"Thank you for your help, Maria."
Lagging by a couple of steps, Adeline finally caught up behind the Female Hunter, clutching her heaving chest as she expressed her gratitude.
The name made Lann cock his head slightly, using a blink to mask the dilation of his pupils caused by shock.
Not only does she look identical to the doll Lann brought from the now-abandoned Hunter Workshop, but the name... also matches the one that suddenly appeared on the doll's hairpiece earlier.
As Adeline spoke, she rolled up the sleeve on her arm and drew out a test tube of blood, handing it to Maria.
Only then did Lann notice that beneath Adeline's uniform, her arm was fitted with a device resembling a retention needle.
In Lann's homeland, the retention needle is used in hospitals for patients requiring large volumes of intravenous fluid or blood transfusions daily; it's a needle left in the blood vessel.
The needle enables the avoidance of daily pricking which burdens the body.
