Kara no Kyoukai:Chapter04 A

"Hey about that patient in the 3rd floor private room, have you heard?"

"Of course. That story was all over the place by the middle of yeserday. Even that stony Dr Asika in neurology lost his cool didn't he, there's no way a secret like that wouldn't leak out. I couldn't believe it but, they say the patient's recovered."

"No, no, it's not that. Well it is definitely about that patient but there's something after that. That patient, you know what she did as soon as she woke up? Don't be shocked, but they say she tried to mash her own eyes."

"--- What are you talking about? Is that for real?"

"Yeah, I think it's being kept as a secret inside the facility. I heard it from a kid who always follows Dr Asika around so it's definitely true. Apparently as soon as Dr Asika took his eyes off her she smashed her eyes through the bandages with the palms of her hands, she's a total terror."

"Wait a second, that patient, she's just been lying there for two year's hasn't she? Then there's no way she could move her body."

"Well yeah normally. That house is rich aren't they? While she's been here we've exercised her limbs everyday, so her joints and stuff haven't stiffened up. But I guess that since it wasn't he subjct herself doing the exercise the movemet of the joints was unnatural to her and she couldn't move very well. Thanks to that her attempt to savage her two eyes ended as a failure."

"--- Even so that's awesome. We learn't that while a supine patient is comfortable it's much easier for their bodies to get weak. If she's been sleeping for 2 years, she should barely have been functioning as a human."

"That's why even the doctor was caught off guard. Hey, what do you call that. You know when a patient is hemorrhaging?"

"sorry but this was a medical term that I couldn't find in my dictionary bleeding."

"Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. It's supposed to become alright by itself, but since the patient smashed her eyes right to the point of glaucoma she can't even see through her eyes right now. They say taht they just bandaged her eyes according to the patient's wishes."

"Hmm. So even after waking up from the coma that patient hasn't seen the sunlight. ... darkness within darkness. It seems a bit wrong."

"A bit? And on top of that, there's another problem. Aphasia(loss of speech)? It feels like that. She can't talk so the doctor's bringing in a speech therapist. There's no one like that at our hospital."

"Yeah, since Dr Araya quit last month.
But --- If she's like that will they disallow visitors for that patient?"

"Probably. Until she's recovered her psychological balance even her time with her parents will be limited."

"So that's how it is. In that case I feel kinda sory for that boy."

"Who? What boy?"

"Don't you know? After that patient was brought here there's this kid who came to visit very Saturday. I guess he's too old to call a kid anymore but, if possible, I want to let him meet her."

"Ah, you mean polite-puppy-kun. Lord, he's still coming.
I doubt there are many people as earnest as that in the world these days."

"Yeah, for the last two years that kid's been the only one who watched over the patient. So --- I'm thinking that maybe the major part in the patient's miraculous recovery is due to him. ... Wow, I'm saying this sort of thing afer working here for how many years? I'm beginning to think that maybe somethings happened to me."