Chapter 98: Reconstruction
The two proceeded along the corridor.
Footsteps light and orderly.
Unohana Retsu didn't directly explain what she needed Suoh to do. She merely led him toward the critical care area located deep within the medical facility's first floor.
The deeper they went, the stronger the scent of disinfectant in the air became.
Before entering the critical care area's main doors, at the buffer zone, a flow of spirit particles swept across their bodies, completing a purification.
Unohana Retsu retrieved clean masks from a wall cabinet and handed one to Suoh.
Without needing words, Suoh accepted it, carefully putting it on.
Entering the critical care area.
The wooden emergency room door had just been pushed open.
A mixture of bloody scent and heavy medicinal odor rushed toward them.
Unlike the second floor examination room's tranquility, this place filled with pained groans and the sounds of hurried collisions.
Seeing visitors at the door, everyone glanced over before quickly burying their heads back into their treatment work.
They didn't even have time to step forward with greetings.
The person with the highest spiritual power class in the field was a male Shinigami with neat yellow slicked-back hair and glasses perched on his nose bridge.
Focused on flipping through the record board in his hands, he immediately hurried forward upon noticing Unohana Retsu's arrival.
Approaching closer, he adjusted the glasses on his nose, his expression calm as he reported.
"Captain Unohana, this batch of casualties has all received emergency treatment."
"Currently there are no major problems."
Finishing, he extended the medical record board in his hands.
"Thank you for your hard work, Iemura."
Unohana Retsu smiled as she accepted it, lowering her head to read through it.
The speaker was Iemura Yasochika, Fourth Division 3rd Seat and First Advanced Medical Team Captain.
His gaze naturally fell on the unfamiliar-feeling Suoh behind the captain.
However, the Fourth Division had numerous personnel. One or two unfamiliar faces appearing was entirely normal.
Moreover, the critical care area wasn't a place for casual greetings. His gaze merely lingered on Suoh for an instant before returning to Captain Unohana before him, awaiting the next instruction.
There weren't many people wearing glasses in the Seireitei. Hearing the name from Unohana Retsu's mouth, Suoh also immediately recognized the man's identity before him, standing silently behind her.
After a moment.
Unohana Retsu casually flipped to the record board's last page, then returned it to Iemura beside her.
"Iemura, continue with your work."
"Suoh, please come with me."
She led Suoh to a bed located in the corner.
Lying on the bed was a Shinigami with particularly severe injuries. The thick bandages wrapped around his chest had been stained red over half their area by seeping blood. His spiritual pressure fluctuations were pitifully weak. Each breath was turbid and difficult.
Life signs like a candle flickering in the wind.
"Captain Unohana."
The squad member responsible for watching over him immediately stepped aside nervously upon seeing the captain personally arrive.
"Leave this person to me. Go attend to others."
"Yes."
The squad member acknowledged orders, bowing as he withdrew.
"Suoh, watch carefully next."
"Kaido's essence lies in guidance and resonance."
"The most fundamental step is first controlling your own spiritual pressure to descend to the same level as the injured person."
Unohana Retsu's fingertip touched the injured person's Saketsu at the chest. Faint Kaido radiance continuously flowed through her fingertip.
Her voice remained as steady and clear as her movements. While performing high-difficulty treatment, she could still divide attention to teach.
Her Kaido mastery was unfathomably deep.
Suoh didn't reply. His entire spirit sank into observation and spiritual perception.
In his perception, Unohana Retsu's spiritual pressure transformed through her fingertip into countless delicate, agile threads, precisely probing into the injured person's Saketsu.
Like the most exquisite weaver, sorting and connecting the nearly dispersed Saketsu.
Generally speaking, a Shinigami's body was entirely composed of spirit particles.
Theoretically, Shinigami could use Kaido techniques to reconstruct everything about an injured person's body.
However, the difficulty was extremely high.
Ordinary doctors faced living flesh, blood, and bones.
While Shinigami faced spirit particle aggregates filled with personal imprints.
Each injury meant a unique spirit particle structural model was destroyed.
The practitioner not only needed to understand spirit particles' general operational laws, but also needed to perceive the injured person's unique spirit particle structure and use their own spiritual pressure to perform guided reconstruction.
What Unohana Retsu was doing was guiding the injured person's own spiritual pressure on the verge of dissipation to jointly complete self-repair.
Under her exquisitely superb control, the injured person's originally painfully twisted face gradually calmed. Breathing also began gradually returning to stability.
"How about it, Suoh? Do you clearly understand?"
She withdrew her hand, turning toward Suoh. Those eyes that always held gentle smiles now clearly reflected the youth's focused figure.
"Yes."
Suoh nodded quite decisively.
He'd long memorized Kaido's basic theory. What he'd previously lacked was merely higher-level instruction.
At this moment, he felt completely confident.
"Then, practice. This squad member's Hakusui is entrusted to you."
"Try to awaken him."
Unohana Retsu nodded slightly, stepping aside to yield position.
"Yes."
Suoh didn't hesitate, stepping forward. He knew this was a necessary step.
The injured person's Saketsu had already recovered. His operational difficulty had already decreased considerably.
The Hakusui was the gathering place of soul essence and vitality.
Damage here was precisely the reason this squad member had fallen into deep coma, unable to awaken.
As long as he used his own spiritual pressure to repair the Hakusui and replenish the injured person's essence, he could awaken the injured.
Suoh adjusted his own spiritual pressure, controlling until it tended toward consistency with the injured person's steady but still weak spiritual pressure.
His finger fell on the injured person's abdomen.
Like Unohana Retsu had demonstrated just now, spiritual pressure seeped like silk threads into that parched, cracked field.
Spiritual pressure like delicate, gentle spring rain quietly moistened every minute trauma.
Time passed in silence.
Unknown how long passed. When that Hakusui stabilized under Suoh's spiritual pressure guidance and finally completed stable operation.
The squad member on the bed produced an extremely light whimper from his throat. His eyelashes trembled violently several times.
Then, those tightly closed eyelids opened a crack with difficulty.
His gaze scattered and confused, carrying the weakness of awakening from severe injury but he had genuinely opened his eyes.
"Very well done, Suoh."
Unohana Retsu's voice carried approval. Her gaze swept across the squad member on the bed who'd just regained consciousness.
She sensed and confirmed his Hakusui's condition. Though still appearing weak, it was already full of vitality.
Suoh's expression remained calm as he withdrew his hand, bowing in thanks.
"Thank you for your instruction, Captain Unohana."
"It's too early to give thanks. You still have much to keep busy with."
Hearing this, the corners of Unohana's lips curved into a smile-filled arc. Her gaze turned toward the critical care area's other patients.
"Yes, I'll work hard."
Suoh froze slightly, then nodded with understanding.
"Very good."
"Remember the feeling just now. Next, you'll take the lead in treatment."
Unohana Retsu nodded with satisfaction, her steps light as she walked toward the next bed, raising her hand so her haori lightly brushed, gesturing.
This wasn't her rashly using critically wounded as practice materials for a novice.
On the contrary, it was because she held sufficient confidence in Suoh.
In her heart, Suoh was that rarely seen type of genius who aligned with Kaido's essence.
The spiritual pressure flowing within his body contained a nearly instinctive healing tendency.
Because she'd once deeply explored Suoh's body, she thoroughly understood Suoh's comprehensive level.
This natural-born healing talent differed completely from hers.
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