Originally, Shinomiya Kaguya didn't take this bag of Senzu Beans seriously. It wasn't until she saw Miyauchi Hikage take the bag and examine it with a serious expression that she felt something was wrong.
Later, Miyauchi Hikage even activated his Eye of Destiny for this small bag of Senzu Beans, which made Shinomiya Kaguya realize that this bag of Senzu Beans might not be as simple as she thought.
Could it be that her reward this time was actually not bad?
Is this Senzu Bean really something incredible?
It wasn't until Miyauchi Hikage really carefully took out only five Senzu Beans and returned the remaining small bag to her, saying words like "owe her a favor," that Shinomiya Kaguya finally confirmed this.
"This Senzu Bean, what did you discover?"
Miyauchi Hikage organized his language and described these Senzu Beans in his own way.
"My eyes actually come with a certain analytical ability. Those Cursed Tools in Jujutsu High were projected after being analyzed by this ability first."
"So far, just simple analysis actually puts no pressure on me. Even for items related to gods, I can more or less distinguish some things."
After stating his analytical ability first, Miyauchi Hikage looked at the small bag in Shinomiya Kaguya's hand.
"But for this thing, I can only analyze its exterior. Inside it, there is a strange power transcending the power of fate, making me completely unable to analyze it."
"I can only judge that this thing contains a life force unimaginable to ordinary people and even general gods. It can be said that as long as there is still a breath left, this Senzu Bean can save them directly and repair the damage to their body."
"However, for the more specific effects, I have to eat one to perceive the situation specifically. I'll have to trouble you to watch over me during this time."
Saying this, Miyauchi Hikage took out several weapons with special effects from Unlimited Blade Works.
Several Cursed Tools with curse, fire, and ice damage inflicted certain injuries on Miyauchi Hikage's arm one by one. He also used the special-grade Cursed Tool, Split Soul Katana, to cut off a small piece of flesh from his arm.
Except for the Split Soul Katana targeting the soul, the rest were just some Grade 1 and 2 Cursed Tools. If Miyauchi Hikage fully activated Hamon, with his current vitality, it would probably only take a few minutes to heal.
Therefore, Miyauchi Hikage deliberately suppressed the power of his Hamon.
This slightly cruel scene made Shinomiya Kaguya frown slightly.
Then she saw Miyauchi Hikage throw a Senzu Bean into his mouth and start to fully activate the Senzu Bean.
A ripple that even made Shinomiya Kaguya feel a little frightened spread from Miyauchi Hikage's body, making one doubt if Miyauchi Hikage could be rated as a special-grade supernatural being just by the power of Hamon.
However, this slightly manic ripple only lasted for a few seconds and then stopped.
When everything calmed down, Shinomiya Kaguya clearly saw that the injuries on Miyauchi Hikage's body had completely disappeared without leaving a trace.
But Miyauchi Hikage still kept his eyes closed, seeming to sense something.
After another minute or two, he opened his eyes again.
"It's about the same as I judged. That mysterious life aura has unimaginable power in 'recovery'. Almost the moment I ate it, the injuries on my body recovered, and it filled up the magic power and vitality I consumed, restoring me to a perfect state. Afterwards, it also did a check on my whole body, although under the health-preserving effect of Breathing Techniques, there were no major hidden injuries in my body originally."
"With such recovery ability, I think even if my head was cut off, eating this Senzu Bean before the brain loses consciousness could probably create a new body again."
Miyauchi Hikage paused and continued to explain: "It's just a pity that this power is limited to 'recovery'. For normal people with no damage to their bodies, its life force will not be added to the creature's vitality or lifespan. It doesn't have the function of extending life, but simply acts on 'satiety', allowing people not to worry about food for ten days. This is probably its biggest limitation."
Unable to increase lifespan meant unable to stop human aging and natural death. At most, it could only allow people to meet the end of their lifespan in a decent way.
However, this thing was enough. After all, how many people could live to the theoretical limit of lifespan without illness or disaster now?
Even if Senzu Beans could only simply heal internal and external injuries of the body and had no effect on diseases caused by viruses, with the ability of the Shinomiya family, under the condition of organ recovery, letting the aging head of the Shinomiya family live for another seven or eight years was no problem.
And these seven or eight years were enough for Shinomiya Kaguya to grow up completely.
Ignoring the complex emotions in Shinomiya Kaguya's brain, Miyauchi Hikage continued.
"However, I can feel that although the life energy contained in this thing cannot directly act on vitality, it still has a significant promoting effect on Breathing Techniques. After all, the original function of Breathing Techniques is to develop the vitality of the human body as much as possible. If one can eat this Senzu Bean while cooperating with Breathing Techniques, it should be possible to leave a part of the vitality feedback on the Hamon generated by Breathing Techniques before its remaining effect completely dissipates."
"But if the Breathing Technique itself hasn't been cultivated to a mastered state, using Senzu Beans is equivalent to wasting such a treasure. It is more suitable to use it as a life-saving item."
Miyauchi Hikage was telling the truth here.
The improvement of Senzu Beans on Hamon breathing was not that great; it could only play the role of a final push.
With the current progress of these girls, using Senzu Beans would at most save a few years of cultivation. Although this was equivalent to dozens or hundreds of Reading Value points, it was not very obvious compared to the function of Senzu Beans.
It was also because his Pure Yang Body and Hamon Breathing were already at their peak, both only lacking that final push, that he broke through the shackles of "mortals" relying on the explosive life force of Senzu Beans as a stimulus.
Now, although he seemed to have no change from before, he had reached the threshold of "Sage" on the level of life.
Of course, it was not the kind of ascension to immortality in Xianxia novels, but closer to the "Sages" who lived for thousands of years in the three major holy places in Naruto.
Shinomiya Kaguya could feel the relaxed tone in Miyauchi Hikage's voice.
It seemed that the other party's Hamon breathing did have a significant breakthrough just now.
After all, the manic ripple just now made her, a supernatural being with Grade 1 Psychokinesis, feel somewhat threatened. She didn't know what it would look like if the current Miyauchi Hikage fully activated Hamon.
It was just a pity that although her Hamon cultivation had always been quite stable, it was still quite far from the "mastery" described by the Mysterious Person in the diary.
After realizing the preciousness of Senzu Beans, she naturally couldn't bear to use it on the Hamon which was not considered powerful now.
After all, Hamon breathing itself was a training method that everyone could practice to develop physical potential and vitality. Although according to the Mysterious Person in the diary, this power was born to deal with the so-called "Pillar Men" and vampires at the beginning, after the Pillar Men disappeared for thousands of years, this power was more inclined to self-cultivation and didn't pay so much attention to combat.
Simply put, the health-preserving effect of Hamon breathing was greater than the combat effect. If one planned to follow the path of Taijutsu, maintaining the practice of Hamon breathing could make one achieve twice the result with half the effort.
Perhaps this was why the Mysterious Person posted that set of Kusanagi Style Taijutsu in the diary for people to practice after more than a month.
But now Shinomiya Kaguya had confirmed that she would follow the path of Psychokinesis for a long time in the future. Although there was an upper limit to improvement, stable Grade 1 power was exactly what she needed most now.
And she could foresee that as long as she could awaken a Persona in the Metaverse, or awaken a Stand power in Morioh Town in the future, it would definitely play a very critical role in her Psychokinesis.
Even if she couldn't reach the special-grade level in one go, relying on her own power and these Senzu Beans in her hand, she could have more confidence to build her own forces in the Inner World.
Although Miyauchi Hikage took five Senzu Beans at once, Shinomiya Kaguya didn't have any dissatisfaction.
If Miyauchi Hikage hadn't discovered the specialness of these Senzu Beans, she probably wouldn't have treated these Senzu Beans as treasures. She would either give them away casually or keep them gathering dust in the warehouse for a long time, until encountering some special opportunity might she remember these things.
Although Miyauchi Hikage and she could be considered friends before, Shinomiya Kaguya could still clearly feel that the relationship between the two was not as stable as it seemed to outsiders.
After all, from the beginning, it was Shinomiya Kaguya who befriended Miyauchi Hikage with a purpose, and also tested Miyauchi Hikage many times, suspecting that the other party was the Mysterious Person.
And if one thought carefully, one could find that Shinomiya Kaguya didn't provide any help to Miyauchi Hikage during his growth process.
Her relationship with Miyauchi Hikage was primarily based on the fact that Shiina Mashiro and Honma Meiko were Miyauchi Hikage's good friends.
Even without considering the possibility that Miyauchi Hikage was the Mysterious Person, exchanging five Senzu Beans for a favor from a special-grade powerhouse who could manipulate fate and had an unlimited future was not a loss.
If Miyauchi Hikage was really the Mysterious Person, then exchanging five Senzu Beans for a favor from the Mysterious Person was simply a huge profit.
"It seems my luck is indeed quite good to be able to find such good things in the Inner World. It's just a pity that there are only so many Senzu Beans in total, and I probably can't get any more."
Shinomiya Kaguya, who originally felt her luck was bad, also became cheerful.
One Senzu Bean could be given to her father. She would keep a few of the remaining fourteen Senzu Beans for emergency, and behind each remaining Senzu Bean was a complete life, so they couldn't be used casually.
In a couple of days, she would go to Jujutsu High to inquire if there were any powerful jujutsu sorcerers who used to be strong but withdrew from the front line due to physical problems.
Facing the smile on Shinomiya Kaguya's face, Miyauchi Hikage also nodded: "I took these Senzu Beans, besides using them to save my life, I also want to try to see if I can analyze some useful information. It would be even better if I could find a way to cultivate it."
"But I think even if a cultivation method is really found for such a thing, the yield probably won't be very high."
After explaining a few sentences, Miyauchi Hikage put away the Senzu Beans and clapped his hands.
"Alright, don't leak the matter of Senzu Beans casually to attract the coveting of those curse users. Since the matter here has been resolved, we should go back and see Katsura Kotonoha's actual combat situation."
He also couldn't wait to go back and test his limits under full effort now.
Compared to Shinomiya Kaguya who had a long-range advantage and could kite the vengeful spirit from a distance, the battle on Katsura Kotonoha's side appeared more strenuous.
Although under Miyauchi Hikage's manipulation, these vengeful spirits couldn't truly harm Katsura Kotonoha.
But similarly, the Breathing Sword Technique that failed to draw atmospheric magic power couldn't cause damage to these low-level vengeful spirits either.
Although in these few days, under Miyauchi Hikage's teaching and with the addition of Reading Value points, Katsura Kotonoha could slightly pull some magic power around the sword to create weak sword qi during daily practice.
But in actual combat, the somewhat maladapted Katsura Kotonoha couldn't achieve standard movements, and even the rhythm of Hamon breathing would have problems.
However, Katsura Kotonoha was a heroine after all, and a heroine who explicitly had multiple kills in her own story.
Although she usually looked quite gentle, once she got into a dead end and triggered the hidden yandere switch, this woman could burst out with unimaginable strength.
Therefore, seeing the slightly messy scene and Katsura Kotonoha panting heavily, Miyauchi Hikage didn't have much surprise.
On the contrary, Shinomiya Kaguya looked at Katsura Kotonoha whose state was slightly wrong, feeling a little nervous.
Katsura Kotonoha transferred schools with her help.
After dealing with the other party a few times, she could actually feel some things.
From Katsura Kotonoha's persistent attitude towards sword practice, and even sneaking to peek at Miyauchi Hikage practicing swords for this, it could be seen that this woman Katsura Kotonoha was not as weak inside as she looked on the outside.
It was just that, looking at Katsura Kotonoha who seemed to have turned on some strange switch now, Shinomiya Kaguya didn't know whether this was good or bad for Katsura Kotonoha.