A Family

At dawn, the gentle spring breeze gradually awakened the sleeping city.

No one could now determine the exact date when St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries had been founded. People only knew that Mungo Bonham had established it in the early sixteenth or seventeenth century. At first, it had merely been a small hospital made up of several old brick houses.

Thanks to Mungo Bonham's superb healing skills, the magical hospital's reputation steadily grew. More and more like-minded wizards joined Bonham's team, and once its name had spread far and wide, many people traveled great distances to seek treatment for injuries and illnesses caused by all manner of magical accidents.

With the vigorous promotion of those recovered patients, Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries gradually became famous throughout the British wizarding world. The hospital rapidly expanded in scale and eventually gained the recognition of the Ministry of Magic, which bestowed upon it the title of "St."

But Bonham had made a mistake when founding the hospital.

To avoid Muggles, he had initially chosen a remote area on the outskirts of London. Yet Muggles expanded far faster than he had imagined. By the time the wizards came to their senses, the hospital they relied on had already been surrounded by Muggle buildings.

As a result, St Mungo's, which needed to provide patients with a peaceful environment for recuperation, could not even find a patch of land to build a fresh-air garden. All the patients had no choice but to remain in cramped, stifling wards.

Perhaps to completely isolate recuperating wizards from the disturbances of Muggle daily life while also accommodating the patients' need for sunlight, all the ward windows had been set high in the walls. Therefore, by the time the sunlight streaming through a window about the