The Walking Witch!

Her slender, graceful figure took flight, leaving an afterimage in Uchiha Kin's mind. The strings of his heart vibrated, and he thought, So, I can still appreciate beauty. The group set off again.

Uchiha Kin continued to use the Body Flicker Technique, but due to chakra depletion, he had to incorporate conventional movement methods into his dashes.

Danzo tacitly fell back a hundred meters, keeping pace with Uchiha Kin, while the Root ninja behind him were suffering.

However, Root did not require human emotions, so they simply endured in silence, and endured more, persisted, and persisted further.

Upon returning to the Konoha camp, Uchiha Kin parted ways with Danzo and his group, heading directly to the field hospital.

"Lord Kin, you're back!" "Lord Kin!" Some of the wounded in the open space greeted Uchiha Kin respectfully upon seeing him.

Jasmine and Golden Chrysanthemum heard the commotion and also came out. They were wearing white protective suits, masks, and goggles, their clothes stained with blood and medicine. "Captain." "Captain, you're back, that's great... we were so worried."

Uchiha Kin nodded and said, "It's fine, it was actually a small mission. I was just there to guard against any troublemakers poisoning things, no combat was needed."

"Oh."

"I'm going to the command tent first!" Uchiha Kin said to the two of them and headed to the command tent.

The command tent was empty at the moment. He sat down in the chair behind the desk, leaned back, and closed his eyes to wait.

About ten minutes later, footsteps approached. A blonde woman in a white priestess outfit, wearing a hood and round glasses, lifted the curtain and entered. She had a kind, sunny smile similar to Minato Namikaze's, but with an added gentleness unique to women.

The woman asked, "You're back?" Seeing Uchiha Kin about to stand, she said, "Sit down, no need to get up. This trip must have been tough."

As she spoke, she took off her outer coat.

"You're a Medical Ninja!" Uchiha Kin looked at her and said, "Where do Medical Ninjas go deep behind enemy lines to pull people out of prisons? Nonō... rescuing POWs and hostages, that's not the duty of a Medical Ninja..."

This woman was actually Yakushi Nonō, the current controller of Konoha's entire medical system during the Third Great Ninja War!

And it was this battle that would earn her the title of "Walking Witch" in the ninja world, elevating her from a Medical Ninja to a master spy.

She would become the pinnacle of ninja spies!

Yakushi Nonō casually said, "There are quite a few more wounded now, Kin, please bear with it. Every life saved is a commendable act."

Uchiha Kin stared at her face for a long time before saying very seriously, "Those in high positions are always shortsighted, mistaking gold for gravel! The talent you've shown in infiltration and rescue will surely attract attention...

"I don't want to see the captain of Konoha's wartime medical system become a spy against her will one day!"

"You're overthinking it... You must have been busy lately, right?" Yakushi Nonō changed into a white protective suit, putting on a mask and hat. This demeanor made Uchiha Kin feel ashamed. Yakushi Nonō added, "Be careful of Danzo; do not trust his promises."

"Mhm."

Yakushi Nonō left the tent, and Uchiha Kin followed, "Let's go together. If you work this hard, I'll look too lazy."

Yakushi Nonō said, "I'm just doing a quick inspection, I'll be back soon..." They walked and talked.

"Of the three people I rescued this time, one had their memory read by the enemy, their brain's nerves are a mess, and they're barely clinging to life.

"Originally, I wanted to put them out of their misery, but thinking of you as an expert, I brought them back. If you have time, take a look—don't rush, they won't die anytime soon, focus on the wounded first!"

"A brain with its memory read? This is my first time seeing such a sample—what methods did Iwagakure use?"

Uchiha Kin asked casually, not expecting an answer, but driven by his own curiosity...

He knew Konoha's methods: the Yamanaka clan's secret techniques combined with chakra-brain interfaces, requiring multiple people to cooperate.

He didn't know what techniques other ninja villages used...

"If he can be cured, he will be the first ninja to bring back the methods of other ninja villages for reading memories—a living sample!" Yakushi Nonō said.

For Konoha, such "knowing the enemy" would be of immense significance, and for ninja, intelligence itself was paramount.

Yakushi Nonō took him to see the three newly rescued individuals. All three were receiving treatment. They had no skin, their nerves were exposed, showing signs of torture, and their muscles had tearing injuries and burns.

The brutality of the Rock Ninja's torture unit was fully evident on them—

Their muscles, which should have been a single bundle, had been torn apart strand by strand, and the connections to their bones had also been ripped open.

Their nerve endings showed clear signs of electrical shock, and their lungs had been deliberately punctured, with chili oil residue found inside.

The Medical Ninja's method was also simple, crude, and direct, using Water Release to flush out the lungs.

The wounded instinctively tried to cough but couldn't. By the time they reacted, their internal organs had been healed by the Mystical Palm Technique, but when it came to the skin, the attending Medical Ninja was stumped. Uchiha Kin spoke, "Leave the rest to me."

The attending Medical Ninja, who had been focused on treatment, hadn't noticed Uchiha Kin and Yakushi Nonō arrive. Hearing Uchiha Kin's words now, they were pleasantly surprised.

"Lord Kin! Lady Nonō!"

Uchiha Kin nodded, smiled, and said, "Prepare some skin for them, any kind of skin will do. I'll go change my clothes."

Uchiha Kin went out and quickly returned after changing into a medical protective suit. After a short wait, someone delivered the skins—

It was a tiger skin and a deer skin. The ninja delivering them asked nervously, "C-can these work?"

"Yes, they can, but it's not enough. There are three people here, you need to find more."

"Yes." The other person breathed a sigh of relief.

Yakushi Nonō asked, "What's the next step?"

"Help me measure their body sizes, then cut the skins according to different parts, and leave the rest to me."

"I'll do it!" Yakushi Nonō personally helped. The original attending Medical Ninja and nurses also assisted, using scalpels to carefully cut the hides, ensuring the integrity of the fur and preserving the subcutaneous tissue.