We enter a small room, it reminds me a lot of a hospital in my past life. All kinds of instruments, a bed very similar for the patient, and in general everything very similar. I don’t know if it was the idea of someone reincarnated from my world or if medicine simply evolved to a similar level.
Mr. Ogi communicates with the patient with total naturalness, he carries years of experience with him. Apparently, the man has suffered a burn on his arm while working in a restaurant.
“Observe first, I will look for a more suitable patient soon.” Ogi must have evaluated the situation, he has decided this will be a very difficult challenge for me.
I approach to observe carefully. Mr. Ogi first evaluates the burn, he carefully touches the skin. I can feel how his Imra invades the patient’s, he does it in a fast and precise way, without causing any kind of damage, he simply breaks his defenses at the exact place.
Life mana is the first thing I notice, it moves gently around the wound, it caresses the skin carefully. Is that death mana? I didn’t feel it at the beginning, the amount used is minimal in comparison, it is almost nonexistent.
I focus more to try to understand what kind of role the death mana is fulfilling. It wasn’t difficult to understand, I use something similar in my room when I get injured. Ogi’s death mana is softly killing residues of dead skin, dust, or anything that could damage the wound during the healing process.
It is a very meticulous job, his control is totally different from mine. Mr. Ogi has precise and subtle control in small quantities, my control is better handling large amounts of mana.
His life mana is also very striking, it behaves totally different from mine, there is a unique delicacy, he is healing the person layer by layer. I don’t know if I will be able to copy his technique, I simply infuse mana brutally into my wounds to heal myself, Ogi is uniting his life mana with the patient’s mana to accelerate the healing.
I am completely fascinated by his technique. Right now I feel a bit like an ogre, since my body is never in bad condition after healing because my mana and my brain know every centimeter, I have never had problems.
The treatment lasts longer than expected, close to 10 minutes to heal his skin to an almost perfect point. At the end he recommends applying a cream on the wound for the next week to finish reinforcing the skin.
“Impressive.” I comment when the patient has already left. “I don’t know if I will be able to do something similar.” I am totally honest.
“You will, with time you will be able to do small treatments without problems.” Ogi’s smile gives me a bit more confidence.
“Why didn’t you finish healing him completely? You could have done it and not depend on external medicine.” I have several questions in my head, this is just one of many.
“I could do it without problem, but that would be a problem for the other doctors. Not all have a great mana capacity or a good relationship with life affinity, they must complement themselves with external medicine to heal the maximum number of patients possible in a day.” Ogi walks toward a chair, he is reading some sheets while answering me.
“Just think, what would happen if the doctor runs out of mana? He wouldn’t be able to attend any emergency patient. We must always control our mana consumption, we don’t know if we will need it later.” He raises his gaze to look at me for a second, then continues reading.
“I imagine it is also a business for the companies in charge of supplying medicine, they would go bankrupt.” I remember having talked in my previous life with a doctor about this topic.
“You are a smart boy. The big families and merchants would not be happy if we could heal all people using only life mana, well in theory that is not possible either.” He lets out a long sigh while continuing to look for a particular case.
I ask several questions until reaching the topic of the amount of mana used. “That is impossible, our body has no problem regenerating because our brain makes the task easier, but when healing another person we must use the mana little by little.” He looks at me a bit more serious.
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“We cannot use large amounts of mana, excessive use of power could kill the patients or leave them in a vegetative state. We must always go gently until finding balance, we must seek that our life mana adapts to the patient’s recovery, otherwise we could cause a disaster.” Ogi continues explaining little by little.
“I feel like an ogre right now, I just increase the volume of mana if I need to heal faster.” I smile with a bit of embarrassment.
“You are a very rare case, your healing capacity has surprised me. You must have had a good teacher in your childhood and must have a very powerful Law to reach such a strong ability… not to mention the strong experiences to strengthen it.” His final words sounded a bit sad.
I remember those days with Sus in the cave training my life mana, how the situation forced me to be this strong. No matter how much I think about it, I don’t regret those days at all.
“Do you also see me as a strange being?” I exaggerate my voice to sound a bit sad. “By the way, I didn’t know you had the ability to use death mana.” I try to change the subject quickly.
“Yes, almost all doctors can use it, after all life and death belong to the same coin, one is the opposite side of the other. The problem is that we don’t have good compatibility, it only serves for small treatments.” Ogi seems to have found something, he only takes two sheets, the rest he puts in an envelope.
“I feel a bit jealous of your delicate control.” I declare honestly how I feel.
Ogi stops, he looks at me fixedly. “We should envy you, we would like to be able to control a larger amount of death mana, but it is impossible. Any of us would like someday to reach building swords charged with death mana without fear of getting injured, death mana is very volatile.” Ogi makes a pose as if handling a sword.
“Any person would like at least once to face monsters like you do. Most adults see you as a living weapon, many must even fear you a little deep inside, but they respect you more because it is noticeable that you are a good person.” Ogine’s father continues speaking.
“Children see you as a hero capable of facing anyone, a hero capable of healing himself no matter his condition and who can face any situation with a victory.” He gives me a couple of pats on the back. “Have more confidence in yourself Maki, you have already achieved many feats and you will be able to create more miracles if you continue on the correct path.”
My confidence has grown quite a lot after hearing him. We both keep walking until reaching another room. When we enter we see a young woman, around 25 years old, together with her son, the child must be around 4 or 5 years old.
The child opens his eyes wide when he sees me, the mother reacts quickly covering his mouth when the child was about to scream. The child looks confused at his mother, she simply moves her head from side to side refusing, the child takes a few seconds to understand. Ogi on his side acts as if nothing had happened.
Ogi examines the wound out loud, as if the explanation were more for me than for the patient. He gives me indications and sits next to me, I can feel how his Imra is over my mana all the time, ready to intervene if something bad happens.
The wound is only a small cut on the leg made by carelessness while walking with her son. I just need to infuse mana subtly to eliminate little by little any residue capable of harming her body and close the wound with life mana.
I follow his instructions to the letter, I concentrate using my mental ability and remember the thousands of times I have practiced mana control. The nerves fade with my ability, when I no longer feel anything external in the wound, I begin to supply life mana softly.
My mana connects with the woman’s, little by little I find a path until finally I feel safe to add a bit more to accelerate her healing. I feel how my yin yang Law helps me all the time, from when I used my death mana to eliminate any residue.
The wound closes slowly until it is completely closed. I did not stop at any moment, my mana pool is very large and this did not consume anything in comparison.
“Thank you doctor Maki.” The young woman with black eyes, red hair and a beautiful smile thanks me.
“I am not a doctor, I am learning.” I return a somewhat uncomfortable smile.
The child couldn’t hold himself at the end of the treatment, he started asking me how he could be as strong as me, he asked me for advice to fight with dual swords and declared himself one of my biggest fans. “I want to be strong to protect my mother and father from any danger.” His last declaration moved everyone in the room.
“You will be someone strong, your parents will never worry about any danger again.” I mess his hair while giving him some general advice.
The mother says goodbye, her son gives me a strong hug before leaving with one of the most sincere smiles I have seen in a long time.
“Your first case was a complete success, I told you that you should have a bit more confidence in yourself.” Ogi gives me a few pats on the back again.
“It was not easy, if I lost concentration for a moment I could have ruined everything.” I declare. We go to the next case, the rest of the day I spent observing and analyzing how Ogi works, I only had to heal one more man near the end of the day.
Helping feels very rewarding.