Surgery

Isana's thick protective layer was completely ineffective against this high-frequency Vibrate water blade. The water blade in Barus's hand sliced through the cells of the sperm whale's abdominal skin without any obstruction, penetrating deep into the fat. In his hands, the water blade was as sharp and fast as a scalpel, like a weapon with a white cutting edge, easily leaving wounds on any flesh.

Water is something used to clean other objects, making oneself dirty. But at this moment, even though this knife was directly exposed to the blood gushing from Zoina's abdomen and became stained by it, the high-frequency Vibrate instantly flung the blood away, allowing it to retain its pure water-like nature. Naturally, this scalpel did not need to be sterilized.

If doctors in ancient times had possessed such a scalpel, there would probably have been far fewer patients dying from bacterial infections... Jilan suddenly thought of this at that moment.

Barus tore open the thick layer of fat, and blood gushed from the wound, staining Barus's body red. However, Barus did not waver at all, and stuffed his scaly blue hand into the sperm whale's wound, using his arm to stop the flow of blood.

He closed his eyes and said in a low voice, "Water Pulse!"

Although Jilan couldn't see it, she could feel a certain energy suddenly emanating from Barus's palm, transmitting through her blood at a fixed frequency, like a cell phone signal. That energy made her blood boil like hot water.

Suddenly, the sperm whale seemed to wake up from a nightmare. Like a frightened Magikarp, it tried to perform Splash high into the air. However, before it could rise, it was bound by ropes that were firmly fixed around it. As soon as it bounced up, it was pressed to the ground. It was stunned for a moment, but after feeling that it was bound, it immediately began to struggle.

Barus reacted quickly, pulling his hand out of the whale's body the instant it sprang up. With his blood-stained right hand, he firmly grasped a rope used for securing it, loudly repeating the strange sounds he had used to soothe the sperm whale.

The sperm whale was not a Saint Seiya, and it repeated its previous mistake in less than two minutes. It stopped struggling under Barus's lullaby, as if its previous anger was just a tossing and turning in its sleep, and gradually drifted back into dreamland.

The sperm whale's movements only caused a slight Vibrate in the ship, like encountering ordinary waves, so Vibrate that most people wouldn't even notice it.

Barus placed his hand on the sperm whale's belly again and flipped the blubber layer back over. With just a slight touch, the cells at the wound inflicted by the water jet rapidly divided and integrated, and the wound disappeared at a visible speed...

"This incredible vitality is really a headache. Giving him anesthesia is a real problem. I don't know where to begin. But even giving him a lethal dose for an elephant might not be effective..." Barus said, sounding troubled. "I wanted to say that when I first saw it, but this thing is truly enormous. Even if its regenerative abilities aren't strong, just bleeding out the stuff inside its belly would probably fill several swimming pools..."

If he gets the whale moving, he won't be able to perform the surgery properly. But if he wants to pinpoint the location of what's inside the whale's stomach, using his detection ability, "Water Pulse," will startle the sperm whale...

Just as Barus was troubled, Jilan spoke up, "Captain Barus, if you don't mind, let me help you."

"You?" Captain Barus plunged the water jet into the whale's body again, leaning against it and turning his head with interest. "Do you have a way to deal with this situation?"

"My Quirk can travel within living organisms, so I'm quite confident Hamon finding foreign objects inside them," Jilan said calmly.

Previously, during the Sports Festival, Jilan used Hamon to reattach Midoriya's shattered and limp arm bones, so finding foreign objects inside his body would be a piece of cake for him.

Jilan had an idea: if Barus allowed her to investigate, she would deliberately lead him to the location of the chariot and use the water blade to make a hole. When he put his hand in and used "Water Pulse," she would order the chariot to use Heart Attack to blow his hand off.

At that point, no matter how resolute Barus was, he would waver. He would then use the excuse that the intruder might be carrying a bomb, and that the intense heat emanating from his palm would detonate it...

Although Jilan's idea came to her just now when she saw Barus use Water Pulse, the plan was still quite meticulous. If Barus hadn't insisted on dissecting the whale to find the murderer, and if his ability hadn't been able to make the blood around his palm boil, the non-existent bomb wouldn't have exploded, and the Sheer Heart Attack wouldn't have been able to accurately lock onto his palm without the guidance of high temperature.

This was a series of interconnected crimes stemming from a series of coincidences. Barus wouldn't suspect him; he would only assume it was his own mistake that caused the missile to explode. Even if he did suspect him, there would be no reason for him to harm him.

A crime is not a crime if it goes undetected; Jilan has always lived by this principle.

Moreover, even if he recklessly attacked himself, having lost an arm, he would have no chance against the combined assault of the Sheer Heart Attack and himself.

Jilan used the unique time-stop explanation of Stand User to think about these things, and the moment time resumed its flow, Barus stepped into Jilan's trap without any hesitation.

"Boy, then I'll have to trouble you!" Barus replied with a loud laugh, twirling his water jet.

Jilan took a step toward the sperm whale, and to Barus's surprise, Jilan did not stop at the belly where digestive contents were most likely to appear, but instead extended a palm with shimmering golden Hamon from the sperm whale's flat head.

Could it be that Jilan really thinks that guy was wrapped up at the back of his neck? Reality isn't a fairy tale.

Barus chuckled silently, wanting to see how far Jilan could go. After all, in his eyes, Jilan was just a junior from an academy that trained heroes, and he never even considered that Jilan would think of attacking him.

The power of the Hamon quickly connected to the Sheer Heart Attack. Jilan was worried that its simple-mindedness might make it unreliable, so he simply conveyed his command in a low voice, instructing it to follow the energy scattered throughout the Hamon whale's body and move to the depths of the sperm whale. When the Hamon stopped, something with a temperature far exceeding that of its surroundings would probe in, and then it would be greeted with an explosion without hesitation.

Jilan gave this order.

Jilan's hand moved as if caressing a sperm whale, her palm tracing a path from its neck down to its belly. Naturally, there were no humanoid objects on the back of the sperm whale's neck.

Jilan's Hamon were like a magnet; the Sheer Heart Attack inside the sperm whale's body chased after the Hamon, always separated from Jilan by only a wall of fat.

Before long, Jilan arrived at the belly of the sperm whale, behind him was Barus, who was watching with a smile.