Come to think of it, Yukina's physical examination report should be arriving today.
Recently, those old scholars had thoroughly researched every aspect of Higan. However, because the main ingredient was scarce and required in excessive quantities, they had likely reported to the village that it could not be mass-produced and was not recommended for production.
After all, Higan Grass had quite a wide range of uses. Using it for poison was somewhat wasteful.
Looking doubtfully at his own hands, Chiba ultimately shifted his attention away from whether the time he spent on taijutsu training had decreased and instead thought of something he had been doing every two or three days lately.
Giving Yukina a physical examination.
Konoha had changed considerably during this period. First, the Forbidden Jutsu Chamber seemed not to have suffered any damage. Then, three days after the village was sealed off, the lockdown was lifted. Although Chiba had the authority to enter and leave freely, he had not frequently traveled between the village and the camp during those three days. Instead, he had gone to the old scholars to learn how to collect examination samples. After the lockdown ended, he went to Yukina every two or three days to collect samples and handed them over to the old scholars for testing. Originally, he had planned to learn the testing process as well, but his training schedule was already full, so he had no choice but to give up on that idea.
Fortunately, the old scholars were quite professional and were still willing to make time to run the tests for him.
After each test was completed, the old scholars would send the report to him through an assistant they had apparently recruited at some point: a fifteen- or sixteen-year-old boy named Koichi.
It saved him quite a