"Mm... I've recovered. Walking isn't much of a problem anymore."
Feeling the gazes around him, Chiba nodded. He did not hesitate much despite the sudden silence in the room.
That morning, while attempting to refine Chakra—just as He Yin and the others were seeing off the children on duty—after failing twice, he felt a soundless roar within his consciousness. At that instant, a large amount of physical energy burst forth simultaneously from the cells that had previously been unable to refine any energy.
His Chakra had recovered! Startled, caught between shock and wild joy, he abruptly sprang to his feet. Perhaps he had been too excited; in the process, he accidentally knocked over the iron pot beside him, and his hand brushed against a piece of burning firewood in the campfire. Fortunately, it had only grazed it. Otherwise, if his instinctive fling had scattered the campfire, the place would truly have become a mess.
Still, his arm had been burned because of it. Though it had only grazed the fire, his hand had practically passed through the flames. Combined with the burn he had already gotten from knocking over the iron pot, that was why Zong Mi and the others had found him in that state when they rushed in.
The bit about an experiment had been a lie Chiba had made up instinctively. As for why he had lied, even Chiba did not know. It had simply seemed like an instinctive reaction.
It was as if he did not want these orphans to know that he had frightened himself so badly that he got burned.
Somehow, that made him feel a little embarrassed.
At the same time, after standing up and recovering his Chakra, the weakness and numb pain in his legs had vanished without a trace. Not only