"...Don't you think you owe me an explanation?"
Seeing V furrow her brow, Berry knew things were about to get serious.
Sure enough, V crossed her long legs and began her interrogation of the now-fed Berry.
The content of the interrogation was naturally obvious: why Berry had gotten herself into such a state.
Looking at Berry, who was clutching her head and looking pitiful, V felt both sorry for her and exasperated.
After receiving that confusing phone call, she had been scared half to death.
She thought Berry was in danger, so she grabbed her gun, got into the car, and hit the road.
Berry's last communication signal was located in the Hive Tower, and V was so panicked that her hands were shaking.
And when she activated the surveillance through the backup program left in the Hive Tower and searched repeatedly, seeing Berry lying unconscious on the basement floor, V completely lost it.
At that moment, she felt a string snap in her brain with a 'pop,' and she froze on the spot, completely helpless.
She still couldn't fully recall how she felt then. It was as if her entire thought process had instantly frozen, momentarily forgetting even sadness.
Only the image of Berry lying on the ground, her condition unknown, echoed in her mind, leaving no room for other concerns.
V didn't know how she rushed into the basement, or how, upon finding Berry still breathing, she became ecstatic yet desperately anxious, carrying her into the car and rushing to Viktor's Clinic.
And finally... she clearly remembered the scene where Viktor, looking utterly baffled, informed her that Berry had fainted due to hypoglycemia.
Yes, hypoglycemia. If she had stayed unconscious for a bit longer, Berry would have woken up on her own.
In that moment, V looked at Berry, who was sleeping soundly with her eyes closed on the operating chair, and wished she could strangle her with her own hands.
Of course, this was just fantasy time.
In reality, the moment V learned Berry was fine, she instantly collapsed onto the floor like a pile of fallen blocks, startling Viktor so much he almost went to find a spare operating chair.
Knowing Berry was safe, V felt her body and mind relax as if a heavy stone had been dropped. It wasn't until she sat down on a chair that she realized her hands and feet were constantly shaking, and she couldn't stop them.
This condition only barely subsided just now.
V admitted that she had been thoroughly terrified, without a doubt.
When the image of Berry lying on the ground, her life status unknown, suddenly pierced her vision, just like the nightmares she used to have, V realized that reality was a hundred times more painful than any dream.
She simply couldn't accept a world without Berry.
In that second, she felt the entire world shatter before her.
Everything in her vision turned gray and white, and even the sounds around her were indistinct, as if separated by a thick wall.
It wasn't until Berry, breathing steadily, was asleep on the bed that V repeatedly kissed and stroked Berry's cheeks, forehead, and ears.
Feeling Berry's rising and falling breath and her strong heartbeat, clearly knowing that Berry was still alive in this world, V slowly regained her composure.
Everything around her slowly returned to normal.
It was like a person who had drowned was rescued and returned to the world of the living.
Therefore, looking at the now lively and jumping Berry, who was apologetic and sincerely admitting her mistake, V wished she could just grab her and spank her bottom.
In that moment, she truly believed she had lost Berry.
But in the end, all of V's indignation and frustration turned into a sigh.
In the silence, V reached out her hand toward Berry.
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