One week later…
The camp had changed in the week that Kazuichi had been confined to the medical bay. Every day, the Hybrids were growing stronger, their abilities honed through relentless training and sheer determination. The once chaotic and uncertain camp had become a place of discipline and focus, the atmosphere charged with the energy of progress. Yet Kazuichi had been forced to sit on the sidelines, his body a battleground for the energy that roiled within him.
Confined to the sterile walls of the medical bay, Kazuichi had spent the week wrestling with the volatile force inside him. At first, it had been unbearable. Each day was a struggle against the feeling that he was on the brink of exploding, his body barely containing the surging energy. The fever that had initially plagued him had given way to something far more dangerous—an unstable, unpredictable power that threatened to tear him apart from the inside.
