[Episode 134198] [Episode 134198]In a near waiting-room the Tendo and the Saotome waited for some news. Finally a doctor entered the room with a folder underneath his arm.
"Mr. Soun Tendo?" He asked.
Soun remained seated, with the head bent between his hands, without answering. Kasumi watched at the doctor.
"Excuses my father; he is very affected. But we are ready to listen that you have to say."
"I am sorry. I wish that I could have better news, but the results do not leave place to doubts."
When Soun listened it, he shrank in his seat. Kasumi tried to calm him, while Nabiki interrupted the doctor.
"You told us that the operation had been a success."
"And it was." The doctor defended himself. "We extirpated the blood clot without complications, but later analyses showed a serious hormonal imbalance. When we tried to discover its cause we found that the situation was worse than we thought at first."
He opened his folder and began to read the results.
"Her reproductive system is completely destroyed." The doctor looked at them and added. "This was that caused the hormonal imbalance." He continued reading. "Her digestive system is damaged too, and her liver undergoes an acute necrosis. Her internal ear is perforated and, probably her optical nerves are destroyed."
He closed the report and continued talking, before somebody could interrupt him.
"It is strange that you didn’t realize it before. Didn’t you notice that she constantly suffered headaches, or that her temper got worse?"
Then Ranma decided to open the mouth.
"Who? Akane?"
Probably he was going to say a funny comment, but the glance of Nabiki convinced him that it would be better close his mouth.
"Do you think that she will live?" Kasumi asked. She had understood what the doctor had said, but she hoped to be wrong.
"We calculated that she has a month of life." And as an afterthought he added. "Sorry."
Nobody said anything. After hearing the death sentence, the room sank in silence. The only sound that could be listened was the sobs of Soun. Then the door was opened and a very nervous nurse appeared.
"Doctor! They need you urgently in room 323! The patient has awaked!"
The doctor went out the room, stopping only to give the folder to the nurse. Kasumi looked at Nabiki.
"Isn’t 323 Akane’s room?"
Nabiki nodded before running after the doctor. Kasumi stood up and told to Ranma.
"Could you take care of my father?"
"Of course."
Kasumi smiled when she listened the answer, and went out of the room.
When Akane opened her eyes, she was surrounded by the darkness.
‘Where am I? ’ was her first thought.
Slowly she began to remember that had happened during the classes, and she deduced that somebody, probably Ranma, had brought her to her room.
‘Is night already? How long have I been unconscious? ’
When she sat up, she felt that something pulled on her chest before detaching. After searching blindly she discovered that they were small plastic circles.
‘What is this? ’
Akane thought while raised the sheets to get up. But before she could put a foot in the floor, hands grabbed her firmly. She didn’t understand that was happening and tried to free herself. Suddenly she realized that everything was in silence. In spite of the fight, in spite of her shouts, an absolute silence surrounded her. She couldn’t hear anything.
Akane was so surprised that she stopped fighting. On seeing that she wasn’t resisting them longer, the hands relaxed their grab but she didn’t noticed it. She only repeated time and time again.
'It can’t be, it can’t be.'
Akane put a hand over her neck and, opening the mouth, she shouted with all her forces. Nothing. She didn’t hear anything. Akane continued shouting, trying to break the silence barrier that surrounded her. In her desperation she didn’t feel the slight prick in her arm, and slowly she fell slept again.
Kasumi and Nabiki hadn’t entered the room, but they had heard Akane’s shouts from the corridor. Kasumi had rested her back in the wall, while she tried to dry her tears. Nabiki hadn’t cried, but the shouts had torn something inside her. Fortunately the shouts had stopped.
When the doctor went out of the room, Nabiki asked.
"What has happened?"
"She has had a small crisis. I suppose that it must be very hard to awake isolated of the world." He sighed. "Your sister is blind and deaf. Normally I would recommend that she remained in the hospital, but in this case is useless. We can’t do anything. I believe that it would be better than she spent her last days in her house, with her family. I am sorry"
And he moved away by the corridor.
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