Underground Base.
"Lord Hyuga is truly amazing..."
Yakushi Kabuto was wielding a scalpel, working it up and down across Gekko Hayate's face.
His glasses reflected a white gleam, while a faint smile tugged at the corners of his mouth.
As for the patient, Gekko Hayate...
His entire face was already gone.
Even his eyelids had been stripped away by Hyuga Sho.
The blood-red muscles of the human body, combined with the two eyeballs, gave off a horrifying feeling.
Skin graft reconstruction.
With his previous experience with Jurozaemon Biwa,
Yakushi Kabuto had become thoroughly practiced at it.
Or rather... Yakushi Kabuto had already become a skilled "cosmetic surgeon."
In just a few minutes,
he could transform one person into the likeness of another.
In other words...
With cosmetic surgery alone, Yakushi Kabuto could make a name for himself throughout the Shinobi World and earn an enormous amount of money.
However.
Cosmetic surgery was not without flaws.
Whether it was Konoha's ANBU or the ANBU of other countries,
anyone who had invested points into the "autopsy" skill could identify, through careful examination, whether someone had undergone cosmetic surgery.
For example, some area of the skin on the head would inevitably bear traces left behind by the surgery.
Of course, an ordinary person would have no way of telling.
Nor would anyone pry at another person's head and study it from every angle without leaving a blind spot.
So, to a certain extent, cosmetic surgery still possessed considerable value.
"Hey, hey... Looking at him reminds me of when I was treated like a lab rat..."
Beside him, Jurozaemon Biwa watched Yakushi Kabuto work over Gekko Hayate.
He had been so bored lately that he was practically wasting away, and Hyuga Sho had not assigned him any tasks.
According to Hyuga Sho,
Jurozaemon Biwa,