"I'm not hurt," Ryuzio made clear to Joysaleen, who insisted on putting a healing plus on him. "I'm tough as a d—"
Joysaleen ignored him completely, gently planting one of the X-shaped faces of her hammer on the back of his left hand, stamping a bloody cross there. "You don't get a choice in this. We're going to face the strongest Scavenger Chief. That's no joke." She turned to Kinimi, who finally stood on her feet again, a pink plus glittering just below her neck. "Fixed?"
"All thanks to you." Kinimi inhaled, stretching her chest out with both hands over her head. "So you were a Healing Artist all along, eh?"
"Didn't you see these?" Joysaleen pointed to her cheeks.
"I did," Kinimi said with an exhale, bringing down her hands. "But I didn't think them to be anything more than ordinary Ethermarks."
