Fusion with Hashirama Cells

Minamoto Takuya's desire to transplant Hashirama Cells was immensely strong, but he suppressed the impulse with sheer willpower and did not act immediately.

He knew this was not the best time. Having just used the Perfect Susanoo, neither his chakra nor his physical condition had recovered to their peak.

Transplanting Hashirama Cells was no ordinary surgery. The immense risks involved were enough to make anyone hesitate.

The lessons of the Original Work stood right before him.

During past crises, Konoha had launched Hashirama Cell transplant programs and recruited volunteers for the experiments. The result, however, had been a disaster. Every ninja who took part had perished during the experiments.

Even later, when Orochimaru and Shimura Danzō led larger-scale follow-up research involving countless test subjects, only Yamato had miraculously survived and successfully mastered the Wood Release Kekkei Genkai.

More crucially, Yamato's survival could be called an extreme coincidence. Even Orochimaru, the genius scientist leading the research, had been unable to replicate the result and had not even learned of Yamato's survival in time.

Even today, with Orochimaru's technological capabilities, there was no guarantee that he could successfully cultivate another "Yamato" using Hashirama Cells.

All these bloody examples pointed to one indisputable fact: fusing with Hashirama Cells was an experiment with an extremely high risk of death.

The slightest misstep would cause the powerful Hashirama Cells to devour their host, thoroughly eroding and consuming a living body until it became a lifeless wooden statue and died.

Among the known successful cases, aside from Yamato, nearly all those capable of enduring Hashirama Cells had deep connections either to the Sharingan, a special dōjutsu, or to the power of the God Tree.

Although Minamoto Takuya had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, which provided him with sufficient protection, he did not dare relax or let down