"Extremely so."

"Well. See you in the morning."

"See you."

And he heads off, to rest and maybe flip through some of the music.

The first one is 'Ode to Joy', which.

Nope, nope, nope.

He flips through the early songs very fast, settling on assorted flavors of alternative rock he likes from the time periods marked '1970s' to '2010s'. Mostly the more melancholy songs, for now, though if he gets used to the sound the angrier ones might make good music for training to.

And then in the middle of the night, to Cam:

It occurs to me I still have the cursed seal.

Well shit. I hope I would've remembered that if you hadn't but I'm glad one of us did.

Yeah. I don't know it would have caused problems, but.

Unfortunately the solution to the curse seal is also extremely risky, though I think I've reduced the risk profile.

What kinds of percentages are we looking at?

The level of chakra exhaustion I'm looking at typically has a week-long recovery if you live, and a one in four chance of killing you outright. I've figured out a seal with Tobirama to reduce that to we think around one in twenty, and I think I can borrow some chakra from Kurama to get me back on my feet faster.

No one's survived having one of these seals removed before but no one's actually tried doing it in a regulated fashion.

What have they been trying instead?

Mostly assorted variations on brute forcing it off.

I guess doing not that will probably be an improvement but it might also not be...

Might be more likely to work but definitely more likely to kill you.

Are we looking at any special risks if it doesn't work and doesn't kill you? Curse seal does some failsafe cursey thing?

Might fuck up my ability to use chakra. 

Like how bad?

Anywhere from 'I have to retrain to be at my same level of control, but can still work around it' to 'I can't be a shinobi without extensive work.'

But probably not game over you have a permanent chakra disability?

If that happens I'm probably dead anyways.

I suppose that's simplifying, in a way.

Reduces the number of things I have to worry about, at least.

You could also have a dozen children and hope that one of them makes it to the point of being able to consent to trying weird stuff without acquiring any curse seals.

I don't like the curse seal, anyways. And having children right now is probably unethical; I'd be more willing to adopt, but they wouldn't have the right bloodline for this experiment.

Because Orochimaru'd be after them?

And Itachi. And the world still doesn't have peace.

I'm tempted to suggest gamete donations to people on my world, but that probably just fails because of the world not having chakra or something.