Chapter 107: I Compete with the Six Paths
The bright lights illuminated the delivery room as brightly as daylight.
At this moment, apart from the occasional quiet sob, there was no other sound in the delivery room.
It wasn't until Yakushi Nonō felt a chill run down her back that she realized she had been sitting on the floor for quite some time.
She slowly stood up and walked over to the struggling Mikoto.
Seeing Mikoto's limbs restrained, her body separated into upper and lower halves, with a section of her abdomen missing, Yakushi Nonō's heart skipped another beat.
This was the first time she had ever witnessed such a situation.
Everything from beneath the heart to above the lower abdomen had been cut away.
Both of her legs were completely separated from her body.
How was she still alive???
After hesitating for a moment, Yakushi Nonō incredulously pinched Mikoto's thigh.
When she noticed Mikoto's whimpering growing louder, she shook her head and sighed inwardly.
She's definitely still alive.
And quite energetic at that.
What astonishing medical ninjutsu!
She quietly lifted the white cloth covering Mikoto's face. Seeing her indignant expression, Yakushi Nonō smiled faintly.
"Miss Mikoto, don't worry. It'll be over soon."
"Mm! Mm! Mm!"
Uchiha Mikoto whimpered several more times.
She glared furiously at Yakushi Nonō, her face flushed bright red like a blazing fire.
Of all the people who had pinched her thigh just now, Uchiha Asuka was definitely one of them.
His hands were rough, nothing like a woman's hands.
And when she recalled those slightly rough hands pressing against her abdomen, Mikoto's face grew even redder.
She turned her head away and angrily closed her eyes.
At that moment, Asuka finished his examination.
He folded his arms across his chest, a look of realization appearing on his face.
Indra's chakra must have arrived only after Madara's death. Then, when it attached itself to Sasuke, Madara was revived.
He wondered if he had somehow caused a bug in the process.
This chakra always felt incomplete.
Could part of it have separated and gone to Uchiha Madara?
Realizing there was no hope of getting it back now, Asuka shrugged and muttered,
"I hope that after Lord Madara dies, that portion of your chakra will return."
After saying this, he took a deep breath and picked up the scalpel.
He gently made a horizontal incision across Mikoto's abdomen, then another vertical incision.
Under Asuka's precise control, a cross-shaped opening appeared in her rounded abdomen without harming the baby inside.
"Whew!"
He softly exhaled and looked around.
The delivery room was surrounded by a blue barrier, and a satisfied expression appeared on his face.
This was his hemispherical space.
It wasn't until he used his ocular technique for the second time that Asuka realized other people couldn't see the boundary of the hemispherical space created by his ocular technique.
Only he could see it.
He could sense every object within the hemispherical space, including chakra.
Through the cross-shaped opening, he could clearly sense two different kinds of chakra intertwined with one another. Separating them was practically impossible.
Even if he forcibly separated them, his newly awakened Mangekyō Sharingan might go blind.
Mm.
A normal person wouldn't try to separate something like this.
At this moment, Asuka turned toward Yakushi Nonō.
"Do you need my help?"
"More or less."
Asuka nodded and gestured for Yakushi Nonō to lie down on the bed beside them.
Yakushi Nonō gave him a strange look.
After hesitating for a moment, she walked over to the nearby bed and lay down.
Seeing her lying flat on the small bed, Asuka suddenly pointed outside.
"Yakushi Nonō, what exactly was lost from Danzō's base last time?"
???
Yakushi Nonō's heart sank, and her thoughts began racing.
Danzō?
She looked up at Asuka's smiling face.
Her own expression remained unchanged, and she returned his smile.
"I'm just an orphanage director."
"I understand."
Asuka nodded, then picked up Yakushi Nonō's abdomen and ran off with it.
???
Yakushi Nonō stared at the familiar body part in Asuka's hands.
She looked up.
Then she looked down.
"Ahhh~!"
Another shrill scream rang through the delivery room.
As Asuka connected Yakushi Nonō's abdomen to Mikoto's body, he muttered,
"Your emotional resilience is really terrible. I'm only borrowing an abdomen."
Yakushi Nonō's expression darkened.
She pointed angrily at Asuka.
"Uchiha Asuka, you bastard!"
"Stop cursing, stop cursing. I'll return it to you in a moment."
After patting the body he had just replaced on Mikoto, a cold smile suddenly appeared on Asuka's face.
"Lord Madara won't die, and Sasuke won't die either. Because of your Indra—if your chakra doesn't want to reincarnate, then you might as well die."
Snap!
He snapped his fingers.
The invisible blue barrier instantly contracted, revealing Mikoto and her original abdomen outside the barrier.
The atmosphere in the delivery room became extremely bizarre.
Ignoring the curses of the two women, Asuka stared intently at Uchiha Mikoto's original abdomen.
Because Asuka was using his ocular technique, Mikoto's body was connected to Yakushi Nonō's abdomen, so she couldn't feel anything abnormal about her body.
It was as though Yakushi Nonō's abdomen had always been her own.
As for Yakushi Nonō, because she was enveloped by Asuka's ocular power, she couldn't feel anything either. She was so furious that she almost wanted to find someone and start a fight.
What a shameless bastard.
At this moment, after Mikoto's original abdomen was released from the blue barrier, a serious problem appeared.
In less than a second, Mikoto's original abdomen began bleeding profusely.
Five seconds later, the chakra concentrated in Mikoto's original abdomen—the chakra that belonged solely to her—could no longer circulate up and down after being separated from the rest of her body.
It began rapidly dissipating.
Half a minute later, the chakra surrounding the fetus seemed to have been guided somewhere, slowly merging into the baby's body.
It's done!
"Tsk!"
After everything was finished, Asuka once again enveloped Uchiha Mikoto and her original abdomen in the blue barrier.
He had originally thought Indra's chakra would simply dissipate.
He hadn't expected it to ultimately merge into Sasuke's body.
His idea actually worked.
If the fetus doesn't want to be born, then I'll just kill the host mother.
At worst, I'll find another abdomen for Uchiha Mikoto later.
After all, there were plenty of death-row prisoners.
His Mangekyō Sharingan ability allowed him to freely separate and recombine any object.
He could even transplant a man's abdomen onto Mikoto, and she would still be able to live perfectly well.
With this in mind, Asuka refused to believe that Indra's chakra—or the Sage of Six Paths hiding somewhere in the shadows—would continue to exist after realizing that the abdomen housing Sasuke had already been separated from the original body and that the host mother had died.
After reconnecting Uchiha Mikoto's and Yakushi Nonō's abdomens, he placed the newborn Sasuke beside Mikoto's pillow.
Then he lifted the white cloth covering her face and removed the object stuffed into her mouth.
Crunch!
Seeing Uchiha Mikoto open her mouth as if she were about to bite him, Asuka quickly withdrew his finger.
His expression darkened.
"You really don't know how to be grateful. I was only kindly helping you give birth."
Hearing this, Uchiha Mikoto's face instantly flushed bright red.
She glared at Asuka standing to her left and said indignantly,
"Who asked you to help deliver my baby?"
Sigh.
Asuka sighed.
Then he looked toward Yakushi Nonō, who was standing behind him with an equally dark expression.
"Help Miss Mikoto get dressed."
"Oh~"
Hearing the obvious displeasure in Yakushi Nonō's voice, Asuka couldn't help looking up at the ceiling light.
One surgery offended two people.
Their hearts are really too narrow.
After the harsh light made his eyes ache slightly, he covered them with one hand and said to Mikoto,
"Goodbye."
Watching Asuka cover his eyes and turn away, Uchiha Mikoto spat out each word.
"Hypocrite."
"Actually…"
After helping Mikoto get dressed, Yakushi Nonō recalled everything Asuka had done in the past and honestly spoke up for him.
"Asuka is still a gentleman."
Hearing this, Mikoto's eyes widened.
She recalled everything that had happened over the past six months, and anger immediately surged through her.
"Have you ever seen a man persuade his own wife to get a divorce?"
"Hmm…"
Yakushi Nonō hesitated, then shook her head.
"Captain Asuka probably has his own reasons."
Mikoto could no longer suppress her emotions.
Everything that had happened that day kept hammering against her psychological defenses.
She had completely broken down.
Uchiha Mikoto stared in the direction Asuka had disappeared, bit her lip, and cursed,
"His reason was to persuade his own wife to get a divorce. He didn't have any reason at all."