Time for Chapter 7 of Father Thy Blood! Recap: Yusaku visits Kusanagi at the hotdog truck and they talked about Jin's recovery when he consciousness is returned after Yusaku defeated Bowman, just like how episode 104 started and they talked about Ai of how he is dealing with guilt survivor. Then Asahina showed up because he wanted to have the Cafe Nagi's food and he and Yusaku talked for a bit. Asahina liked the food and he agrees to come here every weekend. And that's about it. I know the 6th chapter of Father Thy Blood is short, but I swear, this chapter will be longer. I think… Anyway, enjoy the chapter!
Ryoken woke up when the sun light hit his eyes and he opens his eyes and sits up. He looks around and sees he wasn't in his room or his house.
'Damn it… So it wasn't a dream. I'm really in this nut-job place…' He thought to himself.
He turns around and sees his ghost father standing there with a fatherly smile on his face. "Good morning, Ryoken."
Ryoken sighs in frustration. He then gets out of bed and went inside the bathroom. It was a tiny bathroom with just a toilet and a sink and a dirty tub. He turns on the water of the dirty shower attached to the wall and takes a quick shower. Then after the quick shower, he quickly brushes his teeth in the dirty sink. Then he gets his mental hospital clothes on and walks out the door.
He goes to the cafeteria where all of the loonies are already eating their breakfast. Ryoken groans and he goes up, grabs the bowl, and goes up to Chef Opal.
"Oho! Good morning, newbie! Enjoy Chef Opal's famous mushroom surprise!" She pours the mushroom surprise in Ryoken's bowl and some of it got on Ryoken's face.
Ryoken gags a bit at the sight of this so-called food. He looks around to find an empty table, but seeing that some of the tables are full of loonies.
"Hey kid." Ryoken looks and sees Hirabayashi waving at him. He also sees Chika sitting next to Hirabayashi and is playing her gaming console.
Ryoken goes to the table where Hirabayashi and Chika are sitting and sat down. Hirabayashi looks at his 'breakfast.' "Chef Opal made mushroom surprise?" She asked.
"I'm not eating it," he told her, "if only I can sneak in there and make my own breakfast instead of having her make a bunch of gross and disgusting crap."
Ryoken notices the mushroom surprise twitching, which kind of made him freak out a bit.
"What's your usual meal before you came here?" She asked.
"Well, for breakfast, I have scrambled eggs and toast-"
"But you used to eat the pancakes with the smiley faces on them" His ghost father added.
'I'm not saying that.' He told his ghost father through his thoughts.
"For lunch, I just order a hot dog at Cafe Nagi. And for dinner, I have some pasta. It's my daily meal all the time."
"So basically you eat the same thing every breakfast, lunch, and dinner?"
"Um… Yes?"
"Don't you eat anything else than the same thing?"
"No."
"Then I guess you should try Chef Opal's veggie mush, meat smoothie, and mushroom surprise."
Ryoken made a confused face when Hirabayashi said that. "You're messing with me, right? Tell me you're just messing with me…"
Hirabayashi laughs for a bit, meaning she was joking about him trying out Chef Opal's 'food.'
Ryoken made an annoying face when Hirabayashi is laughing. Then he looks at Chika. She is still playing on her gaming console, so she didn't pay attention to what he and Hirabayashi were saying.
Then he looks around the cafeteria for a bit, then he notices Mizushima giving him a glare. Thinking that he might be a little friendly, Ryoken waves his hand a little to come sit with him, but Mizushima turns his head away and tchs at him.
'Geez… You don't have to give me attitude…' He thought to himself as he made an annoyed face again.
Soon after breakfast, the same nurse with a dead-pin face approaches to Ryoken and tells him to follow him to the doctor's office, in which he did.
When they arrive at the office, the dead-pin nurse leaves Ryoken alone, so he went inside and was greeted with the doctor. He is a middle-age man with glasses and has brown short hair, but with slight grey streaks appearing on the sides.
"Hello Kogami-san, my name is Doctor Kamiyama," he extended his hand towards Ryoken, "I will be examining your problem most of the time."
Ryoken reaches for the hand and shakes it for a bit. "Nice to meet you."
"Come have a seat."
Ryoken sat down on the chair and faces towards Kamiyama.
Kamiyama sat down at his desk and looks through Ryoken's files. "Ryoken Kogami. Age: 18. Birthdate: April 13th. Father is Kiyoshi Kogami, who died 7 years ago from a heart failure, which is the issue that brought you here. Mother is Anna Kogami, who died 18 years ago."
Ryoken looks down at the floor when Kamiyama mentioned his late mother. He barely knows her and his father never talks about her all the time. All he knows is that she died after he was born.
Kamiyama continues to read through Ryoken's files. "Your allergies are clammed shells and butternut. Your blood type is A positive. You are also an honor student through out your school years, until you were expelled on your 3rd and final year at Den City Academy."
Ryoken gets annoyed when Kamiyama mentioned him being expelled at school. "Why is that in my file?"
"Before her arrest, Dr. Taki sends in many files of you during your life as they have been updated."
Ryoken blinked in surprised when Kamiyama said that. He didn't know Dr. Taki is keeping records of him of all time. She really does care for him.
"Now the, let's get to business," he said, putting away Ryoken's files in the file cabinet, "so you claimed that you have been seeing your father as a ghost?"
Ryoken is getting tired of people saying that he claimed that he's seeing his ghost father, he really does see him, but he doesn't want to argue with the doctor, so he just nods in replied.
"Is he here now?"
Ryoken notices his ghost father appearing beside him. He gives his son a warming smile. Ryoken gives out nod to the doctor.
"Okay. I want to know what he does while he is here." Kamiyama puts his hand behind his back. "How many fingers am I holding?"
Ryoken knotted his eyebrows when the doctor is doing that. He's supposed to fix him, not make fun of him.
His ghost father looks behind Kamiyama's back and look at his hand. "I'm a man of science, not a man of mathematics." He said, very upset.
'Just do what he telling us to do.' He told his ghost father through his thoughts.
He sighs for a bit. "He is holding four in his hand."
Ryoken looks back at the doctor. "Four."
Kamiyama pulls his hand from his back and began writing down on his notepad. "Alright. Time for the next test."
Ryoken groans for a bit. This is going to be a while for him…
After taking a few tests with Kamiyama and being told they will do this tomorrow, Ryoken returns to the rec room and rests for a bit. Then sooner or later, he is playing on Chika's gaming console for a bit, as requested by Chika to play with him, according to Hirabayashi.
Ryoken is kind of struggling on playing this game. Okay, a lot! He is not a gamer like Chika is. He is a hacker and a duelist. And also a cyber terrorist in Link VRAINS. Gamer. Not so much.
Soon, the character he was controlling dies and he gets a game over. Ryoken hands the gaming console back to Chika. "Sorry about that," he apologizes to the girl, "you're probably be good at this than I am. Gaming is just not my thing."
Chika nods, understanding what he is saying and takes her gaming console from him and starts playing the game Ryoken just lost.
Ryoken thought of what Hirabayashi told him yesterday about Chika's mental illness, or to everyone in the mental hospital who thinks Chika has a mental illness, but he knows it's not a mental illness.
Once Chika has won the game, Ryoken faces her. "Hey, Chika?" The girl turns around and faces the 18 year old. "Hirabayashi told me that your father send you to the mental illness because you were behaving weird and he thought it was some kind of mental illness, right?"
Chika didn't say anything when he asked her that question. She just stares at him. Ryoken is going to assume that she is listening.
"Well, I don't think you have a mental illness," he said with a serious face on him, "have you heard of the autism spectrum?"
Chika shakes her head as her answer of what he asked.
"It's this disorder that happens very often to kids at a very young age," he explained to her, "most people who have autism don't usually speak a lot, but that's only because they have disabled autism, but you refuse to talk because of what happened to your mother 5 years ago, and there are some people who are very smart and understand things a little, but they only have a higher functioning autism, so I'm assuming you have that kind of autism."
Chika keeps on staring at Ryoken, but she is still listening to what he is saying, he hoped…
"I may not have autism myself, but I have seen a lot of people with it most of my time, like when they spin around, rocking back and forth, making some weird noises, and stacking some stuff in a tower. The point is, autism is not a mental illness, it's just a mental disorder, so it's okay to have autism and people with autism shouldn't be allowed to go to a mental hospital. If this is your father's way of helping you with your autism, then he is a total asshole. Do you… understand what I just said?"
Chika looks at the ground for a moment. Ryoken worries that she didn't get everything he had just said. Then she looks back up to Ryoken and nods her head in response, which surprises Ryoken, but he smiles for a bit. "That's good." He then ruffles Chika's hat, then Chika went to play a new game on her gaming console.
Ryoken goes into deep thoughts. If Chika has been in this mental hospital for 5 years, then the doctors should of analyze Chika already and know that autism isn't a mental illness and she should been out of here right now, but somehow, she is still here. Why wasn't she leaving this messed up place where she doesn't have to be with this nut-cases?
Just then, the door to the mental hospital opened and in came Mizushima, who is looking upset, and the same dead-pin nurse who took Ryoken to see Kamiyama. "Mizushima, you need to start working on your drinking problems. Stealing the doctors wine from the conference room is not helping you deal with it." She told him.
"Pff. Whatever…" He said with an attitude as he goes to to sit down at the table and puts his feet on the table. The nurse just rolls her eyes and leaves the room. Then Mizushima gives Ryoken a glare.
Ryoken knotted his eyebrows when Mizushima is doing that. 'Why are you glaring at me like that? I haven't even done anything to you!' He thought to himself, as if he is talking with this man.
Then his ghost father appeared to him. "Were you talking to me, son? About what happened 10 years ago? Because if you were, you did send your own father to rot in jail."
Ryoken looks down at the floor when he mentioned that. 'No… I was talking about Mizushima…' He communicate his ghost father through his thoughts.
His ghost father looks at Mizushima for a moment. He was indeed glaring at his son. "I see. Did you do something to make him upset?"
'No! I haven't even talk to the guy at all when I first came to this nut job place! I don't know what the hell his problem is, but he can't just hate me for no reason at all!'
"Hmm… I see. I suggest you duel him so he won't bother you anymore."
'Link VRAINS is closed! I have to hack into SOL Technologies to do that and I really don't feel like dueling right now! And besides, Mizushima doesn't have a duel disk on him, and I don't think he has one in his room, so clearly, he is not a duelist.'
"I see. Then I have nothing else to give you to handle him."
'I hope you're not planning on killing him. Because in every horror movie, there are evil ghosts who killed people of the person who only sees the ghost, and I rather go to jail to kill the Ignis, not for murder.'
"Don't be silly, son. I won't hurt the young man. That is wrong."
Ryoken sighs a bit and his ghost father vanishes back into his head. Honestly, Ryoken really doesn't understand what Mizushima's problem is, but he knows that he can't just be rude to him every time he sees him.
"Oh Yuki-senpai!" Ryoken heard Tomo's voice, turns his head, and sees her going up to Mizushima.
"What is it, Ohno?" He asked in a very rude tone.
"I was just wanted to make sure my future husband is doing fine after his visit with Dr. Kamiyama." She gives Mizushima a very lovey dovey smile.
Mizushima gives out an annoying groan when she said that. "I wouldn't marry you if you were the last woman on Earth."
Tomo giggles when he said that. "Oh, Yuki-senpai, you are so funny with your jokes!"
"I wasn't joking."
"Sure you were, you sly dog!" And with that she pokes her nose and skips away from him, and Mizushima just rolls his eyes in annoyance.
Ryoken then sees Tanaka and Osamu walking towards Mizushima, which is not a good sign.
"Aww! Is your girlfriend checking up on you after your little visit to Dr. Kamiyama?" Tanaka did a little baby talk towards Mizushima, which made him annoyed by it.
"Ohno is not my girlfriend. Just an annoyance in my back." He told the 21 year old.
"That's not what I heard," he said with a grin, "if you two get out of the mental hospital, do you think you can go to the movie, then propose to her at the beach, get marry up on the hill, and have 10 babies together?"
"Shut up…"
"Do you think you can invite me to your wedding when I get out of this dump?"
Mizushima is getting pissed off. "Shut up."
"Mizushima and Ohno sitting in a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" Tanaka sings about Mizushima and Tomo's "relationship."
Osamu laughs when Tanaka is doing that. "Good one, Tanaka-sama!"
Mizushima gets up and faces Tanaka. "SHUT UP! I WILL KILL YOU IF YOU MESS WITH ME!"
"Ooooh! I'm so scared!" Tanaka said, pretending he is afraid of Mizushima, which he isn't.
Ryoken can't stand Tanaka mocking Mizushima like that. He knows Mizushima is being rude to him, but he can't let him be tortured by Tanaka like that.
So, Ryoken gets up from the couch and goes up to the boys. "Hey!" They all turn to face the 18 year old boy, then everyone in the mental hospital look at Ryoken when he shouted. "Leave Mizushima alone."
All of the patients are mutter and whisper on why Ryoken is defending Mizushima like that and how Mizushima behaves.
Tanaka snorts at Ryoken. "Seriously? You're defending Mizushima? You don't even know him that well! You're just a noob!"
Ryoken looks down at the floor, "I know that. I know Mizushima is being rude to me even after I got here," he said, then he remembers of the children's screams during the Lost Incident and how they are being tortured for 6 months. Seeing Mizushima being mock by Tanaka made him bring back the moment of all of 6 victims being tortured, so he couldn't handle it, "but I know that I couldn't see him being mocked by your words and having him pissed off! So you better knock it off right now!"
Tanaka crosses his arms and looks directly towards Ryoken. "Or what? You're going to duel me?"
Ryoken didn't say anything when Tanaka said that.
"Oh wait. Link VRAINS is closed after some freak incident a couple of days ago, right? So there's no way we could duel in VRAINS. Unless you are considering dueling here. Is that it?"
Silence is still inside Ryoken.
"I don't think Kamiyama is going to like it when we duel in the mental hospital. It will be a total mess and we be in big trouble. So, if don't mind, noob, I'm going to continue harassing Mizushima."
Ryoken isn't going to let Tanaka mock Mizushima again like that. He needs to do something.
So, Ryoken jumps onto Tanaka and grabs hold of his neck.
"What the heck?!" Tanaka was surprised by Ryoken's sudden move.
Mizushima and Osamu's eyes widen as Ryoken attacks Tanaka like that.
"FIGHT! FIGHT! NEW BOY AND TANAKA ARE HAVING A FIGHT!" Everybody is shouting of how they assume that Ryoken and Tanaka are fighting, which is actually Ryoken trying to struggle Tanaka by the neck.
Hirabayashi, Chika, and Tomo watched this whole event with wide-eyes.
"Stupid! Stop! What do you think you're doing?!"
Ryoken didn't answer Tanaka's panic question. He just continues to struggle and holding onto Tanaka as hard as possible.
"Please stop! I'm about to lose air!" He said desperately.
All of the patients keep on chanting "Fight! Fight!" the whole time and they are making bets on who should win the fight, when suddenly…
"What's going on here?!"
Everybody turned around and sees Kamiyama standing there with his hand on his hip. Soon, they all scattered to their rooms, except for Ryoken and Tanaka.
Kamiyama sees Ryoken on Tanaka, and Tanaka looks like he's about to lose consciousness. "Kogami-san! Get off of Tanaka! He can't breath."
Ryoken did as Kamiyama said, he gets off of Tanaka. Then Tanaka takes a deep breath when Ryoken lets him go and he falls to his knees. "Oh fresh air! Sweet, sweet air!" Tanaka heard a throat clearing sound. He looked up and sees Kamiyama looking at him directly. A sweat drop appears on Tanaka's head. "Uh… What's up, doc?"
Kamiyama is very upset as he keeps on looking at the two boys. "Kogami-san. Tanaka. My office. Now." He then leaves the room, leaving Ryoken and Tanaka standing there dumbfounded.
'Since when did this asylum become a high school all of the sudden?' Ryoken thought to himself.
Ryoken and Tanaka are now sitting in Kamiyama's office looking at the doctor, who is now giving a disappointed look toward the boys.
"Can the two of you explain why you two were fighting all of the sudden?" He asked either one of them to talk.
"Well, me and Osamu were just minding our own business and having a very nice chat with Mizushima, when all of the sudden, the new guy started harassing us and attacked me!" Tanaka explained to the doctor.
Ryoken's eyes widen when Tanaka said that. He's obviously lying. "Nani?! You're the one who was bothering Mizushima! I was just trying to defend him!"
"I almost gone to the light where my dead grandma is at because you almost killed me!" Tanaka shouted at Ryoken.
"I wasn't trying to kill you, I was trying to stop you is all! I'm not a murderer, you know!"
"Yes you are! You almost killed me with your strong muscle of yours!"
"I'm not that strong!"
"ENOUGH!" Ryoken and Tanaka got frighten by Kamiyama's loud tone. "I don't know who started what, but I do know that the mental hospital is a place where you are going to be cured from your mental illness, not a place for rough housing. Do you two understand?"
"Yes doctor…" They both said at the same time.
"Good." Kamiyama lets out a tiring sigh. "Look, a nurse in the hospital is holding some medicine that I need for a patient. Can you two of you go get it and not kill each other?"
Ryoken and Tanaka glared at each other for a moment, then they turn their heads away from each other and they nod in agreement.
"Good. Now off you two go." And with that, the boys leave Kamiyama's office.
Ryoken and Tanaka walk through the halls of the hospital to go to a nurse with the medicine Kamiyama wants.
Ryoken can hear the sounds of the heart monitors echoing through the halls. They remind him of how his father got inflicted by the virus, and then ended up dying to save him, and now he is a ghost inside Ryoken's mind.
"I'm kind of surprised that mental hospital patients can just get out of that room and walk around the hospital." Ryoken spoke after a whole long silence of not talking to each other.
"Of course we roam around the hospital out of the room," Tanaka explained, "but that just for the daytime. At night, they lock the doors of the mental hospital room so we wouldn't allow to go anywhere."
Ryoken puts his hand on his chin in a thinking position when Tanaka explained it. "Maybe when I'm here, I can find the exit to the hospital and just leave without even trying to be cured and go back to how my life was."
"BZZZT! Sorry, newbie, but Mizushima already tried that method when he went out for a walk around the halls, and he ended up being tasered by one of the security guards of the hospital. It was hilarious!" Tanaka explained and then laughs about it.
Ryoken sighs as he lets his hand down from his chin. "Then that scraps out that idea…"
After a long walk through the halls, they reached the lounge of the hospital where a lot of sick or hurt patients and people visiting them are in.
Ryoken tried his best to keep his childhood guilt down when he sees the hospital patient, because he know that it is the same hospital where the Lost Incident victims where at after they were rescued because of him.
"Hey, noob." Ryoken turns around and looks at Tanaka with an annoyed face. "You might get upset about this, but there are some men here who are expecting me to play poker, and I never back away from a good poker game."
Ryoken raises his eyebrow in confusion. "What are you saying?" He asked.
"I'm saying, you go get Kamiyama's medicine, while I… go play poker. See ya!" And with that, Tanaka dashes off, leaving Ryoken all alone.
Ryoken just stood there in shock and his mouth wide opened of what Tanaka just did. "You're supposed to be taking care of your gambling problem, not make it worse!" He shouted at, but Tanaka couldn't hear it since he's far away from him.
Ryoken then sighs in defeat and rubs his forehead for a bit. Then he goes on to look for the nurse that has Kamiyama's medicine.
"Here's the medicine." The nurse said as she gives the medicine to Ryoken. "I hope Miss Ozano feels better with it."
Ryoken carefully holds the medicine in his hand and gives the bow to the nurse and leaves.
'I better go find that idiot and go back to the mental hospital.' Ryoken thought to himself and he goes looking for Tanaka.
Then Ryoken stops walking for a moment, turns his head, and looks at two girls in the lounge just talking, and Ryoken instantly knew the two of them.
The girl with the short bob brown hair and brown eyes wearing a white shirt with a light blue jacket over it and a yellow skirt and black ordinary ballerina shoes is Blue Maiden's real life self and Akira Zaizen's step-sister, Aoi Zaizen. And the other girl with dark red long hair and is wearing the Den City hospital gown, he knows her 10 years ago as the only female victim of the Lost Incident.
'So that's the girl Blue Maiden wanted to save from the Light Ignis, and the Water Ignis' origin. Miyu Sugisaki.' Ryoken thought to himself as he watches the two girls just talk and laugh for a bit.
Blue Maiden did say that she wanted to see Sugisaki again after the Ignis Warfare is over and that she wanted to save her from the Light Ignis. However, Blue Maiden didn't get the chance to do that since she was defeated by Bowman and was absorbed into him. Playmaker was the once who brought Sugisaki out of the coma the Light Ignis put in her and brought Blue Maiden back along with everyone else, including Ryoken himself. And now here they are, reunited, and being friends once again.
Ryoken thought he might talk with Sugisaki for a little bit before he goes to find Tanaka and head back to the mental hospital room and tell her that he was the one who saved her and the 5 others 10 years ago, but he won't say his name in front of Blue Maiden, because when he revealed his true identity to Soulburner, Blue Maiden and Ghost Girl also know his real identity as well, and she might have Sugisaki stay away from him. She's not wrong on that.
As soon as Ryoken goes up to the two girls, he stops all of the sudden and he made a shocked face as he sees another girl going up to them and he has seen this girl so many times ever since his ghost father came.
'Fu-Funakoshi-san?!'
That's right. Kanata, the same Kanata Funakoshi who keeps bothering him sometimes and the same Kanata who is still being friendly towards Ryoken since childhood, is going over to Blue Maiden and Sugisaki and talking with them.
Ryoken panics and hides behind a pillar. He doesn't know why Kanata is at the hospital all of the sudden and how she freakin knows Blue Maiden and Sugisaki. But Ryoken does know if he goes up to the girls and Kanata sees him wearing the mental hospital outfit, then she'll probably think that he is crazy or has a mental illness and she might stay away from him, and he doesn't want that to happen.
"What are you doing?" Ryoken got startled and turns around and sees Tanaka giving him a weird look and he was holding 20 yen in his hand.
"Don't sneak up on me like that, you idiot!" Ryoken whispered very quietly.
"Why are you whispering all of the sudden?" Tanaka asked, even more confused than before.
"Go away! I'm trying to hide!" He told Tanaka quietly.
"Hide from who exactly?"
"This girl I know from childhood."
"Why?"
"Because… if she found out that I'm in a mental hospital with you nut-cases, then she probably won't speak to me again…"
"Hey! Who are you calling us nut-cases?!" Tanaka was offended when Ryoken said that.
"Whatever. Just go away and let me hide here until she is gone."
Tanaka turns and looks at the three girls for a moment. "So, which one is the childhood friend?"
Ryoken sighs when Tanaka asked that question. The one with the light purple hair with the light pink dress and light blue hoodie."
"Okay." Then Tanaka makes a grin that is so big, it might hurt his face. "I'm going to go talk to her."
Ryoken's eyes widen when he said that. "Wait, what?!" And the Tanaka goes up to where Kanata, Blue Maiden, and Sugisaki are at. "Tanaka!"
Tanaka ignores Ryoken calling to him and goes up to the girls. "Hello, ladies!" The three girls turn to look at Tanaka.
'This isn't happening…' Ryoken thought to himself as he puts his hands in his face, knowing this idiot is going to tell Kanata about him being in the mental hospital. Probably payback for trying to kill him.
"Uh… Hi there." Kanata said weirdly when some guy went up to her and her two new friends all of the sudden.
"Sorry that I showed up here all of the sudden. My name is Katsu Tanaka and I am the King of all Casinos!" The strange man poses like some kind of superhero that Kanata read in a comic book before.
"Oh. It's nice to meet you. I'm Kanata Funakoshi, but if you like, you can call me Kanashi." She said with a smile on her face.
"Kanata Funakoshi. That's a very lovely name you got there."
"Teehee. Thank you very much, Katsuka."
He made a confusing face of what she just called him. "Katsuka?"
"It's a combination of your first name and last name. I have a habit of giving people who I meet and become friends with nicknames of their first and last names." She explained to the older man.
Katsu made a disappointed face. "Well, I prefer if you call me The King of Casinos, but whatever. It's your choice."
Kanata's new friend, Aoi, made a weirded out face. "What's up with this guy all of the sudden? Why does he keep claiming himself as the 'King of Casinos?'"
"It's okay, Aoi-chan, he's only a mental hospital patient," Kanata's other new friend, Miyu, explained to Aoi, "I seen some of them walking around for a bit after I woke up and they're not that bad, unless their mental illness is serious."
Kanata made a surprise face when Miyu said that. "I didn't know this hospital had a mental side!"
"I just learned about it after I woke up."
Katsu raises his eyebrow for bit. "Hey, uh… red hair chick-"
Miyu looks at Katsu when he mentioned her. "It's Miyu. Miyu Sugisaki."
"Right. You mentioned that you woke up. Were you in a coma or something?"
Miyu looked down at the floor for a moment before answering. "Actually, yeah. I was. About 2 or 3 months ago, I saw a strange light coming out of the TV, and then all of the sudden, it went dark. When I came to, I was in the hospital. The doctor told me that I was in a coma for a really long time, so I'm staying here until they test me for a bit and then I'll be discharging pretty soon."
Katsu nods for bit piecing everything together. Eh. Sort of.
"I met Kanata-chan soon after I woke up and she told me that she was taking care of me while I was in a coma since the other doctors were busy with other patients."
"Yup yup!" Kanata said in a happy tone. "I felt so bad that Miki was in a coma and there are so many people here who are very sick or very injured, so I thought I might help them out for a bit and take care of Miki for a little while until she woke up!"
Katsu made that confusing face again of what she called Miyu. "Miki?"
"That's the combination for her first name and last name."
"I don't mind Kanata-chan calling me 'Miki', it's kind of cute." Miyu smiled.
"Oh."
"And soon later, I saw Aoi-chan paying a visit to me. It's been 10 years since I saw her after I lost my mom's ring and she lied to protect me. I've really missed her so much and seeing her once again made me very happy. So I enjoyed her having her visit me everyday."
Katsu knotted his eyebrows. "Just to clarify, this 'Aoi-chan' is…"
"Me." Aoi stands up and gives Katsu a glare. She already dislikes this guy.
"Right."
"I couldn't think of a nickname for Aoi Zaizen. It's kind of difficult. So I'm just going to stick with Aoi for a bit." Kanata sticks her tongue out in a cute way.
Katsu raises an eyebrow when Kanata said her full name. "Aoi Zaizen. Hey, you have the same last name as that dude in SOL Technologies. Akira Zaizen, was it?"
"Yeah. He's my brother. Well, step-brother, to be exact."
"So basically, you're famous."
"I'm not famous."
"Riiiight."
"I don't care if Aoi is the step-sister of Akira Zaizen of SOL Technologies, she's still my friend," Kanata explained, "and her and Miki's friendship kind of reminds me of my and Ryomi's friendship back when we were kids."
And once again, Katsu made that confusing face. "Ryomi?"
"That's the combination of the first and last name of Ryoken Kogami."
The name catch Katsu's attention. 'Hm.. Interesting. Very very interesting.' He thought to himself.
Katsu isn't the only one who caught the name in attention, Aoi did too. "Wait. Did you say Ryoken Kogami?"
Kanata turned to face Aoi. "Yeah. Why? Did you meet him?"
Aoi stayed quiet for a moment before answering. "Just on the internet."
"Oh. Okay."
Kanata then notices the look on Katsu's face. "What's wrong Katsuka?"
"Oh nothing. Just thinking about Ryoken Kogami."
"Oh. Do you know him too?"
"Nope." 'Yup'
Kanata stares at Katsu for a moment. "Okay."
"Anyway, forget about him. I want to know about you." Katsu said with a grin.
"Huh?" Kanata is confused.
"I wanna know why you're in the hospital all of the sudden."
Kanata looks down at the floor and gives out a sad smile. "Well… It's pretty much a long story, but I'll tell you anyway…"
And Kanata begins to explain to Katsu why she is at the hospital.
Ryoken doesn't know what they are saying, but he knows that it won't be good. Tanaka is going to be telling Kanata that he is in the mental hospital and she'll get angry at him and she'll never see him again. He really doesn't want that to happen.
"My dear son, you can't just hide there forever. Try to talk with Kanata for a bit." His ghost father told him as he appeared in front of him.
'No. I'm staying right here until she leaves.' He told his ghost father through his thoughts.
"I'm sure she'll be happy to see you and understand your situation."
'That I'm seeing my dead father's ghost? That will only make things worse…'
His ghost father sighs in defeat. "Very well then." And then he disappears back to Ryoken's mind.
After what seem like an hour, Tanaka came back up to Ryoken. He then gives the man a glare. "I hope you didn't tell her that I was in the mental hospital. Cause if you did, I won't forgive you."
"Relax, newbie, I didn't mention you at all," he told the 18 year old, "she's actually the one who mentioned you. And I actually got to know you a little better, Ryomi."
Great. She mentioned his old childhood nickname towards this idiot. Ryoken is not happy about it. "Don't call me that." He doesn't want anyone to call him by that stupid nickname. Well, anyone, except for Kanata that is.
"Sorry. I'm going to get used to it for a while. And it made me forget about Mizushima being lovey dovey over Ohno." Tanaka grinned, which Ryoken didn't like.
"I hate you so much…" Ryoken said in a disappointed tone. "By the way, is she gone? Funakoshi-san, I mean?"
"She went home for a bit. She's a very nice and cheery person. No wonder you have the digs for her."
"It's not like that."
"Geez, Ryomi. You're starting to act like Mizushima right now."
Ryoken tiredly sighs. He doesn't want to argue right now. He needs to know why Kanata was at the hospital. "Tanaka. Since you talked to her, did you figure out why Funakoshi-san was at the hospital today."
"Oh that. She was only talking with Akira Zaizen's sister and Coma Girl for a bit," Tanaka explained, Ryoken knows that "Akira Zaizen's sister" is Blue Maiden and "Coma Girl" is Miyu Sugisaki he is referring to, "and then I think she also said that she was… visiting a friend who has cancer or something."
Ryoken is silent for a moment. So that's it. Kanata is just visiting a friend who has cancer. Probably from her high school. That's really sweet of her. And also, it's good that Kanata made friends with Blue Maiden and Sugisaki. Maybe she might bother them instead of him all the time.
"Good. That's all I want to hear."
"Hey, I said I think she was visiting her cancer friend. I wasn't really paying attention." Tanaka said.
"I don't care what you think. I just want to know why Funakoshi-san was here and now I know. Come on. Let's take the medicine to Kamiyama so I can stay away from you as possible." And with that Ryoken walks back to the mental hospital room.
Tanaka got confused for a moment, but he shrugs it off and follow him back to the mental hospital.
And that concludes chapter 7 of Father Thy Blood. Looks like Ryoken just made a new rival in the mental hospital, and they don't even have to duel this time. Well, basically Link VRAINS is closed. I also added Aoi and Miyu in there since the show didn't show Aoi visiting Miyu at the hospital at all, so kudos on that. Also, I can't wait for Miyu to appear in episode 110 of VRAINS! And Ryoken is kind of scared of Kanata might finding out that he is in the mental hospital just because of him seeing Dr. Kogami's ghost. Why would that be? I already know the answer, but I'm not going to tell you guys. You'll all have to figure that out yourselves. Anyway, let me know what you guys think about it and I will see you soon!