21st Century Necromancer-Chapter 443 440: Awakening (Seeking monthly tickets, seeking subscriptions)

When Jounouchi Hiromi rushed to the patient's room, she saw a nurse examining Keiko's father. On the surface, there seemed to be nothing wrong with him.

"What happened? What's the patient's current condition?" Jounouchi Hiromi pulled out her stethoscope, put it on, and asked the nurse who was examining Keiko's father by the hospital bed.

"Doctor Jounouchi!" The nurse's face lit up with joy when she saw Jounouchi Hiromi arrive, and she quickly explained, "I was just changing Mr. Kobayashi's dressing when I noticed he had opened his eyes and was looking at me as if he had become conscious, so I immediately asked Meiqin to call for you!"

Jounouchi Hiromi's eyes widened in disbelief as she asked, "What did you say?"

"Mr. Kobayashi seems to have awakened! He can now look at me with his eyes," the nurse repeated, her voice brimming with happiness.

The awakening of a coma patient who had been in a vegetative state for nearly a year could indeed be described as a miracle and was enough to make anyone happy.

Hearing this, Jounouchi Hiromi approached the bed to examine Keiko's father lying there. Even patients in a vegetative state could open their eyes and look around. To confirm whether a vegetative patient truly regained consciousness, a diagnostic exam was necessary to determine his state of awareness.

"Mr. Kobayashi Yuta, can you hear my voice?" Since Keiko's father was awake, Jounouchi Hiromi called out his name, hoping to see if he would respond to the sound and his name.

There is a difference between a vegetative state and a minimal conscious state. While someone in a vegetative state can also open their eyes and look toward objects, such behavior is unconscious, and there is no coordination between what the eyes see and what the ears hear. In other words, the eyes do not follow the source of a sound. However, in a minimal conscious state, patients can react to sounds, look in the direction where the sound comes from, or respond to their own name, photographs of family, and familiar objects, showing conscious behavior.

Therefore, these aspects provide a preliminary way to determine if a patient is conscious.

Of course, such judgments are not entirely accurate; some patients may have minimal conscious responses but lack control over their bodies and cannot react to sounds or other stimuli. Yet, their brains are still actively thinking. In such situations, further professional assessments through tests like MRI scans and electrophysiology are necessary to truly confirm if a patient possesses minimal consciousness.

However, the situation with Keiko's father was somewhat better than Jounouchi Hiromi had anticipated, which was why the nurse called her from the office. When she called out Keiko's father's name, his gaze clearly shifted towards Jounouchi Hiromi.

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"Mr. Chen Yu, Keiko's father has awoken!" Jounouchi Hiromi burst into Chen Yu's office and happily told him the news.

Upon hearing Jounouchi Hiromi's shout, Chen Yu, who had been reviewing materials brought by Kube Rokuro in the office, looked up in surprise. He quickly asked, "Has he awoken? Are you sure, Hiromi?"

"Yes, I'm sure. Keiko's father can now clearly respond to sounds, and he looks towards the direction of a voice when his name is called. His gaze can also follow a target, so we can confirm that he is now responsive to consciousness," Jounouchi Hiromi explained joyfully to Chen Yu, not even noticing that Kube Rokuro was getting up from the couch to greet her.

Chen Yu became elated as well, regardless of his original plans, as Keiko's father waking up was indeed a very happy event.

"Quickly get him an MRI to check whether he has truly regained consciousness," Chen Yu said, still somewhat concerned, urging Jounouchi Hiromi to promptly arrange for an examination for Keiko's father.

"I've already had the nurses take him to the examination room. Let's go together!" Jounouchi Hiromi had evidently arranged the examination before coming and happily added while speaking to Chen Yu, "I've already notified Keiko and her mother; they're going to be thrilled!"

"Indeed, it's delightful news. After all, it's remarkable for someone to come out of a year-long coma," Chen Yu also understood how extraordinary it was for someone who had been in a vegetative state for over a year to awaken.

Although in Chen Yu's original plan, the Dragon Blood Potion was meant to improve Keiko's father's physical condition, not specifically to awaken him, his recovery under the Potion's stimulatory influence on bodily mutations was still a cause for celebration.

The fact that this disrupted Chen Yu's original treatment plan was irrelevant. Although Chen Yu had wanted to heal Keiko's father's soul before he awoke, to avoid burdening and harming the soul and to improve his state of life upon awakening, now that the man had woken up, it clearly wasn't possible to put him back to sleep.

As for the treatment plan, some adjustments would suffice.

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Now that Keiko's father had woken up and as his primary physician, Chen Yu could no longer continue to review materials in the office. Throwing the materials onto the desk, Chen Yu stood up, getting ready to head to the examination room with Jounouchi Hiromi, but then he remembered Kube Rokuro still in the office. He said, "Rokuro, something urgent has come up, please leave these materials here for now, and I will have them delivered to Meiqin once I've gone through them. I can't entertain you any longer, so you might want to leave for now. My apologies."

"No problem at all, Brother Yu, I'll take my leave then. Just let me know once you've finished with the materials, and I'll come and get them myself. No need to have them sent," Kube Rokuro stood up from the couch, understanding it was time to excuse himself. However, he chose not to let Chen Yu return the materials to UDI, as he was still looking forward to his third encounter with the female doctor and learning her name.

"All right, then I won't keep you any longer. The patient is more important; I must leave now." After nodding at Kube Rokuro, Chen Yu left the office with Jounouchi Hiromi, but before leaving, he instructed his secretary, Shirai Reina, "Reina, please escort Mr. Kube out."

Having said that, Chen Yu then headed quickly to the examination room with Jounouchi Hiromi.