Chapter 5 Varicella-Zoster Virus
Edited by: Kanaa-senpai
The fifth night, 1 a.m.──5 days since Haruto fell into a coma.
”Uuuhhn…”
Haruto opened his eyes, slow and fuzzy, staring blankly at the ceiling.
Just like the doctor worried──yeah, Haruto’s got lingering problems. He can barely talk. His memory’s shot.
The beeping of the heart monitor told him straight──he was in a hospital.
(Huh? Why am I in a hospital?)
His body won’t listen.
There’s tightness in his chest.
His head’s pounding.
If he was doing alright, he’d probably just use his ability and check his body’s status in a snap.
But right now? Haruto’s got amnesia──his memory’s scrambled.
But──right then──one of his abilities wakes up.
[Knowledge]
Filling those hundred blank years. Healing skills. Stuff from his last life.
It all comes back. Haruto checks his body with his ability──and he’s stunned.
Scars from sickness. On his brain, his lungs, all over.
(What the hell is this?)
He’s about to heal himself, but then──the old man inside him stops. Something feels off.
He knows this disease. He’s felt it before.
(Wait… this is… chickenpox… right?)
Chickenpox? Why that?
He sorta remembers──getting it as an adult can be serious.
(Hang on! Isn’t chickenpox a one-time thing? You don’t catch it again, do you?)
In all his memories──including his past life──not even once did he get it twice.
If anything, he only knows he had it as a baby──his parents told him. He doesn’t remember it himself.
(Chickenpox… varicella… Oh, right, it’s a virus.)
Chickenpox comes from the varicella-zoster virus.
(I healed myself before my body could build up immunity.)
Chickenpox gives you lifelong immunity after just one infection.
(If I don’t even know how bad I am now, trying to heal could backfire──not worth it. But moving my body’s a serious pain right now…)
It’s probably the brain.
This messed-up feeling isn’t from chickenpox.
So the brain needs fixing.
(Oh, nice. I can move again.)
Haruto finally catches his breath──then notices a nurse call button sitting right on his chest. Someone put it there so he could hit it the instant he woke up.
He presses it.
Clatter clatter clatter clatter.
You could hear someone sprinting down the hall.
’Did Haruto-kun wake up?’
A nurse steps in quietly from the door──practically announcing she walked over! even without a word.
With it being late at night, her voice is hushed.
’The doctor’s on their way, so just wait here a bit, okay?’
After a little while, a male doctor appears.
He asks a few questions──his name, his age──watches him move his arms and legs. Says he’ll do more tests tomorrow and then heads out.
There were things he wanted to ask. But if there’s a woman here, obviously he’d rather talk to her.
So Haruto asks the nurse a few questions──and learns his chickenpox is almost gone.
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Edited by Kanaa-senpai.
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