Chapter 264: A Year Passes, Spring and Autumn Go By
Kenichi wanted to follow his teacher to the Hidden Mist Village and join the excitement. More importantly, he wanted to see whether Obito was still alive.
But after accidentally making Hidan's arm disappear, Kenichi gave up on the idea.
Compared to chasing uncertainty in the Hidden Mist Village, staying in the lab and refining his work mattered more. In the end, he did not go with his teacher.
"It seems that once the body is separated, the nerves can't reconnect, and pain can't be transmitted," Kenichi murmured, glancing toward the adjacent lab area where Hidan's head remained submerged. "Otherwise, for Hidan, severe pain might even be a kind of enjoyment."
Hidan looked worse now.
When Kenichi observed him through the one way mirror, Hidan's eyes were unfocused, as if he were trapped in a permanent daze.
Given Hidan's current condition, Kenichi almost felt that the daze was a mercy. Being locked in darkness for so long, unable to tell whether time was passing, would be a torture in itself.
Kenichi shook his head, wondering if Hidan would eventually slip into some bizarre, brain dead state.
A state where the brain remained active, but consciousness was completely gone.
If that happened, could Hidan still be considered alive?
It was a question worth thinking about.
Still, this was exactly what his teacher was researching. Kenichi knew that, and he looked forward to seeing the future experimental reports. Surely there would be interesting discoveries.
After retrieving Hidan's other hand, Kenichi returned to his own lab and continued his attempts.
This time, he focused on using Yin Release chakra to destroy genes.
Just like what he had done before.
"But if I keep forcing that step, my other work has to stop," Kenichi muttered, pinching the bridge of his nose.
If he pushed that method again, his Shadow Clones would be dispelled.
Every clone that dispersed returned its share of chakra to him, which meant one thing was painfully clear: his current chakra was not enough to support that step while also maintaining all his ongoing projects.
In the end, Kenichi chose to keep improving the Gene Programming Ninjutsu for now. As for that unexpected discovery, he recorded it and set it aside for later.
That was how research often worked.
Sometimes, the most valuable results appeared as accidents, born in the middle of an experiment meant to do something else. Even with variables controlled, the same procedure could produce completely opposite outcomes.
That was why some people claimed the end of science was theology. There were too many probabilistic events, and the research process itself was essentially searching for stability inside probability.
So Kenichi went back to the work in front of him and continued refining the Gene Programming Ninjutsu.
[Today marks the third week of the experiment, but there has not been much progress in improving the Gene Programming Ninjutsu. Is a 20% success rate the limit? Hidan's arm was implanted with a new segment of genetic information again. His arm grew a prostate.]
[Two months have passed. After two months of experiments, I raised the success rate by 10%. It is now 30%. However, Hidan's arm can no longer tolerate repeated trials.]
[His arm has become bizarre, growing prostates and developing strange functions. However, experiments on mice have produced good results.]
[The experiment seems to have hit a bottleneck. When I first shut myself in, it was winter outside. Now it is autumn, and the success rate is still stuck at 35%.]
[There has been no progress in the mouse trials either. Perhaps it is time to leave the lab and try a new approach.]
Kenichi pressed a hand to his forehead, let out a long sigh, and stared at Hidan's arm on the table.
Nearly a full year had passed since he began improving the Gene Programming Ninjutsu.
For an entire year, he had barely stepped outside. He stayed home, buried in research, only occasionally visiting Orochimaru.
His teacher returned in the summer and spoke with him for a while, mentioning that the Hidden Mist Village had become chaotic. The Blood Mist policy was stirring more and more clans into open protest, causing an enormous uproar.
But there were no rumors of a mysterious masked man being injured.
That had disappointed Kenichi.
It seemed whatever happened in the Hidden Mist Village had nothing to do with Obito.
Still, Kenichi remembered that Obito's control over the Mizukage was supposed to be exposed at some point, though he did not recall the exact timing. And with Kenichi's presence in this world, it was hard to say what had already shifted.
After all, he had changed far too much.
Konoha had suffered a rebellion led by the Uchiha. Fugaku had awakened the Mangekyo Sharingan and used Susanoo. The Hidden Cloud Village had not yet attempted to steal Hinata's Byakugan.
Even the wars launched by the Hidden Cloud Village and Iwagakure against Konoha had ended quickly, fading without causing too much upheaval.
"Still…" Kenichi exhaled slowly. "Hinata's eyes really are more unusual than the rest of the Hyuga."
By now, he had the genetic analysis report his Shadow Clone produced from Hinata's samples.
For comparison, he had also obtained blood from an ordinary Hyuga branch family ninja. When he compared the two, the difference was clear.
Hinata carried additional genetic information the branch family ninja did not have.
It resembled the situation in the Uchiha.
That made Kenichi even more certain that the Hyuga bloodline also came from the Ōtsutsuki, specifically from Ōtsutsuki Hamura, the Sage of Six Paths' other brother.
But compared to Hamura's descendants on the moon, the Hyuga bloodline in the shinobi world had clearly scattered and diluted much more severely.
Among the Hyuga Kenichi had examined, Hinata stood out as the only one whose bloodline purity remained relatively high, with genes closer to the ancestor.
In some ways, Hinata should have been frighteningly strong.
Unfortunately, her personality and circumstances kept her from fully drawing out that potential, which made her seem mediocre.
Even so, she still passed down that bloodline.
Kenichi remembered that Hinata and Naruto's daughter was said to be a very strong child.
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