Hemostasis on Hirohiko's eye sockets... complete. Optic nerve alignment... successful. Anesthetizing Nao... successful. Eyeball removal... successful. Hemostasis on Nao's eye sockets and optic nerves... successful. Eyeball transplant... commencing... Optic nerve calibration... successful. Eyeball insertion, optic nerve connection... successful. Eyeball transplant... successful. Commencing... bandaging...
With slightly trembling hands, Chiba wound clean bandages around the unconscious Hirohiko's eyes, layer by layer. He lightly gritted his teeth, an indescribably complicated look flickering in his eyes.
For Chiba, who had even mastered the Creation Rebirth Jutsu, a Sharingan transplant barely counted as surgery. It was not even worth calling a simple task.
Though for a Medical Ninja, an operation like an eye transplant—an organ replacement surgery—was considered quite difficult.
Yet Chiba took only five minutes to transplant Nao's eyes into Hirohiko, a procedure that even Rin at her current level could perform, and one she had used to place Obito's eye into Kakashi in such a short time.
Moreover, the surgery was flawless. With the effects of the Creation Rebirth Jutsu, Chiba could guarantee that Hirohiko would not feel the slightest difference between these eyes and his own.
Once Hirohiko woke and learned these eyes were not his, there were only two possibilities. One was that Chiba told him so.
The second was that Hirohiko sensed the powerful ocular strength of Nao's Mangekyō Sharingan, noticed the difference from his own eyes, and realized they were not his.
"Nao, don't worry. This surgery was perfect."
After wrapping on the final layer of bandages, Chiba carefully tied a knot, wiped the blood beneath his nose, then slowly lowered the Hirohiko he had been supporting onto the ground, letting him lie beside Nao.
To make the eye