oxygen caused his heart to stop soon after. He was classified as Dead on Arrival (DOA) the moment he arrived at Setagaya General Hospital. Perhaps it was the expertise of the doctors in the ER or Kazuto’s own will to live or that they had the best of luck on both accounts that he finally regained his heartbeat and started breathing normally once the drugs took effect, escaping from the claws of death in a miraculous manner. As Asuna heard this outcome from the doctor who came out from the ER, she relaxed her distraught look but was left speechless by the words that followed. The doctor told her that as Kazuto’s heart stopped for more than 5 minutes, it was possible that he could have sustained some damage to the brain. There was a possibility of long term damage to thought processes or motor functions, or both, and that in the worst case scenario, he might never wake up again—and, The doctor concluded that a detailed investigation using an MRI was necessary to tell if this was the case, and they would probably transfer him over to a hospital with better facilities. Asuna fought against the anxiety that struck again and contacted Kazuto’s little sister Suguha to explain the situation. In the end, she started crying the moment she saw Suguha. That night, Kazuto’s mother, Kirigaya Midori came running over from her workplace in Iidabashi and spent the night on the bench in front of the ICU. The next day, on the 30th of June, Asuna and Suguha were convinced by the supervisor that he was already ‘out of danger’, and went back to Asuna’s house which was nearby, and Midori went back to her house in Kawagoe for the time being to deal with his health insurance scheme.