"Done." Takumi's voice brought Tsunade back to reality. She was surprised to find that, in this short time, Takumi had also reattached the Shinobi's severed arm.
This speed... Tsunade admitted to herself that she couldn't reach Takumi's level.
At this stage of the contest, the outcome was very clear. Tsunade's face was full of bewilderment, 'I lost? I lost in a Medical Ninjutsu contest? How is that possible?'
Just as she was questioning her life, the director, deeply enchanted by Takumi's superb skills, announced the fifth round's task.
A person with only the upper half of his body was wheeled in. The patient had an oxygen mask on his face, and the severed lower half was bloody, clearly having been brought in not long ago after being injured.
But if treatment wasn't continued, he would likely be in life-threatening danger.
The director didn't announce the task. Instead, he looked fervently at Takumi and said gravely, "This... this person... can he be cured?"
"Hmm... a bit troublesome," Takumi scratched his cheek.
The director's face immediately froze, 'What? A bit troublesome? He's only half there, and you saying 'a bit troublesome'... does that mean he can still be treated?'
Takumi then turned to the crowd, looking for someone. When he found who he was looking for, his eyes lit up.
"Ibiki-senpai, could you help me find someone? I need a body for transplantation."
Whoosh!
The entire room was in an uproar!
"Holy crap?! He can even treat this kind of injury?" Inoichi exclaimed.
"Th-this is... can this even be called Medical Ninjutsu?" Shikaku also looked shocked.
"This... I'm afraid even Orochimaru's Forbidden Techniques couldn't accomplish this?" The burly Akimichi Choza said with a grave expression.
"Right, it looks like the Forbidden Techniques Orochimaru researched. If he can really cure this, then his medical skills are even above Orochimaru's Forbidden Techniques," Shikaku said solemnly.
"No, what Takumi-kun is performing isn't a Forbidden Technique, but genuine medical skill," Hiruzen said with a smile.
He clearly knew what Forbidden Techniques Orochimaru had researched back then. It was precisely because of that he was forced to drive Orochimaru out of Konoha.
But Takumi was different. What Takumi was using was medical skill! Although it seemed unbelievable, it was medical skill! Miraculous skill that brings the dying back to life!
"I cannot agree," Ibiki said after his initial shock, slowly shaking his head to refuse Takumi's request.
"Why?" Takumi frowned.
"If saving one person requires sacrificing another, doesn't the result still mean losing one person?" Ibiki said.
"Right, that defeats the purpose of saving someone."
"Although this person looks pitiful, saving him by sacrificing another person makes that other person pitiful too, doesn't it?"
"Even though it's saving a life, this method is still too cruel. Can't another method be used?"
"There must be a better way, right? Takumi-kun has performed excellently so far."
The people around discussed animatedly. But all topics pointed to one question: whether using another person's life to save this one was morally right.
Takumi was prepared for this.
"Then, please prepare a dead person for me, Ibiki-senpai. Preferably someone who just died not long ago, so the success rate is higher," Takumi said calmly.
The surroundings erupted in chatter again. They all looked at Takumi in shock, never expecting him to choose this method.
But upon reflection, it made sense. If it was a dead person... although it still somewhat went against morality, if it could save a life, it was also a good thing.
"Impossible!" Tsunade, having regained her senses, immediately spoke upon hearing Takumi's words. "After death, the body's organs begin to fail, muscle tissue, etc., gradually lose activity. You want to use a dead person's body for replacement? The idea isn't bad, but it's very difficult to achieve," Tsunade said gravely.
"We won't know until we try," Takumi said lightly.
Ibiki had a headache. "There are dead people, but I don't have anyone who died recently."
"I have some here," The director said.
Everyone then remembered. They were in a hospital. While not every day, occasionally people died due to accidents or mission fatalities. In short, the hospital wasn't short of corpses.
"This should require the consent of the deceased's family, right?" Takumi frowned. He wanted to get a corpse from Ibiki because Ibiki was from the Torture and Interrogation Force.
What kind of people end up there? Enemy spies, Konoha traitors, etc.… people unforgivable by the village.
But using a body from Konoha Hospital's deceased required the family's consent. Otherwise, there would be big trouble later.
"Leave the negotiations to me. You go ahead and do it with confidence," Hiruzen said with a smile.
With the Hokage's backing, the director immediately provided a corpse that had died less than four hours ago.
Everyone immediately watched with rapt attention, including Tsunade. She also wanted to see how Takumi would utilize a corpse with deteriorating muscle tissue and failing organs.
Takumi directly picked up a saw.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
In a few strokes, he sawed the corpse into upper and lower halves. Then, he began the intensive splicing work.
Witnessing this scene, the entire Konoha Hospital, hundreds of spectators, all stared dumbfounded, as if they'd seen a ghost!
On one hand, there was Takumi's precise surgery, and on the other, he was using a saw to cut a corpse. The contrast was simply incomprehensible!
Transplanting bodies was something Takumi often did in his simulations.
Even if the donor was dead, it didn't matter. Because Takumi had a unique activation technique.
As long as the corpse and the patient's body were joined within an extremely short time, he could use Chakra to transmit the patient's vitality to the attached corpse. This could alleviate the issues of the corpse's muscle tissue losing activity and organs failing.
Takumi had specifically checked the patient's condition earlier. He found that besides losing his entire lower body, the patient was also missing a kidney. Before the joining, he needed to transplant a kidney back into him.
Snip, snip, snip!
Sss, sss~~
Takumi's actions were smooth and flowing. The onlookers only saw Takumi sometimes pulling blood vessels, connecting and suturing them, sometimes pulling nerves to suture.
Suddenly, he would pick up ligaments and suture them together. But no matter what he was suturing, Takumi spent very little time on it, without a single pause throughout the entire process!