22 Chapter Twenty-Two: Don’t Let Go (2/2)
Letting out a deep sigh, Satomi lays back down and looks over at the crew again. After a short pause, Rose says to Satomi ”I'm glad you're okay”.
Trying to tilt her head to see Rose a little more clearly, Satomi asks ”What happened to your eyes?”.
Rose grips the arm rests of her wheelchair tightly and doesn't say anything for a moment. ”Don't worry about me” she says, ”what's important is that you're still alive”.
Almost immediately after Rose finished speaking, a loud repetitive beeping could be heard from the bed next to Satomi's bed. It was coming from Mikoto's bed. As the doctor rushed to assist Mikoto, everyone fell into a quiet panic.
Frantically moving, the doctor shouts ”Her vitals are dropping!”. The doctor tried to rush everyone out of the room, but everyone refused to move. The two nurses rush into the room as fast as possible, one with a shot that they promptly put into Mikoto's left arm. As hard as they tried, the repetitive beeping changed into a louder single beep. The beep didn't stop, but rather just rang throughout the room. Everyone's heart dropped at the sound.
”Her heart stopped!” One of the nurses shout.
The doctor pulls out defibrillators and charges electricity between them before pressing both of the defibrillators against Mikoto's chest. Her unconscious body jumps. As everyone holds their breath, hoping for the best, nothing happens. The long beep continues to ring. The doctor charges up the defibrillators one more time and presses it against Mikoto's chest. Once again, her unconscious body jumps up but nothing happens. After a couple seconds of waiting, Satomi cries out ”No... NO! Not my only sister! She can't die! She's my only sister!”.
With his veins visibly growing in anger, the doctor says in a rough voice to one of the nurses ”Call the time of death”.
As one of the nurses begins to check a watch on her left wrist, Siran suddenly gets up behind them and pushes them out of the way. Everyone's breathing grew heavier and heavier. Rose was biting her bottom lip in anger, trying to prevent herself from crying. Siran raises one hand as the air around him grew heavier. The skin on his hand grew several shades darker and his finger nails seemed to almost grow into claws. He takes off his sunglasses with his other hand as he approaches Mikoto. His eyes changed from its usual color of green, and into a bright red color that seemed to almost glow even in the sunlight. Siran presses his one dark hand against Mikoto's chest, as if it were a defibrillator. Mikoto's body once again jumped, but a little more this time. Her body slightly rose off of the bed, almost as if being magnetized to Siran's hand as a surge of power goes through her body. Mikoto's body flattens against the bed again, with the loud beep continuing. After a long shared single heavy breath between the crew, the doctor, and the nurses, the beeping stops. Everyone, including Siran jumps at the silence. After a single second that seemed to take an hour to pass, another short beep was heard. Then another... and another.
Frozen in place, one of the nurses say ”Her vitals... are coming back! She's alive!”.
Everyone lets go of their breath, as a sigh of relief sweeps through the room. ”She's not out of the woods yet” the doctor says, ”she slipped back into a coma, so she's going to need more time”.
Satomi starts crying tears of joy and frustration at the same time. As her tears flowed uncontrollably, the doctor turns to the crew and says ”We'll need everyone to leave the room for a little while. You'll probably need some time to relax, so I'd suggest getting out of the hospital and finding somewhere to relax for at least a little while. You've all been here for a while, so you'll probably need it”.
Agreeing to leave for a while, the crew takes Rose and leaves the hospital. Siran had put his sunglasses back on before they left the room. Wondering what to do for now, Finn says ”Guess we can't go back to the hotel in Shibuya?”.
”We're pretty far from Shibuya right now” Holly replies.
Finn, who is currently pushing Rose around in her wheelchair, asks Rose ”Is there anything you'd want to do for now?”.
”I'd like to have my vision back” Rose replies, ”and my the rest of our friends back too. I couldn't stand losing anymore friends”.
”We've done all we can for now” Zia says softly. ”We have to leave the rest in the hands of the doctors, otherwise, we'd just be in the way”. After she says that, she's looks at Siran and asks ”By the way, what did you do back there?”.
Looking up at Siran too, Holly says ”That's definitely not any spell I'm familiar with”.
Clenching his fists lightly, Siran says ”I did the only thing I could do”.
”Well” Zia says, ”it saved Mikoto, so I guess that's all that matters. Is your hand okay?”.
”My hand is fine” Siran says calmly as he looks at his hand that has now turned back to its normal form.
The crew traveled around for a while before coming across Hamakawa Park. There they rest for a while, trying to relax but failing to let go of their stress. Failing to find consolation through nature and the relaxed environment, they eventually returned to the hospital. After arriving at the hospital again, one of the nurses came out to tell them ”Mikoto is still in a coma, but Satomi should be ready to be released as early as tomorrow. We just need the time to make sure her basic bodily functions are normal or at least functioning. She'll be released from the hospital tomorrow, but Mikoto will remain under surveillance until she wakes up from her coma”. She then bows, and leaves as the crew remains in the waiting room. After the next day arrives, Satomi enters the waiting room while the rest of the crew were still sleeping in the chairs. She wakes them up by lightly slapping Siran repeatedly on the face until he wakes up.
”I'm hungry” Satomi says, ”lets go get something to eat”. Her eyes were still swollen from crying, and she was dressed in her normal clothes again. ”The doctor said Mikoto is stable and she should be fine” Satomi continues, ”so I just want to go eat and forget about all this. The food here is terrible”.
Siran, still feeling sleepy, nods his head and gets up slowly. They travel around for a while before stopping at a convenience store and buying some snacks to eat rather than going to a restaurant. The crew was generally silent. Everyone had something on their minds, generally all thinking about the same few things. Rose's blindness, Satomi's injuries, Mikoto's condition, and the general feeling of guilt for allowing any of these things to happen. The hours passed slowly, then the days passed. Little to nothing happened amongst the group. Everyone was still anxiously waiting to find out what would become of Mikoto. Everyone was endlessly restless, yet deprived of energy. On top of all of that, they still had The Ly'Lum to deal with.