tsunade waved her hand in annoyance, "If it weren't for that old man man who refused to let me go, you are actually more suitable to be the director than me."

"Tsunade-sama..." Nonō didn't know how to answer, and took the initiative to change the subject, "Speaking of this physical anesthesia, it was actually opposed by many conservatives at first."

Speaking of conservatives, Tsunade was really interested, "What happened?"

"Because the essence of this 'procedure' is to make the injured temporarily forget the pain and complete the treatment in peace."

"Forget the pain?" Thinking of the scream that still lingering in her ears just now, Tsunade's expression became a little strange.

However, she could understand why the conservatives would oppose it.

In Shinobi's guidelines, to endure pain is a virtue, and it is also for training their will. Although they do not advocate that everyone should take the initiative to feel pain, people who even need to be numbed for pain are considered absolute shame as a Shinōbi by those conservatives.

"By the way, how did the physical anesthesia you just mentioned make the patient forget the pain?" Thinking of this, Tsunade asked curiously.

"Well..." Nonō right hand scratched her cheek lightly with her index finger, and her eyes are a little erratic.

At this time, the door of the ward where the screams came from was pushed open.

Two petite and lovely nurses walked out of it, each holding a thick wooden stick half a person's height in their arms, which formed a sharp contrast with their petite figures, giving people a sense of extreme dissonance.

"Hah, he was finally anesthetized!"

"It's also a problem to have a good physique."

"Yes, if it is ...Ah! Captain Nonō, Tsunade-sama!"

"Tsu...Tsunade -sama!"

While speaking, the two hurriedly hid the wooden sticks behind them.

"Tsunade-sama, this..." Nonō looked embarrassed.

"You don't need to say it. I believed I have already understood it all." Looking at the wooden stick sticking out from behind the two, the corner of Tsunade's twitched.

"Cough cough, actually...we all pay attention to the strength we use, and our Shinobi's physique is very good. You see, that Shinōbi needed to be 'anaesthetized' for so long before fainting." Nonō explained with a lack of confidence.

"I didn't mean to blame you." Tsunade shook her head, with some memories in her eyes, "If it was me in the past, I might have be angry with your... um, imagination."

Nonō adjusted her glasses and remained silent. 'I heard that Tsunade-sama used to have the title of Demon King before, but now...'

"By the way, who proposed this 'procedure'? If it weren't for the fact that Jiraiya is not in Konoha right now, I would have thought it was his doing."

"It was Sōseki-kun's proposal, He is the most popular little genius in our Konoha Hospital."

"Shimizu Sōseki?" Tsunade asked in surprise as she raised her brows slightly.

"Tsunade-sama, do you also know Sōseki?" Nonō was taken aback for a moment and then reacted, "Oh, is it because of the battle between Sōseki and Hokage-sama's son?"

"Haha, it's more than that." Tsunade laughed meaningfully, "That girl Shizune has mentioned him to me more than once, about how stable and reliable their class leader is, but now it seems..."

"Shizune? Sōseki's classmate?" Nonō did not think much, and then praised Sōseki, "Sōseki-kun is of course very reliable. He only becomes a bit aggressive when it comes to patients. This is a compromise solution Sōseki-kun offered us."

"A compromise?"

"Well, at the beginning, Sōseki is proposing to add Genjutsu department, allowing the patients to complete the operation while immersed in Genjutsu. He even proposed to expand the scope of the Genjutsu department beyond surgery, such as soothing the mind, driving away worries and troubles in the patients' minds, and cure the mental pain. It's a pity that the general Genjutsu-user Shinobi can't do this step at all."

"Cure the mental pain?" Tsunade pursed her lips and sighed, "This idea is indeed very beautiful, but the requirements for such illusion immersion are somewhat high."

Nonō nodded helplessly, 'If the patient's immersion in Genjutsu is not high enough, the huge amount of pain from surgery will directly pull the patient out of the illusion.'

Moreover, few Genjutsu can last as long as an operation.

Relatively speaking, "physical anesthesia" is more feasible to implement.

At this moment, there was a commotion from the depths of the corridor.