Sebi truly hated always having to wake up as a patient on a hospital bed. He was so powerful, yet he always ended up beaten up and sent away for treatment. He didn’t have an ego, but his pride was definitely hurt. It always made him feel weak for no reason.
“Sebi,” Misharu called out, rushing to stand up from his relaxed position on the couch and rushed towards him. “How do you feel?”
“A bit dehydrated,” Sebi mumbled as he pushed himself up into a sitting position before hissing in pain when his vision went a bit blurry and a dull ache rushed through the areas where he had been injured.
“Don’t strain yourself, you just healed from three bullet wounds and some severe internal damage,” Misharu chided him, looking a bit helpless as he helped him lie down. “Let me get you a glass of water.”
Sebi looked down at his hands, all connected through tubes to a machine. He was stuck in a daze for a while before he felt tears of relief streaming down his face.
Those bullets were nothing. Sebi had felt his energy space going haywire, milking every drop in order to supply him with the power to fight through the base. He had felt his life force waning, his insides rupturing, but the adrenaline had kept him up long enough to get to Necomir.
When those bullets landed on him, Sebi felt chunks of his life falling away. Those moments really did feel like that time back when he first died. He was so afraid as his life flashed before his eyes, filled with the dread of losing the person he loved…
But now, he was still alive.
Sebi heard Misharu shuffle back to him, so he quickly wiped away his tears with the sheets. Misharu came back with a glass of water, carefully helping Sebi to hold it. He didn’t notice the sudden redness of his eyes.
“How long have I been out of it?” Sebi asked after finishing most of the water.
Misharu held the glass for him. “Two weeks. Your body needed intense recuperation, so you didn’t wake up at all until now.”
Sebi nodded and fell silent, twiddling with his thumbs. He wanted to ask something again, but hesitated a little before he gingerly asked, “Neco… How is he?”
“He’s fine, but I heard he needed rehab for the operation he received,” Misharu grimly spoke. “He’s been sent to an institution by his father to heal.”
A hole seemed to form in the middle of Sebi’s chest. “So… there is no reversing it?”
Misharu shook his head. “They couldn’t extract the energy transplanted into him. It was just too compatible with his energy space, it integrated so quickly. It’s honestly a miracle, it wasn’t anything like the Carvalhos at all.”
Sebi nodded, his heart finally relaxed. It was his fault Necomir couldn’t escape that operation, and it would have killed him if he knew Necomir would live a life with complications in his body that he will never heal from.
But still, he didn’t know how he could face him.
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He hated this.
“Sebi, did you encounter something strange out there in the research base?” Misharu suddenly asked, his tone holding a careful intonation.
Sebi hummed in question. “Why?”
“It’s just…” Misharu pursed his lips before he pressed some buttons on his lightband and showed him an article.
Headmaster Philippa Juno of the Academy, Alleged to be Involved in Illegal Human Experimentation on Ability Enhancement.
Sebi blinked in confusion before his memories came back to him. His heart sank. There really had been a strange woman in the bse who looked exactly like the headmaster…
“But that couldn’t be her!” Sebi cried out indignantly. “Not only did she had really different features, she also was an entirely different person. I’ll be honest, she could be some relative, but it was definitely not the headmaster. Her name was Cecilia Juno.”
Misharu sighed in relief. No one could blame him for suddenly thinking weirdly, the Stellar Web was filled with all sorts of conspiracies right now. “Then that’s good, you can talk to the headmaster and release a public statement to clear her name. No one should slander her before due process.”
Worried about the headmaster, Misharu did him a favor and left to go fetch her and also send the doctor to check up on him. They came to check his condition and after reminding him to not strain himself, they quickly left. Sebi’s condition was stable and not worrying thanks to technology, he only had to watch himself. Afterwards, Headmaster Juno followed, entering the room.
“Headmaster!” Sebi called out worriedly upon seeing his guardian. She still looked elegant and dignified as ever, but her shoulders were sagged and her eyes were framed with dark eyebags. Moreover, Sebi can sense the gloom and exhaustion that she emitted.
The headmaster smiled as she sat at Sebi’s bedside. “Didn’t the doctor remind you not to strain yourself? Lay back down, be a good boy.”
Sebi immediately obeyed her and rested his back against the bed. He didn’t stop himself from showing concern though and said, “Misharu showed me everything, you must contact a lawyer. I will cooperate, I won’t let them stain your name. I know you had nothing to do with this.”
The headmaster felt happy listening to Sebi being concerned for her. She never had children of her own because she was obsessed with her career, and it was only pity that made her take in this child as his guardian. Although she never regretted not having a child and focusing on work, she was still satisfied to have him.
“Thank you, Sebi. Everything is under control, it’s just the government has been pressuring me a lot lately. I’ll have to trouble you to help with the legal proceedings.”
“What did they want to do?” Sebi worriedly asked. He knew what happened couldn’t be easy, it would attract a lot of attention from all sorts of people with their own agenda.
“They wanted to send you to the military,” Headmaster Juno said through gritted teeth. “Who knows what they will do. I know if I let you go, I might never see you again.”
Sebi never thought about going to the military. Even if he had powerful abilities, he wouldn’t be able to cope with the pressure and the training.
“Have some self-respect.” The alter suddenly appeared, whispering to Sebi again. “You tore through that research base like it was a sheet of paper. If you let me handle it and we shared our power, we could unleash so much more than you could ever imagine.”
Shaking his head, Sebi ignored the alter for now and focused on the headmaster. He said, “Then, what did you tell them?”
“They gave me a few days to think about it, but before it could end, they told me there was no need for the negotiations. They only need you to cooperate through online interviews which we can release for the people to see.”
Sebi nodded. Although he felt there was something weird about it, he eventually gave up thinking about it and brought up another topic. “Headmaster, you should know. At the base, I met a person named Cecilia Juno. She must be the reason why you are being slandered right now.”
A depressed sigh left Headmaster Juno’s lips as she rubbed her face. “So she’s still alive all this time.”
“So you do know her.”
“She’s your aunt,” Headmaster Juno said. “When we were teenagers, Cecilia suddenly disappeared. It’s hard for people to go missing in this era because of our tracking technology for citizens through the lightband that could only be taken off through passwords. Kidnapping and trafficking crimes have significantly lowered into just instances where powerful people and hackers are involved. It is also illegal to leave a planet without logging into the universal boarding system, so this means any suspicious activity will notify the authorities. Since she disappeared, the investigators assumed she might have been trafficked.
At that time, there really was a powerful senator who was secretly trafficking humans for underground sports. When that senator was caught, a lot of disappearances were attributed to him, including Cecilia. But I knew her – there was no way her disappearance was a mistake.”
“Why do you think that, Headmaster?” Sebi wondered with intrigue.
“She was cruel,” Headmaster Juno’s voice dropped into a soft whisper. “We were very close when we grew up. Back when we were children, I saw how she took animals to dissect them for fun. Although that wasn’t a problem, she would watch them struggle and laugh. When we grew a bit older, she showed morbid curiosity for the human psyche and abilities. She showed no remorse towards suffering and crimes, she would just look at it like she felt nothing at all.
We have the same ability. One time, I caught her bullying a classmate during ability training class. She was teammates with her, and I saw how Cecilia would nullify her ability on purpose while she went through training.”
“Then I think it truly is her,” Sebi nodded as he recalled the terrible memories of what happened. His memories were a bit all over the place due to the trauma according to the doctor, but he could still remember those final moments when she shot him. “She could have killed me so quickly without a fight, she had stopped me from using my powers.”
“You now see how people could easily misunderstand my involvement in this case, right?” Headmaster Juno chuckled bitterly.
“It’s truly unfortunate,” Sebi mumbled, deep in thought. “But with this information, at least we can contribute to the case. People will soon understand you were wronged.”
After talking to the headmaster and sharing a meal, Sebi was left alone. It was pretty late already so he should take a rest. The doctor said that in a few days he can already be released from being hospitalized as long as he was obedient and didn’t use his abilities for now.
It wasn’t his usual time for sleep, so Sebi pressed his lightband and mindlessly browsed through the interface. He found himself clicking through his contacts, realizing how little he used it aside from talking to Necomir and the group chat his friends rarely ever use because they see each other everyday.
Sebi suddenly clicked on Necomir’s name.
“Don’t you miss him?” his alter suddenly spoke up.
Pursing his lips, Sebi sighed as he stared at Necomir’s profile picture. He looked stony and rigid, yet his golden eyes were gleaming and his cheeks were rosy. A finger brushed over his picture, and Sebi silently grieved over the fact he might never see such a satisfied-looking Necomir ever again.
“Of course I do,” he finally admitted. “But what can I do? It’s all my fault he’s injured. I couldn’t save him in time. How will I be able to face him?”
“You actually have some sort of hero complex, don’t you?” the alter chuckled. “It’s a form of arrogance. I like that you’re confident about the possibility of being able to save Necomir if you just had time.”
“Why are we even talking about this?” Sebi helplessly said, though he was amused hearing such strange things from his alter. It was interesting how his mind can actually two separate thought processes for himself and this stinky alter of his.
“Then let’s talk about something else,” the alter said. “When are you going to stop being a coward and go to look for Necomir? I’m getting affected by your pathetic little feelings. I’m actually starting to miss that pretty face of his.”
Sebi raised an eyebrow. If he could look at his alter, he would already be giving him a judging stare. “You can’t say those kinds of words.”
“Oh? Am I not entitled to my own puny little feelings? I’m supposed to also be Decebal Yan, you know.”
Finally getting annoyed by his alter, Sebi closed his lightband. No matter how much the alter tried getting his attention, he only closed his eyes and pretended to be dead.
The alter was too honest and fished out the truth about his feelings that Sebi tried to ignore. He didn’t want to deal with them – things are already too complicated as it is.
Author’s Notes:
I checked my notes for the plot and did a lot of revisions. Hopefully Sebi and Neco can get out of dire straits soon 
Also! Don’t be shy to comment about errors or something, I’ve seen some messages about them on Discord only recently because I’m a grannie so if you comment here, I can see them immediately hahaha. See you next time!
I hope sebi will see neco soon 🤧
Don’t feel guilty Sebi! Go forward !
thanks for the chapter <3
Come on, Sebi! Follow your heart and be braver! 💘 There is nothing wrong in trying.
I lowkey want Sebi to train a bit more in fighting to make up for the 6 years in coma. Unleash the fighting potential! 😂 But I also understand that he needs to study as well.Thanks for the chapter! 💕