"Ms. Bianca... I can't cure it."
"What are you talking about?" I asked as I finished organizing the file, reporting on the general situation in the forest. How absurd...
More than two weeks here, and we still haven't figured out why this happened. Those colossal monsters...
We couldn't get very far because of them.
Sigh...
"Speak up, girl!" On top of everything else... These incompetent or disobedient members. That's what you get for putting together a makeshift squad on the spot.
Look at that. I've been waiting for an answer for a while, and instead of talking, she just got scared.
"... I'm sorry. It's just that every time I try to use mana on that boy, he just starts burning... I... I don't know what's going on."
"...?"
It's not healing?
"Low conductivity?"
"No, ma'am. It doesn't seem to be that. Sure, he does have low conductivity, but that doesn't seem to be the case... Something like this has never happened before. There must be another reason."
"Damn... So there's no way to save him? What a headache. I wanted to see if he knew anything..."
Sigh...
I guess I was expecting too much. No. I'm expecting too much anyway, thinking that a weakling like that knows something.
Probably a zone explorer. He must have survived, by some chance, some "powerful" creature and ended up in that state and found us by chance.
Poor thing. I doubt it's even possible to identify him, but that's not my problem anyway.
It's a shame, but whatever.
"Anything else..."
Just when I was ready to send this girl away, the little bitch continued.
"But he's healing himself, ma'am."
... On his own? How lucky. It must be some kind of ability, then.
"Good. So the boy has a regeneration ability."
"No. It's not that either, Miss Bianca. His arm and eye aren't regenerating... It seems more like his own vitality..."
I narrowed my eyes at that. Even the girl seemed afraid to speak.
"So his mana is being consumed?"
"Yes... That's right. He already seemed to have little mana when you and Theo found him; now he has even less."
"I see... Call me when he wakes up, then."
Curious... Very curious. Recovering from that state with only his vitality? What was going on?
I doubt I could do that myself. So how? How does this boy have such vitality?
Even without the injuries, you could see how bad his body was with one look. Not to mention the tiny amount of mana.
He's clearly a zone explorer; there's no other explanation for him being in the middle of the Amazon like this. Not with everything that's going on...
Wait...
It's been almost three weeks since that colossal mana point appeared on the radar, and we came immediately to do reconnaissance, so the exploration department was probably prevented from moving their men to that area.
So you mean he's been here since before this shit happened? Ridiculous...
Should I put that in the report?
No.
Let's wait a little longer. Who knows, he might actually know something...
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A few hours later, the girl... What was her name again? Lydia? I think that was it. She came to get me because the little monster finally woke up.
I walked around the camp for a while, arriving at the tent where he was...
How ugly...
The boy really wasn't a pretty or pleasant sight, but at least he seemed to be as whole as possible now.
Well... He was at least better than those old men from the government. Barely, but better.
Of course, if there was anything else that caught my attention, it was his smile... It was strangely irritating.
Suddenly, I felt irritated by that silly, somewhat mocking smile. He seemed very positive for someone in that state...
I expected anything but that. What's wrong with him?
Not to mention the filth between his legs under the sheet while he talked to Lydia and ignored me.
Trash...
"Your name... And if you don't put that thing down, don't blame me."
I said as I sat down and interrupted them, showing the knife on my belt...
My sword wouldn't get dirty with trash.
Anyway, the son of a bitch seemed to size me up for a moment before responding...
"Sorry. Sorry. I swear it's not my fault... I was kind of isolated for a while. No big deal. So I can't do much about my friend."
"Oh? Really? Then I can't do anything if I acci-den-ta-lly cut you..."
That seemed to scare him a little. I liked the reaction, but why did he have to be annoying enough to respond? As if looking at me that way wasn't enough...
"Calm down. Calm down... It's natural, you know? I can't help it if the first thing I see after being isolated for so long is a beautiful woman. Well... Now, two beautiful women. Not to mention that I doubt he feels threatened after everything he's been through."
That trash... The way he was, losing his little friend or not would make no difference, so I got up, ready to do it, but two little hands stopped me. Or rather, they tried to, because I stopped voluntarily...
"Lydia? What does this mean?!"
"... Nothing, Ms. Bianca, but it's like he said... Natural..."
... What? I was shocked for a moment before looking at the boy, who looked ready to run at any moment... What did that bastard say to that idiot?
Didn't she seem uncomfortable talking to him?
Don't tell me...
"Did that ugly guy seduce you?"
I asked... The situation was too much for me. Even more so than her disobedience, even though she wasn't really my subordinate, and all because Lydia looked away when I asked...
"Hey, ugly is an exaggeration... Wait for my hair to grow back."
Annoying bastard. What did he do to her?