svetikya Chapter 28 Abandoning the Sword for Medicine
Chapter 28 Abandoning the Sword for Medicine
The young apprentice who was pulled back was stunned at first, but when he heard the name "Yachiru" and saw his senior brother's terrified expression as if he were facing a prehistoric beast, his face turned ashen and his legs began to tremble involuntarily!
His lips trembled, and he couldn't utter a single word.
Unohana Yachiru... The meaning behind that name is so profound that it can even stop a child from crying in the shadowy world of Soul Society!
Unohana merely glanced at the two of them indifferently, without saying anything more, as if the incident just now was insignificant.
She withdrew her gaze and continued walking towards the backyard.
Yoriichi followed quietly behind her, seemingly oblivious to the sudden drop in the atmosphere in the hall and the apprentice's terrified gaze.
The backyard of the clinic is a hidden gem, even more tranquil than the front hall.
A few ancient pine and cypress bonsai trees dot the landscape, the ground is covered with fine white gravel, and a stone path leads to a secluded quiet room.
The door to the quiet room was open, and a man sat in the shadows of the corridor with his back to the door, seemingly examining something open on his lap.
The man had a thin face, a frizzy hairstyle with a hooked end, and a stalk of grass between his teeth.
This is none other than the future member of the Zero Division, the Eastern God General Kirinji Tenjiro!
At this moment, Kirinji Tenjiro had not yet gone up to the Rei-o Palace.
"You've changed."
Kirinji Tenjiro seemed to be looking at something, and spoke without even looking up after hearing the sound.
"What?" Unohana asked upon hearing this, "What's changed?"
"If it were the old you, my little apprentice might not even have survived, and yet you didn't even draw your sword today?" Kirinji Tenjiro said.
Unohana glanced at her and said, "I give up."
"?"
Kirinji Tenjiro seemed not to have heard him clearly. This time, he finally raised his head and asked, "What?"
"I said, I give up the fight," Unohana repeated, her tone flat yet exceptionally clear and firm: "From now on, I will never kill again, nor will I ever wield my sword for the sake of killing."
"????"
Kirinji Tenjiro's expression seemed to freeze for a moment, then come back to life, becoming extremely absurd and unbelievable.
He looked Unohana up and down, as if trying to confirm whether she was a Hollow or a Shinigami in disguise, skilled in transformation.
Finally, he couldn't help but say, "Wait, wait! You're Unohana Yachiru, right?"
"Don't be so surprised. Besides, I'm giving up the name Yachiru. Just keep calling me Retsu, like before."
Seeing that Unohana was no joke, Kirinji Tenjiro was even more shocked.
He had taught Unohana how to respond for a while, so he knew very well what kind of lunatic this woman was.
She didn't learn Taoist medicine to heal the sick and save lives; she simply wanted to make it more fun to fight!
Yet this battle maniac is now saying he never wants to fight again?
This is……
The Buddha preached profound truths to her, and she decided to convert to Buddhism.
"That's...quite strange." Kirinji Tenjiro finally suppressed his shock and clicked his tongue.
His gaze then finally fell on the red-haired man behind Unohana, who had been standing silently since entering but could not be ignored.
His long, deep red hair, his cold and sharply defined face, the seemingly natural flame-shaped markings on his forehead, and the deep red scabbard of the katana at his waist that, though seemingly simple, subtly hinted at something extraordinary...
"It's related to... the people you brought with you, isn't it?"
"That's right." Unohana readily admitted, "I saw a monster, a monster that I could never defeat."
"I was desperate, so I gave up."
"You don't need to do this." Yoriichi sighed behind her, his sigh devoid of the arrogance of a victor: "I'm not worth you becoming like this."
"No, perhaps it can't be said that I've completely given up." Unohana shook her head slightly, turned her face to the side, and looked at the few strangely shaped pine and cypress trees in the courtyard, as if she was sorting out her thoughts.
After a while, she continued, "I... want to learn more advanced medical skills."
"?"
The straw that Kirinji Tenjiro was holding in his mouth stopped shaking.
He raised one eyebrow, his face revealing undisguised shock.
He subconsciously turned his gaze to Yoriichi Tsugikuni again, sizing up the silent red-haired swordsman.
This man...
real or fake?
How powerful is he that he could make Unohana so desperate, even willing to give up the fight?
"The difference between me and Yoriichi is not in swordsmanship, but in our level of understanding."
Unohana said softly, "I need to discover the essence of life, which requires studying life, so I need to learn medicine."
She believes that the transparent world that Yoriichi mentioned earlier is a very profound realm, and to understand and master it, one needs to have profound knowledge of the human body.
And those with medical expertise are undoubtedly the group of people who understand the mysteries of the human body best.
She decided to give up scalpel surgery and become a doctor!
"You really are a terrifying person," Kirinji Tenjiro clicked his tongue. "But I never said I wanted to take you as my apprentice."
"Anyway, I'll stay by your side; you can't get rid of me."
Kirinji Tenjiro was taken aback by her matter-of-fact attitude, and finally waved his hand helplessly: "Do as you please. Anyway, you didn't properly go through the apprenticeship ceremony back then, and you still learned a lot from me, both what you should and shouldn't have learned."
After Kirinji Tenjiro finished speaking, he became serious again:
"Besides these, you must have something else to ask me, right?"
"...Hmm." Unohana nodded, then asked, "You must have some information about the recent 'disappearance of Shinigami' in Soul Society, right?"
"What? You're interested in this kind of thing?"
"It's not that I'm interested, it's him." Unohana glanced at Yoriichi Tsugikuni, then said, "He has some grudges to settle with the mastermind behind the disappearance of the Shinigami."
"Oh?" Kirinji Tenjiro frowned and asked, "What's going on?"
Yoriichi then repeated what he had said to Unohana and Saizo Gakuto.
The information about Muzan Kibutsuji, the characteristics of vampires, their ability to devour flesh and souls, their fear of light and their fickle nature, and their tenacious vitality was clearly and concisely reiterated once again.
Listening to this unbelievable narration, Kirinji Tenjiro's expression gradually changed from initial surprise and doubt to solemnity, and finally to a kind of shock as if he had just realized something.
The straw in his mouth had stopped swaying at some point, and he said with a hint of curiosity:
"So, those Grim Reapers weren't devoured by Hollows, but by Oni?!"