SPMB - Chapter 13

Unlike the first time, Lucy took out the blanket meekly.

< Sister, Thank you for telling me that you can treat me. I trust my sister. >

She held out a card written in a crooked, clumsy handwriting.

So cute. Hanna smiled after stroking Lucy's hair.

"Lucy, you will be well soon. Instead, you have to believe in all the treatment your sister does and follow them. Got it?"

Nod.

"Good. After tying up your hair so that the back of your head is visible, would you like to lie on your back?"

While doing what her sister told her to, Kanna checks the needle. She picked out acupuncture needles used for most treatments and said quietly.

"Okay then, let's begin."

The nape of Lucy's thin, exposed neck. Upper part of the neck. The moment Kanna want to put the acupuncture on the windpipe,

"What are you doing?"

Kalen grabbed her by the wrists.

"I'm doing the treatment. Let go."

"Are you crazy? Is it medical treatment to stab that sharp thing into raw flesh?"

At that moment, Lucy flinched as if frightened. In response, Kanna's eyes widened wildly.

'What if she was scared?'

When she tense, her muscles stiffen. It is said that pain may occur when the needle enters. That's why it's most important to relax when treating young children.

' This bastard was interfering with that.'

Kanna put her spit down, then placed her hands on the back of Kalen's hands, who was holding her own.

"Should I not do it?'

Kanna asked in a terrifyingly calm manner.

"Shall we all quit? Do nothing and stop here?"

Kalen was speechless. He caught her hands because it looked dangerous, but he couldn't decide if he really wanted to stop it.

"...I have never seen such a treatment anywhere."

"I told you. It's a treatment I discovered while researching alchemy. You trusted me and entrusted me with the treatment. Is it not?"

"..."

"If you're going to do it, do it. And if you're not going to do it, don't. Choose one of the two. There's nothing in the world that happens with such a halfway attitude."

Kalen gritted his teeth. She was weird in too many things.

"How are you so confident?"

Right now, Kanna's face was so confident that it seemed to shine. She would never be able to do this if she had no confidence in her abilities. Is iy why? Kanna seemed right.

Her hands overlapped on the back of his hands seems to know the answer, so he just wanted to hold on to them. He thought he really would grab her. Kalen clenched her fists. However,

'To stab Lucy with something sharp like that.'

Of course, it was made from healing magic stone that is said to restore energy by just holding it.

In addition, it is thinner than a needle, so it seems difficult to injure. There's no Way Lucy will be in danger because of that.

Still, where in the world is such a cure!

How ridiculous!

'But why?'

Why doesn't Kanna look like a quack? Why?

After a moment, Kalen's lips opened.

" I am…"

"..."

"I believe in you. Go on."

"Then, get out of the way."

It was a voice that felt like a doctor’s unique authority.

Kalen hesitated for a moment, but soon complied.

The intruder is now gone. Kanna let out a deep sigh before she touched Lucy’s nervous shoulder.

“Lucy, you said you believed in your sister, didn't you?”

Nod.

Kanna smiled at Lucy’s answer.

“Thank you for saying that. When Lucy is all well, it would be nice for us to go somewhere to play.”

Kanna continued to rub the nape of Lucy’s neck as if loosening it.

“Where would be good? Since the weather is nice, shall we go on a picnic?”

Speaking softly like a breeze, and, tok! Acupuncture was placed on the blood vessels in the neck. Lucy seemed completely unaware of what had happened.

In the meantime, Kanna tapped once more, and let go of the needle.

“We are all going to play in the woods together. There were rabbits and squirrels in the forest.”

She drew Lucy’s attention with a voice that was not in her mind.

Tok.

As Kanna let go of another needle, she heard Kalen’s moaning from behind.

‘That’s really…’

Kanna glared at him with a warning gaze. Then Kalen shut his mouth and turned his face away.

“Should you close your eyes and imagine what you would like to do with the rabbits and the squirrels?”

Kanna started acupuncture treatment in earnest.

She places acupuncture needles in order calmly in the acupoints on the hand and leg side. And in that state, time passes for a while. A time when Lucy is so calm that she falls asleep.

After Kanna pulled out the needle, she woke Lucy up and made her roll her body.

So now is important. From now on, she’s going to spit in Lucy's facial blood, that is, her face, so the key was to calm her down so Lucy wouldn’t be scared.

“Nice job, Lucy. While you closed your eyen and imagined, the treatment was almost finished.”

Then Lucy opened her eyes wide in disbelief.

“This is all because Luci is a good girl. There’s really little left now, but you wouldn’t feel anything like you do now. So let’s close our eyes like now and imagine going out to play when everything is better, got it?”

Nod.

Lucy nodded, and Kanna smiled.

“Nice, Lucy. Really nice.”

Meanwhile, Kalen was looking at her with a disapproving face.

Perhaps it was because Lucy wasn't hurt, his worries had just subsided. Instead, this time a strange complaint rose up.

‘Does our sister have a dual personality?’

They are either very cold to themselves, indifferent , or sullen. But now she is dealing with Lucy as kindly as an angel.

‘The attitude is completely different.’

Different or not, what the matter? Why am I thinking these useless thoughts?

Kalen clicked his tongue belatedly and shook his head.

***

“Amazing.”

Changes were seen after just one treatment.

The muscles in Lucy’s lupus, which had been stiff, were gently loosened and she was able to close them in a circle.

“I didn’t expect the effect to be so immediate.”

Kanna snorted at Kalen’s reaction.

“I told you. I knew it would be like that.”

He didn’t know. He never thought it would work so quickly.

Although she was pretending to be shy, Kanna was cheering in her heart.

‘The effect is better than expected.’

All of this is thanks to the needles made from the healing magic stone.

“In just a few more days, it will be cured. Also, you have to detect the medicines i gave you in packs every day and drink them, got it?

“All right.”

“Then, I will go to bed.”

“Sister.”

“Huh?”

Kalen was looking at her with a face that seemed to want to say something.

“What is it?”

However, Kalen sighed deeply and took a step back.

“No. Just rest.”

What?

However, Kanna didn’t wait any longer and immediately turned around. He seemed to have something to say, but she didn't want to hear it as she insisted.

In fact, she's not even curious.

‘Huh. I’m not curious at all.’

She has no questions about anything.

What Kalen was trying to say, the Adis family, is nothing for her. Just use it out of necessity.

‘Because he hates me anyway. She doesn't want to try to get along with someone like that.’

When she was young, she wanted to look good. To her siblings, to her father, to her mother. So she followed whatever they said.

“Sister, Can't you just stay underground like a rat? I mean, my sister is ashamed.”

“Go away. filth!”

“Stay out of my sight, sister.”

The family cursed at her several times, telling her to stay out of sight and get out of sight. So, Kanna was even more stuck in the lab. She was actually on the run.

She is not hiding because her family hates her. She is alone because she loves alchemy. While comforting and rationalizing herself like this.

‘Stupid guys. What a nice person I am, why do you hate me?’

The people in this house are all idiots. Now Kanna didn't want their love. Rather, she laughed and lay down on the bed.

The accumulated fatigue hit her like a tidal wave.

‘I hope no one wakes me up until I wake up.’










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