Impossible...
How... how could this be? The bones...
Shattered... no, pulverized bones...
Were moving...
Moving... back toward their original positions!
Within his wide-open eyes, within the Byakugan standing out clearly, an utterly incredulous light flickered. Overwhelmed by extreme shock, Neji Hyuga had forgotten how to react. He could only stare blankly, his mouth open but unable to utter a single word. He did not even notice all the gazes gathering on him.
At this moment, within his Byakugan vision, the shattered shoulder blade and left arm bones of the white-haired young man at the center of his focus—whether the broken bones themselves or the tiny fragments crushed by tremendous force into muscle tissue and ruptured blood vessels—began moving back toward their original positions as though they possessed wills of their own. The process was not fast, but he could see it clearly. At this rate, they seemed about to reset themselves automatically.
Let alone witnessing such a thing, it was practically unheard of. He had never even known such a thing could happen.
In a comminuted fracture, the fragments were actually returning to their original positions on their own. It looked as though the bones themselves were about to reconnect the fractured parts and heal completely.
Yet within this white-haired young man, the Chakra circulation had merely increased in volume. There had been no obvious qualitative transformation.
That was equally incomprehensible.
From what the teachers had said earlier, Neji Hyuga knew that this Chiba was a Medical Ninja, and a highly skilled one at that. But unlike the others, he had seen Medical Ninjas use Medical Ninjutsu before, more than once or twice. After all, they had graduated a year earlier. During that extra year, they had come into contact with higher-level missions, and naturally had broader experience than the