Chapter 46: A Sudden Awakening

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“What’s that sound? Someone flipping through a book? And… the wind blowing the curtains?”

I suddenly regained my hearing.

I struggled to open my eyes. A bluish-white ceiling carved with patterns?

“A ceiling I’ve never seen before.”

I’m not dead?

[Hey, woke up?] I heard a girl’s voice from my right. It sounded very gloomy.

Shush

another sound of pages turning.

She seemed to be the one reading beside me.

[At that moment, a maid with light red hair standing at the door nodded to the purple-haired girl sitting on a wooden chair beside Jiushi’s bed, then walked out.]

“Ugh–” I groaned in pain. My right arm and left leg hurt especially badly.

“Huh?” I suddenly realized, weren’t those two broken?

I immediately stood up from the bed covered in silk sheets and looked at both sides.

“Hey, my leg?! And my arm’s here too!” I said in surprise.

“Ah! Where are my clothes!” Finding myself completely naked, I quickly dove back under the covers.

Thud, I heard the person on my right close the book with a hard slam.

I turned my head. At the redwood chair beside my bed sat a literary girl with long hair over her shoulders and glasses!

“Uh–” I blushed slightly, staring at her. Of course, actually… I was just pretending. It’s not like I haven’t been seen naked before, when I was an RBQ. Ah, I don’t want to think about that…

“Hey– a patient shouldn’t move so violently. Getting up and shouting right away.” She said gloomily.

Her voice was low and a bit hoarse, reminding me of a girl named Kuroki Tomoko…

But aside from her voice, just looking at her gave me that literary girl vibe! Not to mention the book in her hand, but that purple hair past her shoulders and those clear eyes behind a pair of small glasses. Enough to make me really like her.

Yeah! Kawaii!

But from her gorgeous blue-purple lace dress and the colorful silver cross brooch on her chest, as well as her tone when speaking to me, I couldn’t help but feel: her status was definitely not low.

The purple-haired girl pushed up her glasses with a gloved finger and looked at me.

And I happened to see her violet eyes with a hint of gold.

“Wow, so beautiful! Truly a lovable girl! Too bad about that voice.” I thought.

“You? Why is your face so red?” As she said this, she directly helped me sit up and pressed her forehead against mine.

“Aaaah!” I pretended to panic.

“Whoa, no way, I just woke up and I’m getting such a big treat?”

[At this moment, Jiushi didn’t notice the earring on his left ear with a yellow-green gem. It was a special magic item that could suppress ‘lust’. It could somewhat block the brain’s nerves related to H, but couldn’t prevent blushing or physical reactions.]

“What are you yelling about?” The girl lowered her gaze, looking at me in surprise.

“Don’t get so close to me all of a sudden!”

“Hey hey, I saved you, you know. You should at least show some gratitude. Is that how you treat your savior?” The girl put one hand on her hip, looking a bit angry.

“What? You saved me? Um… thank you.” I gripped the blanket tightly with my small hands and looked at her shyly, “Was it you who took off my clothes?”

“Of course not. When you arrived, you already had no clothes. I only helped you take off your skirt and underwear and stuff.” The girl said expressionlessly.

[Jiushi’s face turned even redder, but he didn’t realize the real reason for his blush.]

“Hey, you’re a boy, why do you blush at everything like a girl? Hmm… looking at you, you really do look like a girl.” She put her index finger on her pink lower lip, as if examining my appearance.

[Seeing Jiushi’s shy and charming expression, the girl suddenly felt a little fondness for him.]

“Please don’t look at me like that…” I deliberately acted cute, with tears at the corners of my eyes and pouting lips.

Suddenly, this literary girl also blushed.

“Ai–” She shook her head, “How do you feel now?”

“Well… I don’t feel any discomfort, except my left arm and right leg hurt a lot.”

“That’s natural. They’re newly grown, so they’ll need some time to adapt.”

“Huh? Newly grown?” I was a bit stunned. Why didn’t they just recover, but had to grow back?

“Heh (strange laugh). When you were sent here, those two limbs were completely necrotic. So the Princess specially allowed me to use three high-grade crystal ores to fix your limbs.”

“Oh… Then thank you very much.”

“If you want to thank someone, thank the Princess. I was just doing my job.” She said emotionlessly. I guessed she was the type who didn’t seek fame or profit.

“Um… My name is Jiushi. And you?”

“Me? Let me think…” “Hey hey, does it really need thinking? Are you trying to trick me? Give me a fake name?”

“My name is Julianna Pauline Jean-Luc Alexander Mia. I’m a half-elf, serving as the administrator of the magic library in Huaying City, with the title of Marquess.”

“Uh…” She finished her long name very fluently, but I was dumbfounded.

“What did she say? I only remember half-elf, magic library administrator, and a marquess.”

She: “Hehe.” That hoarse and gloomy laugh made me uneasy.

She: “My name is long, isn’t it? You can call me Anna.”

“Oh… okay.” I nodded somewhat dazedly, but there was no denying that Anna looked really beautiful when she smiled.

“Then, Sister Anna, what about the soldiers in the ruins?”

“What do you want to ask?”

“I mean the Blood Wolf troops and the Princess’s troops. That big spider in the ruins was super strong, so… I was saved, but what about them?”

“Ai– I understand.” Anna raised her hand, signaling me to stop.

“You open your eyes and immediately worry about others. Ai–” She sighed gloomily again, “Alright, I’ll tell you. Those who could be saved were saved. Those who couldn’t, we let them die easy.”

“So that means only I received special treatment?” My tone showed discomfort, and my expression was sorrowful. But it was all fake! At that moment, my real thought was actually relief! I was really glad I survived… I was ashamed of this selfish emotion, but that’s who I am!

“Of course, because the value of you surviving is much higher than others’. So the Princess didn’t hesitate to use three high-grade crystal ores to save you.” She said calmly, using an extremely capitalistic word, ‘value?’

[When 99 was sent back to the palace, he wasn’t completely dead, just lost too much blood.]

[Since the severed hands and feet were already completely rotten, the Princess was willing to use three crystal ores to save 99.]

“Um, were those three crystal ores very expensive?” I immediately asked.

I didn’t understand this world much, but the word ‘didn’t hesitate’ made me think this thing called ‘crystal ore’ must be very expensive!

“Heh, you really don’t know anything. High-grade crystal ores are not just expensive. Since you’re of the Black Feather clan, only Light Crystals can regenerate your flesh. So to save you, even the cheapest light-type high-grade crystal ore costs 1600 gold coins, more than my two years’ salary. And to save you, they used three!”

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