After Uchiha Dan pressed the patient back onto the bed, he began to unwrap the bandages on his leg.
The patient felt incredibly fortunate.
How many people could be so lucky as to be treated simultaneously by the two unparalleled geniuses of Konoha's medical world?
One should know that countless people envied the previous 47 individuals who became the biggest beneficiaries in Tsunade and Uchiha Dan's competition.
Now that good fortune had come to him, the patient felt a little unreal.
"Uncle, calm down, I'm about to begin!"
Uchiha Dan took a deep breath, took out a silver needle, and began to needle the patient's leg.
Although the patient-uncle was not a Ninja, Uchiha Dan could not mobilise the Chakra within his body.
However, his acupuncture technique could still stimulate cell activity and accelerate wound recovery.
Having completed all of this, Uchiha Dan extended both palms.
As Chakra surged, two Chakras of completely different natures began to condense.
What Uchiha Dan used in his right hand was precisely the Healing Hands Technique, self-created by Tsunade.
Over so many years of competition, Uchiha Dan had long since thoroughly learned the Healing Hands Technique.
Later, when he used the Healing Hands Technique directly in front of Tsunade and defeated her, he almost killed Tsunade to death.
He even brazenly declared that defeating her with the same Ninjutsu counted as truly defeating her.
As for the Chakra in Uchiha Dan's left hand, Tsunade had never seen it before.
But she sensed the immense vitality contained within the Chakra, as well as... the aura of nerve fibres?
What kind of Ninjutsu is this? Why does it feel like I'm being healed just by looking at it?
Ignoring Tsunade's gaze, Uchiha Dan placed his palms, one on the left and one on the right, on the patient's fractured shin.
"Mmm..." As soon as the treatment began, the patient-uncle involuntarily let out an extremely comfortable groan.
He swore it wasn't because he was perverted, but because it was genuinely too comfortable, making it impossible for him to control himself.
However, his comfort did not last too long.
After just one minute, Uchiha Dan began to pant heavily, looking as if his entire body had been drained, and he was drenched in sweat.
Unable to hold on, Uchiha Dan released his hands, and his entire body almost collapsed to the ground as if paralysed, fortunately being supported by a nurse nearby.
"What? You bastard, are you already done for?" Tsunade mocked, imitating how Uchiha Dan used to treat her, "A man can't say he's done for!"
Ignoring Tsunade's taunt, Uchiha Dan constantly adjusted his breathing, recovering his stamina and Chakra as quickly as possible.
Ten minutes later, Uchiha Dan's complexion had only slightly improved.
Chakra surged from his palms again, continuing the treatment.
This time, it only lasted for thirty seconds, and Uchiha Dan's face turned completely pale, with not a trace of Chakra left in his body.
Yet, Uchiha Dan still looked unyielding and began to recover his stamina and Chakra again.
"Dr. Dan, I feel much better!" The patient-uncle, seeing Uchiha Dan looking as if he were about to die, no longer wished to continue.
"My leg only has a slight pain now, and it will fully recover in a week at most. Thank you, I don't need any more treatment!"
Uchiha Dan, however, stubbornly shook his head, slowly waiting to recover.
After half an hour in total, with four consecutive treatments, the patient-uncle's leg was completely healed.
However, compared to Tsunade's dozen or so minutes, it seemed somewhat insufficient.
"Hahaha, how truly pathetic!" Uchiha Dan stared at his hands, laughing out loud in self-mockery with immense disappointment.
After a while, he said to Tsunade, "This time you won, congratulations, and from now on, I will no longer be your opponent."
After speaking, Uchiha Dan struggled to prop himself up, dragging his weary steps out of the ward, leaving behind only an incredibly lonely figure.
Uchiha Dan conceded defeat, very decisively.
But Tsunade couldn't be happy at all.
Did she truly win?
No, this time she lost even more thoroughly.
When Medical Ninjutsu and talent were completely crushed, what kind of victory was it to win merely by having more Chakra?
Tsunade did not acknowledge this kind of victory.
Although the treatment just now lasted for a full half an hour, Uchiha Dan's actual treatment time was less than three minutes.
The reason it took so long was that Uchiha Dan had been ordered not to cultivate since childhood, and his Chakra reserves were pitifully small, forcing him to stop and rest midway.
If he could truly cultivate, even if Uchiha Dan's Chakra reserves were only at a Special Jonin level, the title of the Ninja World's best Medical Ninja would belong to no one else.
At this moment, Tsunade was perplexed.
Why would her great-uncle, even on the verge of death, still not forget to issue the command forbidding Uchiha Dan from training?
This directly led to a perfectly good medical genius being forcibly stifled like this.
Tsunade had never delved deeply into this matter in the past, as in her view, her great-uncle must have had his reasons for doing things.
Despite having unparalleled talent, being unable to perform many Medical Ninjutsu due to Chakra limitations, it had to be said, was a tragedy.
Returning to his office, Uchiha Dan's lips curved upwards as he extended his perception to sense the changes in Tsunade's emotions.
As long as I act well enough, I don't believe you won't feel compassion.
This round, Uchiha Dan had planned for three years, step by step guiding Tsunade to her current emotional state.
It must be said that after fighting for five years, Uchiha Dan understood Tsunade's personality very well.
Tsunade was a very loyal person, and also very compassionate.
Although Tsunade at this age was somewhat competitive, she was not envious of talent like Hiruzen Sarutobi.
On the contrary, Tsunade highly valued talent.
At this time, Tsunade still had a strong sense of belonging to Konoha, and wished there were more Medical Ninja with extraordinary talent like Uchiha Dan.
Therefore, she did not want to see Uchiha Dan having to waste such talent.
After so long of contention, although the two were at loggerheads, it was false to say they didn't care.
You little rascal, pity me without reservation, my hope of escaping now rests on you.
Your great-uncle tried to screw me over back then, so it's perfectly reasonable for me to use you to help me, isn't it?
If you can truly do it, I'll just annoy you a few less times in the future.
Uchiha Dan was in a great mood, but Tsunade's mood was not so good.
Returning to the Senju Clan's residence, Tsunade appeared sullen.
Uzumaki Mito, who was elegantly brewing tea on the courtyard veranda, rarely saw Tsunade in such a state, and asked with a smile, "Tsunade-chan, what's wrong? Did you lose to that Uchiha boy again?"
Tsunade shook her head, depressed, "I won!"
"It's okay to lose... Huh?" Uzumaki Mito was about to offer comfort when she suddenly reacted, "Then why are you sadder than if you had lost?"
Previously, Tsunade had always lost, so Uzumaki Mito was already accustomed to it; hearing that she won, she was instead surprised.
"I'd rather have lost!"
Tsunade became even more depressed and recounted everything that had happened today to her grandmother, Uzumaki Mito.
"You said that the Medical Ninjutsu that boy created himself is much more profound than your Healing Hands Technique?" Uzumaki Mito, who had experienced all sorts of major events, immediately sat up straight and asked with great surprise.
"I saw it with my own eyes, how could it be false?" Tsunade said with a dejected expression.
"Can anyone truly possess such talent?" Uzumaki Mito sat back down, falling into silence.