"So it was only because your body differs from ordinary people that the medicinal effect lasted just ten minutes, and you were able to wake up on your own without CPR. The key isn't the medicinal effect, but your body's resistance to toxins. Higan's medicinal effect is still stable. You should've explained that clearly!"
After listening to Chiba's series of explanations, Doctor Watanabe let out a long breath and spoke with lingering fear.
"Sorry. I was so happy that I started joking without realizing it."
In response, Chiba, who was now seated across the desk from Doctor Watanabe, showed an apologetic smile.
Just now, Chiba had roughly explained his body's toxin resistance to Doctor Watanabe.
If Doctor Watanabe had not been someone he could completely trust before, then now Chiba could say that he trusted him fully.
In this matter, Doctor Watanabe had demonstrated enough honesty and concern for him to earn Chiba's trust.
Just moments ago, when he said that something had happened to someone, Doctor Watanabe's expression and actions had been entirely genuine. He had truly been worried about him.
However, although he now fully trusted Doctor Watanabe, Chiba had not said much beyond his toxin resistance, concealing quite a few details he already knew.
It was not that Chiba meant to hide anything. Rather, there were some things Doctor Watanabe could not be allowed to know. To use a somewhat inappropriate analogy, a man is innocent, but he becomes guilty by possessing a jade. There was a mad scientist in Konoha. His revival from the dead this time was already a miracle. If that mad scientist somehow learned of it and wanted his body's data, directly dissecting him alive was unlikely. He was now the Hokage's assistant. If the assistant vanished, that mad scientist would not be