...

I am breathing? I'm starting to feel my strength with me, almost, my body feels kind of sore, I also feel something soft under me, I think I'm lying on a bed, but my chest... My chest feels... strange and kind of heavy...

I try to move my fingers, I can barely do it a little, now I'm able to finally open my eyes wide. I start to open them slowly, I see... I see a gold and brown room, at least I think so, without my glasses I can't see anything but blurry figures, but I think it's a hospital room... There didn't seem to be anyone else... I think it was a special room...

I look around, on the right side of my bed there are machines connected to my arm, that's where the beeping sounds I heard came from. There is also a respirator, that's why I felt something over my mouth, but I feel too weak to get up, I also have a hospital gown, my forehead is also bandaged, my left arm is bandaged, and I have a patch on my left cheek, at least that's it. I can half see, I feel something else...

I look to the left side with difficulty... Huh? A pretty figure is lying on the edge of the bed, she is asleep, that girl... That girl is unmistakable to me... I'm too weak to speak, but I muster the strength to say even... Even if it is one word...

"Shi...zuka?"

My voice is weak and low, but she was able to hear it waking up little by little, looking at me her tears begin to rub down her cheeks, I didn't want to make her cry again, so I gather strength again to let out more words while I weakly smile "I'm sorry... for... making you... cry again..."

"NOBITA! You woke up, you finally woke up!" I don't know if it was because of Shizuka's screams but I saw a chubby blue figure enter the room, but I knew that was Doraemon without a doubt. "Nobita is already awake!"

"REALLY?!" Doraemon just stares at me for a moment while he starts to cry and comes closer to me "NOBITAAAA!". Doraemon couldn't help but rush over to hug me, the truth is that although he missed him while he was in the dark... THE HUG HURT SO MUCH, OUCH, OUCH!. He realizes from my moans that he was in pain and quickly lets go of me. "Welcome back pal, we really missed you a lot"

I can't help but tear up and smile when I see the two people who mattered most to me again. I try to take off the oxygen mask but I couldn't, I'm weak, but Shizuka takes my glasses that were on a nightstand on the right side of the bed and carefully places them on me. I can finally see clearly again! And he was definitely in a special room and not a regular hospital room where there are usually like 4 patients.

"I'll go tell your parents that you're awake." Shizuka quickly walks away from me to leave the room, being the first person I saw when I woke up gave me a feeling of joy. "What...happened? How much...did I sleep?"

"Don't worry buddy, you are still very weak because of everything you have been through, but if we talk about it, you were in a coma for 3 weeks because of what happened, I'll tell you everything when you are more lucid"

What Doraemon just told me surprised me. I was asleep for almost a month? Yes, I felt like it was a long time that I was trapped in the darkness, but I didn't imagine how long. Mom and dad are already at the door while I saw Doraemon who doesn't stop hugging me while he tears, but now more delicately. Mom quickly bursts into tears as she approaches me "Nobita, son, you're awake!" I watch as Doraemon steps aside so she can hug me lovingly.

Dad also approaches tearfully as he puts his hand on his head "Welcome Nobita, I'm really glad that what you've done worked, for a moment I thought that..."

That he thought about what? What worked? The truth is that I don't understand anything they say, but I'm very happy to see them again "I know you must be confused by everything you've missed, but for now you should rest well, soon they will come to check on you like every day, you don't have to worry about anything else."

"Mom... Dad... I'm glad to see you... again..." They just hug me while smiling and crying to see me. I really have a lot to ask them.

I don't want to go back to sleep, I spent almost a month sleeping, but because of how weak I am, I couldn't help but sleep a little more, my eyelids fell quickly and I embraced sleep again

...

I wake up again scared for having fallen asleep fearing that I would be a prisoner of the darkness again, but thank goodness I'm awake again. Shizuka is knitting something next to me while mom and dad are outside the room talking to a doctor, I think that was the same one who was at the event. Since I'm a little more lucid, I can talk a little more. I'm no longer wearing the respirator so my mouth is free. Doraemon is next to me along with Shizuka. "Aren't you going to sleep a little more? It was only 2 hours, the doctors checked you and took you off the respirator since you don't need it anymore, they were even surprised at how you were able to endure this process for someone your age, I told you that you should add resistance to your strengths"

I can't help but laugh a little along with him, although my chest hurts and since I'm still weak, I can't raise my voice much "I've slept for 3 weeks, buddy... I can't believe what I'm going to say but... I don't want more naps for now... I still can't move much but... I can talk better now... Almost"

Besides that, I don't want to fall into the darkness again, I felt alone being there, when I fell asleep again I was afraid of staying there forever, so for now I don't want to sleep. Seiya, Melia and Dekisugi enter my hospital room, they were excited to see me awake, they just approach me crying. "Nobi, I'm glad you're finally with us again, it really was 3 weeks of anguish and intrigue over your condition. After what happened, school was suspended for the same amount of time you slept, next week we will resume activities again."

"Will I go back to school next week with you?" Doraemon shakes his head at my question.

"Because of what happened and what they did to you to save you, you have to be here for observation for a month." A month without going to school? I would enjoy it if it weren't for the fact that I have to stay here in the hospital without leaving during that whole time.

Also... What they did to me to save me? Is that what they mentioned? Maybe... I should be honest with Seiya and tell him, after all, he was going to tell me EVERYTHING and I want to know what happened while I was in the hospital.

"I'm glad you woke up I'm so happy!" Melia can't help but cry, I see that she and Seiya have circles under their eyes. Could it be that they haven't slept?

"It really scared me that I almost lost a good friend like you, after all, you were kind to us since we entered school, this was what we had to give you in return: Protecting a friend." Seiya only sees me smiling.

"Shizuka is the one who was present the most along with Doraemon, although he told her to go home to rest, she didn't want to leave you alone for a long time, so every time she could, she came to see you" I can't help but blush at what Melia said, so I turned to see Shizuka who was smiling sweetly and tearing up.

"It's nothing, really, besides" Shizuka hands me what she was knitting, she had mended the top of my cap. "When Baron Kurai attacked you, he also cut a little off your cap, I know it means a lot to you so I fixed it, it was a little tricky finding the right shade of thread to make it look like it was nothing but I was able to find it"

She puts the cap on my torso since I was still too weak to move well but I couldn't help but shed tears, having taken care of something that means a lot to me fills my heart, that gesture only made me fall more in love with her. "Shizuka... Thank you..."

I feel happy to be with the people I love, of course, as expected, Suneo and Gian didn't come. As if they really cared about me, although it's sad that those from my class didn't come, I guess they still see me as the slow and thieving one.

So. Moment of truth!

"Guys... I'm grateful that you came to visit me even when I was in a coma... But, I want to know what happened..." I can't help but look at Seiya seriously, I really want answers "How did I manage to survive? Why am I in a special room?"

"Why did they call me Subject 807?"

Seiya and Melia were startled by my questions and look at each other, I think they really do know everything "I heard that while I was unconscious" The funny thing is that neither Shizuka, nor Doraemon, nor Dekisugi knew about it, so not only me needed explanations.

"What Nobi says has a point. Now can you explain to us in detail about the implant that he has in his chest? Because a mechanical heart is a miracle of science"

Mechanical hea... MECHANICAL HEART?! I turn pale hearing that, now I understand why my chest hurt sometimes and feels kind of heavy. I have a mechanical heart where I once had mine! What happened to mine?! It seems that my friends know a little about what happened while I was sleeping, but not everything since they were also waiting for answers.

"Do I have a mechanical heart inside me?... But I don't understand... I thought I heard that something like that was impossible... Even as a mechanical prosthesis"

Seiya just exhales walking over to the windows and closing them all and locking the door "I promised, and since we're all involved in this, I think we can be honest with you, but I want you 4 not to tell anyone about what you are about to hear"

I couldn't help but nod my head at the same time as Doraemon, Shizuka and Dekisugi do the same "Good, because we have to talk to you about our father's secret job."

-Sutirushiti, 3 weeks earlier, right at Baron Kurai's attack on the great hall-

(Time to exit Point of View mode)

-Nobita, wake up, don't abandon me!" The girl with the pigtails had the boy in her arms while his clothes and her dress were stained with blood. Baron Kurai just watches the scene, but he couldn't see his expression through the helmet-mask.

"This is what happens when the weak play heroes" The baron stabs his sword into the cap of Nobita who was near them "Soon, his heart will stop beating, this is how the weak are eliminated, so that we, the strong people, can stand out, he believed that by hitting me to save your life was going to do something, but he only managed to end his own life."

Suddenly a blow of air hits the baron's helmet, although it only made a small dent, Doraemon had taken out the air cannon and gave another to Dekisugi, these looked like the revolvers of the time, but large in size and with golden details. "I'm not going to forgive you for hurting my best friend! He has nothing to do with your delusions of grandeur, you monster!" Doraemon was so upset, and how could he not be? He just watched a villain seriously hurt the child he was supposed to take care of.

"It won't take long for the special forces to see the other entrance, you won't be able to escape, we won't forgive you for what you did to Nobi!" It wasn't so common in that world to see Dekisugi angry, but he couldn't help it because of what the guy did to his friend.

"Mmmm..." The Baron looks around until he sees something piercing the roof of the place, it was his henchman Katami, who throws him a rope ladder "Saved by the bell, I have my own affairs, you have my benevolence for this day. But remember, the weak like that child who is already being embraced by death will not be able to survive in the world of the strong."

Seiya and Melia see everything as they pass through the hoop-tunnel with Dr. Keta and Hikaru, who run towards Shizuka and Nobita. "You, evil! First you ruined me and my sister's life and now you took my friend away from me!" The blue-haired man runs quickly to grab even the Baron's cloak, but they throw a smoke bomb that hits him close to the face. Taking advantage of the smoke formed, the Baron manages to escape through a personal flying ship managed by his henchman.

When the smoke cleared, the villain had fled while Seiya kneels, pounding the ground in frustration. "Seiya, you're going to get hurt! Remember that I'm the one with the strong hands!" Likewise, there were slight bruises on his brother's hands from that. The blue-haired boy runs to his hurt friend "Dr. Keta, you have to save him!"

Doraemon begins to take out a first aid kit near Nobita while crying because his body was starting to get cold in Shizuka's arms "Don't die Nobita, I'm here, I shouldn't have separated from you, please hold on!"

"Children... I'm afraid there is no normal way to save him. The cut also hurt his heart, I'm surprised he can still resist, but it's very likely that it will stop beating soon, the blood is pooling."

Shizuka puts her hand on one of Nobita's cheeks while a couple of small explosions happened which were leaving bruises on those present "You have to do something, this was my fault, he stayed to save me, I don't want to lose my friend, please!" The girl with the pigtails bursts into tears, the tears of affection of someone she fears for the person she cares about most fall on the glasses of the silly boy's body "Nobita! Don't leave me!"

"Nobita, don't die, I shouldn't have gone away because of the circumstances of the wounded!" Doraemon screams in tears

"Nobi..." Dekisugi just watched as he tried to be strong but tears welled up as he knelt down in frustration.

"But there has to be something! He's our friend, you can't let him die!" Melia also bursts into tears. Suneo and Gian look out of the hoop-tunnel, see the situation and look at each other nervously without saying anything else, even though they bothered him, seeing him like that had also shocked them a little.

Dr. Keta slams a large briefcase he had brought to calm everyone down. "Children, I said there was no NORMAL way to save him, I never said there was no general way." Everyone turns to look at him, but Seiya, Melia and Hikaru startle because they manage to understand what it means. "Hikaru, time is short, put it together, I have it in the briefcase. Quickly!"

"Y-yes sir, right away, it's good that you brought one, you always go one step ahead!" The young scientist takes out some mechanical parts and begins to quickly assemble them as if they were Lego pieces. Both Doraemon, Shizuka and Dekisugi look at each other, confused by the "normal way"