Avira
When Zoan told me he doesn’t feel pain, I didn’t think it was serious enough to have a medical name like congenital insensitivity to pain, and I definitely didn’t know it could be such a huge problem.
He could die because of this. He will never know when something goes wrong in his body. Because of that, he has private doctors who perform full-body checkups periodically, and I wasn’t aware of it until this incident.
Now, because of this issue, his recovery has become an extremely difficult task. He has opened every wound at least twice. He is on the verge of developing a seriousinfection, and I feel like I’m on the verge of dying from helplessness.
At this moment, he is literally tied to the bed. I don’t feel good seeing him like this. And neither does he, he hates it because it triggers his traumas.
Today, Uncle Maksim, Aunt Savi, and Kaz are here. Uncle and Aunt have already left the ward, now Kaz and I are sitting beside him.
“It’s been four days, right?” Kaz asks me.
I nod.
“And if he stays like this, he’ll recover from this tough phase in ten days?”
I nod again.
“I’m not staying like this for ten days,” Zoan frowns.
I sigh. “Staying like this is better than dying. I know you hate it, but there is no other choice.”
He close his eyes, still frowning.
“He is hating it so much that it’s showing on his face,” Kaz mutters.
The ward door opens, and Leo enters. He looks at Zoan with a frown. “Why is he tied like this?”
“He opened his wound on his stomach again. There are signs of infection growing. If he opens it again, the infection will spread enough to kill him,” I tell him.
All this happened this morning.
Leo sits on a chair near Zoan’s feet. “For how long does he need to stay like this?”
Zoan mutters without opening his eyes, “Ten days.”
“So you’ll be staying like this on my wedding day?”
Zoan opens his eyes. “No, I will be there.”
Leo smirks. “Let’s see.”
Kaz raises his brows. “How?” he asks Zoan.
“I heal quickly.”
I caress his head. “That’s good, you won’t have to stay here for long and we’ll go home.”
“But no matter how quickly he heals, he won’t be in a condition to attend a wedding,” Kaz says.
“He has strong control over his body. He can regulate his temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen level, metabolism. He’s never tried rapid healing before, but it’s not impossible for him. I want to see if he can do it.”
Kaz chuckles. “I used to think he had twenty eyes that keep watch over everything, an inbuilt system to record surrounding data, and reaction time measured in picoseconds. Now I know how all those superhuman actions happen. The man upgraded his body.”
“You all went through the same sort of training. Don’t you all have these abilities?” I ask them.
Leo laughs. “Zoan trained to become superhuman, we trained to become strong humans. There’s a difference.”
