Chapter 8
Title: To Become A National Asset
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Third Person POV. -- 1st of October -- 2407 --
[Seisho City -- HPSC Facility]
Retsu and Nami enter the door at the end of the corridor, coming inside a school gymnasium wide room.
"Your final examination will be conducted here, in this room. The rules of this exam, i am not allowed to disclose because it will break immersion. " She says, 'then what was the point of you telling me to wait before were here to tell me the rules of this Third Phase? ' Retsu questions, though she doesn't voice it, preffering the quiet.
"Now whenever you are ready, we may begin. " Nami says, letting to Retsu looking around and seeing many doors facing as opposite to the one they entered from.
"I'm ready. " She says, making Nami nod in affirmation before she signals for a camera in the side wall.
"Good luck. " She says before retreating to a corner, her tablet up to take notes.
And not a second after she does this, Retsu starts hearing footsteps, lots of them as they close in on the room. 'Fighting? ' Retsu questions, not expecting this but still a little thrilled for the challenge.
Though she'll be disappointed to find, as in the next second the doors facing her are violently shoved open and in walks a hoard of injuredpatients being carried by the shoulder, or on wheelchairs, inside the room.
From behind retsu, another door is violently opened and in walks some people is nurse clothing, 10 of them to be exact.
The moment these seemingly just disaster survived individuals are near enough, they begin complaining about their injuries and such.
"Doctor! My hand is hurting so much! I think It's broken!" "Doctor! Please help my child! She's not responding to me! " "Doctor! Look at my father! His head is bleeding too much! " "Doctor! " "Doctor!" "Doctor!!! "
In front of Retsu, the riot begins, and no sooner it does that some insults start being thrown her way as well.
"Oy! Aren't you a doctor?!? Do something!!!" "Why is she just standing there staring huh?!? We're dying here! " "What an incompetent one we've got! Isn't there better doctors here?!? "
They don't give Retsu any room to breathe, trying to make her panic and not be able to make split dissisions in the moment of crisis. As for Retsu herself,
'So, this is the ploy they want to play huh, and here i was hoping for a fight. ' she is quite disappointed, and it's beginning to show on her slowly creasing brow.
The 10 nurses behind her, men and women alike, run to her side. "We need to start medical treatments ASAP! Doctor, what are your orders?! " One of them asks.
Back with Nami.
The woman slightly pushes her glasses up while shading her eyes, 'the focus of this exam is to see how she responds under extreme pressure. Here we shall find out her courage and whether she can have what it takes to be under constant pressure.
This is the hardest part of the job of being a doctor, after all.
If she can pull through, i believe she will have the means to become the youngest doctor in the history of the HPSC's establishment. '
Back with Retsu.
'so, they want to see how i perform under extreme circumstances, huh. Very well then. Let's give them a show they'll never forget. ' Retsu let's a tiny smirk show on her young face, 'It has been a while since I've let loose. '
As the hurt civilians keep on shouting and throwing insults, –those same people from the Help Me Company from the canon timeline, they suddenly stop.
For some reason, they all feel a chill running down their spines, and they instinctively look to the source of this unease.
When looking forward, they see the 4 years and 10 months old Retsu. Her eyes are closed, a serene smile on her face, but there is an aura she's giving off, an aura of despair.
This feeling makes all of these people suddenly hault in their act, feeling genuine fear towards this seemingly young girl.
Retsu, after seeing that they've quieted down now, opens her mouth to speak up. "Everyone, please do try and calm down, " Her crescent shaped eyes gain a dark shade to them, "please sit down on the floor from where you are standing. My friends here will be checking through everyone who's injured in a sec- actually, never mind, " Retsu decides against that approach.
Instead, she walks a few steps forth, leaving behind the petrified nurses, and lifts her right hand up.
Her palm, which is facing upwards, suddenly gains a cut, before pools of blood start exiting the wound.
The blood keeps on pouring out, far exceeding the amount a normal human body should have, especially the body of a 4 years old, and it begins hovering into the sky.
This makes the people kinda tense, seeing blood, and so much of it, hovering over them. Blood itself is something that makes the human body react in a negative way, and her controlling gallons of it by making it hover above is very intimidating for them.
Retsu though, couldn't care less. Fear of blood can be overcome, its just a mental weakness that humans choose to put on themselves. Retsu works with reall illnesses, not illusory ones.
With a mental command, Retsu extends the blood pool towards every person that's injured here within this place.
'There are currently 69 people within this room, some of them have minor scratches, but the blood seeming to exit their bodies are all fake, except... ' Retsu thinks, though her blood nevertheless goes through every person within this room.
The fake blood stains, she cleans away with her own blood, and for those having minor scratches, she heals those places clean, not leaving a single stein or bruise behind.
Then, after she's done with this, of the 69 people, 60 of them are completely cleaned off, as for the remaining 9 people, "everyone who's injuries i just healed, please step to the right side for my nurses to check on you further. Do not panic. I repeat, " Her face darkens despite the smile she has, "Do. Not. Panic. "
The poor 60 people are scared shitless! And their bodies automatically does the command that Retsu just gave, feeling that if they don't, then the maw of a beast will close in on them from their backs!
'SO SCARY x60'
Now that those 60 are getting checked, Retsu is left with the 9 remaining injured people. –who feel like they are left asthe dessert who this monster will eat first.
Retsu, her smile still serene, approaches these elderly assembly. "Every one of you have actual problems instead of faking it. " She says, before her sky blue eyes look to one elderly, somone very short, like truely short. Short to the point where Retsu's current 115 cm (3'7 ft) height is barely what he's passing by a hair's breath.
"You, mister. You have bone aches in your feet don't you. " She states more than asks, making the elderly flinch from the attention. "Y-yes?... " He says uncertaintly, making Retsu nod. "I can treat it right now, if you want me to, and give you prescriptions that you have to follow in order to continue not having bone aches. " Retsu says, making the elderly's eyes widen. "Y-you can? Awh thank you! Yes! I'd really appreciate it if you did that! " He says, making Retsu nod.
The blood she used to clean the other 60 people, she now uses to make a laying chair construct in the shape of a 'Y',
"lie down on this please. " She says, and the elderly does so.
"Now, the process won't be painful at all, " She says, getting a nod from the elderly. " Infact, it is already over. " She says, making the elderly blink,
"eh? That fast?!? "
He stands up, and feels that his bones aren't aching anymore while he is walking, making his eyes widen. "H-how?... " He questions.
"Well, the simple answer is that, i cured you by turning my blood cells into the needed vitamins that your bones needed, also making your body system realize and make it produce those natural vitamins for you from now on. I will also be writing you a prescription about natural things you will need to consume from now on that will help your body energize and produce those vitamins for your bone aches. " Retsu finishes, leaving the man slack jawed
'Because medical cures like produced vitamins and such are all all biological, and thus are made of cells, i can tell my blood cells to take on those properties by using my quirk.
I'm a walking, talking, biological medicine.' Retsu smirks a little.
She looks to the left, and sees the slack jawed crowd as well as the shocked look of her proctor, Mrs. Nami, as she is looking at Retsu with her glowing eyes wide in wonder.
'The HPSC will learn of this ability of mine, –if they haven't already, And that is fine by me. Because even now, they can't afford to lose me, not anymore after they learn of this. –and the many many more things i will be showing them today by using these other 8volunteering subjects.' Retsu's smirk almost turns manical, before she rears its head back inside.
'as for me being scared of them controlling me or locking me away to train me for their own cause like they did Hawks, i am not worried. The Benihana family isn't so easily swayed or assets to be exploited by the commission.
My ancestor, the first Benihana, was apparently a big shot in the past. He was one of the core reasons the HPSC was able to climb the ranks that they have right now. They can't affort to make an enemy of us by taking me away.
Besides, even if they try they won't be able to. Why? Because I am invincible'
Retsu has many terrifying abilities hiding under her robes, and she won't be showing all of them now, that would break immersion and show the commission all her cards.
She will though, show a few today, like the fact that she is a walking medical elixir that can cure any disease or problem within the human body.
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After the first elderly, comes the second one. This one is a woman of maybe 50 or 55's, her face all wrinkled up and her posture hunched. Her problem isn't internal, atleast not all of it. Her's is something else...
"Your right arm is missing from the wrist up. " Retsu says, making the lederly show her right stump.
Retsu nods and tells her to lie down, before making her right hand, the one that's missing the hand part, extend besides her by extending the blood construct under her.
After her patient is comfortable, Retsu takes a few drops of her blood and make it levitate on her palm, turning its composition into a medical drug she will be using.
"This is my blood that I've made to take the properties of Endorphins, –a natural chemical made by the body that act as pain relievers and mood boosters. They reduce how strongly pain signals are sent to the brain and can create feelings of calm or mild euphoria. Endorphins are released during injury, stress, exercise, or pleasure, helping the body cope with pain and discomfort without shutting down normal function." Retsu explains, though she is sure most of the terms has flown right over her listener's heads. 'Sigh, why do i even bother... '
"Anyways, i will be injecting you with a doze of this. Because during the process of me Regenerating your arm, you will feel a tiny bit of discomfort. " Retsu explains, making the Elderly nod her head. "You do what you must. " She says before smiling a little.
"Hah! Never would have thought I'd be able to have my hand back, certainly not while working. " She then remembers something and her eyes widen. "Wait! This isn't gonna cost me money or anything right? " She asks,
"Not to worry. I won't demand anything from you. Right now I'm being examinated, and me healing you is just me progressing in the exam, nothing else. "
First, Retsu doses her patients body with her chemicalized blood, making her hand go numb, it's pain receptors being put to sleep, then she starts by making constructs to bind the hand to the extended chair, not letting the hand move at all and holding it hard enough to prevent blood flow.
She decides to cover up the whole hand with a veil of her blood, to not let others see the gore of the process.
Once everything is ready, she begins.
Inside the blood cover, she mentally pictures a hand completely similar to her patients right one, before her blood cells begin it's metamorphosis.
Her blood cells transform into the cells that make up human bones, then she moves to making the muscles and vessels. The blood hardens into a new framework, slowly turning into flesh as nerves reconnect and skin closes over it.
Once a brand new hand is formed from her blood, she makes a saw inside the veil, cutting the patient's wrist in order to make an attaching platform for the two parts to connect.
She then binds the two parts by first connecting their blood vessels, the bones, Muscle and tissue, and lastly the skin. The process is fast, seamless, and the patient only felt a tiny nub when the saw cut her stump.
All of this happened in the span of just a few seconds, before the blood veil is taken away, letting the woman see her brand new hand, good as new and with no scars around the wrist to show for it.
"Your reactive system should work to let you control the new hand, it will only need getting used to again. The Paralyzation will wear off in maybe 10 to 15 minutes later. Until then, your right hand will be numb. " Retsu finishes, before she gets hugged by the stranger, her left hand around Retsu's back, as the elderly hugs and weeps on the 4 years old miracle's shoulder.
"Ahhh! Thank you! Thank you thank you thank you! I don't know how i will ever repay this! Thank you so much my dear! " She thanks and cries on Retsu's shoulder. And after a minute she backs off, wiping her eye and looking at her gratefully.
'Body parts Regeneration. Internal illness healing. Being a walking Medical Elixir. ' Nami is writing these words down. Her hands are writing them sure, but her eyes still can't believe what she is seeing. 'At this point there is no need for a second examination or another doctor's approval. She is already a walking talking miracle doctor! ' Nami thinks.
And like this, Retsu continues on regenerating missing body parts for the other 6 people there. Some of them missing a body part, some of their organs failing which she extracts and makes a new one for them, carrying the previous organ in a blood cloth to not traumatize them.
And last but not least, the last Person Retsu will be treating today, "you will be my last patient today, Mister. " She says to a man in his 40 to 45s, messy brown hair, slightly sunken eyes with black spots around it, an overall completely exhausted and tired look.
"From what i probed of your body earlier, your quirk gives you somekind of boost. " She says, making the man nod.
"Yes, it allows me to produce adrenaline for myself. It's safe enough for me to produce it for a full day, but I'll need a lot of sleeping before i can use it again. My sick body looks and fits right in for the Help Me Company, so they hired me to be working for them, and i accepted. " He informs.
"But that isn't the reason why i singled you out. Your sick body is the result of cancer, isn't it? " She says, making the man's eyes widen.
"I-i thought you were gonna help give me a boost or something, or make me feel better. But the way you're talking... Don't tell me... " His eyes and the eyes of all those present widens in shock
400 years later from her second life's timeline, and the world still hasn't found a cure for cancer, talk about let down.
"Yes, i will be curing the cancer taking root in your lungs. Now for this process, i will have to sedate you into unconsciousness, or else you won't be able to bear with the sight nor the pain.
Are you ready? " She asks, making the stunned man stay in place.
Up until now, the feats she showed, Regenerating an arm, Curing internal or external illness, everything she's done is most impressive. And considering the few minutes it took to do those, it can be called a miracle.
But to be able to cure cancer? That is an entirely different level of healing! That will border on outside of Miracles, that will be... That will be...
That will be the work of a god!
Retsu has been called a God before, back in her first life. Shinigami's are the equivalent of Death Gods after all. So the notion isn't something new to her.
The amount of countries around the world who will want her, the many many wealthy people who die everyday of these diseases. If Retsu can cure them, she will be rewarded fortunes just so she can cure those people!
Every country around the world will want her! And she will easily become a national asset right away.
Currently by showing her medical expertise, Retsu can become a national asset, and the HPSC will protect her with its life. Then she can rest assured and grow freely until she's older. And once she is, no one will be able to threaten her.
Currently, the only opponents who could defeat her would be AFO and his Nomus. All Might in his prime could defeat her too, And Star and Stripe.
anyone else like Overhaul and such, can't defeat her because they won't be able to catch her.
She may be weaker in a straight-forward fight, but since when did Benihana Retsu ever play fair or straight-forward.
Her confidence in her abilities to defeat anyone below those mentioned names comes from the fact that she has a terrifying secret ability. If this power gets known by anyone else, she would become the bane of all life.
But Retsu won't be revealing this secret ability of hers, not now atleast. In the future she may need to when she comes across All For One or his Nomu's, but not now.
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The office at the highest level of the HPSC building is quiet. Not a single sound can be heard in this room.
There is a great tension having build up, ever since Madame President –Kimmy– got her hands on the results of Benihana Retsu's exams.
The room is in utter silence, and the emotionless woman is nowhere to be found.
Madame President, the only one President that has ever been elected for this position.
Lady kimmy is old, she has been around since the founding of the HPSC 5 Generations ago!
In all her life time, she has perfected her facade of indifference, a mask she wears in order to hide her true face. But now, that mask is broken, letting the woman under it become visible.
In all her years of living, not once has she ever been in a situation like this. A situation where a diamond in the rough comes knocking on her doors.
Kimmy's mind is working over time, trying to wrap her head around the idea that she has a literal miraclewalking under her feet on the first floor.
The political tension that the country, the whole of japan will be under of if word gets out that japan has birthed such a being, somone who can cure anything, it will be a disaster for her depending on what approach she may take regarding this individual.
'AFO? All Might? They will be nothing in front of the disaster that Benihana Retsu can bring, if not guided to the right path. ' Kimmy thinks, trying to find a solution to this.
'First off, let's not poke the walking nuke. I won't be Scrying her nor anyone near her.
If she can somehow find out about my probing, it may all be over for us. I may scare her away, or worse...
...sigh, Anyways, i planned on asking for her to visit me after her exam was over, but now I'm crossing that.
We may see each other face to face in the future, but let's not provoke her, nor give her any reason to be provoked right now. '
Only now, after her retreat, does Madame Kimmy realize that she's been sweating. Her head is damp in sweat, her eyes wide, her breathing a little ragged. Her millenia of perfected facade crumbled in an instant before the bright or dark opportunity this will bring. –It's bright or dark effects being entirely up to her to decide.
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Author's Note/ Secret weapoooooons! LOVE IT! WHO DOESN'T RIGHT???
anyways! The president was actually the only President ever to be presidented into the president position of the HPSC presidency!?!? TALK ABOUT LORE BOMB!!!
ANYWAYS! i dumped a lot of info this episode sooooo...
I'll leave you guys with it!
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