[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-as-a-mafia-boss-i-refuse-to-be-an-extra":3,"chapter-as-a-mafia-boss-i-refuse-to-be-an-extra-as-a-mafia-boss-i-refuse-to-be-an-extra-chapter-126":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","As A Mafia Boss, I Refuse To Be An Extra",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},154904,290,"Chapter 126: Hospital I","as-a-mafia-boss-i-refuse-to-be-an-extra-chapter-126",126,"\u003Cp>The hospital room was sterile white, filled with the soft beeping of medical equipment monitoring Damian’s vital signs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He lay on the bed unconscious, his body wrapped in bandages covering the numerous wounds from the demon battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His breathing was steady but shallow, face pale from blood loss despite the emergency treatment he’d received.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The air shimmered near the window.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kuro materialized from the shadows, having just completed his own breakthrough to C- rank while Damian had been fighting for his life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes. The raven was undergoing his breakthrough as Damian was traveling home, so he wasn’t able to help Damian during his fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The raven’s red eyes immediately locked onto Damian’s bandaged form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a moment, Kuro just stared, processing what he was seeing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His bond partner, his companion. The human who’d fed him death energy and trained alongside him and accepted him without question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Broken, battered and covered in wounds that spoke of desperate, brutal combat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something that might have been panic flooded through Kuro’s enhanced consciousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His intelligence had grown significantly with the breakthrough, bringing with it more complex emotions than the simple instincts he’d operated on before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could understand now, really understand, what it meant that Damian had been injured this badly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could have died! He might still die if the wounds were severe enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thought terrified him in ways his previous simpler mind couldn’t have comprehended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kuro flew to the bed and landed gently on Damian’s chest, careful not to press on any injuries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His head lowered, rubbing against Damian’s face with frantic, desperate movements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tears formed in his red eyes, actual tears, sliding down his beak as he made soft distressed sounds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Wake up. Please wake up. Don’t leave me alone.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The emotions were overwhelming, flooding through their bond connection even though Damian was unconscious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damian’s eyes fluttered open slowly, consciousness returning in gradual stages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything hurt... Every muscle, every bone and every cell in his body was screaming protest at the abuse it had endured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the first thing he registered wasn’t pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the wet sensation on his face and the distressed sounds of his companion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Kuro?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His voice came out hoarse, damaged from screaming during the battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The raven’s head pulled back slightly, his red eyes wide and wet with tears, his entire body trembling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Understanding dawned in Damian’s eyes despite the pain and exhaustion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kuro had broken through while unconscious, missed the entire battle, and woken to find his bond partner nearly dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hey, it’s okay. I’m alright. We’re both alright.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damian’s hand came up slowly, every movement costing effort, and gently stroked Kuro’s feathers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You broke through to C- rank, didn’t you? I can feel it through our bond. Your Aura is much stronger now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kuro nuzzled into his hand, still making distressed sounds, clearly not reassured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know. I know I look terrible. But I survived, Kuro. We both survived. That’s what matters.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The raven gradually calmed under the gentle stroking, his tears stopping, though he remained pressed close to Damian’s hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’He seems more intelligent now and more aware. Which means more capable of fear. That’s the price of consciousness, isn’t it?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damian smiled slightly despite the pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Come on, let’s get me healed up properly so you stop worrying.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pushed himself into a sitting position with considerable effort, his broken ribs protesting every movement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kuro hopped to his shoulder, staying close, his talons careful not to dig into damaged flesh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damian closed his eyes and activated his self-healing skill, channeling his Aura through his body systematically.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The skill had improved significantly with his breakthrough to C- rank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could feel it working faster, more efficiently, directing healing energy to the worst injuries first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Broken bones began knitting back together. Torn muscles started repairing and internal bleeding slowed and stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wouldn’t heal everything immediately. Some damage was too severe for rapid recovery. But it would stabilize him and reduce recovery time from weeks to days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was maybe five minutes into the healing process when the hospital room door burst open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"DAMIAN!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luna practically flew across the room and crashed into him, wrapping her arms around him in a desperate hug.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The impact drove the air from his healing lungs and sent fresh pain through his injured ribs, but Damian didn’t push her away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He just held her, one arm coming up to wrap around his sister’s trembling form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m okay, Luna. I’m–\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>SLAP.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound echoed through the hospital room like a gunshot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luna had pulled back and struck him across the face with enough force to snap his head to the side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Kuro scrambled away in shock, launching from Damian’s shoulder to perch on the window sill, his intelligent eyes wide with confusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could sense this girl wasn’t a threat. He could even feel the immense love radiating from her toward Damian through some instinct he didn’t fully understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So why had she hit him? What was happening? Is this how love is shared among humans?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damian stared at his sister in complete shock, his hand going to his stinging cheek, his long crimson hair falling across his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lyandra and Alaric entered the room behind Luna, stopping just inside the doorway as they witnessed the scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The image was eerily familiar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Norrington incident. When Luna had tried to sacrifice herself to save others from the terrorists.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Damian had saved her and then slapped her for the first and only time in his life, scolding her for throwing her life away so carelessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now she was returning that slap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The symbolism wasn’t lost on any of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You... you HYPOCRITE!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luna’s voice shook with fury and fear and desperate relief all mixed together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tears were streaming down her face, her silver eyes blazing with emotion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You scolded me back then! You slapped me and yelled at me for putting my life on the line for strangers!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You said I was being stupid and reckless and that my life was worth more than throwing it away for people I didn’t even know!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her hands were clenched into fists at her sides.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And now you do the EXACT SAME THING! You stand there against seven Demons – SEVEN DEMONS, Damian! – to protect people you’d never met!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You almost died! We all watched you almost die on those live streams! How is that any different from what I did? How are you not being even more foolish than I was?\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1083,"2026-05-29T04:31:49.425Z","2026-06-01T04:29:09.863Z",1,"novelbin.me","ebe9d6c7e73300554db081207203530d54e761b93c8e3d071e83f5313905b3af","as-a-mafia-boss-i-refuse-to-be-an-extra-chapter-127","as-a-mafia-boss-i-refuse-to-be-an-extra-chapter-125",318,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fas-a-mafia-boss-i-refuse-to-be-an-extra-cover.jpg"]