"Doctor Watanabe, I'll leave the rest to you."
"Leave it to me. Don't worry, they're only flesh wounds."
Kakashi and Doctor Watanabe's conversation drifted softly past his ears, but Chiba did not even lift his head, remaining buried in the pile of scrolls.
Dinner had already ended, and the main group had all wrapped up work. To ensure that tomorrow's workload would not be affected, Kakashi had brought several injured students who had concealed their wounds to this room, which served as an office, infirmary, and their bedroom, for necessary treatment. Since they were all merely flesh wounds, Doctor Watanabe only needed to apply medicine and bandage them up.
Kakashi was especially cautious about such matters.
"All right. Don't let them touch water tonight, and they'll be fine tomorrow."
After the bandaging was finished, Doctor Watanabe and Kakashi saw several students off with those words.
"He still hasn't had dinner?"
After watching the students leave through the light rain, Kakashi turned and looked at Chiba, who was still buried in the scrolls.
"No."
Doctor Watanabe followed his gaze toward Chiba and shook his head, his face showing considerable concern.
Chiba had been buried in those scrolls ever since Doctor Watanabe returned from checking the medicine in the warehouse. For several hours now, he had maintained that posture. Sometimes he wrote something on blank scrolls with brush and ink; sometimes he formed hand seals and pressed them onto the blank scrolls, drawing one Sealing Jutsu Formula after another. Even when called to eat, he had not reacted.
He had completely entered a state of concentration.
No! It should be said that he was concentrating to the point of obsession.
To be honest, this was the first time Doctor Watanabe had seen Chiba like this, and it had nearly frightened him. Once