Chapter 276: Nothing to lose.

"That's good to hear. After your father and I found out what happened, we rushed right to get a plane ticket to china, but the hospital in Shanghai contacted us and said that they would be sending you to Tokyo general. So we didn't have to drop everything to go to China." Krista said with a tired expression.

It looked as though she had been caring for Haru without looking after herself. She had dark circles under her eyes, and her hair was knotted and tangled. It looked as though she had been in a constant state of worry and was barely keeping herself from having a mental breakdown.

"You don't know how worried we were since we first saw you. The doctors said that there was nothing wrong with your physical, and you just had a few light injuries when they brought you back.

There were bruising covering your whole back, and you had a few cracked ribs, but it wasn't anything serious, so it confused them as to why you wouldn't wake up. I even asked one of my friends to come and heal you, but the magic didn't work either. It really did seem like you were just sleeping, though.

What was the last thing you remember?" Krista asked Haru with a look of sadness on her face. It seemed as though she was expecting him to say something terrible. But Haru's mind was completely blank. He didn't have a clue what had happened.

And the last thing he remembered he was lying on the ground in the rain. But as he began to think about how the rain fell upon his face, his heart began to ache, and he clutched his chest before recoiling in pain.

"Ugh…" Haru called out as his fingers pulled at the hospital gown he was wearing.

"Haru? What is it?" Krista asked before resting her hand on his back. She wasn't sure what had happened, but she knew that he was in immense pain given the scream he gave when he clutched his chest.

A few seconds went by as Haru remained seated on the bed clutching his chest before the pain slowly vanished.

"Suyin…" Haru said out loud as he remembered parts of what had happened. He remembered Suyin's lifeless body lying on the ground next to him.

"Oh, that's right… I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to make you remember something like that…" Krista apologised and bowed her head slightly towards her son as she saw the amount of pain that he was in, but suddenly he rocked back a little and then fell back down onto the bed.

"Haru!?" Krista yelled out as she watched his head fall back and then land on the pillows placed behind him. She thought for a moment that he had passed out due to the pain being too much for him to handle and was about to call for a doctor before suddenly a laugh escaped Haru's lips.

"Are you okay?" Krista asked, but as soon as she did, Haru began to cover his face with his hands and then laughed again as he lay on his back.

'What's going on?' Krista thought as she looked down at her son, laughing while thinking about his girlfriend's death. She was about to say something and ask him what was going on when suddenly he moved his hands away from his face.

Although Haru was laughing, tears were pouring from his face and dripping down onto the bedsheets below him.

"Mom, Please. Just make it stop." Haru howled in pain as he looked up at his mother and clutched his chest.

Krista's heart couldn't take it. Seeing Haru break down before her pushed her over the edge, and she too began to cry as she looked down at Haru with pity in her eyes. She then sat beside the bed and put her arms around him.

"It's okay. I promise you that it will all be okay." Krista tried her best to stay calm, but she could only talk between her whimpers as she tried to stop herself from crying.

She had come to terms that Suyin had died in the accident, and Haru was the one that survived, but she didn't expect the survivor's guilt to be so painful for him. She, too, had been the only survivor of many situations on the battlefield, but she didn't even want to imagine what she would have done if her husband had died and she was the only survivor.

She had nothing to say to him and felt like she couldn't soothe his pain, so she stayed how she was with her arms around him and holding him tight to try her best to comfort him.

Haru soon calmed down and stopped crying, but his face had a dark expression on it, as though he was replaying the situation in his head and as his mother, Krista, knew him best. He would always look at the ceiling when he thought of something that he couldn't tell her.

She could usually push him to tell her what he was thinking about, but now that he was an adult, she felt like she couldn't approach him like that and didn't want to force him to talk about something that would only cause him pain. She stayed quiet for a moment before speaking up.

"Haru. I know that what happened to you must have been painful, but I want you to know that you will always have our house to call home. And to be honest, I hope that you will come and live with us for a while. I don't know how I would cope knowing that you are out there alone while dealing with all this pain.

But don't decide yet. I will wait until the doctors check you out and then ask you again. If that's okay with you?" Krista said what she had to say and then asked. She didn't want to force anything on him, but she just felt a little bit worried that he wouldn't be able to keep his emotions in check and might do something stupid.

She had a very small temper and would often act out against people, and she had always been a little bit worried that Haru had the same trait. But ever since she visited him in china and saw how he freaked out when the government kicked down Zen's door, she had all but confirmed what she needed to know.

Given Haru's strength, she thought it would be irresponsible to let him walk around in an unstable condition. She looked up at him again to see a faint smile on his face. It was almost as though he was thinking about something that made him happy, but her heart almost stopped as he spoke.

"I don't need time to think it over. I think that it might be best if I'm not left alone right now. Can I come back home" Haru looked at her with tears in his eyes and then clenched his fists.

Krista felt hurt once again. It pained her to see him suffer like this. He was in pain of losing a loved one, and it also seemed to be making him angry that he couldn't save her. She knew Haru's personality very well, and he was always the hero.

So given the fact that he couldn't save Suyin, he was feeling pretty worthless. And a man with nothing to lose and a lot of pent up anger is dangerous even for a regular human, but for a cultivator, the consequences of his choices could be catastrophic.

"You don't even need to ask; You are always welcome to come home. In fact, I bet Saki would be over the moon if you decided to come back home. She didn't remember the first time you met, but she sat by your side when we brought her to visit and helped us take care of you.

She even used a wet cloth and wiped the sweat from your head when the Summer started." Krista said with a smile as she thought about what Saki had done for her older brother while he was in a coma. But the Haru was a little taken back by what she just said.

'Summer? But isn't it November?' Haru asked himself before taking a look out of the window to see green leaves brushing against the glass along with the hot sun blazing down through the branches and creating dances of light on the ground as the breeze pushed against the trees.

Sure enough, there was sun outside of the window. But that was impossible for Tokyo in November. He then turned back to his mom, who had now sat upright and was no longer hugging him.

"How long have I been here?" Haru asked, feeling a little afraid to know the answer. The time he spent in his soul ocean with Ralph felt like it was over in just a few seconds.

"That's right. I forgot to tell you!" Krista shouted out as she felt ashamed that she had forgotten to tell him how long he had been there during the excitement of him waking up.

She looked at him once again and then grabbed his hand to comfort him.

"Try not to freak out, okay," Krista said. While squeezing her hand in a comforting manner, she said before preparing to tell him the answer to his question.