"Kurenai, what happened to you?"
"I'm hurt!" Yuhi Kurenai replied.
Only then did Hyuga Seisen notice that Yuhi Kurenai's eyes were red, as though she had been crying.
He took her other hand. "Sit down first."
As he spoke, he and Yuhi Shinku helped Yuhi Kurenai over to a chair.
"Gasp!"
Walking seemed to tug at Yuhi Kurenai's wound, and she sucked in a sharp breath.
"How did you get hurt this badly?" Hyuga Seisen asked.
Yuhi Shinku took over.
"I brought Kurenai on a mission. She accidentally stepped into an enemy trap and got her calf caught."
"It wasn't because I was careless. Those bandits were just too cunning."
Yuhi Kurenai puffed out her cheeks as she defended herself.
Hyuga Seisen looked at the bandages wrapped around Yuhi Kurenai's calf, unable to tell how serious the injury was.
He said to them, "There isn't any spare equipment at the hospital for examinations right now."
"I'll activate my Byakugan first and check whether Kurenai's bones are injured."
"How can you do that?!"
Yuhi Kurenai hastily pressed down on him in alarm.
"I-I'm a girl! How can you just say you'll activate your Byakugan and do it?"
"I just want to look at your leg."
"Still no! Everyone knows your Byakugan has a 360-degree field of vision."
"The Byakugan's vision is black and white. It can only see chakra pathways, bones, and internal organs. It can't see anything else."
"Still no!"
With her face flushed, Yuhi Kurenai held Hyuga Seisen down and refused to let him form hand seals.
Helpless, Hyuga Seisen could only look to Yuhi Shinku for help.
Seeing her daughter like this, Yuhi Shinku did not know whether to laugh or cry.
"Kurenai, don't worry. The Byakugan really is just as Seisen said."
After the two of them spent a long time persuading her, Yuhi Kurenai finally accepted it.
Just as Yuhi Kurenai was about to release Hyuga Seisen's hand—
She noticed that his complexion was gloomy, his eyes lifeless, and his entire body looked utterly haggard.
She subconsciously asked, "Why do you look so worn out?"
Then she recalled the health books she had read in the library before.
She suddenly realized something.
Pointing at Hyuga Seisen, she said in disbelief, "Y-you... have you been going out to play with women lately...?"
What the hell?!
Hyuga Seisen nearly sprang up upon hearing that.
Even the chakra he had refined halfway scattered from fright.
How could a kid her age say something so outrageous the moment she opened her mouth?
Where had she learned this stuff?
Yuhi Shinku also looked at Hyuga Seisen and frowned.
Seeing their expressions, Hyuga Seisen hurriedly explained, "No, I haven't. Don't misunderstand. I look worn out because..."
"What do you mean, you haven't?!"
Before he could finish, Yuhi Kurenai interrupted him.
Her eyes grew moist, and her voice choked with emotion.
"That's what the books said. If boys often go out with girls, they'll lose their energy."
"There are so many girls around you, and look at you now. You must have been going out with them lately."
Thinking of how she had spent all this time waiting for Hyuga Seisen to take the initiative to come find her—
Yet no matter how long she waited, he never came.
So that was it. He had been going out with other girls.
And he had played around until he looked this exhausted.
The more she thought about it, the more aggrieved she looked.
Hyuga Seisen rubbed his forehead, utterly helpless.
Going out to play with women and going out with girls were two entirely different things.
At least, at his age, they could only be two different things.
You little girl, you didn't understand anything, yet you were copying others and talking nonsense.
Yuhi Shinku finally understood what his daughter meant.
He pursed his lips, looking as if he wanted to laugh but did not dare to.
Seeing Yuhi Shinku watching the show, Hyuga Seisen sighed and explained helplessly, "I'm a medical ninja now. I've been working at the hospital lately, so I look worn out because I'm tired from working here."
To his surprise, Yuhi Kurenai became even more agitated, and tears began streaming from her eyes.
"You'll make up anything just to fool me now."
"You haven't even graduated yet. How did you suddenly become a medical ninja?"
"You say you look worn out because you work at the hospital. Why don't you just say the hospital can't function without you?"
Her large eyes stared fixedly at Hyuga Seisen as tears welled in them, little pearls continuously rolling down her cheeks.
It was heart-wrenching to watch.
Hyuga Seisen did not dare to dwell on the topic any longer.
"This can't be explained in a few words. I'll tell you properly when I get the chance."
"For now, let me examine your wound first."
"No! You big liar! I won't let you examine me."
Yuhi Kurenai clenched her teeth, her lips pursed, nose twitching, and eyes red-rimmed.
Suddenly, she struggled to stand on one foot.
"We'll line up for the hospital equipment and get examined ourselves."
As she spoke, she grabbed Yuhi Shinku. "Dad, let's go."
Yuhi Shinku smiled and nodded at Hyuga Seisen.
Then he supported his limping daughter toward the examination department.
"Even if you go over there, they'll just send you back here," Hyuga Seisen could not help reminding them.
"Even if they do, I still won't come to you, you big liar!"
Yuhi Kurenai did not even turn her head.
Helpless, Hyuga Seisen sat down and closed his eyes to rest.
Thirty minutes later.
A medical staff member came jogging over.
In front of him, he pushed Yuhi Kurenai in a wheelchair.
Yuhi Shinku followed beside her, looking extremely anxious.
"Lord Seisen, a patient has been injured. Please use your Byakugan to examine her injuries."
Hyuga Seisen opened his eyes.
He looked at Yuhi Kurenai in the wheelchair, her little face flushed as she lowered her head without saying a word.
He nodded. "She's my friend. I'll handle the rest myself. Go get back to work."
"Yes, then I'll leave her to you, Lord Seisen."
Yuhi Shinku also spoke up. "Sorry to trouble you, young friend."
"It's nothing. I owed Lord Shinku for last time."
Yuhi Shinku waved his hand. "It was nothing."
Hyuga Seisen pulled the wheelchair closer to himself.
This time, Yuhi Kurenai did not resist. Her face was red as she let Hyuga Seisen do as he pleased.
He carefully lifted Yuhi Kurenai's fair calf with both hands.
He placed it on the chair and removed the bandages wrapped around it.
The vicious wound beneath was exposed.
Then he formed hand seals and activated his Byakugan, carefully observing the condition of the bone beneath the wound.
A moment later.
His expression turned grave as he said, "There's only a slight fracture in the bone. That isn't much of a problem."
"But the trap may have been coated in poison. The area around the wound is full of toxins, and they've already started invading the bone."
The father and daughter immediately grew tense.
"No wonder Kurenai kept saying she felt dizzy on the way here. I thought it was from blood loss."
"What should we do? Where can the hospital find any spare staff right now?"
"There's no need. I can treat it directly."
"You?" Yuhi Shinku was somewhat doubtful.
Earlier, he had asked the medical staff about Hyuga Seisen.
Recently, Hyuga Seisen had displayed astonishing talent in medical ninjutsu.
Like a genius, he had skipped several stages of medical training and gone straight into an internship at the hospital.
He had even learned the medical ninjas' Healing Technique during his internship.
With him in the emergency department, many people's workload had been reduced.
That was why Yuhi Shinku dared to entrust his daughter's treatment to Hyuga Seisen.
However, extracting toxins was something only high-level medical ninjas could do.
As far as he knew, there were not many people capable of it.
Hyuga Seisen nodded, then swiftly formed hand seals.
Delicate Illness Extraction Technique!
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