Elsewhere.
Chelms's face was grim. He held his breath and walked quickly toward the gates of Merfolk City.
As he passed a stone house, he suddenly heard cries of pain and a sharp rebuke from within: "Are you useless? You can't even handle a simple task like applying medicine! What good are you to me?!"
Chelms's ears twitched. He stopped and looked at the stone house nearby. Concealing his presence, he slowly approached, carefully lifting a corner of the Beast Skin covering the doorway to peek inside.
Sure enough, he saw Shina sitting on the bed, her body smeared with a green medicinal liquid, throwing a tantrum at Remi. The surrounding floor was littered with stone bowls she had knocked over.
He remembered her—the female who had fought with Su Yu over the Heavenly Light Grass and nearly prevented him from getting it.
