“Hurry, take her! We have two injured here!”
Saga and Xiao Mo were rushing through the academy with Aurora and Xia in their arms.
The academy had a designated potion room, and they were flying straight towards it.
“Is there a pharmacist here to help? Someone is seriously injured!”
Saga called out desperately around the potion room while holding the barely breathing Aurora.
Before long, a woman in a white coat appeared.
“Bring her here!”
Saga followed the black-haired woman into a spacious infirmary and gently laid Aurora down on the pristine white sheets.
“There’s another girl injured. She should be looking for a pharmacist now. I’ll go find her!”
With that, she hurried out of the room to search for Xiao Mo.
Without hesitation, the black-haired pharmacist stepped forward to examine Aurora’s injuries.
Aurora’s body was covered in wounds of all sizes, blood continuously seeping out.
Some of the wounds had become infected and were oozing pus.
The most severe bleeding was from the scarred wound on her wrist.
The pharmacist then infused her magical energy into Aurora’s bloodstream, tracing through her veins to assess the damage to her organs.
“There’s a foreign object inside, but thankfully no organs are damaged.”
“She’s losing too much blood and is close to shock.”
She immediately called out across the empty infirmary, “Saline solution, prepare for emergency infusion!”
No sooner had she spoken than a small water-colored spirit emerged from behind her.
The spirit fluttered its wings gently and landed on Aurora’s wrist.
The next moment, its tiny hand transformed into a slender thread that slowly probed into Aurora’s veins.
“Keep her blood circulating within the vessels, and remove the contaminated blood before injecting paralyzing magic.”
The spirit nodded vigorously at the command, then closed its eyes.
A blue magic circle gradually appeared on its forehead.
The woman put on a homemade mask and plastic gloves, silently chanting a spell as she covered herself with a purification magic.
She then cleansed Aurora’s body once more before picking up a scalpel and beginning the debridement process.
*****
Meanwhile,
Saga searched anxiously outside the door for quite some time until she finally spotted a worried Xiao Mo.
But the purple-haired girl they were looking for was nowhere to be seen.
“Xiao Mo!”
Saga ran over to her and asked urgently, “What about that girl? Did the pharmacist take her away?”
She shook her head. “No…”
“She ran off.”
“Ran off?! In that condition, how could she still move?”
“She said she couldn’t let the Head Instructor know she left without permission, and then she ran. I even tried chasing her with a broom, but I couldn’t catch up.”
“Forget her for now! Let’s check on Eve’s condition!”
Grabbing Xiao Mo’s wrist, Saga hurried towards the infirmary.
When they reached the door, they noticed a white magic circle locking the door.
They recognized this simple magic—it was a spell to lock the door.
“Why… would she lock it?”
Could it be that the healing magic she was performing wasn’t supposed to be seen by others?
With no other choice, the two sat anxiously outside the door, waiting.
Just then, another pharmacist in a white coat walked by.
He stopped abruptly in front of the door.
His pupils contracted sharply as he pointed at the door and asked the two, “Who’s in there?”
“There’s a pharmacist treating my friend,” Saga replied.
“What does he look like?” the pharmacist asked nervously.
“She’s got long black hair and wears glasses…”
“Oh no…”
He quickly approached the door and suddenly raised his foot, kicking the door hard as he shouted inside, “Zhang Wanrou, come out here!”
When there was no response, he kicked the door again.
Saga and Xiao Mo stared in disbelief.
What was he doing? Why did it seem like he didn’t want that pharmacist to treat her?
Could it be?!
A ridiculous thought flashed through Saga’s mind.
She suddenly stood up, trembling as she pointed at the door and stammered, “Co-co-could that pharmacist be a fake?”
“Could she have taken a liking to Eve’s beauty and be doing all sorts of things to her?”
Hearing this, Xiao Mo jumped up too.
She didn’t want to believe such absurd speculation, but the fact that the pharmacist locked the door during treatment, coupled with the strange behavior of the male pharmacist, made her’s thoughts run wild.
They exchanged a glance, the unspoken meaning clear between them.
They both ran to the door and joined the male pharmacist in kicking it.
Saga kicked and shouted, “If you dare do anything to her, I won’t forgive you!!”
Bang!
The door suddenly opened.
The three were caught off guard and stumbled to the ground.
The black-haired woman walked up to the door, removed her mask and gloves, and immediately burned them in her hands.
She glanced at the footprints on the door and then at the three on the ground, sighing helplessly, “Were you fighting right outside my door?”
“Don’t play dumb!”
The male pharmacist got up, dusted off his white coat, and angrily pointed at her, “How many times have I told you not to treat patients with your twisted methods! You never listen!”
But the black-haired woman remained indifferent.
She summoned the spirit to use water magic to wash her hands and casually said, “I’ve told you many times, this is the safest treatment method. Using only magic to heal can cause patients to suffer worse illnesses.”
“You!”
He suddenly remembered something and glanced sideways at the girl behind the woman.
Seeing the girl unharmed, he finally relaxed.
“Miss Eve!”
Saga hurriedly stood up and ran over to Aurora’s side.
Seeing her wounds all bandaged and the dirt cleaned away, it seemed she hadn’t been mistreated.
Saga still turned angrily to the black-haired woman and demanded, “Did you do anything inappropriate to her?”
“Inappropriate?”
The black-haired woman asked in confusion.
“You know, like taking her clothes off!”
“Oh, I did.”
“You!!!”
“How else can you perform surgery without removing clothes?”
“Surgery?”
The strange word left Saga and Xiao Mo stunned for a moment before they asked, “What do you mean by surgery?”
“It’s a forbidden technique!” the man suddenly interrupted.
“Surgery is a dark art that involves cutting open a person’s flesh, removing organs and tissues! It’s something she developed herself!”
“Cut open?!”
Saga looked over Aurora’s body again, searching for any cuts, but found none.
Could it be hidden under the bandages?
“Stop looking. I used a scarless water magic cutting technique. You won’t find any incision marks.”
“Then why don’t you use magic to heal her?”
“Emm, do you know what ‘atypical hyperplasia’ means?”