The doctor looked at Emiya Shirou lying on the hospital bed, and his previously serious expression eased a little, and his voice was gentle.
"Hello, My child, I am your attending doctor, I wonder how you feel now? Is there any discomfort in your body?"
The boy first glanced at the doctor, then silently looked away, and shook his head wordlessly.
Emiya Shirou's eyesight is quite good, but at the moment when the doctor opened the curtain and the original hazy darkness was dissipated by the sun, all the nearby scenes were still in his eyes became extremely clear.
Whether it's the furnishings in the ward, the curtains blowing in the wind, the scene outside the window, or the face of the doctor, all of these are extremely clear.
...Naturally, it also includes those twisted thin lines that cling to the surface of everything.
Upon seeing the doctor's body covered with dense lines, Emiya Shirou says a scene suddenly flashed in his mind that made him feel chills all over.
The scene of living human beings being torn apart into [pieces of meat].
"Ah... suddenly encountered such a sad thing, I know you feel quite uncomfortable now, but as a doctor, I have the responsibility to make sure your current physical and mental condition is well" The doctor sighed and persuaded in a persuasive tone, "Your father wouldn't have wanted to see his child suffer."
"…" Emiya Shirou didn't know how to answer the doctor's persuasion, he was used to seeing death at a very young age, before coming to this ward and this world inexplicably, he even witnessed the scene of his father's gradual death at close range, and all the tears that should have been shed were already shed last night. So to be honest, he doesn't feel very sad now.
But... How should he tell this conscientious doctor about the bizarre situation he had encountered?
Should he say 'I am not from this world, and my age is not as young as it seems, that I have already reached twelve years old, is that it?'
Emiya Shirou shook his head helplessly deep in his heart.
This is too absurd.
Leaving aside whether the doctor would take what he said seriously, even if he believed in this kind of weird event that only exists in third-rate dramas, what's the point?
From the memories he just read, Emiya Shirou already knows the basic situation of this world. At least according to those memories, the so-called world travel is also a thing equivalent to the Arabian Nights for the people here.
After all, the culprit who caused him to suddenly appear in Nagazora City is a mysterious magician... Even Emiya Shiro also finds it difficult to understand the methods used by that person, he also doesn't know why someone with this kind of ability would do such a thing to him, a rookie mage who can't even cast a single spell.
He still remembered that Kiritsugu had told him not long ago that magicians were dangerous and strange sort of people.
Therefore, if the doctor who cared about him was just an ordinary person who had nothing to do with mystery, for him, the more he knew the truth, the more danger he would be in.
"Thank you for your concern, doctor, but I'm really fine." At this point, Emiya Shirou let out the depression in his chest. Feeling uncomfortable and dizzy, he forced himself to look at the doctor with a gentle face, "When can I be discharged from the hospital?"
Looking at Emiya Shirou's amber pupils filled with inexplicable sleepiness, the doctor couldn't help but sigh softly.
In fact, after being sent to the hospital, they had already conducted a comprehensive examination of Emiya Shirou's body, so of course he knew that there was nothing serious about Emiya Shiro's body, but the sudden news of his father's death caused the Excessive mood swings lead to transient anemia and hypoxia in the brain, and thus fall into a coma.
However, looking at the boy's calm and plain face as if he had matured for several years overnight, the doctor could clearly understand that the boy's mental state at this moment was not as normal as it seemed.
"Stay in the hospital for observation for half a day. If there is no other problem with your body during the observation period, we will help you go through the discharge procedures." The doctor said, "We will notify your father's colleagues, that is, The police uncle who came to the hospital with you, if everything goes well, he will come and take you home at noon."
"I'm sorry for your trouble." Emiya Shirou nodded, agreeing to the doctor's arrangement for him.
"Then let's do this first. If you have any questions, press the button next to the bed at any time, and we will have the nurse come over immediately." The doctor turned around and turned his back to Emiya Shiro, "You've been sleeping for a long time, you'd better get out of bed and walk around more. Okay?", he pushed open the door of the ward and went out with the two nurses who followed after him, leaving Emiya Shirou sitting alone by the bed.
Half a day passed quickly, and the doctor did not lie to him. The person who came to the hospital to pick him up was a young man with resolute features. Just as the doctor said, this young man was his father's former colleague, and it was also yesterday afternoon. The person who personally came to Emiya Shirou's house and told him about Emiya Kiritsugu's death.
The young man in a police uniform pushed open the door of the ward. When he saw Shirou Emiya, his eyes showed a trace of pity. He walked up to Shirou Emiya and extended his hand to the boy. He stretched out his palm: "Let's go, Shirou."
However, the moment the man's hand was about to touch the immature palm, Emiya Shirou shuddered violently, and the palm separated from the man's hand quickly like an electric shock.
The man's expression froze slightly, and he smiled awkwardly, and his tone sounded quite frustrated.
"Sorry... I made you feel uncomfortable." Of course, he could understand the boy's disgust towards him, after all, who would have any good feelings for an outsider who brings news of the death of a family member, let alone a boy who is in elementary school.
At least from the man's point of view, Emiya Shirou not losing his temper and is already a manifestation of being very mature.
But, like the doctor, the man also completely misunderstood Emiya Shirou. The reason why Emiya Shirou suddenly reacted so violently was not because he felt disgusted towards the man, but because... in his In field of vision, the man's palm was also completely covered by thin black lines like cracks.
He let go of the man's hand not out of disgust, but out of fear. Although groundless, Emiya Shiro felt that the twisted thin black lines were bad omens, all stained with something similar to the big fire that burned everything—even far surpassed it.
Until he fully figured out what the strange thin lines were, Emiya Shirou could only try to avoid touching these things.
"..." Of course, Emiya Shiro did not specifically explain this misunderstanding, but shook his head gently after a moment of silence, and said in a calm tone.
"Let's go, uncle." Before the abnormal situation, Emiya Shirou didn't think it was the right choice to tell outsiders all this, even if he was misunderstood and unreasonable, or hated by them, compared to his image in the eyes of outsiders, Emiya Shirou is more concerned about whether they will be unnecessarily confused...or even hurt because of his affairs.
After all, if the truth of the matter is as he guessed, and the culprit who caused this series of abnormal events is a dangerous magician, the more these ordinary people know, the more dangerous it will be for them.
