Chapter 5
Translator: FenrirTL
Editor: Matt, Greedy
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< Chapter 5 >
The Force user had a profound impact on me.
My back, battered by the explosion, was a total wreck, devoid of any intact spot. My pelvis and hip joints, damaged from high-speed maneuvers, had turned pitch black with necrosis.
For a lower-class citizen, it was a severe injury. Artificial skin made from synthetic fibers, military-grade alloys to replace bones... Even just these would cost quite a bit. If I hadn’t been a cadet in the Imperial Guard, I doubted I’d be able to pay it off, even after a lifetime of work. For this level of injury, a lower-class family would give up on treatment and request euthanasia instead.
Fortunately, as an orphan, I had the solid support of the Imperial Guard in place of a lower-class family. By the time I drifted in and out of anesthesia a few times, the surgery had been completed.
“Hmm.”
I turned around and looked at myself in the mirror. The artificial skin adhered smoothly to my back. Only faint, map-like seams remained, unevenly aligned.
‘The doctor said that once the integration is complete, the seams won’t show at all.’
Though it wasn’t necessary to make it this pristine, the care taken in the surgery was obvious.