Worry

The soldiers and Xiong put Jiao onto a stretcher and has him brought to the the nearest clinic. The soldiers knew Jiao, besides their general, he was the strongest there and to see him in such a state worried them. Before he fully fell unconscious he said something about poison and Little Town's enemies. Little Town's enemies? Little Town is just a Little Town, what enemies are there to speak of?

Nonetheless, Jiao was poisoned and that's enough to put every soldier in Little Town into high alert. In the clinic, Jiao can be seen perspiring and looking a shade of purple. His fight is admirable but, still not enough. The doctor, a goatee having man, is going through different books to try and find a cure or at the very least, a medicine to stall the poison. He has never dealt with poisons before. All he has dealt with in Little Town were cuts, bruises, accupunctures, and giving medicinal ki massages that gives better blood circulation. Poisons were something his Master dealt with, which would prove useful since he left most of his medicinal knowledge regarding it here. Guess he was worried his disciple would have to deal with it someday.

Behind him he heard a groan followed by the patient sitting up. Jiao somehow managed to wake up. The doctor immediately proceeded to try and get Jiao to lie back down. Jiao waved him off, he wanted to try to expel the poison himself. First, he went with ki, a combination of his own life energy and that which was taken from the atmosphere. His life energy was on another level thanks to Zoro's training and the Ki swelling in his Dantian was a tier higher than those of the same level. By all accounts it should have dealt with poisons pretty damn easily.Yet, all it did was hold the poison at bay. A notable effect of this try was that it reduced the effect of the poison by half.

Second try, is the use of his inner fire, which resulted in half of the previous try. A full 25%. Not bad but, not good enough. The third try, is by far the riskiest. Absorbing the remaining poison. A try like that got an earful of berating from the doctor and even he knew that it would put his life on the line.

However, the possible gain is that, if it works, he could be immune to poison of the level that he just took. And to an extent take poison of a higher tier. The doctor said no one has ever tried such a stunt. Maybe, because they were too chicken or too weak. Though, he could just wait for the poison to be cured but, where's the fun in that. He didn't want to come too such a dangerous world if all he did was worry. He knew the risks, he knew the dangers, and he wants to do is experience them all. Just like this world, he wants scars of his own. So he tried it.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaghghggaaaaaaa!!!!!!"~Jiao

The pain was unbearable. It felt like billions of fire ants were chomping all around his body, his head to his toes, and expelling the chemicals that felt itchy at first then came burn. It felt like a long time, his screams slowly dying out in favor of pathetic whimpers. To the doctor, who knew Jiao as a strong willed warrior, this sight left him stunned. What level of poison was inserted into his body to have 25% make this warrior into a crying puppy.

After six hours of agonizing pain, Jiao got up sweating far more than when he was under the sweltering heat of the sun back in his previous life. He felt...better for the most part, in need of a shower but, better nonetheless. Something told him if he ever comes across that poison again, it won't have the same results it had before. He thanked the doctor for his time, asked to never say a word about this, grabbed his gear and left. He needed to beat on something and soon.