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Since Sorey and Velvet arrived at the clinic, the old doctor work over the night to heal them initially. Now the doctor finally gets a moment to rest, he takes off the scrub and sits on the sofa.
“It’s a hard day, here.” The old woman brews a coffee for the doctor.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9pVGAg0fpj
“It has been a while to see you working hard like this.” She added.
“Thanks. They are unexpected, but it is not like they are chasing after me and come to hurt us. Besides, I am a doctor, I will help anyone in need.” The doctor took the coffee and comments on the two sudden clients.
“Even there are people looking for your skills, you haven't changed.”
“Oops, my mind is too old to change.” The doctor made a joke for his stubbornness.
“That's why I love you, dear.” The old lady laughed.
“My pleasure, did you get their identity? The female looks similar to the one I saved in the lost tower but they have different iris color.”
“Better to think they are not related. I haven't got them, they seem not having any identity documents, hard to believe. One thing to be sure, they went through a lot before arriving here.” She commented based on their unhealthy condition and the serious injury on the girl.
“Suspicious but safe, maybe.” The doctor commented.
“You can't define in such early stage.” The lady suggested.
“I won't, we will have to observe.”
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Velvet POV17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0BJR0BUKKV
None known of time, no longer the shaky carriage, I woke up in a place in white color style, I guess it is the same place as my previous wake. I can feel my body is heavy as if some metal poured into it and the pain remains to keep me awake now. More to doubt, I actually feel a bit cold in here and felt the warmth from the stranger back then, this should not be possible as long as I am a daemon.
“Good morning, lady, you finally awake.” sound like I pass away for a long time and I have just noticed there is an old man standing next to me.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6fJhoZWp8e
“......Where am I?” I searched the answer directly from this old man, it is dangerous to me if everything keeps unknown to me. I don’t know what does he need from me so I can’t trust him completely.
“A clinic, you are lucky that a boy sent you here. You lost your left arm with the body condition of malnutrition and defatigation, the wound of your left arm cut left unprocessed for numerous years. I just don't understand how you lived still. You should expect a serious pain during the processing of wound.” He stated he is a doctor and he described my conditions with a little vicious tone, but I suppose he warned me for my sake.
The doctor said the “left arm cut”, then I noticed my arm is gone. I am not used to it, the left arm just brings too many things to me, it recalled the worst memory from me.
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Arthur pierced Laphicet’s chest before me and he fell Laphi into the endless pit in the shrine.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoBzKhb6dkq
I had to stop this, at least I had to try to save Laphi from this, there has to be hope, there must!17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLqUwNVZfOX
To run and grab Laphi’s hand, I even managed to struggle out from the flaming constraint of the unknown magical power. I don’t care, I have to save Laphicet, he is the meaning of my life. I don’t know why he was stopping to come but I would grab him from falling down and I grabbed him successfully.
My left hand is the only hand grabbing the edge of the pit, there Arthur walked slowly up to the edge, staring me from the top, like those eyes no longer belong to the one I knew.
“Let him go. This offering is too important to the world.” He coldly commented.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMdOMJKZxRi
I was scared by his eyes and his cold sentence but I told myself to believe him once more.
I asked him for reasons but I only got those unacceptable answers from him.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV3p67OW4Na
I denied his answer, there must be a way to save Laphicet.
“Ever a slave to emotion.” He again coldly stated the comment.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm2rSlcGrpD
He raised his sword, sharply cut my left arm through the bone, without any hesitation.
I was shocked, my eyes widened to glare him unbelievably, but what respond me was still those cold eyes, there was not even a waver in his eyes.
How could he do this?! Without any hesitation, to hurt and kill his family. I thought we were family!
Whatever…...I was falling…...and it’s not like I could a way to go up again.
Then I see Laphicet eaten by a golden dragon with numerous of the head, I couldn’t help but felt unforgiving to Arthur.
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“Hello? Miss? Are you Okay?” The doctor frowned as he observed my temporary catalepsy.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJNwlZLDSqx
“....ah...yeah, I am fine.” I broke out of my bad memory.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgGITp4rNR1
“Great then,...Any inquiries?” He relieved for me not getting any serious case than it already has.
“Where is the boy?” I tried to sit up, but it is hurt, I feel extreme pain from my abdomen when I contract the Abdominal muscle and the doctor stopped me immediately.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYAoAZraavs
“Don't move! It affects your wound, it is miraculous that your wound didn't get infected. The boy is sleeping on the bed on your right, he isn't armless but in the same condition to you as well. You two should just rest! I will go get some pain-killer to you later.” The doctor criticized at the careless of the boy and me. Seeing his tensity around patients, I believed he is really a doctor. If anything he will want from me, it will be the Medical expenses.
“Okay, thank you.” I slightly tilted my head to the right and see a brown-hair boy slept peacefully, he should be the one who carried me here. I wonder why he did that.
The old doctor left the room and call someone here with some grumbling of us. He may be fierce, but the doctor is a doctor, I can feel that he truly cares about his patients, even for a sudden arrival like us. Maybe all doctors are like that.
After a while, an old lady got in. She replaces a new set of bandages to my left arm and injected something in my arm. I think that the pain-killer the doctor said, as the pain from my arm is alleviated. It didn't remove all my sense, I can still feel the dry finger touch from her. Accurately, I felt being touch but not sensing the detail from the surface, it is like my sensation filtered by something strange and empty. Honestly, it is a bit scary.
Not like the old doctor, the old lady is not talkative, but that does not mean she doesn’t have a heart, she shows her concern too. I thought that she would ask for some information about the incidents and my family, then I will just respond with a fake story, but she didn’t. Instead, she shows her concern shortly, clearly and simply.
“poor girl, it must be painful.” Then she expressed her simple empathy softly.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu3jxi8ZFvJ
“I don’t sense the pain after the pain-killer injection.”17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ19TPl6B4mA
“I am not saying this pain….I am saying the pain in here.” She touched lightly my heart position on the chest that is separated by the sternum.
I can't make a voice in that time, I feel like something choked in my throat and tears sightly slid down my cheek. I can't help but think of the old lady lived in the Aball village, who taught me words and told me ancient tales when I was a child. Although she had a memory problem and had little to do with me, she was as good as my family. Sometimes she gave me candies, she comforted me when Celica was gone. I cried unconsciously and soundlessly in front of her when she spoke of Celica, then she wiped away my tears with her finger, her fingers are rough but also soft. The old lady in the clinic did the same thing now, wiping away my tears. She said no words, but that is enough for me.
“Now rest, girl.” She said after made me taking the sleeping pills.
Sleepiness slowly invades my brain and I guess I may have a nostalgic dream.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpSKdKvo0wd
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Sorey POV17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxok4qiYEp1
I remember that I fell down in the clinic yesterday, the old doctor is already next to me when I woke up. My body becomes sore and heavy, never have been that fragile.
The doctor told me that we were in the Tewks village and he asked me for some information about Velvet and me, I barely answer the questions since I knew only a few things from Velvet and this Age.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDoYe0DMWJr
“Are you the Shepherd? I see your cape pattern just like......” that is the only question surprised me.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQLutvZyhy1
“Well...I was?” I told him the fact.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvVWoouLhc3
“you were...oh, oh haha...” he chuckled, maybe he thought I made a joke.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtd2sCwQZoS
If true, I can't complain. As I am not able to help people with the so-called special power of Shepherd without the help of seraphim. I am now only a human being who is able to see seraph.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDCBsSEqVGy
“Shepherd or not, I shall ask if you have money to pay?” the topic changed realistically.
I am shocked helplessly, I found myself completely missing everything, cause there isn’t a plan from the beginning and I was used to relying on seraphim on the healing.
I have no currency in this age.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9qILb1YZGs
“I am sorry, we don't, but may we stay and help instead?” I suggested the last thing we are able to do.
“Fine then. And you should rest more to recover yourself faster!”17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCC1SxHzSdr
“I will, thank you very much!” It is really lucky to meet such a kind doctor to help us without really minding of money.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBaPIZSfW8f
As the old doctor advice, I lie in bed.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡduthrgy9jX
I am tired but not sleepy, it is boring to glare at the white ceiling. I start thinking of things.
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The doctor told me that both Velvet and we have the problems of malnutrition and defatigation. I guess this may be related to the long sleep of us. Our health condition is not maintained during the slumbering, so our body may slowly malfunction. Both of us didn't intake anything since we slept, Velvet may have eaten Innominat's malevolence, but she was also eaten by him, and that should not call food either.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpQb72l3ih8
For the defatigation, I guess it is because I carried Velvet from the throne with an empty stomach and I don't know the case of Velvet, maybe she overworked in her journey. I felt nothing until I arrived at the clinic, maybe I should thank Maotelus blessing. The blessing may just lengthen the time of supporting my body, like a temporary boost of stamina and fatigue, without it, I can't get both of us to find a nearby village for a doctor.
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It is strange to be alone, actually, Velvet is next to me, but she is still a stranger to me, I only knew her through Maotelus.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlId6CaMrnK
In the past time, Mikleo will always by my side, when I was small, when I explored ruins, even when I became the Shepherd.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBrT8YFfg67
There is seldom a conversation without him.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPTxOxvK0il
There will not be anyone to tell me the next step to do.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgcW0WlamkN
This is the second time I recognized that I am alone, I miss everyone, like the time Heldalf blocked out my resonance.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGpUtjyFluX
Mikleo, Lailah, Edna, Zaveid, Alisha, Rose and Gramps, I miss them all, but I don't know where are they now. My human friend—Alisha and Rose have probably died already. This Age is far different from my time. I guess I may still find some trace they left, I hope.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEOcjpsfjoe
I am not a Shepherd anymore, someone may be doing the job with Lailah right now. Now I think of the line I beg the doctor to let Velvet and me work here. It will mean we will make a living here, at least for a while. Then I wonder what life should be, I have never truly lived a human life even when I was a Shepherd. It is more like I was the observer to lives, I can't help much with their living, as I was the Shepherd. I hope it will be fine and I hope Velvet won't be mad at me for my sudden decision.
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