"Uh, do I need to take my clothes off?"
"Theoretically speaking, intimate contact without clothing in the way would definitely make treatment faster. After all, there's a reason why, in wuxia novels, women take off their clothes while men strengthen themselves with inner energy during treatment."
"Huh?"
"But... I'll be fine treating you through your clothes. Don't worry, it's not like I haven't touched them before."
"Oh. Ah?"
"Hey, don't look at me like that. I mean chest compressions. Seriously, if you saw someone collapse on the street looking pale and awful, wouldn't the first thing you do be chest compressions?"
"What about mouth-to-mouth?" Liu Huaixi asked nervously.
"No... I'd only done two compressions when I remembered there was a hospital right beside us, so I carried An Liu to the hospital." Chen Luo shook his head.
Although she had learned something rather unpleasant from Chen Luo, Liu Huaixi didn't dwell on it. Saving her mother was more important.
Chen Luo merely placed his hand on An Liu's abdomen through her hospital gown and began the treatment.
Chen Luo's healing ability was powerful enough to even revive others, but that didn't mean he could cure every illness.
For example, he had been completely helpless when it came to Kamijou Touma's condition, because the injured area had been far too small—and it had been his brain.
Fortunately, the heart was not included in that category. More precisely, Aunt An Liu's heart disease was not.
And the heart was a very large target.
The reason Chen Luo placed his hand over the patient's abdomen was that the heart was too sensitive, while it was best for him to get as close to the treatment site as possible.
A not-so-fun fact: the healing power of Break Cocoon into Butterfly did not immediately go