Sealing Jutsu in Hand

Medical treatment of wounds did not necessarily require Medical Ninja. Ordinary people could do it too?

They only needed to know how to sew?

It sounded absurd at first, but upon reflection, it actually seemed perfectly reasonable!

That was right. Since wounds could heal without the Mystical Palm Technique, what difference did it make whether a Medical Ninja knew it or not?

What was the biggest obstacle to expanding the Medical Ninja system? Wasn't it simply that there were not enough Medical Ninja?

Why were there not enough Medical Ninja?

First, most ninja did not like studying Medical Ninjutsu.

Second, among the ninja who did like Medical Ninjutsu, quite a few lacked the aptitude for it.

As a result, only a handful of people could learn Medical Ninjutsu each year. Of course the medical system was difficult to establish.

But what if ordinary people could become doctors as well?

Being a Medical Ninja might be the worst possible choice for a ninja, but for ordinary people, it was the best possible choice!

After all, no matter how low a doctor's status was, it was still better than farming and raising pigs!

"But without the Mystical Palm Technique, if ordinary people became doctors, wouldn't injured ninja heal very slowly..." Tsunade immediately spotted the issue. There would not be enough time for that on the battlefield!

"During wartime, do all Medical Ninja go to the front lines, or only some of them?" Hyuga Ningyuan asked in return.

"Of course only some of them. How could they all go to the front lines? I get it!" Tsunade froze for a moment, then understood.

That was right. The value of ordinary people was not battlefield rescue, but making up for the shortage of Medical Ninja during war.

For example, if Konoha Hospital had one hundred Medical Ninja, only seventy could go to the front lines during wartime, while the other thirty had to remain in the village to treat the villagers.

But if there were three hundred ordinary doctors, then ninety Medical Ninja could be sent to the front lines during wartime.

Wouldn't that increase the speed of medical treatment at the front lines?

And ordinary doctors might not be unable to go to the front lines either.

Because wars in the ninja world differed from wars on Earth.

In the ninja world, fewer than ten thousand people on each side could somehow fight for three to five years.

On Earth, ten thousand people would probably finish fighting in under two hours.

The front lines of the ninja world were not constantly at war. It was perfectly normal for a unit to carry out a mission and then rest for three to five days. Periods of intense fighting only lasted for a few days.

That meant that when the fighting was not intense, minor illnesses and injuries could be entirely handled by ordinary doctors. The Chakra saved by Medical Ninja could then be reserved for ninja with serious illnesses and major injuries.

Tsunade was no fool. Hyuga Ningyuan had merely proposed an idea, yet she quickly filled in the roles ordinary people could take on, as well as how the medical system should be built if ordinary people joined it.

Then she realized that, never mind ninety-nine percent, at least ninety percent of the work at Konoha Hospital could be handled by ordinary people after sufficient study and training.

In other words, Konoha Hospital could henceforth be divided into ordinary doctors and ninja doctors.

Ordinary doctors would specialize in common ailments, while ninja doctors would treat severe and critical conditions, using the convenience of Chakra to research treatments for more diseases.

The same would apply on the battlefield. Ordinary doctors would treat minor illnesses and injuries, while ninja doctors would handle serious illnesses and major wounds.

When the battle situation was intense, ordinary doctors could also assist ninja doctors with surgery, greatly increasing the efficiency of Medical Ninja.

And, to put it bluntly, ninja doctors could run faster than ordinary people. So if there were ordinary doctors in the hospital, then if a rear hospital was attacked by the enemy again, the ninja doctors' chances of survival would increase considerably.

"Hyuga Ningyuan, you..." Tsunade looked at the child before her, who was not even as tall as her thigh, her expression complicated. He said he had a new technique, and he really did!

Then what had all her earlier doubts been?

Seeing Hyuga Ningyuan's smiling face, Tsunade instantly clenched her fists. "Did you already have this idea in mind? Were you deliberately making a fool of me?"

"Uh..." Hyuga Ningyuan was instantly speechless.

"Ha, so that was it!" Tsunade reached out directly, and the next second, Hyuga Ningyuan was lying in her arms again.

This time, it was not on her lap. The child might be infuriating, but his intelligence was genuine.

She could not hit him. What if she damaged him?

But even if she could not hit him, there was no problem with giving him a good, hard ruffle!

"Damn it..." Clearly, he was the one getting an advantage, his hands pressed against her chest, yet Ningyuan somehow felt like he was the one losing out.

That was right, because he was the passive one, while she was the active one!

So he was not taking advantage of her right now. She was taking advantage of him!

Police! Was there any police around? Where was the Uchiha Police Force? Someone was bullying a child here! Was no one going to do anything?

"Shouldn't you hurry up and recruit some ordinary students?" Hyuga Ningyuan finally could not take the ruffling anymore and asked, "It's enrollment season right now. You can still catch this year's intake!"

"What does that have to do with me? I stopped handling such trivial matters long ago!" Tsunade said flatly. "Let that old man Third and his wife worry about it!"

That made so much sense that he had nothing to say!

"By the way, do you really not want to take me as your master?" Tsunade finally stopped what she was doing and asked. "Or do you not understand the significance of the Caged Bird Seal?"

"Of course I know. I want to remove it too!" Since Tsunade herself had said she wanted to help him remove it, there was no need to hide it from her.

Besides, there was nothing to hide. Everyone knew what the Hyuga Branch Family wanted. Who would not want to remove the Caged Bird Seal?

"But Apprenticeship with Biwako really is impossible!"

Tsunade's brows shot up. "Brat, am I really that beneath your notice?"

As though she had thought of something, Tsunade became even angrier. "Am I one of those short people you mentioned too?"

"Definitely not. When I talked about short and tall, I was only judging men." Hyuga Ningyuan immediately denied it. "I don't look down on you either, but Apprenticeship with Biwako really is impossible!"

"Fine, fine!" Tsunade waved her hand. "If you don't want to become my apprentice, then don't. It's not like I care."

Hyuga Ningyuan nodded, then quietly asked, "By the way, I heard your family has Sealing Jutsu. Could you let me borrow it to study?"

Tsunade sneered. "You don't want to become my apprentice, so why do you want my family's Sealing Jutsu?"

"You may not be my teacher, but you're my older sister!" Hyuga Ningyuan argued.

Being born poor was not shameful. A real man knew when to bend and when to stand tall!

"Hmph. Even if I am your older sister, what reason do you have to study Sealing Jutsu at my home?" Tsunade curled her lips and asked with a smile, "Or are you planning to take the Sealing Jutsu scrolls back to the Hyuga Clan?"

Uh.

That definitely would not work. If he took Sealing Jutsu scrolls back to the Hyuga Clan, what would the Hyuga Main Family think? His intentions would be as obvious as lice on a monk's head!

But how could such a trivial matter stump the clever Hyuga Ningyuan?

"Didn't I become Lady Biwako's apprentice? You can bring the Sealing Jutsu to Konoha Hospital, then call me over to take a look. I have an excellent memory. No matter how many books there are, I can remember them after reading them once!" Hyuga Ningyuan said.

Tsunade and Third had long ceased to be on the same side. In two years, she would even leave the village outright, so there was no need to hide something like having a good memory from her.

Right, in two years, Hatake Sakumo would be driven to suicide by rumors.

He wondered whether Tsunade leaving the village had anything to do with that. Perhaps it was because of that incident that she saw the village's darkness for what it was?

"You have that kind of memory?" Tsunade was stunned, then suddenly thought of something.

If he had such an excellent memory, then he should have completely memorized all those books on Medical Ninjutsu as well.

Yet he said he would continue studying under Sarutobi Biwako in the future.

He was hiding his true abilities.

Then she remembered that Hyuga Ningyuan wanted to learn Sealing Jutsu to break the Caged Bird Seal.

The answer was obvious. He was hiding his abilities because of the Hyuga Main Family.

But she would not inform on him to the Hyuga Main Family. After all, the Hyuga Main Family had nothing to do with her.

Instead, she was quite curious. If Hyuga Ningyuan really found a way to remove the Caged Bird Seal, how would the Hyuga Clan respond?

Honestly speaking, quite a few people in the village had objections to the Hyuga Clan's Main Family and Branch Family system, especially the faction descended from the First Hokage, the Second Hokage, and Tsunade.

It made Konoha look incredibly backward, as if it supported slavery.

Moreover, because of the Caged Bird Seal, it was difficult for the village to win over Hyuga Clan members. This situation was even more serious than with the Uchiha Clan.

After all, the Uchiha Clan still had dovish and hawkish factions within it, while the Hyuga Clan, because of the Caged Bird Seal, listened only to the Main Family.

But this was an internal matter of the Hyuga Clan, and they had never been in a position to say much about it.

But if someone within the Hyuga Clan wanted to break through the shackles of this system themselves, then they could hardly blame them.