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Chapter 22: Monstrous physique

A/N: From this chapter, though is written like this: '______', talking is: "______" and system is [ ______], this is for when skill/spell is used: { _____ }, keep in mind that the POV will still be Mark's unless stated otherwise

I hope I will remember this, A/N ends

"The x-ray has started, please don't move, otherwise I might need to re-do the body scan"

"Ok"

"The scan has begun"

'I see as the scanner moves slowly from my feet to my head, this isn't something I would like to experience often'

"And it ended very quickly, here's candy for you"

It was a lollipop; I quickly grab it unwrap it and put it in my mouth.

'It's taste is okay, watermelon, thank God it's not lemon'

"Are you feeling fine, because there are still some things to do before you will be sent back to your room"

"Yes"

"Now let's proceed to the next room"

The assistant helps me to sit onto the wheelchair and after a few minutes, we arrive at a different room

"Now, I will need to you to fall asleep and I'll be checking a few things."

They put the mask on me

"Now breathe in and out calmly, in a few seconds you will fall asleep"

.

.

"Umm, doctor, why is the patient not sleeping"

'That is the question I'm handing over to you, system

[As you have 'Adapt' at such a high rank compared to your age, your body easily adapted to the sleeping drug]

'Ok'

I move the mask slightly up and say

"Just proceed with the checkup, If I don't want to sleep, you definitely won't make me sleep"

"Then we will hold of with the checkup, you have been injected a large dose of anesthetics last week and giving you more might be dangerous, so we will proceed with the checkup tomorrow"

"Proceed with it now, if I even just grunt, just stop"

"Um, okay, the moment you grunt in pain, we will stop, change the bandages and bring you back to your room"

And they began working.

First, they removed bandages and cleaned my wounds.

Then they performed a few things, like looking at the wound, seeing if the stiches are in place, if the wound is healing in the correct way and so on.

After 10 minutes, they wrapped my body in bandages.

"I have good news, better news and excellent news, which one do you want to hear"

"The good one"

"After this incident, your body has hardened, thus you will be less prone to injuries as you grow"

"The better news is that your bones are now one of the densest we have ever seen, so you probably will never receive any sort of bone injuries in your life ever again, unless something serious like this happens.

"The excellent news is that all your injuries are healing in a speed we have never seen before in a kid and the wounds are healing nicely so you will be recharged in a month and a half"

"Why so long?"

"Because of the degree of your injuries is so we need to constantly check you to make sure that you heal good"

"Now we will be taking you to your room, your mom and dad are waiting in there"

And they didn't lie, though there is one thing that is annoying me…

"Mark, are you okay, are you feeling pain anywhere, did you miss your parents..."

"Honey, did they feed you well, are you okay, I brought your favorite toys here…"

Why are they not shutting up.

I've been staring at them with blank face all this time, while they were freaking out due to me and not giving me any space to be flustered.

"Maria and Peter Lochem, I must speak with you in private about one thing, this is very important, please follow me"

*Sigh* "Baby, the doctor and we to talk about adult things, give us a sec to finish the talk and we will be right" 

Oh doctor whose name I don't know, you are my savior.

<3rd POV>

The doctor has started the conversation

"Your child's pain receptors have dulled"

Peter then asked

"Is this a bad thing?"

"If he was an adult, then no, but he is a child, as it will be more difficult to learn the danger of things as he will feel less pain than he's supposed to"

"Can you fix this?"

"This isn't even the worst news, please, don't be surprised about what I'm about to tell, as it is both god and bad news"

"Okay"

"His body's adaptive capabilities are almost superhuman, his speed of regenerations is proof of that, as he was supposed to stay in a coma for at least 2 months and then stay another 6 months in the hospital for rehabilitation"

"And"

"This is good news because he will get sick less often, he will gain muscle quickly and so on, but the problem is his brain"

"Why is that the problem, does his brain have a defect?"

"No, in fact it is superior to his peers as I have never seen once my lifetime the nerves sending their information so fast, their information transferring speed is unreal, as for the brain, due to lack of technology we couldn't go into detail, but it's active, and extremely so."

"Could you please elaborate?"

"His brain is working at a speed beating the current computers by tens if not hundreds of times, that's all I can say. From this I can form the first two possibilities: either his ability to process and absorb information is extreme or he has a good king of defect"

"Why is this bad?"

"This will make socialization for him extremely difficult due to his innate view of the world due to his brain. 

And the biggest problem is that the part of the brain responsible for emotions is developing, but slightly slower than average, so expect your son to value rationality over emotions as the best case, worst case he loses his emotions, though the chance of that happening is at best one in ten billion"

"Is there any way we can speed up the development of his emotions?"

"Unfortunately, even if there exists such a method, we do not know of it."

Maria suddenly spoke up:

"I'm getting a headache from this, let's first settle Mark and then deal with this"

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Chapter 23: Discussion

<1 month time skip>

'If the doctor said: This will be the last check up before you are set free, then I jumping in the air

[Congratulations, you have acquired 'Regeneration']

'I was wondering why didn't I get this skill earlier

[Skill limit]

There existed something like that?

[Yes, though not many reached it]

Ok

The doctor walked in with the words

"Good morning, Mark, today will be your last checkup"

"Finally, I was waiting for this day so much" (Mark said this while sighing at the same time)

"I bet you did as there wasn't much for a child like you to do"

"It's not my problem that both you and my parents rejected my request of going out"

"Well, your body is still recovering, it would be troublesome if you suddenly got worse because of straining your body"

"But you took away all forms of entertainment for me"

"There is the TV so you can watch cartoons and your parents are coming here almost daily"

"You blocked every other channel except the one that shows cartoons, Cartoons are very boring and talking with my parents is annoying as they never shut up when talking and all I do is listen to them"

*Sigh* "You are such a unique child"

"Yes, now can you bring me a book about finances, my parents will cover the costs"

"You know I can't do that"

'Finally, I will be leaving, now I will properly be able to train and do the stuff I want'

'Then the check up began, it was all the same: they checked my body, they did an x-ray of my body every week, they did one today.' 

'I asked them don't they do it every day, the doctors answer was that x-rays contain radiation, so if they did it every day, it would harm me'

'Next, they did a mobility check, a test for my brain, checked my wounds, changed the bandages, did a little bit of an info dump about how fast I was healing'

[Congratulations, 'regeneration' has ranked up to G rank]

'Hey system, why is my 'regeneration' ranking up so fast. Before regression, 'Regeneration' ranked up extremely slow.'

[A child's body and brain are very adaptive as they are still growing, that's why you will upgrade or gain skills easier, since you have 'Adapt', the adaptive effect is further amplified]

'Oh, that's quite excellent, I will have an easier time in master 'The Ten Gates of Impossibility'

'It has the ten gates and they are related indirectly to my pressure points and such, so I won't need to unlock them separately, as I will need to unlock them to progress'

'The Ten Gates of Impossibility' is a training method, which unseals the seals put on your body, utilizing the energy they release after being unsealed to further strengthen both the body and the soul'

'As the name suggests, the training method possesses ten stages, as the humans possess ten seals, though for me, I will have to find an SSS-rank, mana, ki, or any energy that I am capable of wielding, stone, so that will be a pain. I need to unseal the 'Seal of Limit'(QOWKQ) at the sixth stage.'

A while later, my dad came to pick me up

"Hi Mark, we are here to pick you up"

"Finally, will I be able to read the books I want"

"Yes, but in exchange you will have to go to the park and play with other kids"

….

"You can always refuse to accept this deal, but I or your mom will buy you books of your choice"

"Dad, can you teach me how to forge"

"… Son, where did you hear the word "forge"?"

"TV"

"It's a bit surprising, but okay, I could teach you, but be prepared, we will be doing a ton of endurance training, as you need to be able to forge for hour to make a good item"

"Ok, also, can you buy me a book about human anatomy?"

"Sure, we can go buy it on the way"

And we stopped there, but I took the chance to buy a book about physics and chemistry as well. I got a lollipop for free as well, so that was a bonus.

'Thank god that I used the ultimate strategy of the century: ask your parents to teach something they are good at, usually it's something like playing the piano or sewing, but eh, I took a bet, then ask them for something you want.'

'I somehow remember that my dad had ties to the smithing industry, probably the soul restoration, though I didn't expect him to know how to forge.'

And we drove home, but when we got there…

"PETER, WHY ARE YOU SO LATE AND WHY IS MARK CARRYING THREE BOOKS ABOUT SCIENCE"

"He asked me to teach him how to forge, so out of the joy oof my son learning my passion, I bought a book he asked for… wait, he bought three books?! So that's why the price was so absurd for a book"

"Mark, please go somewhere else, me and your dad will have a looong discussion"

Maria then continued shouting

"Why did you buy him books about science, I want him to be able to get friends and being extremely knowledgeable in things that interest no kid doesn't help him.

While Peter was always calm, not loosing his calm even when the threat of sleeping on the couch loomed over him. 

Didn't we agree to buy him the books he asks for only on special occasion like Christmas and his birthday"

"But he asked me to teach him how to forge."

"This doesn't excuse the fact that you bought him books of his request, his overdeveloped brain will stop him from getting friends, this might slow his emotional development even more and

"Maria, calm down. Mark will grow up to be a man, if he has the need to, he will try to get friends, worst case he asks us and we help him get friends. All we can do now is let him grow as much as he wants. I also purchased a book on emotions and child psychology.

Now, as parents, our responsibility is giving him a childhood that he will appreciate and would like to repeat. But at the same time, we must prepare him for when he leaves us. If we spoil him, we will ruin his future. 

I'm not giving him our company just because he is our son as I have no intention to hand it over to someone who might be incompetent"

"But think about the present, what if he grows emotion-"

"He started to talk more than he used to and he feels emotions, I can see them in his behavior. It isn't like he is emotionless, it's just that he suppresses them quite well, leave him be. If he learns to control his emotions, especially his aggression and anger, he will become powerful"

"I won't let him be violent, if he becomes violent, I'm disciplining him"

"You have confused aggression for violence, aggression is different from violence as you don't need to be aggressive to be violence. I'm aggressive as hell, you have seen how I lead and develop the "Lochem industries", is that violent?"

"No"

"That is one of the definitions for aggressive. The so-called aggression you see in thugs is violence, not aggression. A good hunter must be aggressive, otherwise he will not catch anything"

"So your point is…"

"Let him develop in peace and assist him if necessary, he isn't a normal child, so don't judge with normal standards, never praise him with words like "You are a prodigy" or "This is perfect" as nobody has reached the limit in their respective craft, be it foraging or forging"

*Chuckle* "It's always fun to see the cold side of you coming out as it always means that you are serious about something"

"A man with a weak discipline and will is either a child or someone that nobody needs. You don't need to be physically strong to be a man, but you must have a strong discipline, will and the ability to control your emotions, because without these qualities, you will never succeed without someone giving the success to you"

"There is no need to be Aristotle, be laxer sometimes"

"I realized that the one thing that my company lacks is a good system that runs it, until the I must work, I have achieved it partially so I can take a holiday twice a year, but I want more. I want to be the richest, that is my dream"

"Haha, that side of you is one of the reasons I fell in love with you."

"I still remember how you used to say that I dream too big, but for a man there is no ambition that is too big. As long as you have a functioning body and the qualities I listed just now, you will succeed, though I must add patience to that list."

"Indeed, I was waiting for the moment when you added patience to the list. I remember it like it happened yesterday, when for a whole month I got no progress on my side, but then it suddenly exploded in progress and I was able to finish the task in two weeks, when you said that it will take me a whole day"

"And because we made a bet on that, I had to take you to another 3 day date"

"I wish we could do it once more"

*Sigh* "What will I do with that energy of yours


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