Chapter 306: Healing
(Ryoto's pov)
The treatment Unohana was doing, if it even can be categorized as that, was torturous, to say the least. It was a good call having a piece of clothing in my mouth because I may really have bitten my tongue off by accident.
What Unohana was doing was practically the complete opposite of using healing Kaido. Healing the normal way is pretty straightforward. First, you recover your target's Reiatsu. Then, using said Reiatsu, the healer has an easier time healing by using both his own Reiatsu and the newly recovered Reiatsu of the injured person.
Unohana right now doesn't recover my Reiatsu and uses what I can only call life force to heal my wounds. Thanks to Jormungandr's blood, all my injuries closed themselves so my blood wouldn't drip out. It may be some kind of defense mechanism so I wouldn't kill everything near me while I'm injured. Otherwise, how would anyone help me if I was close to dying, but it's not a healing ability by any means. The closing was skin-deep at best, and even a tiny bruise would open them. My deeper wounds won't be healed by this ability.
That's why Unohana started by reopening my wounds so she could heal me. Of course, she couldn't do it carelessly, as even a drop of my blood could harm her, so she covered her hands in Reiatsu. It was a high-level technique that usually only helped prevent infections during operations on the field. In her case, it was powerful enough to prevent burns from acids if needed. The blood that got on her hands would 'eat' her Spiritual Energy, and as long as Unohana had any, she would provide this energy to her hands.
The healing process felt very forceful as if the body was forced to heal despite not being able to. The only comparison I could find was making someone do a split when it was his first time stretching his body. Unohana was also cutting the ends of torn muscles when they were torn in a way they were difficult to heal, as cleanly cut injuries were easier to reconnect.
Inoue-chan really helped a lot, as she was better at healing physical wounds than Unohana—or at least she will be. She is still new to all her powers, but they still help a lot, especially with blood loss.
Despite all the pain and would be screaming, if not for my mouth being sealed with a piece of cloth, I didn't move much. I stayed still as much as I could to not disturb my treatment, and I was mostly successful, but having an operation while being conscious and without any painkillers isn't something I want to repeat in the future. After some point, however, the pain I felt thankfully weakened. I probably got somehow numb to all that pain.
Finally, after what felt like hours, I was relatively healthy and healed, but I was soaked with sweat. I took a quick look around and noticed that Rin was in a similar state to me, as if she felt the whole process I went through. Strange, but I'll talk about it with her after I deal with Ywhach. I have my suspicions, but it can wait, and I can confirm them later.