The black medium slowly faded and he regained consciousness. He was in the hospital ward.
Nanren looked around, ignoring the pain and heaviness in his body.
His pupils narrowed when he saw the person lying in the bed next to him.
Yun.
He was sleeping peacefully and quietly.
His hands were sweating cold, he was nervous. From the depths of his memory, he was aware of his desires and feelings for her. Moreover… how had he so skillfully suppressed such intense emotions until now?
He felt the fire burning inside him.
Leaning on her pillow, she stared silently at his face.
Until the nurse arrives.
The nurse didn't seem surprised to see that she was awake. He calmly came out, changing the serum.
After a while, there were a few more nurses who came to take care of him.
And then the Ji family.
"Nanren, are you really okay?"
"Yes" he smiled calmly. Perfectly. The expression of someone accustomed to wearing the mask of a hypocrite.
At that moment, his face hardened from his reflexive expression. He slowly lowered his gaze.
Of course, it would be better not to remember...
"Fortunately," Elena sat next to him with a tired expression.
"You've been in a coma for a week"
With the words 'You are in a coma', he slightly turned his gaze to the person lying next to him. Nanren turned his gaze back to the woman as Elena spoke.
"What happened to us?"
What happened last?
He heard her answer after a troubled sigh. "We fainted, we were pressured by the Law. But the doctor said it was just a mild symptom and it was okay."
"Related to us, you and Yun continued to remain unconscious"
"The doctor said that the reason you didn't wake up was because of the shock..."
Looking at Yun, his facial expression was not normal. Elena didn't speak for a while.
At that, Nanren's face visibly turned pale and he asked with a hint of unnoticed fear in his voice, "And that?"
Elena closed her eyes.
"His health is compromised. His immunity is critically low"
At that moment, they saw with their own eyes what Yun was talking about.
This is the power of the Judgment. It's the feeling of holding life and death, destiny in your hands.
A stat that Yun, who is the only one to use this due to his own chip, is only accessible to him when he lied.
This is the payoff.
And... the cost of that, as well as the side-effect of being on the same chip that's the reason he's using it...
The more he wants to access or use this power, the more vulnerable he will be, so that the AI that exploits this gap will have the opportunity to attack its consciousness.
If...
If he uses it enough, it will be a gibbon to his extinction.
Which means it will truly be irreversibly swallowed up by artificial intelligence.
So, this was not the limitless power of God. This was the case of the saying that a heavy price is paid and great power brings great responsibility.
Nanren narrowed her eyes and asked with a heavy expression.
"When will he wake up?"
The answer he got was silence.
Uncertain.
It has been a long time since this conversation.
Due to her coma, Elena pulled the nurses out of the room and announced that she would take care of her on her own.
After all... she felt pretty useless even if it was her mother.
Nanren was discharged after waking up and became the only person who accompanied Elena Yun every day.
Except for family members who come to visit every evening, of course.
On the first night of Nanren's discharge, when Yun's body had to be wiped out—which would be the first time since arriving at the hospital—Elena took responsibility for it, as she did everything else.
Like this...
A long-forgotten truth has come to light.
It's a gender thing.
-To be continued-