Chapter 162: The Wounded
What can you do for your friends?
This question may be very common, and different people naturally have different answers to this question - and sometimes what they do is different from what they give. Some people do not hesitate to sacrifice their lives for the sake of their friends, while others will betray their friends for petty profits.
But for this common question, Lizzie does not know how to answer, she is indeed unlikely to betray her friend, but it is also unlikely that she will pay too much price for her friend's danger. For a more precise definition, she didn't even know how to confirm the status of her friend.
How do you define whether a person is a friend or someone who has to act together for some reason? After all, it is only based on the feelings of the individual.
The problem is that relationships are often not solved by "what you think" - even if Lizzie doesn't think of certain people as her friends, it doesn't prevent those people from unilaterally treating her as friends and then restricting her actions by asking for "friends".
This is also the reason why Lizzie hates human interaction, the complexity of the human heart is no less than the most profound spells, and Lizzie prefers to study more efficient and advanced spells than such elusive personal feelings, and although she is willing to observe human behavior, she does not want to be involved in it.
This time, however, Lizzie's hunch was a little wrong, and Mio Disstad was not like the paranoid people she was tired of trying to force others to do what they wanted. On the contrary, this nagging little girl is a counterexample, and she seems to be forcing her behavior to conform to her status as a "friend".
"About the time we went to help Oscar's classmate and his friend...... Mio's expression looked a little guilty. I've been keeping my head down and struggling with the choice of words, "Not only did I not help much, but I became a burden - so I boasted that I wanted to help you......"
It started early in the morning when Lizzie came to the academy. Mio has been trying to find an opportunity to explain the whole story to Lizzie. But for some reason, it seemed that there was always an invisible force blocking her, and it wasn't until after school that she was able to talk to Lizzie without being disturbed.
Whether for oneself or for others, emotional bigotry is always bigotry - there must be a reason for too strong feelings. While speaking, Lizzie noticed that when Mio was "apologizing" to herself for Oscar's affairs, there was always a faint hint of uneasiness in her expression.
Obviously, such feelings are obviously not directed at themselves. It's also not quite like a creed based on a person. Mio is also a member of the Holy Episcopal Sect, but Lizzie doesn't know that the sect's doctrine has a clause "must help your friends", and at most she only asks for help as much as she can.
But these are only the details. Lizzie doesn't mind anyone feeling guilty about herself, especially if that guilt can be exploited. Mio's apology wasn't where she paid attention, but it was the information that was inadvertently slaughtered from her mouth that caught her attention.
First of all, the part that is known, this information that François has already told Sù Curt. Oscar was slightly injured in the battle with the Black Knight. At the same time, he spent the whole day in his hospital bed due to overexertion, and the members of Danvers' research team fell unconscious from the exertion of his mana. They recovered earlier than Oscar.
But the rest is a bit intriguing: "Danfoss seniors are still in a coma, although there are no external injuries on the body, and the magic power has returned to normal levels, but he has not yet regained consciousness. Like him, Hepburn heard that the two of them were in a very similar situation......"
Dean François did not tell Sù Curt that the apprentices were in a coma - he only told the Sù Curt apprentices that they were "out of danger" and that the Academy would take care of the rest.
Indeed, his contract with Curte did not require him to share all the information, especially the information that might affect the reputation of the Academy. However, this is an incident related to the registration staff of the mercenary management office. Whether it's intentional or not, withholding information always doesn't feel right.
And it also has a special meaning for Lizzie. After all, she is also somewhat responsible for causing the current ending. If it weren't for the fact that she wanted the black-clad mage to point out the gathering place of the True Eye, it might have been the other way things would have taken place.
However, regret is useless after all, and the things that have already been born do not have the slightest "if" meaning. Now that the choice has been made, and the choice has led to the result, the only way to react is to the fait accompli - and Lizzie can at least do what she can to remedy it.
So now that the day's classes were over, Lizzie was led by Mio to the infirmary building located in the central area of Catrice Academy. She wanted to see for herself what it was like to be born to Hepburn and Danfoss - it was so unusual for someone to be unconscious for a week without any abnormalities.
The medical building of Catrice College is larger than many of the city's regular hospitals, and one wonders if a college "hospital" needs to be built so large. This modern building, which has only been completed in recent years, is clean and equipped with state-of-the-art equipment.
Although this building is not only responsible for medical services for the students of the college, but also open to everyone in the community. But in fact, there are very few patients in this medical building, and in the past few days, a large number of people have been admitted to the hospital at once, which has made the medical staff busy all at once.
"Here we are, this is ......" Mio said with a sad face, her expression depressed all the way to bring Lizzie here, "Danfoss seniors and Oscar's friends are sleeping here - there were a few more people, but they all recovered a few days ago." ”
It's a spacious ward, and it's quite luxurious compared to the regular hospitals in the lower city. A room larger than a regular eight-person room in the college dormitory had four neat beds, and a few chairs for visitors in the remaining spaces.
"Miss Lizzie, it turns out that your body has recovered?" there was already a patient in the ward, and he shouted with some surprise when he saw Liqi, "Mio told me a few days ago that you were at home on vacation because of your old illness, and I thought you were in danger there." ”
Oscar's appearance in the ward did not surprise the two of them at all, and with his habit, it would seem abnormal if he didn't come to see Hepburn every day. Mio comes here every day because of his guilt, and naturally knows that Oscar will appear here every day.
When Curt brought Lizzie out, Oscar had already been sent back to the academy by them, and he naturally didn't know about Lizzie's situation. Although he has some understanding of Liqi's power, in his opinion, Liqi is just a girl of the same age with relatively strong magical powers.
What makes Oscar even more concerned is that both Lizzie and Curt have bad faces, which makes him dissatisfied with their health while admiring their strength. Although they argued that it was nothing more than some incurable family genetic disease, it still did not dispel his concerns.
Especially Liqi, not only does she have a bad face, but her body also looks weak. Perhaps Lizzie's skeletated body is more powerful than Oscar, who is basically healthy, but it still feels extremely fragile - like hard, brittle glass.
"It's just self-inflicted, at least for now, there's nothing wrong with my body. But Lizzie apparently didn't care about his concerns, and then she turned to Hepburn and Danvers, who were unconscious in the hospital bed, and asked, "It's the symptoms of the two of them, what did the doctor say?"
There's nothing wrong with Lizzie's body, and she's just a way to disguise her identity - and while the size of the setting is convincing, Lizzie sometimes feels uncomfortable because of the unnecessary worries of others.
Mio's stuff contains a lot of refueling and vinegar, but it's basically not too much of a problem. Hepburn and Danvers, lying in the same room, not only did not show the slightest sign of injury, but also breathed smoothly and looked as usual, almost as if they were sleeping.
Both of them looked like they were normal on the outside, but they both seemed to be missing something important, and it was this lack of something that had prevented the two of them from regaining their consciousness to this day. Lizzie could see that the magic in both of their bodies was still maintaining a strange structure.
Although the magic power in the two of them is abundant and stable at a glance, it is actually draining in a subtle degree. This loss is slow and insidious, like the normal escape of the mana in the body under normal conditions - the problem is that the escaped mana disappears somewhere.
"Those guys say they're normal, but they haven't been able to recover because their mana has escaped too much. Oscar said irritably, "God, I've never heard of a man who can be overused to make a person unconscious for a week." ”
Indeed - Lizzie was about to say this, but was interrupted by a voice from outside the door: "You're not a professional, I don't know what's so strange." I can understand your urgency, but you'd better cooperate with our work than complain for no reason. ”
The person who spoke appeared to be a doctor in the infirmary, an obese and short man. He wore a neat white lab coat over his pinstriped shirt, looking cold and tired. Lizzie has seen all kinds of doctors, but this one seems a little cold and excessive.
The doctor slowly walked into the ward, his gaze first staring at the two people on the hospital bed, and then sweeping over the three people who visited the patient one by one with a cold and unemotional gaze. Eventually, his gaze rested on the sickly look on Lizzie's face, as if he were looking at a patient with a dying life.
Uncomfortable guy, Lizzie leaned slightly sideways, trying to get out of the doctor's sight. (To be continued!)
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