Tsk!
This had to be resolved quickly!
No! It had to be resolved now!
Frowning irritably, Chiba slowly rose from the bedside. After pacing back and forth a few times, he made up his mind.
To be honest, this had come rather suddenly. Chiba had never expected that entering the Sealed Space would bring about such changes, forcing him to conduct a second assessment.
He had only just tested Higan's properties and found no changes. The change had come from the peculiar condition of his own body, yet this situation had suddenly appeared. No wonder Chiba was frustrated. He had thought he had put one matter to rest, only for it to suddenly become something he could not set aside.
Moreover, the danger and importance of the matter were secondary. The key was that dealing with it might require preparing the medicine again, or even starting a full physical examination from scratch.
After all, the extended duration might be due to an issue with his metabolism, causing his poison resistance to decline. Or perhaps there was a problem with Higan's properties.
Either possibility was extremely troublesome.
Whether it was laborious was another matter. The real issue was that it was too much trouble. The physical examination might require those old scholars again. Asking them would be fine, but if there was a new discovery concerning his body, who knew how long those old scholars would study it this time? As for Higan's properties, he could test them himself, but there was not much Higan Grass left. Those old scholars had now been freed from examining his body. If they saw Higan Grass in the pharmacy—a herb so rare that a great nation would treat it as a national treasure—whether he could get any more Higan Grass would be a question.