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Volume 5 Trouble File First Second Half Part 4

For Izayoi, who has possessed both physical strength and strong body to match it from the moment he was born, such a contradiction seemed to be pretty tragic, but also ironic to some extent as well.

「Izayoi, there is something else about that kid whom you saved that I thought you should know. A certain percentage of her internal organs have already been removed.」

「I thought as much. He was just too light for someone of his age and height when I lifted him up back there, so I immediately knew that something had to be wrong with him. I know that saying that someone is 「light as a feather」is only a figure of speech, but in his case that description would be all too accurate.」

His words contained traces of anger and indignation, but he was unsure as to towards who that anger of his should be directed at this point.

Canaria and Izayoi avoided saying that outright, but they both knew that the state that this kid was in is actually quite severe. As was the case in most countries that are the areas for major military conflicts, the only way in which you could get a hold of a decent medical treatment was if you had a crapton of money, but even if they managed to save that kid’s life for the time being, but aside from that, it would seem that the kid’s condition was far from an ideal one. Because if it was any other way, then Canaria would not just be sitting there so silently like she was doing now. So if that was how it was supposed to be, then the least they could do for that kid would be to make sure that he gets to spend his last remaining days in a meaningful way.

Although Izayoi would never tell that to anybody, he was also a mixture of a dreamer and a realist, so he was not going to be spending his own time just sitting there and moping around without even confirming if that kid still had any will to live left in him at all. And even if there was no longer any possibilities for the future for him, it was his job to convince him that it does not mean that he should stop dreaming about it and wanting to live on anyway.

After sighing deeply, Izayoi decided that it was high time for him to get up, and when he did so, he immediately grabbed the medical records card from Canaria’s hands and began to look through its contents himself.

「Well, if he does not have that much time left then there is nothing we can really do about it, so instead we should focus on doing anything that we actually can do for him. You came here for me because he regained consciousness, right?」

「Yes, she has already regained enough strength to be able to speak, and she said that she wanted to see you, Izayoi.」

「He wants to see me? Okay then. I guess I will go talk to him for a little bit then. I do not know how long will that take, so I guess I will be back when I will be back.」

And then Izayoi left while waving his hands at Canaria in a nonchalant manner, and she simply stayed there, watching his back as he was walking away.

Truth to be told, Izayoi had no idea what he should start with, but if he does not meet with that kid first, then nothing is going to move forward. And so Izayoi was trying to think aboy=ut what he should talk about with that id as he was striding through the corridors of the hospital, climbed the stairs to the floor where the kid was supposed to be kept in and stood in front of the door to his room. . . . which were left partially open, which was strange, because usually they were supposed to be closed at all times whenever someone was coming and going in and out of them.

「Hey! Is someone there?!」

He called out to see if anyone would respond to him, and when there was no response whatsoever, he barged into the room, only to see that it was completely deserted, and that the needle connected to the stand with the IV drip looked as if it has been forcefully pulled out. His reaction when he saw that was instantaneous. When Izayoi realized that the kid might have been kidnapped, he broke into a mad rush towards the stairs.

Now that he thought about it, this whole situation was very disturbing. That kid was gone from his room, and yet there seemed to be no one else other than Izayoi who was looking for him. Was it because he was an unidentified black Albino with a portion of his internal organs missing that no one wanted to have anything to do with him? But if this was supposed to be a hospital, then should it not mean that the personnel working in here should be working towards treating anyone who ended up here equally without allowing their own prejudices to influence their work ethos? So then why did they. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?

While feeling more and more sick, Izayoi rushed through the hospital corridors while trying to remember the exact layout of each of the hospital’s floors.

(Yes. . . . . . . . . . something is definitely not right here. This is a fairly large and modern hospital and yet no one is making a commotion that a patient disappeared seemingly without a trace, even more so since this special ward has only one staircase and one emergency elevator. . . . . . . . . so why did anyone not get in touch with me or Canaria at all?!)

There were two possibilities for why it was like that. The first one was that the staff of the hospital intended to kidnap that kid from the very beginning, ever since Izayoi and Canaria first came here with him. . .  but Izayoi doubted this possibility because there was just no way for Canaria to not notice a scheme like that taking place, and she probably checked this place before they even arrived here to make sure that it would be safe to leave the kid under the medical care here. Yes, that is right. If this place was targeted by any organization similar to the one that was responsible for the creation of that facility, Canaria would have picked that up in no time and would have been more vigilant about this place, but since nothing of the sort happened, then that must meant that this place was legitimately free from any such influences.

The other possibility was also pretty unbelievable. . . . but not entirely impossible. It is a possibility that the kid has regained enough of his strength to stand up and actually went out of the room on his own two feet. Judging by the condition he was in when Izayoi found him and what Canaria told him moments ago such a thing should not have been possible, but if Izayoi had to choose between these two possibilities, then the latter was much more preferable than the former. So hoping for that to indeed have been the case, Izayoi ran towards the terrace on the hospital’s third floor. And since he was sprinting at his full force, getting there did not take him all that long.

When he reached the terrace, he could see that there was only one person standing there.

This entire special ward had walls made out of glass so most of the surfaces were transparent, but this terrace was the place where the light shined the most during the sunny days. And on that terrace, a white figure was looking at the distant sky with their hands crossed on their chest, admiring the brilliant rays of sunlight that were shining down on them. When Izayoi opened the door leading to the terrace, that figure must have noticed him doing so, because it slowly turned back to look at him. Due to the soft breeze that was blowing that day, the figure’s white hair were being lightly blown in all directions, and their cheeks have been moistened up by a steady stream of tears flowing from their big, red eyes.

「. .  . ! ! ! ! ! ! !」