Looking at Rin Takakura's serious face, Kōki immediately assured her, " Sister Rin, I'm certain my antidote has an 80% chance of neutralizing the Sunagakure's deadly poison. The remaining 20% is for a special case I'm keeping for myself."
In fact, Kōki had complete confidence in his antidote; he only said that to increase Rin Takakura's trust.
After all, if someone presents medicine and tells others that it can cure diseases 100%, they certainly won't believe it. But if you say that the medicine is effective, though not 100% effective, then people's trust in the medicine will be relatively higher. This is the human nature to be skeptical of everything.
So it's not enough to believe in yourself; the key is to make others believe in you too.
And now, Rin Takakura is the person he wants her to believe in.
Faced with Kōki's assurance, Rin Takakura hesitated. Emotionally, she believed Kōki, but rationally, she had to be cautious.
"How about this? Didn't you say before that you needed other people to verify your antidote? Then we don't need anyone else, let me do it. Only after personally experiencing the effects of the antidote can I be confident in convincing Uncle Genji."
" Sister Rin, are you going to try it yourself? Isn't that too dangerous?"
Kōki's face showed a hint of worry. People have different degrees of closeness to each other. He didn't mind having strangers test the medicine, but he couldn't help but worry about having close people test it. Even though Kōki was very confident in his antidote, he still had this feeling.
Furthermore, Rin Takakura's constitution is different from his own. He himself can recover to his full strength after being poisoned and then detoxified, but whether Rin Takakura can fully recover after being poisoned and detoxified remains to be seen. It is more likely that he will experience a period of weakness after detoxification.
"No problem, I trust you. The antidote you made will definitely work. And even if something goes wrong, having you by my side will help me detoxify in time."
Rin Takakura trusted Kōki completely. Since Kōki said his antidote would work, she believed it would.
Therefore, since it cannot be used on others rashly, the only way to live up to Kōki's trust is to test the medicine on oneself to obtain the most accurate information about the antidote.
Seeing Rin Takakura's confidence in him, Kōki swallowed the words of dissuasion he was about to say. "Alright, since you trust me so much, Sister Rin, let's begin."
In any case, Kōki was indeed very confident in his antidote, so he stopped making verbal promises to Rin Takakura. Only irrefutable facts were the most powerful guarantee.
Without hesitation, Rin Takakura made a small incision on her hand with Chakra Scalpel and then applied the poison she had obtained from the drug research lab to the wound.
It is worth mentioning that this poison was not concentrated in any way and was the same dosage as the poison in the bodies of the poisoned ninjas in the medical camp.
She was simulating a normal ninja's poisoning situation, so naturally she would take the dosage of the poison into account.
After applying the poison to the wound, Rin Takakura began to seriously experience the sensation of being poisoned.
Because the dosage of poison used by Kōki was different from the dosage used by Rin Takakura, the dosage was smaller and the effects of the poison took longer to take hold.
Therefore, in order to speed up the onset of the poison, Rin Takakura used Medical Ninjutsu to artificially increase the blood flow. After several minutes, once the poison had dispersed to most of the organs, he stopped accelerating the blood flow.
Her purpose in doing this was to simulate a ninja suffering from severe poisoning. Only in this way could the effectiveness of the antidote be truly tested.
After completing a series of preparations, Rin Takakura finally felt the pain of the poison taking effect. Her whole body was in excruciating pain, and she couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. Her pale face made Kōki, who was standing next to her, a little worried.
However, she did not scream out in pain. She endured the pain and insisted on completing the experiment. After receiving the antidote from Kōki, she injected it directly into herself.
As the antidote was administered, something surprising happened to her.
The pain in my body disappeared completely, like snow melting under the scorching sun. The effect was immediate and remarkable.
She looked at Kōki in surprise. She had thought that even if the antidote could neutralize the poison, it wouldn't work so quickly; it would take at least two or three hours.
However, the antidote was surprisingly effective, completely eliminating toxins from the body in just a few seconds.
This means the antidote is more effective than imagined and can be applied directly to humans without testing.
" Kōki, how did you create such an antidote?" After carefully sensing the state of her body again, Rin Takakura asked Kōki with a look of curiosity and joy.
She felt incredibly relaxed; the pain in her body had vanished, and the organs damaged by the toxins seemed to be slowly recovering under the antidote's effects. This powerful antidote completely overturned her understanding of antidotes.
"It was lucky, really. I encountered a Sunagakure Village Sunagakure during a mission before, and after killing him, I obtained a record about the Sunagakure's medicines, which included methods for concocting poisons. Then, by continuously making poisons with the same effects as the Sunagakure poison this time, and by working backward from the structure of the poisons, I finally figured out the antidote."
"After successfully creating the antidote, I did the same as Sister Rin, testing it on myself. Only after confirming it worked did I come to see Sister Rin. Besides, if I wasn't confident about the antidote, I wouldn't have wasted your time Sister Rin."
Kōki looked relieved when he talked about developing the antidote.
He genuinely believed that his ability to crack the poison was due to good luck. After all, who could have imagined that the insignificant loot he obtained during his first mission with the Anbu a few months ago would bring him such great benefits now?
"You're really lucky, but I feel your notebook might have more uses than just that."
After listening to Kōki's account, Rin Takakura sighed. However, she thought a little deeper. In her opinion, since this record could break the poison of Sunagakure, it meant that the contents of this record were likely the core foundation for Sunagakure's poison-making.
She speculated that most of the poisons used in Sunagakure were likely developed based on this model.
If her guess is true, then Kōki will have truly done a great service.
The only thing Konoha feared about Sunagakure was their mysterious and unpredictable poison. With this, they could neutralize most of Sunagakure's poisons, giving Konoha a huge advantage in their battles against Sunagakure.
"Perhaps, but right now our first priority is to inform Uncle Genji about the antidote." Kōki understood Rin Takakura's meaning, but the most urgent task was to free the poisoned ninjas. Everything else had to take a backseat.
"Yes, you're right. I'll take you to find Uncle Genji right now." After Kōki's reminder, Rin Takakura stopped speculating and immediately took Kōki to Genji Ryōma to tell her the good news.