The Old Dogs

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Chiyo Shuzenji read from a clipboard. She knew the injuries but she wanted to make sure that none were forgotten. A lifetime of dealing with heroes meant she knew how they were. They'd try to get up and out before they were healed correctly.

In that way, she was somewhat thankful for the side effects of her quirk. Heroes, or civilians couldn't get up if they were sleeping off the healing her quirk gave them. Chiyo wondered what others with healing quirks thought, especially those that didn't cause fatigue or other side effects to keep the subject subdued?

"Toshinori," Chiyo shook her head. "This is serious."

"I know," the Number One hero told her before gesturing for her to continue.

"All right, the strain on your hamstrings and ligaments will heal. Moving up to your groin and abdomen," she sighed heavily. "Your guts have been stitched together from the bits we could find. Your large intestine is about a third shorter than it should be and your small intestine is about half as long. You're on a whole suite of antibiotics to reduce the chance of infection and of course healing quirks have been used but there are going to be lifelong consequences. Your left kidney is gone and we had to cut down your liver down to save it. I don't know who you thank that your spleen is intact because your stomach and left lung took the brunt of the damage. And they have both been removed. Your heart had shrapnel in it and we had to stitch that back up." Shrapnel was not the right term. Bone was but it had acted in the same manner.

A lot of quirk healing had been done on his heart, and to give his body strength to endure. With wounds that bad the patient needed a lot of strength to pull through.

"You know what that means though, don't you?" Chiyo asked. Over the time she had learned that when discussing life changing news, it was best to make the patient say the words. It might be cruel but it made them accept it more.

It was odd to see All Might sigh. "I can't," he said finally.

"You can't what?"

"I can't retire," he told her.

Chiyo shook her head. "With these injuries, you aren't going to have a choice. You can't get into another battle!"

"I have to," he told her.

At that, Chiyo knew she wasn't speaking to Toshinori, but to All Might, the number one Hero. "You don't have to comfort me," she snapped. "You have to acknowledge reality," Chiyo added with a glare.

"The country needs a Pillar."

She shook her head. Definitely speaking with the number one hero and not the man. "At what cost?" Chiyo asked instead. "You can't go on with those injuries. Accept it, that you got him and retire on that note."

All Might shook his head. "Now is not the time. The country would be thrown into turmoil if I retire now. I have to continue."

Chiyo sighed again, blowing out her breath heavily and gave up for the moment. She knew when it was a lost cause. "See me about your diet when you are checked out," she said instead. "Though I know my colleagues will talk to you about that, but I can provide extra information," Chiyo clarified. She had faith that the Doctors would be giving Toshinori a full run down but she knew he probably wouldn't listen. When he ran into problems, she'd be there to sort him out.

He was going to run into problems if not with his digestion then with pins and needles in his left leg from compromised circulation, with blood or liquid on his remaining lung, with a whole host of potential problems that would arise from injuries that bad.

She took a step back, shaking her head as the Commissioner of the Hero Public Safety Commission stepped forward.

"Sir," Toshinori greeted Commissioner Haruta.

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