Faust wakes up after staying days in the hospital surrounded by his friends.
"Huh lions? They were protecting me?" Faust asks Tim as if he doesn't remember anything that took place.
"Yes, you even have the favor of many animals, they won't attack you or behave badly with you while we go to hunt together with my dad, even though they do all the things with us. But this time lions too? Mehhh, you must be lucky or something." Tim says to Faust with mocking tone, but a hint of relief can be seen on his face.
Faust vaguely remembers what happened, his memory is foggy and uncertain but he remembers lions killing the wolves in front of him. Everybody thinks that falling off the cliff might have made his memory a bit sloppy and he himself think that might be the case too.
"Manh ! you are lucky, you would have become meal for wolves if the lions didn't come, but how cool is that Faust, being saved and protected by lions. I'm so jealous of you." Says the excited Nick who visited Faust in the hospital along with Tim and Roy.
"Yes Fausty, everyone's calling you a gifted kid. You have been blessed with a miracle of God, though I'm happy you didn't get hurt." Roy says while he make gestures to cheer up Faust who looks rather sad and heart broken.
"Um... Tim, I'm really sorry for going towards the dens, even after you told me not to." Faust tells Tim with a hint of guilt in his tone as he lowered his head not daring to look at Tim in the eyes.
"It's ok, we know you won't be able to hold your excitement anyway haha. That's why I came to play with you, knowing you will be either feeling sad or bored because I told you not to go there, but who would have imagined your little butt would go there already, hmphhhh." Tim pout and says to Faust as a big brother who is scolding his small brother, but also showing love and caring side at the same time.
"Ah, how is my grandpa? How is Bella? Let me get up and walk now." Faust deeply reflect on his action and that's when he remember something and ask his friends and as he tries to get up from the hospital bed.
"No! It's ok, you need more rest Faust. And your grandpa is ok you know...." Nick holds back Faust not letting him get out of the bed and looks a bit gloomy, same with the rest of the friends. It seems they are all sad and hesitant to tell Faust about the well being of his only family, that is his grandpa and Bella.
"Well your.. .. " Nick hesitates, " Well..they said that grandpa Gus needs to take a 7 month bed rest, his muscles have been cut- slashed and many broken bones, but it's not life threatening. Where as Bella...." Nick who is talking about Gus suddenly stops talking when it comes to Bella.
"We don't know if Bella can make it, she is getting operated now and lost lot of blood. Chances of her making out alive are less." Roy continues for Nick and breaks it down to Faust, being a noble he knows how to control his emotions and feelings very well unlike Nick.
"I see, thanks for letting me know. I want to sleep now. I will come meet you guys later when I'm recovered." Faust immediately lays back and covers himself in the blanket as his tears roll down. Tim and others leaves the room knowing what Faust is going through and they sadly leave even when they don't want to.
*"I need to become strong, I need to figure a lot of things out first"* Faust keeps saying to himself while he digs his thumb nail into his point finger trying to suppress his hate and anger towards his own self as a way to punish himself.
A few days later, Faust is recovered and he go to meet up with Gus who is still on the hospital bed "How are you doing grandpa?." Faust says with a low voice standing at the door as he tries to control his tear from rolling down from his cheek.
"Oh Faust," Gus mumbles as he could barely say anything as he sees Faust. Faust looks tired and black shade can be seen under his eyes.
Gus realizes that Faust is not sleeping at all. "Faust, I'm doing really good now, I hope you take better care of yourself, don't spoil your health because your grandpa is not there to feed you forcefully and take care of you, I will be up and running in no time." Gus says to Faust to try to ease his worries.
"Ok grandpa, I will be going home without you and take care of the animals and keep our house clean and do the works for you." Faust says with calm tone, but you can see he's trying his best to not sound sad and want to make up to Gus.
"You don't need to do that Fausty, I asked Tim's mom to take care of our house while we're here, so don't go doing adults work kiddo just sleep with me here. Me, you and Bella can go home in 6 weeks." Gus says to Faust with a smiley and goofy face to make Faust feel like everything is back to normal and that he don't need to be hard on himself with his feeling of guilts.
"Ok grandpa." That's all Faust says and heads back to his room without mumbling another word.
Faust collects his belongings and greets the doctors that helped him and leaves out to his house not listening to what his grandpa told him before.
For the next 6 weeks Faust stays at his house. Everyday Faust does every work needed in his house before Tim's mom visits to do her works and eventually she stops coming after realizing that Faust wants to do it himself. He goes into the forest and eats fruits and whatever he finds since he doesn't know how to cook.
Most of Faust's daily routine included him waking up before sun rise, running around the village which is daily exercise for guards to circle the village for 10 times. Faust too decided to join the guards and run around the village for three complete times as best as he could.
He then comes home, cleans the whole house, takes the sheep's and other animals to the area of good forage. He keeps an eye on the animals while he himself punches a tree over and over harder each time as he keep blaming himself for what happen to his grandpa and Bella and also as a way to make himself strong. Until the animals are done grazing. He brings them back safely to home and works on his body for hours.
Faust also is practicing moves that looks similar to hand combat martial arts used long time ago. He collected some sand, heated the sand in a pot and collected all the heated sand in a bag and started training his wrists, forearms, shin and foot by hitting the sand bag. He put the sand bag on the ground and threw few punches and tied the bag to a pillar to kick and make his feet and shin strong.
The martial art that Faust is practicing is "The Art Of Vital Points" it is an ancient martial arts which has its origins in "Hodu", one of the most ancient country with rich tradition and history, also known to be the birth place of "Buddha" a human who reached higher state of all beings and was even worshipped as a religion and God in ancient times.
How did Faust got his hands on "kyusyozyutu"
( The art of vital points) which is depicted as a secret art of body knowledge and vital points. It has no concern of an opponent's well being, the sole purpose of this style is to inflict as much pain as quickly as possible, which often includes deliberately ending a life with no remorse.
Edited by - Aysel Inara