"Is that enough?"
Outside Doctor Watanabe's house, watching Chiba turn to leave, Doctor Watanabe could not help asking.
"Yes. We still can't be sure what's going on yet. I'll come by again tomorrow. Will you be on duty or at home?"
Chiba turned around without concealing anything or standing on ceremony.
He had awakened automatically after just ten minutes. Whether that was good or bad, and what had caused it, he could only slowly investigate and analyze through experiments on himself. After all, under the current circumstances, finding a prisoner seemed unrealistic. Besides, to understand Higan's time limit, one or two subjects definitely would not be enough.
As for conducting human experiments on people from his own village, Chiba would never do that, emotionally or rationally.
Emotionally, Chiba was not a cold-blooded person. He could not bring himself to harm innocent people. Higan was poison, after all, and he was already somewhat different from ordinary people. No one knew what pain or effects it would cause in ordinary people or regular shinobi. If someone died because he had tested the drug on them, he would never be able to get over it.
Rationally, as mentioned above, even if Chiba hardened his heart and found people from Konoha—whether civilians or shinobi—for live drug trials, that would be no different in essence from Orochimaru's actions. It would be a grave act of betraying the village. Even if the subjects volunteered and no village rules were violated, Higan was still an illegal drug. The moment he tested it on people, he would be guilty of betraying the village, just like Orochimaru secretly researching Forbidden Jutsu.
And if he were branded a village traitor, even if he managed to escape, what would happen to Kushina, Yukina, and Hirohiko? Was he supposed to make them