Chapter 52: Epilogue

　　Section 1: Self-Healing　　Gentle, warm sunlight fell on my face.　　I lay in a soft bed, seeing a plump, round face snoring beside me.　　"Teacher Dan..."　　"Hmm... Oh! You're awake! How are you? Does anything hurt?" Teacher Dan rubbed his bloodshot eyes. The big dark circles under them made him look like a panda.　　"I'm... okay..." I struggled to sit up, only then realizing I was covered in bandages and plaster casts from head to toe, like a living mummy.　　"Hey! The doctor said not to move! Lie back down!" Teacher Dan pressed me down firmly with his big hand.　　I hadn't felt any pain before, but his forceful pressing made me pretty uncomfortable.　　"Teacher Dan, don't press on me. All my injuries are healed, really!" As I spoke, I rolled out of bed right in front of him. If it weren't for those plaster casts getting in the way, I could have run.　　"Huh? What kind of constitution do you have?" He looked at me as if I were a monster. "When you first got here, the doctor called over all the orthopedics and surgery interns in the entire hospital. Said they hadn't seen an injury case like yours in over a decade!"　　"Huh? Like mine? What do you mean?" That sounded way too exaggerated!　　"Nothing much, just... comprehensively injured! Open fractures, comminuted fractures, compres