“What kind of joke is this!!” Tsunade’s expression was furious.
Regardless of whether it was saving the mother or the child, once that answer came out of Hyuga Munekazu’s mouth, it would inevitably become a thorn that could never be pulled out between her and the Hyuga Clan!
This thorn would be hidden in everyone’s hearts.
On the surface, they might be grateful, but deep down, they would constantly recall that cruel, forced choice.
She absolutely could not hear that answer!
She couldn’t even let him say that word!
Hyuga Munekazu froze in place, but Tsunade could no longer care about that.
Her brain was spinning at an unprecedented speed.
“Perhaps… there is another possibility!” Her eyes suddenly lit up!
She darted back into the delivery room in one stride and rushed to the bedside.
She looked at Hyuga Hoshina, who was barely breathing on the bed, her consciousness already beginning to blur.
She immediately made up her mind.
“Whether it works or not, I have to try!” “At worst, I’ll just save one!
I’ll bet on it!” “Move!
Everyone move!
Don’t get in the way!” She shouted, pushing aside the few Medical Ninja surrounding the bed.
Tsunade leaned down, her face almost touching Hyuga Hoshina’s ear.
She whispered in a rapid but clear tone: “Lady Hoshina, listen to me!” “Your current situation is very grim; the fetus is in a transverse position, the umbilical cord is wrapped around its neck, and you are hemorrhaging.” “According to conventional medical methods, we can only try to save one…” Hyuga Hoshina’s unfocused eyes struggled to focus on Tsunade’s face.
Her lips moved, and she squeezed out fragmented syllables with her last bit of strength: “Save… save the child…” “Tsunade… please… I beg you… must… save the child…” Tsunade’s heart tightened abruptly.
At this moment, with her life hanging in the balance and her consciousness blurring, this woman still chose the child.
Is this what a mother is?
She slowly shook her head, her voice firm and decisive: “I will save the child.
And I will also save you!” “Now, I have thought of a plan.” “It’s… something I’ve been working on recently, and this is the first time I’m using it in a situation like this.” “The outcome is hard to estimate, and the risk is very high.” “But theoretically, it should be feasible!” Tsunade tried hard to make her expression look confident.
When Hyuga Hoshina heard this, a faint light flashed in her previously dull eyes.
But it was immediately covered by deeper fear.
She used all her strength to shake her head, a rattling sound coming from her throat: “No… don’t… Tsunade… I just want… the child to live… don’t… don’t worry about me…” Hearing these words that were almost self-sacrificial, Tsunade was furious!
“Shut up!!” She roared, startling a Medical Ninja nearby so much that the gauze in their hand dropped.
“When did I say the child wouldn’t live?!” “I promise you, if this plan fails, even if you… pass away, I will absolutely make sure the child survives!
Is that enough?!” These words were harsh and blunt, even a bit unpleasant.
But strangely, they acted like a shot of adrenaline, stabilizing Hyuga Hoshina’s spirit, which was on the verge of collapse.
She stared fixedly into Tsunade’s eyes, seemingly confirming the truth of her words.
A few seconds later, her tense body relaxed slightly.
With extreme difficulty, yet with absolute clarity, she nodded.
“What a… foolish woman!” Tsunade cursed with a dark expression, but her hands were incredibly gentle as she wiped the sweat from Hoshina’s forehead.
“Lie still, don’t move, leave it to me.” The next second, Tsunade took a deep breath, her eyes becoming incredibly focused and sharp.
Her hands formed hand seals rapidly in front of her chest, moving so fast they created afterimages.
Snake – Ram – Monkey – Boar – Horse – Tiger!
“Sealing Technique: Menstrual Seal!!!” At this critical, life-or-death moment, what Tsunade thought of was nothing else.
It was the obscure Sealing Technique she had just successfully developed a few days ago to deal with her own period.
The Menstrual Seal!
The principle of this technique was to use a sealing formula to temporarily seal the periodically shedding menstrual blood within the uterus.
It was a Sealing Technique targeting the uterus.
And the baby came from inside the uterus!
Tsunade’s goal was terrifyingly clear.
The child was having trouble being born, right?
Then just don’t give birth!
Simply push the premature, breech-positioned child back into the uterus!
Then, use the Sealing Technique to seal the child just like menstrual blood!
Use pure Yang-release Chakra to temporarily simulate the environment of amniotic fluid, maintaining the fetus’s life.
As long as the umbilical cord wasn’t severed, the mother’s nutrients and oxygen could continue to be supplied to the fetus through the placenta and umbilical cord.
After buying time, she could slowly use Chakra and external massage to adjust the fetus’s position in the uterus bit by bit.
Turning it from the deadly transverse position into the favorable head-first or breech position for a natural birth.
This process might be very long.
And it required extremely precise Chakra control and long-term medical monitoring.
It would seriously delay her own cultivation time.
But… for this little life that had already experienced hardship before being born.
For this mother who was willing to sacrifice herself.
And for the crucial future friendship with the Hyuga Clan.
Tsunade had almost no hesitation.
Chakra condensed in her palms.
Complex sealing patterns seemed to come alive, spreading along her arms and finally gathering at her fingertips.
“Menstrual Seal!” Tsunade let out a low shout.
Her right hand’s fingers were pressed together, covered in dense sealing Chakra.
She pressed firmly onto Hyuga Hoshina’s high, protruding abdomen.
Her left hand guided the Chakra along the bottom, slowly pushing the baby’s little foot, which had already protruded, back into the uterus.
This process had to be extremely careful.
“Go back… good, go back first…” Beads of sweat seeped from Tsunade’s forehead as she muttered softly.
Finally, she succeeded in pushing the fetus that had reached the “doorway” back into the “room.” Immediately after, her right hand pressing on the abdomen shone brightly!
Those light purple sealing patterns expanded greatly.
Using Chakra to construct a temporarily stable internal environment, she “sealed” the fetus, along with the small amount of amniotic fluid that hadn’t yet completely drained, into a safe area inside the uterus.
“It’s done!” Tsunade could clearly perceive it.
The moment her Sealing Technique was completed, the fetus’s life sign fluctuations, which had been getting weaker and weaker, suddenly stabilized!
Although the surrounding amniotic fluid was scarce, the “pseudo-amniotic fluid” environment formed by her pure Yang-release Chakra, combined with the energy and oxygen continuously transmitted from the mother through the umbilical cord, was enough to maintain the baby’s most basic life needs.
“Ugh…” With the completion of the seal and the fetus’s return to position, Hyuga Hoshina let out a short cry of pain.
Her eyes rolled back, and she completely fainted.
Excessive blood loss and prolonged mental tension had pushed her body to its limit long ago.
“Mother!!!” Hyuga Hiashi and Hyuga Hizashi, seeing their mother faint, thought something terrible had happened and screamed in terror.
Hearing his sons’ screams, Hyuga Munekazu, who was already burning with anxiety, could no longer hold back.
He rushed in violently.
At a glance, he saw his wife lying motionless on the bed, as if she had lost all signs of life.
This usually composed clan head felt his vision go black.
His whole body swayed violently, and he almost fell over.
“Could it be… still…” Just as he thought the worst result had occurred, a voice filled with obvious exhaustion and impatience sounded: “Relax, she’s fine, she just fainted.” Everyone looked in unison toward the source of the voice.
They saw Tsunade slowly stand up and walk to the washbasin.
After washing her hands, she dried them with a clean towel.
Only then did she turn around and look at everyone.
“She is fine for now, and the fetus is fine too.” “I used a Sealing Technique to temporarily seal the fetus back into Lady Hoshina’s body.” “At the same time, I used Chakra to heal her torn birth canal and uterine wall, forcibly stopping the massive hemorrhage.” “As long as we periodically infuse energy into the fetus through the sealing formula, neither of them will die.” After she finished speaking, the entire delivery room was deathly silent.
Everyone was stunned.
They looked at each other, their faces filled with disbelief and confusion.
Sealed the fetus…?
Sealed it back into the stomach?
What kind of god-tier move is this?!
Never heard of it, never seen it!
Can Medical Ninjutsu even be played like this?!
Looking at everyone’s bewildered expressions, Tsunade thought for a moment and switched to a more direct explanation: “Simply put, the child couldn’t be born, it was stuck.” “If we forced it, both would die.” “So I… manually pushed it back in!” “Returned the pregnant woman to her pre-labor state, understand?” This explanation, which was so blunt it was almost crude, immediately made everyone understand.
A Medical Ninja swallowed and muttered: “The baby was half-born… and you could still… send it back???” This sentence spoke the thoughts of everyone present.